Episode 141

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25th Jul 2022

THE HOLISTIC OBGYN: Life-changing insights into pregnancy, birth, fertility, circumcision, abortion + more with Nathan Riley, MD.

Societies fall when they don't support women properly. -Nathan Riley

Nathan Riley is a holistic OBGYN and probably the most profound medical advocate for women that we've ever interacted with. A classically trained OBGYN, after years of working in the mainstream medical system, he broke off on his own to provide the heart-centered care women + their partners deserve.

Now he borrows from Eastern traditions like Ayurvedic and Traditional Chinese Medicine, and he provides holistic support to fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and menopause long before he recommends surgery, hormonal contraception, or other pharmaceuticals. Above all else, he believes in real informed consent, patient education and autonomy.

In this episode we discuss a bunch of juicy topics like:

  • What prompted him to step away from the mainstream medical model
  • What people overlook with fertility
  • Why he doesn’t really trust most clinical research
  • Why you might reconsider choosing IVF
  • What is statistically safer: hospital or home birth?
  • Is circumcision really necessary?
  • Do epidurals help or inhibit the birth process
  • Are ultrasounds really risk free?
  • So much more!

And some of this MAY trigger you a bit, but we’re okay with that. Because it’s a core value of ours to be able to have difficult, nuanced conversations from a place of love + consciousness. We must if we want to evolve.

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About the Podcast

The Medicin
Healthy relationship supported by healthy body / mind / spirit
The Medicin is all about creating deep, healthy, passionate love - with your partner AND yourself. They are not separate. We know from direct experience.

We (Mimi + Chase) were childhood sweethearts, married in our early 20's, spent 3 yrs of marriage figuring out that we had nothing figured out. In 2016 we actually separated + legally divorced, thinking we'd never see each other again. And after 3 yrs of intense self-development, discovery + personal epiphanies, we organically reunited in 2019 - with a whole new outlook on love, Source + the real Medicins of this life.

Now we are passionate about helping others create fulfilling relationships + lives by digging into the transformation work waiting to happen inside each of us. Healthy relationships start with a healthy YOU, and we are here to help - uncovering + discovering with you.

About your host

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Mimi Lindquist

I am owner of MimiFit, creator of Brain Hits - the only AHCC food. Disease prevention educator and Culinary Nutrition Expert. Basically I teach people how to use food as medicine, focusing on mushrooms specifically.

Dental hygienist by degree. Nerd at heart. Chase-lover. Cat lady. Mushroom Queen.