Yousuf Siddiqui's guest appearances

Yousuf Siddiqui

Living Your Life with Lianne Laing

The LDN Radio Show About Low Dose Naltrexone

The Good Mood Podcast

Laura Brown

David Miller

Ellen Wong

Erin TeWinkel

Erica Robinson

Talia Marcheggiani

Adele Tevlin

Leigha Saunders

Christina Bjorndal

Cyndi Gilbert

Jordan Robertson

Emily Bennett

Aglaée Jacob

Ayan Mukherjee

Christina Carew

OwlTail

Hello and welcome to the Good Mood Podcast! Today I have the pleasure of talking to my buddy from the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine Dr. Yousuf Siddiqui, ND. Yousuf and I talk about sexual health and naturopathic medicine.  How do we talk to patients about sexual health? Where do sexual health concerns like low libido come from? Yousuf discusses some of the ways he opens up the conversation about sexual health with patients and how our sexuality can be an entryway into whole-body healing. In fact this part of interesting--we talk about how a naturopathic clinic focus, like sexual health and mood are often just roads to the same ends: whole mind-body-soul healing, if we want them to be. Whether one visits an ND because of a sore ankle, depression, or low libido we're always taking into account digestion, sleep, nutrition and all the other factors and systems that make up a human being in their environment and aiming to heal them.  Actually, if you listen to the end, I am about to say something and then forget what it was---after recording I remembered.  Many people ask me: what does an ND do? What's the difference between an ND and an MD? Sometimes I do a better job of answering that question than other times, however I usually fumble around with an explanation about our education, our philosophy, how we treat the root cause, our modalities: how we use nutrition, herbs, acupuncture and so on. And this rambling is often met with blank stares.  But what I came to realize through this conversation with Yousuf is that the fundamental difference between naturopathic medicine and conventional medicine is our wholism. Conventional medicine is generally rooted in cause and effect: what is the thing that's missing or not working? What part is broken? And the treatments often involve going into remove or fix the broken part.  Now, this can be wonderful. If I have a tumour, please remove it. If I tear a ligament, can you please fix it? If my levels of inflammation are endangering my life, bring them down.  However this doesn't often work in the realm of chronic disease: slow complicated disease processes that are influenced by many many factors. You probably can't completely fix your depression with diet. However, nutrition is fundamental in ensuring your brain and body and mood operate optimally. There's no one root cause. Therefore there's no one solution. There's no magic bullet when it comes to the majority of diseases. And naturopathic medicine, through its attempts to examine as many factors as possible, to understand the whole person, can aim to change as many contributing variables that leave us feeling unwell. Supplements, herbs, lifestyle, practices like meditation are all recommended with the understanding that we need to build in a healthy environment for the body to heal.  In short, conventional systems are mostly linear. Naturopathic systems are complex, interwoven networks.  Ok, so that's that. Yousuf and I talk a bunch of things and the fun thing about podcasting with a friend is not only the chance to catch up but this freedom to use conversation as a way to explore and learn new things and really have a deep discussion. I hope we achieved that today.  Yousuf works in Ottawa at a compounding pharmacy called Nutrichem. He implements testing, individualized nutritional therapies and lots of counselling in his practice.  Find Yousuf:  At his website: https://dryousufnd.com/ On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.yousuf_nd/  Learn more about my foundational program for mental health and hormones: Good Mood Foundations at taliand.com/good-mood-learn

Hello and welcome to the Good Mood Podcast! Today I have the pleasure of talking to my buddy from the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine Dr. Yousuf Siddiqui, ND. Yousuf and I talk about sexual health and naturopathic medicine.  How do we talk to patients about sexual health? Where do sexual health concerns like low libido come from? Yousuf discusses some of the ways he opens up the conversation about sexual health with patients and how our sexuality can be an entryway into whole-body healing. In fact this part of interesting--we talk about how a naturopathic clinic focus, like sexual health and mood are often just roads to the same ends: whole mind-body-soul healing, if we want them to be. Whether one visits an ND because of a sore ankle, depression, or low libido we're always taking into account digestion, sleep, nutrition and all the other factors and systems that make up a human being in their environment and aiming to heal them.  Actually, if you listen to the end, I am about to say something and then forget what it was---after recording I remembered.  Many people ask me: what does an ND do? What's the difference between an ND and an MD? Sometimes I do a better job of answering that question than other times, however I usually fumble around with an explanation about our education, our philosophy, how we treat the root cause, our modalities: how we use nutrition, herbs, acupuncture and so on. And this rambling is often met with blank stares.  But what I came to realize through this conversation with Yousuf is that the fundamental difference between naturopathic medicine and conventional medicine is our wholism. Conventional medicine is generally rooted in cause and effect: what is the thing that's missing or not working? What part is broken? And the treatments often involve going into remove or fix the broken part.  Now, this can be wonderful. If I have a tumour, please remove it. If I tear a ligament, can you please fix it? If my levels of inflammation are endangering my life, bring them down.  However this doesn't often work in the realm of chronic disease: slow complicated disease processes that are influenced by many many factors. You probably can't completely fix your depression with diet. However, nutrition is fundamental in ensuring your brain and body and mood operate optimally. There's no one root cause. Therefore there's no one solution. There's no magic bullet when it comes to the majority of diseases. And naturopathic medicine, through its attempts to examine as many factors as possible, to understand the whole person, can aim to change as many contributing variables that leave us feeling unwell. Supplements, herbs, lifestyle, practices like meditation are all recommended with the understanding that we need to build in a healthy environment for the body to heal.  In short, conventional systems are mostly linear. Naturopathic systems are complex, interwoven networks.  Ok, so that's that. Yousuf and I talk a bunch of things and the fun thing about podcasting with a friend is not only the chance to catch up but this freedom to use conversation as a way to explore and learn new things and really have a deep discussion. I hope we achieved that today.  Yousuf works in Ottawa at a compounding pharmacy called Nutrichem. He implements testing, individualized nutritional therapies and lots of counselling in his practice.  Find Yousuf:  At his website: <a href="https://dryousufnd.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://dryousufnd.com/</a> On Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dr.yousuf_nd/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/dr.yousuf_nd/</a> Learn more about my foundational program for mental health and hormones: Good Mood Foundations at <a href="http://taliand.com/good-mood-learn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">taliand.com/good-mood-learn</a>

Episode 34: Getting in the Mood with Dr. Yousuf Siddiqui, ND