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Dear body, I'm listening

Dear body, I'm listening

著者： Donna Piper
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Dear Body, I'm Listening is the podcast for women living with chronic pain, mysterious symptoms, and invisible illness. Hosted by movement therapist, Pilates instructor, and chronic illness navigator Donna Piper, this show is a sanctuary for those who've tried everything, felt dismissed, and are still searching for answers. If you've ever felt like your body is speaking a language no one else understands—you're not crazy, and you're not alone. In this space, nothing is off the table. We talk openly about swelling, fatigue, brain fog, body shame, and more. We go beyond diagnosis to explore what may be worth investigating—and more importantly, how to reconnect with yourself in the process. Through somatic spirituality, movement, and truth-telling, Donna offers support, insight, and hope. Because healing isn't linear, and neither are we.2025 代替医療・補完医療 衛生・健康的な生活
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  • Invisible Illness, Visible Clues: Tuning Into Your Skin, Your Labs, and Your Inner Wisdom Differently with Dr. Jonathan Carp

    Invisible Illness, Visible Clues: Tuning Into Your Skin, Your Labs, and Your Inner Wisdom Differently with Dr. Jonathan Carp
    2026/09/10
    "You are fully capable of becoming your own authority in your health." —Dr. Jonathan Carp Invisible illness rarely announces itself with a clean diagnosis — but the body often leaves clues, if you know where to look. In this conversation, board-certified dermatologist and lifestyle medicine physician Dr. Jonathan Carp joins Donna Piper to talk about what 25 years of practice have taught him about the connection between skin, gut health, and insulin — and why so many of these clues get missed in a rushed appointment. Dr. Carp walks through how conditions like SIBO, celiac sensitivity, and insulin resistance show up on the skin long before they show up on a standard lab panel, and why fasting insulin can flag metabolic problems five to ten years before a diabetes diagnosis. He also shares how he uses mental imagery techniques with patients — including one who healed chronic skin picking using an image she created herself — and why he tells patients to keep major lifestyle changes private from anyone outside their household. This episode is especially for anyone managing chronic illness, invisible symptoms, or the exhausting feeling of not being believed by their own doctor. It's a reminder that visible clues — on your skin, in your labs, in your own instincts — are worth trusting, even when no one else has connected the dots yet. Key takeaways: • Rosacea has a strong documented link to small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), and Dr. Carp expects SIBO testing to become standard for rosacea patients within five years. • Fasting insulin can climb for years while blood sugar stays normal, meaning elevated insulin can predict diabetes risk five to ten years before it would otherwise be caught. • A normal fasting insulin range is roughly 15–25; results consistently above 10 are worth discussing with a provider. • Fasting insulin and SIBO tests can both be ordered independently through labs like Quest or LabCorp, without waiting on a doctor's approval. • Only about 1 in 200 patients in Dr. Carp's practice are ready to make a full diet and lifestyle overhaul, which is why he recommends picking one path and going deep rather than jumping between approaches. • Mental imagery — where patients generate their own healing image rather than following a guided visualization — has helped patients manage conditions ranging from neurodermatitis to chronic warts. • Sharing a major lifestyle change with people outside your immediate household often invites judgment that can derail progress before it takes hold. Connect with Donna: Website: https://www.donnapiper.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donnapiper Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedonnapiper Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedonnapiper YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thedonnapiper Apple Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/Dear-Body-Im-Listening Resources: 🤔Got a question for me? Every month, I do a listener coaching episode—and I'd love to hear from you! Send your questions, stories, or flare-up confessions to donna@donnapiper.com, and you just might hear your answer on the show. 💲Discount Get $20 off the Visible Wrist Band 2.0 Click the link: https://join.makevisible.com/73784699c7db3e **Wearable heart-rate and activity sensor, with charging cable and strap included. 5 days battery life Manufactured by Polar, the world leader in heart-rate monitoring Designed for illness, not fitness HSA/FSA Eligible 💗Springrose Give $20, GET $20 When you share Springrose with friends, they get $20 off their first purchase and you get $20 towards your next purchase!* Share the love. https://oken.do/0l3hpr6v 💗Equip Fuel With Real Food Meet Prime Protein, the original beef protein powder, with over 20g of delicious grass-fed beef protein. No junk or fillers https://www.equipfoods.com/DONNA15 Episode Highlights: 03:28 Meet Dr. Jonathan Carp: From Dermatology to Lifestyle Medicine 07:42 The Gut-Skin Connection: SIBO, Celiac & Psoriasis 10:30 Acne, Insulin Resistance & the Fasting Insulin Test 14:09 Reversing Insulin Resistance Through Diet 18:28 Inside Wednesday Night Live & Miracle Noodle 20:16 How a Trip to Japan Sparked Miracle Noodle 23:34 Why Ordering Your Own Blood Tests Is Empowering 28:48 The 1-in-200 Rule: Why Lifestyle Change Is Hard 36:27 Mental Imagery Healing With Dr. Gerald Epstein 47:10 Final Advice: Pick One Health Path and Go Deep
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    55 分
  • Ground Control for Bendy Bodies: How to Move Without Pain (Finally!) with Dr. Melissa Koehl

    Ground Control for Bendy Bodies: How to Move Without Pain (Finally!) with Dr. Melissa Koehl
    2026/08/27

    "You have to give your body the time to repair between sessions and respect, from a cellular perspective, how much energy it can effectively produce on any given day." —Dr. Melissa Koehl

    Hypermobility exercise isn't supposed to leave you in more pain than when you started — but for most bendy bodies, it does, because nobody ever taught them the rules were different. In this episode, Donna sits down with Dr. Melissa Koehl, a Doctor of Physical Therapy, Pilates instructor, and founder of Chimera Health, to unpack why traditional fitness advice can actively work against people with joint hypermobility, hypermobility spectrum disorder, and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS).
    Melissa isn't just speaking from 24 years of clinical experience — she's speaking from her own late-stage EDS diagnosis, which reshaped how she trains clients and how she sees "healthy movement" altogether. This conversation is for anyone who's been told their pain is "just anxiety," anyone chasing more reps and more stretching with less relief, and anyone who suspects their fatigue, brain fog, or chronic soreness is connected to something deeper than a bad workout plan.
    Together, Donna and Melissa dig into the real symptoms of hypermobility beyond bendy joints — including fatigue, dysautonomia, and mast cell activation — and why connective tissue needs a fundamentally different recovery timeline than the average client's muscles do.
    Key Takeaways:
    • Hypermobility symptoms extend far beyond flexible joints — fatigue and brain fog are two of the most common and most overlooked signs, often driven by blood pooling in the lower body instead of circulating back to the heart and brain.
    • Movement for hypermobile bodies should prioritize stability and controlled strength work over stretching, since excess flexibility is already the problem, not the solution.
    • Connective tissue — tendons, ligaments, and fascia — repairs more slowly than muscle, so rest between sessions isn't optional; it's a cellular requirement for actual progress.
    • Hypermobility spectrum disorder and hypermobile EDS are frequently misunderstood as separate tiers of severity, when in reality the two overlap significantly.
    • A formal diagnosis and self-advocacy with providers can be the difference between years of dismissed symptoms and a treatment plan that finally makes sense.
    • Chronic pain and fatigue in hypermobile bodies is not a personal failure — it's a physiological pattern with an identifiable cause and a manageable path forward.
    Melissa is currently offering a free 32-page Hypermobility Posture Guide, and her Ground Control program opens again on September 21st.
    Download the free Hypermobility Posture Guide here: https://www.chimera-health.com/hypermobility-posture-guide-donna-piper

    Connect with Donna:
    Website: https://www.donnapiper.com/
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donnapiper
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedonnapiper
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedonnapiper
    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thedonnapiper

    Episode Highlights:
    04:09 Meet Dr. Melissa Koehl: Her Own Hypermobility Journey
    07:15 Inside the Ground Control Program
    10:26 Hypermobility Symptoms and Misconceptions Explained
    21:13 Why Rest Is Non-Negotiable for Hypermobile Bodies
    32:08 Getting Diagnosed and Advocating for Yourself
    36:31 Resources and Support for Hypermobile Patients
    39:43 You Are an Orchid, Not a Dandelion

    Resources:
    Ready to move smarter, not harder? Melissa's free 32-page Hypermobility Posture Guide is exactly where to start — link below to grab your copy. 👇 https://www.chimera-health.com/hypermobility-posture-guide-donna-piper

    Two courses that are always available:
    Navigating Healthcare as a Hypermobile Human: https://www.chimera-health.com/NavigatingHealthcare
    ChimeraFit Video library: https://www.chimera-health.com/ChimeraFit-Video-Library
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    48 分
  • Dear Body, It Runs in the Family: What Lipedema Genetics is Finally Revealing

    Dear Body, It Runs in the Family: What Lipedema Genetics is Finally Revealing
    2026/08/13
    "This is fascinating, and is also exactly the kind of science we need to handle responsibly because epigenetics is not a new way to blame yourself. If future research shows environmental or epigenetic factors and how they influence lipedema expression, that is exciting. But that does not mean that you caused the disease to come out when you were stressed, that you ate wrong, that you failed to regulate your nervous system. No. Susceptibility, predisposition, hormones, biology, environment, and gene expression can interact in extraordinary, complicated ways, and this is a very complicated disease. The purpose is understanding that interaction to create better treatments, not better ways to blame yourself." —Donna Piper For most of her life, Donna was told her body was a lifestyle problem — eat less, move more, blah blah blah. In this Dear Body Book Club episode, she opens Lipedema: Principles and Practice of Diagnosis and Treatment, edited by Stanley Rockson, MD, Leslyn Keith, OTD, and Catherine Seo, PhD, and dives into the genetics section — Chapters 3, 4, and 5. Donna doesn't read the book to you line by line. She translates the genome-wide association studies, the acronyms, and the dense clinical language into plain English, then filters it through her own 53 years of living undiagnosed. The question shifts from "why does my body look this way?" to "what's actually happening inside the tissue?" — and that shift changes everything. In this episode, we discuss: Why an estimated 40% to 89% of women with lipedema report a family history — and why that range is so wide Why researchers believe lipedema is often passed down through the paternal line, even though men rarely show visible symptoms What a genome-wide association study (GWAS) actually is, explained without the jargon The UK Biobank study and how researchers built a "proxy lipedema phenotype" to work around chronic underdiagnosis Two genetic regions — VEGFA and GRB14-COBLL1 — linked to blood vessel formation and body fat distribution Findings from a 200-woman UK cohort, including an average age of onset around 16.8 years old The AKR1C1 gene and its connection to progesterone metabolism Why there is still no single validated genetic or blood test for lipedema The TNXB gene and its overlap with a form of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, connecting hypermobility to lipedema biology What multiomics research (transcriptomics, metabolomics, lipidomics) revealed inside lipedema tissue itself Elevated inflammatory markers, including IL-1beta, IL-6, and TNF-alpha, found in lipedema tissue The "Fat Atlas" concept — why fat in different parts of the body may behave like different tissue entirely How estrogen, progesterone, and major hormonal transitions like puberty and menopause factor into lipedema onset Why epigenetics matters here, and why it is not a reason to blame yourself The real technical reasons lipedema research moves slowly, from liposuction-damaged samples to small patient cohorts 🗒️ Donna's Sticky Notes The highlights I don't want you to miss — if you only remember three things from this episode, remember these: Sticky Note #1: Don't forget dad's side of the family. If lipedema doesn't seem to show up on your mother's line, look to your father's — photos, family members, body shapes. Inheritance appears to run through the paternal line even when fathers show no visible symptoms themselves. Sticky Note #2: There probably isn't one lipedema gene. It's not one gene causing lipedema on its own — it's how genetic predisposition interacts with hormones, fat biology, connective tissue, vascular pathways, metabolism, lymphatic function, and inflammation, all at once and differently in every body. Sticky Note #3: Lipedema tissue appears to be biologically different tissue. Researchers are finding real differences in gene expression, lipids, metabolites, inflammatory signaling, fat cell development, blood vessel pathways, and connective tissue genes. The better question isn't "why do I have so much fat here?" — it's "what is happening inside this tissue to make it behave this way?" 💛 What this means in plain English None of this research hands you a genetic test you can take to your doctor tomorrow. What it does offer is direction. Researchers are seeing real, measurable differences inside lipedema tissue — in genes, lipids, hormones, and inflammation — not just differences in how much fat someone carries. That distinction matters, because it moves the story away from blame and toward biology. It also explains why two women can have the same diagnosis and completely different experiences of pain, swelling, and progression. And it's why looking at your father's side of the family, not just your mother's, can open up a piece of your history you didn't know to look for. Key Takeaways Family history shows up in an estimated 40% to 89% of lipedema cases, but the strongest inheritance signal appears to run through the paternal ...
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    53 分
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