Open Forums

Dr. Hunter is very passionate about 'mind-body' medicine and is delighted to sit down with an incredible practitioner and resource in our community, Carrie Kralicek, who, as a psychiatric nurse practitioner serving the North Idaho community, has a wealth of experience navigating the intersection of mental and physical health. Dr. Hunter and Carrie will collaborate in a wide sweeping examination of approaches to supporting mental health struggles from both conventional and holistic lenses. We will educate on the myriad of physical expression patterns of our mental health and embark on a multi-layered discussion of tools individuals can deploy to strengthen and heal patterns of disturbance in the mind-body axis of health.

Cognitive changes can be a primary concern in many patient's health journey, and yet many wait a bit too long to take the steps to improve. There is a vast amount of research behind nutrition and lifestyle shifts that can shift the progression of cognitive decline - no matter what the cause. Dr. Karin is equipped to assess, diagnose and treat your brain health and this Open Forum will explain just a small portion of that evaluation and monitoring process. Tune in to tune your brain health up!

Join Dr. Karin Duncan, NMD as she discusses how decades past can affect memory, behavior, and overall wellness

This discussion will share the history of electricity and health and bring research up to current day. Special emphasis will be placed on therapeutic modalities, including Frequency Specific MicroCurrent/FSM (Ty Rockwell is the leading expert in this field in our area) that patients can utilize in clinical and at home settings. We will also have a discussion about environmental exposure to electricity and electromagnetic frequencies (EMF's) and their adverse effects on health, as well as strategies to reduce these exposures in your day to day life.

Join Dr. Karin and learn how your nervous system orients to your environment through complex and advanced systems that receive and interpret information 24/7. Then dive deeper into practices you can start today to aid in the retraining of your "fight or flight" response and be present, aware, and engaged in your surroundings, relationships, and your own health.

When you get your lab results and they are bolded and "abnormal", but then here that "everything looks great", or those values don't pertain to your health concerns, it can be frustrating and overwhelming. Medical jargon is an entirely different language that feels intimidating to most patients. However, with a few tips and tools, you can navigate this conversation with confidence and advocacy and withOUT consulting a YouTube doctor.

Nature Versus Nurture: Investigating how our past shapes our present mental, emotional, and physical health Our past life experiences profoundly influence our current state of health. The physical and emotional exposures, stresses and traumas we have experienced in the past cause our bodies to develop specific patterns and methods to deal with situations we encounter in our current life. Our doctors will discuss how to develop insight around the origins of self-harming mental/emotional and physical patterns and examine tools individuals can utilize to transform these patterns and enable dynamic health and well-being.

Dr. David and Dr. Hunter will discuss the powerful action of the placebo effect in health and illness. The conversation will include the history, science, and politics of the placebo effect in medicine and medical research, including tangible applications of it's action we can use to improve our health and reverse disease.

Dr. Karin is welcoming experts in the field of Exercise for Parkinson's Disease (PwP) this month for our Open Forum. You are NOT going to want to miss this LIVE event, so tune in to tune up! Learn to stay a step ahead with PD-Connect BASIX Parkinson’s-specific exercise program. PD-Connect provides exercise and education in a fun, uplifting environment where community and FUNctional movement is a BIG step in the right direction. Dr. Lisa Oei is a physical therapist who has specialized in Parkinson's fitness and wellness for the last 9 years. Lisa recognized the need for community based Parkinson’s classes and founded PD-Connect, a nonprofit organization in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, offering PD-specific education and exercise classes on a donation basis.

SteF Farina is a Master Trainer who specializes in Parkinson's and senior fitness. She is the co-founder of PD-Connect and runs an outdoor boot camp business.

Together SteF and Lisa are known as S'n'L and they bring a variety of functional movements and education from the broad spectrum of PD-specific certifications they have obtained, which include PWR!, Delay the Disease, Urban Poling, and Dance for PD, among many others

Join Dr. Hunter Peterson, NMD & Dr. David Campbell, LAc as they discuss an exploration of the profoundly influential unseen forces that drive our cellular function and health expression including a discussion of acupuncture, homeopathy, electrical medicine, and the many theoretical and historical frameworks for these powerful therapeutics in health.