{"podcast":{"title":"Home of Healthspan","slug":"home-of-healthspan-7069559","podcast_index_feed_id":7069559,"rss_url":"https://feeds.zencastr.com/f/4DQ53tnR.rss","website_url":"https://alively.com/","image_url":"https://media.zencastr.com/image-files/65c0df5c2662b52ae2ab1737/92527a6c-2cfc-445d-957e-2b2555da52d7.jpg","author":"a@alively.com","episode_count":109,"summary":"We profile health and wellness role models, sharing the tools, practices, and routines they use to help you live healthier, longer. Since 1950, the average lifespan has extended by 11 years, but our healthspan hasn’t kept up. We've been pursuing living longer without considering how to make those extra years vibrant and fulfilling. After all, 30 plus years of old age is a long time to spend slowly falling apart. And that's where Home of Healthspan comes in. Host Andrew McConnell interviews healthspan role models to help guide listeners through the 5 Pillars of Healthspan: * Fitness * Nutrition, * Sleep and recovery, * Stress management and Mindset, * And Social connection & purpose. All so you can not only extend your years, but make them vibrantly healthy from start to finish. This is your guide to extending your healthspan, Making sure you live Alively day today, every day, for all of your days.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T00:17:40.971505+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/home-of-healthspan-7069559"},"episode":{"title":"Lyme Disease: How Treating Her Son Changed Her Medical Career with Dr. Pamela Cipriano - E97","slug":"lyme-disease-how-treating-her-son-changed-her-medical-career-with-dr-pamela-cipriano-e97","published_at":"2026-05-04T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/home-of-healthspan-7069559/lyme-disease-how-treating-her-son-changed-her-medical-career-with-dr-pamela-cipriano-e97","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/home-of-healthspan-7069559","url":"https://zencastr.com/z/yr6Kc-Yv","audio_url":"https://redirect.zencastr.com/r/episode/69f4d69f8534138a0339ee03/size/56518750/audio-files/65c0df5c2662b52ae2ab1737/533132b8-5bd5-482d-a372-509068bd9cef.mp3","summary":"Why do chronic illnesses like Lyme Disease go unresolved, even after years of doctor visits and countless tests? What if the real issue isn't a lack of treatment, but a failure to look deeper at root causes like environment, lifestyle, and nutrition? In this episode, we explore the journey that transformed one doctor's approach to care after her own son was misdiagnosed for years. You'll learn why conditions like Lyme disease, mold toxicity, and chronic inflammation are frequently overlooked, how nutrition and environment play a critical role in recovery, the dangers of settling for the wrong diagnosis, and why true health requires connecting the dots between symptoms, triggers, and the body's ability to heal. Dr. Pamela M. Cipriano, DNP, APRN, is a nationally recognized nurse practitioner and founder of The Practice of Health and Wellness in Connecticut, specializing in complex chronic illness and advanced root-cause diagnostics. She is known for identifying seizure disorders misdiagnosed as epilepsy and uncovering neuroimmune, infectious, and toxic triggers behind conditions such as autoimmune encephalitis, tick-borne disease, mold exposure, and chronic inflammation. \"If you don't make sure you're eating the healthiest way possible, you're just not going to get better.\" - Dr. Pamela Cipriano In this episode you will learn: * Why root causes like Lyme, mold, and heavy metals are often missed in chronic illness. * Signs and symptoms to look for when standard tests and doctors fail to explain persistent symptoms. * How autoimmune diagnoses like lupus or RA can sometimes reverse by fixing the true trigger. * Key shifts in diet, from cutting sugar to choosing flour from outside the US, that can reduce body inflammation. * Simple tools like specialty labs, anti-inflammator…","meta_description":"Why do chronic illnesses like Lyme Disease go unresolved, even after years of doctor visits and countless tests? What if the real issue isn't a lack of tr…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2343,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/home-of-healthspan-7069559/episodes/lyme-disease-how-treating-her-son-changed-her-medical-career-with-dr-pamela-cipriano-e97/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/home-of-healthspan-7069559/lyme-disease-how-treating-her-son-changed-her-medical-career-with-dr-pamela-cipriano-e97.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}