Sunday Conversations January 2024 - "It's Not All In Your Head" with Judy Tsafrir

Slides, recommended reading, and more materials from the presentation can be found at https://www.massmecfs.org/news-events...

Judy Suzanne Reis Tsafrir, MD, is a holistic healer, activist, artist, and gardener with a private practice of holistic psychiatry and psychoanalysis located in Newton, Massachusetts. She is a board-certified adult and child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and teaches and supervises at the Cambridge Health Alliance. In this talk, she discussed the multi-modal holistic approach she takes in her practice for the treatment of three conditions commonly associated with ME/CFS and Long COVID: Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), Mold Toxicity, and Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS).

This program is part of “Sunday Conversations with MassME,” a monthly speaker series with discussion on a wide variety of topics.  For more information on this and future Sunday Conversations presentations, please check out https://www.massmecfs.org/sunday-conv...

Chapters
00:00  Housekeeping
Judy's talk
04:27  Judy: Introduction and misdiagnosis
15:37  Judy: Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS)
21:00  Judy: The Gupta Program
22:43  Judy: Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN)
25:19  Judy: Electromagnetic radiation reduction
32:08  Judy: Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)
34:59  Judy: Spiritual considerations
39:30  Judy: Closing thoughts
Questions from the audience
41:57  Q&A: How to access this kind of care (insurance etc)
44:22  Q&A: LDN compounding
44:22  Q&A: LDN compounding and time of day
45:20  Q&A: LENS neurofeedback and FSM
46:13  Q&A: Electric vehicles and EMFs
47:13  Q&A: Ketamine therapy in New York
48:48  Q&A: Lab work for MCAS
49:58  Q&A: How to identify providers
Closing
50:36  Survey results and closing thoughts

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