January 5, 2022 - EyeClarity Podcast
Dr. Bhanote is a quintuple board-certified physician and published author with expertise in Integrative Medicine and Anatomic & Clinical Pathology, Cytopathology, and Culinary Medicine. Dr. Bhanote has additional training and certifications in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Plant-Based Nutrition, Ayurveda, Yoga for Cancer Recovery, and as a Yoga Medicine Therapeutic Specialist where she applies a whole-body approach to healing.
She is a sought-after health and wellness expert providing both speaking and written commentary to multiple news media outlets and publications. As the founder of the Holistic Wellbeing Collective, she continues to practice, write, and teach wellness business entrepreneurs with an evidence-based approach to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals through practice, education and research.
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00:04
Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. As part of our Summit Series, I am conducting an interview today with a really special guest. She’s also a featured speaker on the summit and those dates are January 14 16th 2022. She’s a good friend and colleague of mine and I have the deepest respect for her in what she’s doing. Dr. Monisha Bhanote. She’s a quintuple board-certified physician, she has a new book coming out, which I’m really excited about. It’s called the anatomy of well-being. I’m going to ask her about that. She’s also an expert in the area of integrative medicine, and an anatomic and clinical pathology. And the topic that she’s going to be speaking about at the summit is culinary medicine. She is so well versed because she’s done additional trainings and certifications in mindfulness based stress reduction, plant based nutrition, or aruveda yoga for cancer recovery, yoga medicine. And she takes a whole-body approach, it’s something that we have in common. She’s also a consultant in rights for Health Line, she’s a medical expert. And she’s also doing something called holistic, holistic, well being collective. So I’m going to ask her about that also. So Dr. Bhanote, it’s so great to have you back on the program. I would love for you to begin by giving us an overview in kind of your philosophy, how you work with people you’re teaching, I know you’re a complimentary, you offer a lot of competent, complementary medical advice to people. So I would like to introduce you to my audience. Tell us a little more about your philosophy.
02:05
Yeah, thank you so much, Sam, for having me back on your podcast, and I’m looking forward to the conference we’re having in the new year. So the way I work with individuals is, you know, from definitely from a whole body perspective, but more so from a combination of lifestyle, and really taking a look at how we can make our daily habits sustainable and optimize them. So really taking in how the body works, how we can optimize how the body is going to work. And doing that from you know, whether that’s a sleep perspective, a culinary medicine perspective, a movement perspective, or maybe even emotionally, like really taking that whole body approach, because when there’s a block somewhere, you know, we’re not going to get to the best level that we are able to get to. And also considering everybody is individual, right? So you want to take your unique chemistry your unique body into account.
03:11
Yeah, I love that. It’s it. It isn’t a cookbook approach. And you really, you know, take an individualized perspective, but it’s also very integrating and how did this Healthline position come up? Tell us about it. How can people find you on this because you you write a lot, and oh, my goodness, you just offer such great info. I love it. I look at your Instagram every day. So tell me about Healthline
03:41
Yeah, so thank you for asking. Um, so I became part of helpline medical network in the past year. And part of me joining with them is because they are the biggest source of medical information available on the internet. And what I like about them is that all their articles are being reviewed by medical experts in the field, and they and they take this feedback seriously. So working with them, you know, I have been able to help the writers who are writing the articles, modify the information, so we’re able to really share evidence based information but also start incorporating more of this complimentary health, which is what I feel is part of the future. You know, we can’t just say that there’s conventional and complementary, this is a entirely whole body approach, and we have to take every aspect of what’s available because for one individual, one thing might work and for another one, something else will work and that’s really what I’ve seen, and the beauty is that, Healthline you know, they’re really focused on different generations to so they have the their own sub publication, which is called the greatest, which talks to the language of, you know, a little bit younger generation, but we know health is across all ages. They have Medical News Today, which really gets into more of the nitty gritty science. So for more of the science, heavy people, and then health line is the more conventional trying to understand health conditions. And of course, they have psychology, I believe it’s like news today, or Psychology Today, which is the psychology aspect of it. So, so many great things
05:31
there. And they have such a vast network and have somebody like you on it. Because I’ve, I’ve, you know, read some of their bio lines and articles for years, and I’ve been a little frustrated that they aren’t, you know, presenting the complementary medical, holistic, whole body. And that’s where you come in, and you are able to put in science around it, which is really supportive. And so for
06:03
you my latest two articles with them, one just came out, I think, yesterday, a day before is on the Pitta dosha by your Vita. Another one that came out maybe a couple weeks back is about traditional Chinese medicine. So really looking at them from a perspective of the medical reviewer has to understand, from their own experience, what these things are to make sure that the information that the writer is putting out is accurate.
06:32
Mm hm. You know, this brings up something about aruveda. So I’ve had a number of patients diagnosed with what macular degeneration and they get the monthly injections, and there’s a abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina. And one of the things that I’ve recommended with both of these people is to go work with an eye or Vedic physician and balance their doses. And believe it or not, once they have well you would get this, their wet macular degeneration started to started to, you know, go away. And it was so exciting for me to see the power of Ayurvedic medicine in the in the use of Ayurvedic medicine and the doses. So I, I’m a firm believer in higher Veda and I know you use that a lot. I also know you use yoga, and I want to move to culinary medicine for a minute, because you’re going to be speaking about that at the summit. And just give us a sneak preview, a glimpse into, you know, what you’re going to be talking about and how you use culinary medicine in your practice.
07:46
Yeah, great question. So culinary medicine. So let’s start. First start with what are a few definitions around culinary medicine, because this is really, it’s a new terminology, some people might not be familiar with it. One definition that has been provided is that culinary medicine is the new evidence based field in medicine that blends the art of food and cooking with the science of medicine, right? It’s taking into account improving eating behaviors, it’s focusing on skills such as food shopping, storage, meal prep. What it’s not is it’s not dietetics it’s not like a single eating pattern, but it’s really taking into of course, evidence base, but what’s the biochemistry of nutrients? What are some healthy cooking techniques? What is high quality food? How can different cultures incorporate this? How can different socio economic classes that are predisposed to conditions incorporate this? So really looking at food as you know, what has been previously said? Food? Is medicine really taking that to heart?
09:04
Yeah, and there’s so many factors that you bring into it, you know, how to shop, how to cook, you know, what are the foods you choose? So it’s very integrative and holistic in a way that, you know, it’s not about a diet or, you know, eat this food, or, you know, we see this on the internet, we’ve actually talked about it. And so I’m very interested in I know my community is on your perspective on how to help people through this particular specialty, because I think I’ve heard you say food as medicine, and that you’re a guide and being able to help us do all these different facets of the, you know, of the color culinary medicine perspective. So where did you learn this? How did this evolve in your development?
09:57
Yeah, so there is a A number of training facilities across the US that does this training program, I trained from a company called call. Let’s see, it’s CCMS. But it’s based out of Tulane where culinary medicine started. But now we’re seeing culinary medicine kitchens in so many universities, because, you know, when 95% of health happens outside of the doctor’s office, a lot of stuff is happening at home, right? So we need to be able to share with individuals, individuals are going to eat every day, regardless, right? We’re going to eat, we need food, but really taking that into nourishment and understanding that what you put in your body impacts not only your body, it impacts your cells, it impacts how your cells communicate with each other and impacts how everything’s talking to each other. And I have seen tremendous changes when people change even small bits of what they’re used to eating. Because they didn’t even realize that the starting point is yes, your diet does affect so many things in your body. But the impact that just even small changes can make.
11:12
Sure yeah, it’s so exciting. And I’m so glad to have you part of the summit. So for people just tuning in, this is Dr. Manisha Benoit she is a quintuple, quintuple board certified physician. She’s an author, she’s got a new book out called the coming out called the anatomy of well being. She’s going to be giving a presentation at our summit called on culinary medicine. So I want to shift gears now. And I want to move to something that you’re doing called the holistic well being collective. So tell us about that.
11:50
Yeah, so the holistic wellbeing Collective is my private membership community for Wellness Business Owners. It is a combined community for not just learning the business of wellness, but also keeping up to date with the latest science. And because to me, it’s very important for the correct information to be out there and not, you know, fad diets and quick fixes, but really sustainable, long term health. And like I said, we have so many people that can contribute to that it doesn’t need to be restricted to health care systems and doctors. You know, we’ve got health coaches, we have people creating health products out there. We have physical specialists like yoga and pilates teacher, so so many people who want to really contribute to the health and well being of individuals. So I’ve created this community where we get together and we learn how to put our service and offerings out there in a way that not only aligns with our own goals, but aligns with really making a shift in the community and making a shift in the world with wellness.
13:06
Yeah, so when do you offer this? When is it going to open up again?
13:11
Yeah, so it’s an ongoing membership. And I open it up three times a year. So the next opening will be at the end of January.
13:19
Okay, and how can people do that? How do they get in touch with you? Yep.
13:23
So they can go to the website, holistic wellbeing, collective comm and sign up for the waitlist there, they can also contact me via social media, I am at Dr. Vinod on Instagram. Let me know that they’re interested. And I’ll make sure to get the information over to them. So they’ll get notified as soon as as soon as it opens up. Because my members are making great progress not only with the concept of what is their offering, but getting their own clarity and getting clear on on what they want to do. And like what their purpose is in wellness, like, you know, they’ve gotten all these certifications and, and everyone’s so highly trained. But it’s very, very easy to get stuck in, let me get another certificate, let me get this but then actually to cross that threshold to put that offer out. And so that’s where the community and the membership really comes to support.
14:28
Cool. So we’ll definitely put that on our podcast notes. I want to ask you one more question. And that has to do with yoga. I know that you’ve done a lot of training in yoga, and how do you apply it to your practice to your cus, your patients, your students?
14:47
Yeah, so I got into yoga really, at first to help myself like my practice brought me into yoga to help myself and then when I started feeling the benefits of it on my own mind and my own body. And I’m like, there’s something to this, there’s really something to this. And, you know, I was like, let me investigate a little bit more. And I looked at a number of programs to learn and be trained from, and I came across yoga medicine, which is where I have completed my 500 hour yoga teacher training certification from and what I liked about their training is they really blend the science of how the body moves, and the anatomical and alignment perspective, and even incorporating some traditional Chinese medicine into the body aspect with the yoga aspect. So I got into it there. And now, for me, it’s become more of a personal practice. So how I incorporate it into my own life, but for my clients, you know, understanding that everybody comes from a different place, and what’s going to benefit them more at that time, because when people are dealing with health and disease, you know, you can’t just told somebody go meditate, it doesn’t work that way that creates more anxiety and more frustration. So you have to really understand what brings them joy. And how can you bring these small practices, whether it’s a, you know, a breathing practice or something into their daily life, to start brick making the more self aware.
16:33
Right. Yeah, that’s the key self awareness. And you seem to be able to turn that on for people, whether it’s through the culinary medicine track through yoga, through mindfulness through higher VEDA. I mean, it’s it’s pretty amazing that you have brought all these things together. And so how can people get in touch with you your website? Instagram, say one more time? Yeah. So
17:06
my website for health and wellness information is DrBhanote.com. My Instagram handle is at Dr. Bhanote on Facebook. I am Dr. Bhanote. And then for wellness business owners. Definitely reach out to me at holistic wellbeing collective.com
17:27
Well, we’re really looking forward to having you at the summit and thank you so much for your time today. I wish you the best and I look forward to our collaborations in 2022. Take good care so much
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