Combining functional medicine with novel brain therapies to deliver unprecedented mental health recovery
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Dr. Robert Hedaya has been practising functional medicine psychiatry for many years, and is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical Center. He is the author of Understanding Biological Psychiatry, The Antidepressant Survival Guide and Depression: Advancing the Treatment Paradigm, and the founder of the Whole Psychiatry and Brain Recovery Center, as well as a faculty member at The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM).
In this captivating interview for The MindHealth360 Show, Dr. Hedaya talks about how he uses Functional Medicine, focusing on nutrition, digestion, inflammation, toxicity, and hormone levels, and combines it with novel brain therapies which he bundles in his pioneering HYLANE protocol, for a truly personalised treatment for mental health and neurological disorders. HYLANE combines hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), qEEG guided transcranial laser therapy, and neural exercises to treat dysfunction in the brain. He has had great successes with treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, neurodegenerative and other brain disorders using this technology, sometimes even when not combined with functional medicine.
He also discusses how our brains can be deeply affected by socio-cultural, environmental factors and trauma, leading to dysregulation of the hypothalamic pituitary and adrenal (HPA) axis and epigenetic mutations which can affect vital functions such as methylation.
Learn about:
- The vital link between our biochemistry and our psychology, and why it’s fundamental to our mental health
- How combining novel HYLANE technology (HBOT, q-EEG guided laser therapy and neural exercises), with functional medicine can lead to unprecedented mental health recovery
- How trauma can trigger epigenetic mutations leading to silencing of gene expression affecting vital functions such as methylation
- How childhood trauma reduces ATP levels in the mitochondria
- Why genetic mutations can cause a dysfunctional stress response, related to the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis
- The importance of community, connection and purpose for balanced biochemistry and better mental health
About Dr. Robert Hedaya
ROBERT J. HEDAYA, MD, ABPN, DLFAPA, IFMCP has been at the cutting edge of medical practice, psychiatry and psychopharmacology since 1979. With the publication of his first book, Understanding Biological Psychiatry (Norton, 1996) he pioneered the use of Functional Medicine in the Psychiatric field. He is now pioneering the use of HYLANE technology in the treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders. Dr. Hedaya is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical Center, where has been awarded the “Teacher of the Year” on 3 occasions. In keeping with his ability to move the field forward, he was first invited to teach PNIE (Psycho-neuro-immuno-endocrinology) to Georgetown Psychiatry Residents in the early 1990’s. He is a faculty member at the Institute for Functional Medicine, author of two additional books (The Antidepressant Survival Guide, and Depression: Advancing the Treatment Paradigm), and the founder of the Center for Whole Psychiatry and Brain Recovery. Dr. Hedaya is an editorial volunteer for Advances in Mind-Body Medicine and Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine. He has been featured in the local and national media (20/20, 60 minutes, Vogue, the New York Times, Washington Post etc.) on many occasions and is a frequent, nationally and internationally recognized speaker.
His website is www.wholepsychiatry.com.
Show Notes
Connect with Dr. Hedaya:
The Whole Psychiatry and Brain Recovery Center
11140 Rockville Pike, Suite 320
N. Bethesda, MD 20852
United States
+1 240-242-4461
Publications:
- Depression: Advancing the Treatment Paradigm
- The Antidepressant Survival Program
- Understanding Biological Psychiatry
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