Martha Carlin Featured on the Vitality Made Simple Podcast
by Martha Carlin March 13, 2023
I was honored to be a recent guest on the Vitality Made Simple Podcast with the wonderful Dr. Debbie Ozment! Dr. Ozment shares practical, understandable and fun strategies to enhance your Vitality and Healthspan on her show. She is a wealth of knowledge, and is committed to early diagnosis and intervention of periodontal disease to positively affect not only the mouth, but the entire body.
In this episode we talk about about my pursuit to understand and unravel complex health challenges, starting with Parkinson’s Disease after my husband John was diagnosed. I intensely investigated the gut microbiome as a root cause for so-called “hopeless” diseases, and we discuss how some of my discoveries can enhance your vitality and your relationships.
When most people think about circadian rhythm, they think about sleep. But your circadian rhythm is much more than a sleep-wake cycle. It is a master biological timing system that influences nearly every aspect of health, including metabolism, immune function, hormone production, digestion, detoxification, and even how your gut microbes behave.
Let’s be completely honest: When was the last time you actually looked inside the bowl before you flushed? If your immediate reaction is to cringey-laugh and say, "Ugh, never," you are throwing away the single most valuable health report your body produces daily.
A chronic diagnosis is almost always delivered as a final sentence, completely devoid of hope. In the conventional medical model, patients are given a label—whether it’s Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, or chronic fatigue—and told, “There is no cure. This is progressive. Take this pill.”
The path to vibrant health is rarely a straight line. Often, it takes a deeply personal disruption to force us to look at the human body through a completely different lens. For Martha Carlin, a former corporate auditor and turnaround expert, that disruption came in 2002 when her healthy 44-year-old husband, John, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.