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Dr. M"s Women and Children First Podcast

Dr. Chris Magryta, "Dr. M"

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Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast #104: SMaeve...

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2026/01/03

Today, I’m joined by Dr. Maeve O’Connor, a board-certified allergist and immunologist practicing in Charlotte, North Carolina.Dr. O’Connor’s training reflects both rigor and range. She completed dual undergraduate degrees at the University of South Carolina Honors College with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish before earning her medical degree at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. She then completed her internship and residency at the University of

Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 15 Issue 31 – Poly...

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2025/12/31

I think that this is an important time to pause and relook at Polyvagal Theory before continuing with Beyond Behaviors.Polyvagal Theory: Current Status, Clinical Applications, and Future Directions (Porges, S. 2025) "Social behavior and the capacity to manage challenge are dependent on the neural regulation of physiological state." S. Porges When I dove into Stephen Porges’s 2025 review of the Polyvagal Theory (PVT), I felt like I’d stepped into a crossroads where neurobiology, clinical

Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast #69 Repost –...

Dr. M"s Women and Children First Podcast ·

2025/12/30

This week I sit down with Dr. Stephen Porges, a Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, and Professor Emeritus at both the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. He served as president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences and is a

Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 15 Issue 30 – Beyond...

Dr. M"s Women and Children First Podcast ·

2025/12/26

Review of Chapter 2 of Beyond Behaviors by Mona Delahooke, PhD "Social behavior and the capacity to manage challenge are dependent on the neural regulation of physiological state." S. Porges Top Down or Bottom Up? "Before We Respond to Behavior, We Need to Understand Its Origin." With a deceptively simple observation, Dr. Delahooke reshapes the entire field of behavioral intervention: children’s actions come from two very different places in the brain. Some behaviors are top-down,

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Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast #103: Sam...

Dr. M"s Women and Children First Podcast ·

2025/12/22

Today on Dr. M’s Women and Children First, we’re joined by Dr. Sam Yanuck, a clinician-educator who has spent more than three decades translating immunology from the bench to the bedside. Dr. Yanuck has been in private practice since 1992 and is the creator of Cogence Immunology, one of the most widely respected functional immunology training programs in the world. Through Cogence, he has trained over 9,900 clinicians internationally to think mechanistically about immune signaling, chronic

Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast #103: Sam...

Dr. M"s Women and Children First Podcast ·

2025/12/21

Today on Dr. M’s Women and Children First, we’re joined by Dr. Sam Yanuck, a clinician-educator who has spent more than three decades translating immunology from the bench to the bedside. Dr. Yanuck has been in private practice since 1992 and is the creator of Cogence Immunology, one of the most widely respected functional immunology training programs in the world. Through Cogence, he has trained over 6,500 clinicians internationally to think mechanistically about immune signaling, chronic

Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 15 Issue 29 – Beyond...

Dr. M"s Women and Children First Podcast ·

2025/12/13

Review of Chapter 1 of Beyond Behaviors by Mona Delahooke, PhD "When we see a behavior that is problematic or confusing, the first question we should ask isn't "How do we get rid of it?" but rather "What is this telling us about the child?" (MD 2019) The opening chapter sets the stage for a quiet revolution in how we understand children who struggle. Dr. Mona Delahooke invites us to take a step back from the culturally and medically ingrained belief that children’s outward actions are

Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 15 Issue 28 – Feeding...

Dr. M"s Women and Children First Podcast ·

2025/12/06

Food in InfancyWhat do we know? "Humans are the only mammals who feed our young special complementary foods before weaning and we are the only primates that wean our young before they can forage independently. There appears to be a sensitive period in the first several months of life when infants readily accept a wide variety of tastes and this period overlaps with a critical window for oral tolerance. As a result, infants should be exposed to a wide variety of flavors while mother is pregnant,

Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast #102: Jeremy...

Dr. M"s Women and Children First Podcast ·

2025/11/30

This weeks Guest is Dr. Jeremy Goldberg. He styles himself as a compassion cultivating day making change agent/empathy collecting not quitting word wizard/chief burrito appreciator aspiring to inspire/struggle overcoming ranter in charge/ferocious idealist/never giver upper/a love bombing kindness pirate. What he really does, in my mind, is write and teach the world to project love and kindness where it is not layered enough. On his website he writes: My mission is to make kindness cool, empathy

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Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 15 Issue Thanksgiving

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2025/11/27

THANKSGIVING THOUGHTSEvery year, as the leaves turn and the air gets that crisp bite, I’m pulled back to 1621 in Plymouth, Massachusetts where a group of English Pilgrims, religious refugees who had crossed an ocean to breathe free, and their Wampanoag neighbors sat down together for three days of feasting. No treaties, no agendas, just gratitude for a successful harvest and the simple miracle that two very different peoples could share a meal in peace. Food and friendship. That was the entire

Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 15 Issue 27 – Immune Aging

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2025/11/24

The Evolutionary Tug-of-War - Inflammation’s Double-Edged Sword "Environmental factors, particularly infections, have fundamentally shaped human evolution by selecting for protective inflammatory response mechanisms that enhance survival. This evolutionary pressure has created a core biological paradox: inflammation is indispensable for host defense, yet its dysregulation significantly heightens disease and mortality risk. This fundamental tension raises three fundamental questions about human aging