Wellness Connection MD

Welcome to the Wellness Connection MD podcast, where Dr. McMinn and Coach Lindsey become your partners on a quest for optimal wellness. Simply stated, our goal is to bring to you up-to-date, honest, vetted, unbiased, evidence-based information about health and wellness, along with practical solutions, in order to empower you to overcome your healthcare challenges, and to optimize your health in mind, body, and spirit.

As our population ages, and we are faced with an alarming epidemic of chronic diseases. Clearly, the current drug-based sick-care model of healthcare is simply not working. The cost of healthcare is skyrocketing for patients, and for our society at large, and legions of patients with chronic diseases are falling through the cracks of modern medicine. These people are often desperate to be heard, to be taken seriously, and to have their concerns adequately addressed. On the Wellness Connection MD podcast we will focus more on a preventive, lifestyle-based, functional, and integrative approach to optimal wellness. We challenge the medical community to "think different," while remaining evidence-based, while opening our minds to other viable therapies beyond drugs and surgery. We also advocate that this shift in thinking be accompanied by a renaissance of "loving kindness" in healthcare. Providers and patients would all benefit.

We are hopeful for the future of health care. Patients are demanding a new approach, and big medicine is beginning to listen. Fifteen years ago when we embarked on this journey integrative and functional medicine were hardly on the radar screen. However we now see that many of our most esteemed healthcare institutions have dedicated integrative or functional programs, such as Harvard, Duke, Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Vanderbilt, UCSF and many others. Integrative and functional medicine are gaining credibility across the nation and around the world. We will all be better off for the change.

We hope that you will join us on this journey to optimal wellness on Wellness Connection MD. Take care and be well.

Contributors

Host

James McMcMinn, MD

Dr. McMinn re-defined healthcare in Birmingham, Al. with the first clinic solely dedicated to the practice of cutting-edge, evidence-based integrative and functional medicine.
Dr. McMinn was traditionally trained and board certified. He has a solid background in academic medicine, having served on the medical school faculties of Harvard University, Brown University, Michigan State University, and UAB.
Dr. McMinn has two amazing daughters, and is married to his best friend and soul-mate, Dr. Cheryl Killingsworth. When not practicing or studying medicine, he likes to exercise, play the fiddle, enjoy camping, canoeing, photography, exploring the great outdoors, and chilling with friends and family.
Dr. McMinn is blessed to be joined by Co-Host Lindsay Matthews, who is a Registered Nurse, and a Certified Health Coach.

Co-host

Lindsay Mathews

Lindsay Mathews is a registered nurse and Integrative Nutrition Health Coach. She worked under Dr. McMinn at the McMinn Clinic for 6 years providing functional nursing care as well as health coaching. She currently serves as a postpartum nurse working with and caring for young families starting out.

She loves educating people on sustainable practices for healthy eating and living that fit in a modern, busy lifestyle. She believes that it is a fundamental life skill to understand how to fuel and care for your body well. Lindsay is super passionate about the next generation growing up empowered with these skills from an early age. At home, you'll find her chasing her two toddlers, making homemade yogurt, popsicles, and enjoying time outdoors with her family. Some of her favorite health topics include: gut health, Blue Zones, Dysautonomia (due to her husband's history with it) or just any integrative health topic in general.