Brain fog after surgery is real… anesthesia is one of the biggest neurological stress events your brain will ever face.

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What if the conversation about post-surgery brain fog needs to happen before you go in, not months later when you're still struggling to find your words?

Join me and my guest, Sandra Bargeron, PA-C, CAA, founder of Beyond Brain Health™, to learn more about why it's not the anesthetic drugs that matter… it's the brain that walks into the operating room, and what you can do to prepare it.

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In this episode, you'll learn:

⏰ 00:00 - Introduction

⏰ 02:53 - What anesthesia actually does to your brain

⏰ 14:46 - The 1999 study that cut delirium 40%

⏰ 25:34 - The domains of neurologic resilience + the NSRI™

⏰ 35:54 - Good, better, best: how long you need to prepare

⏰ 52:12 - The ONE thing you can do to activate self-healing

Check out Sandra Bargeron's Bio:

Sandra Bargeron, PA-C, CAA, has spent 22 years in operating rooms as a PA first assistant and 16 years delivering anesthesia across more than 10,000 cases. After watching someone she loved experience significant cognitive decline after surgery, she made it her mission to protect brain health around anesthesia. She created the Neurologic Stress and Recovery Index™, wrote Break Through Anesthesia Fog introducing her HARP™ framework, and founded Beyond Brain Health™ to help patients prepare and recover.

Sandra Bargeron's gift:

You can take our Resilience and Support Quiz (Mini-NSRI) to measure how well your brain can handle surgery, illness, and life. Check it out at https://beyondbrainhealth.com/

Connect with Sandra Bargeron:

Website: http://www.beyondbrainhealth.com

YouTube: youtube.com/@beyondbrainhealth

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cleanlivingbasics

Instagram: instagram.com/beyondbrainhealth

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sandra-bargeron

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Hi there! I am Jane Hogan, the Wellness Engineer, and the host of Wellness By Design. I spent 30 years designing foundations for buildings until the pain and inflammation of rheumatoid arthritis led me to hang up my hard hat and follow my heart. Now I blend my backgrounds in science and spirituality to teach people how to tap into the power of their mind, body and soul. I help them release pain naturally so they can become the best version of themselves.

Wellness By Design is a show dedicated to helping people achieve wellness, not by reacting to the world around them but by intentionally designing a life based on what their own body needs. In this show, we explore practices, methods, and scientific principles that help naturally relieve pain and inflammation.

Learn more at https://thewellnessengineer.com

Connect with Jane:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JaneHoganHealth/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewellnessengineer/

Told your labs are "normal" but you still don't feel like yourself? You're not imagining it… women with chronic pain and perimenopause symptoms are dismissed every day.

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What if the most powerful thing you bring to your next appointment isn't a list of symptoms, but a completely different way of showing up in the room?

Join me and my guest, Katie Patel, PharmD, IFM-AFMCP, founder of Radiant Origins Wellness, to learn more about self-advocacy in a medical system that wasn't built for chronic conditions and the exact words, documentation, and nervous system shifts that change how your provider hears you.

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In this episode, you'll learn:

⏰ 00:00 - Introduction

⏰ 01:29 - Why Women's Pain Gets Dismissed

⏰ 11:00 - Food, Root Cause, and Nervous System Readiness

⏰ 18:30 - Intuition and "Normal" vs. Optimal Labs

⏰ 27:00 - Inner Guidance, Micro-Moments, and Building Your Support Team

⏰ 34:30 - The ONE thing you can do to activate self-healing

Check out Katie Patel's Bio:

Katie Patel, PharmD, IFM-AFMCP, is the founder of Radiant Origins Wellness, where she works as a precision and functional wellness practitioner for high-achieving women 35 and up. Katie spent over 10 years in pain management across private practice and VA settings, working alongside physicians on chronic disease and pain management, before transitioning to full-time practice helping women understand what's actually happening in their bodies during perimenopause and midlife, rather than being handed a prescription and sent on their way. Her approach centers on calming the nervous system first, then getting precise with functional testing, so that healing has the right foundation to actually stick. She is based in Johns Creek, Georgia right outside Atlanta.

Katie Patel's gift:

Get your printable guide with a one-sentence prompt, a symptom tracker (with cycle-day tracking), and specific questions to ask a provider: https://go.radiantoriginswellness.com/advocatingforyourself

Connect with Katie Patel:

Website: http://www.radiantoriginswellness.com

Facebook: facebook.com/people/Radiant-Origins-Wellness/61576098712636/

Instagram: instagram.com/radiantoriginswellness

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/radiantoriginswellness

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Hi there! I am Jane Hogan, the Wellness Engineer, and the host of Wellness By Design. I spent 30 years designing foundations for buildings until the pain and inflammation of rheumatoid arthritis led me to hang up my hard hat and follow my heart. Now I blend my backgrounds in science and spirituality to teach people how to tap into the power of their mind, body and soul. I help them release pain naturally so they can become the best version of themselves.

Wellness By Design is a show dedicated to helping people achieve wellness, not by reacting to the world around them but by intentionally designing a life based on what their own body needs. In this show, we explore practices, methods, and scientific principles that help naturally relieve pain and inflammation.

Learn more at https://thewellnessengineer.com

Connect with Jane:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JaneHoganHealth/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewellnessengineer/

Chronic pain can become a frustrating cycle of fear, stress, and nervous system dysregulation. But what if some of the patterns keeping that cycle going are happening beneath your awareness?

👉 Download a FREE chapter of my book Pain-Free on Purpose and find what no one tells you about chronic pain: https://www.thewellnessengineer.com/freechapter

Could your thoughts and beliefs be influencing how your nervous system responds to pain? In this episode, we explore the hidden connection between subconscious patterns, the brain, and the pain-fear cycle. You'll discover why the brain can learn pain, and how awareness, nervous system regulation, and new thought patterns may help create a greater sense of safety and possibility.

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In this episode, you'll learn:

⏰ 00:00 - Introduction

⏰ 02:49 - Your Nervous System

⏰ 06:23 - The Subconscious Mind

⏰ 09:53 - Repeating Old Patterns

⏰ 13:13 - Rewiring the Brain

⏰ 18:28 - The ONE thing you can do to activate self-healing

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Hi there! I am Jane Hogan, the Wellness Engineer, and the host of Wellness By Design. I spent 30 years designing foundations for buildings until the pain and inflammation of rheumatoid arthritis led me to hang up my hard hat and follow my heart. Now I blend my backgrounds in science and spirituality to teach people how to tap into the power of their mind, body and soul. I help them release pain naturally so they can become the best version of themselves.

Wellness By Design is a show dedicated to helping people achieve wellness, not by reacting to the world around them but by intentionally designing a life based on what their own body needs. In this show, we explore practices, methods, and scientific principles that help naturally relieve pain and inflammation.

Learn more at https://thewellnessengineer.com

Connect with Jane:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JaneHoganHealth/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewellnessengineer/