In this podcast, my guest is Dr. Brendan Byrne, Founder and Chief Medical Officer of LifestyleRx, a diabetes reversal program, designed to reverse Type 2 Diabetes. Over the course of this episode you will learn more about:

• The Lifestyle Rx program, where its being offered and how it got started
• Different types of diabetes, why and when they occur
• What topics are covered in the Lifestyle Rx 12 week program
• The relationship between blood sugar levels and stress (both physical and emotional)
• Factors that create more or less stress in people's lives
• What you can do to reduce stress

In this podcast, my guest is Dr. Joanne Leung-Yee, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto and psychiatrist at St Michaels Hospital, in Toronto. She is also a clinical associate at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre working at the Frederick Thompson Anxiety Disorder Centre specializing in the care of patients with body focused repetitive behaviour disorders. Over the course of this episode you will learn more about:

• Body focused repetitive behaviour (BFRB) such as dermatillomania and trichotillomania
• If not oneself, who else can help someone determine if one has a BFRB
• If there's a connection between a BFRB and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
• The cause of someone engaging in a BFRB
• Whether there are specific triggers for people who are engaging in these behaviours
• Why one would want to stop engaging in this behaviour
• The challenges when trying to stop
• Some strategies that might be effective when working on stopping
• Whether there are any medications or supplements that might help

Resources to help:

• Overcoming Body-focused Repetitive Behaviors
• Frederick W. Thompson Anxiety Disorders Centre
• The TLC Foundation for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors

I'm in conversation with Tom Dozier, a behaviorist who has researched and provided treatment for misophonia since 2013. Since that time, he has worked with more than 1,200 misophonia patients and families. He is the author of Understanding and Overcoming Misophonia and nine journal articles.

Over the course of this episode you will learn more about:

• Misophonia and some of its characteristics
• Typical age of onset, how common it is, how its diagnosed
• How it impacts people in regards to daily functioning
• How it impacts the people that they live with
• Treatment options and how to manage it