In this episode, Dr. Beebe Dericks shares with us how she approaches treatment with pelvic pain, endometriosis, and cesarean birth healing from a body-mind-spirit perspective. She explains how she integrates the uses of meditation, breathwork, manual therapy, visceral manipulation, red light and cold laser therapy, ozone, and of course, food and herbs all as resources in her toolkit to guide her patients to a place of healing.
Dr. Beebe Dericks is a graduate of Bastyr University where she earned her doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine and Master of Science in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. Dr. Beebe is the owner of Dericks Family Medicine in Seattle, Washington and co-owner of VisRx, a supplement company dedicated to providing high quality immune support. Dr. Beebe specializes in fertility, pelvic pain, birth trauma and natural ways to recover from cesarean birth. Dr. Dericks leads international retreats focused on reigniting feminine potential and offers courses on fertility and cesarean birth recovery and repair.
Her private practice website is dericksfamilymedicine.com
You can find her supplement line at visrx.com
And learn more about her birth recovery work and resources at healingcesareanbirth.com
Click this image to see the recipes Dr. Beebe recommends in this episode!
Show Notes
3:30: Orienting ourselves: the pelvic diaphragm and anatomy
7:00: Parasympathetic effects on the pelvic space
11:00: Effects of stress/sympathetic nervous response
17:00: “We could think of trauma as being just as intense or severe to the fracture of tissue as surgery. We know that when we have scar tissue after a surgery, if that scar tissue is not tended to the same way a trauma is not tended to literally, then it just spreads through all the fascial planes of the body.”
20:30 The benefits of intra-vaginal touch
“I which in our culture we could embed this belief that receiving touch in those areas [through intra-vaginal massage] is therapeutic. It doesn’t have to be hypersexualized.
“We wouldn’t think twice about going and getting a neck/shoulder massage, and our neck and shoulders are holding up our head which is so heavy, but guess what? Our pelvic bowl and diaphragm are holding up the whole rest of our body! And these muscles need touch too.”
22:00: Non-intra-vaginal self-care options
22:50: Factors contributing to Endometriosis (and the difference between Endo and general period pain) - it might not always be trauma related
30:00: top food recommendations for achieving better hormone balance (especially for endometriosis and estrogen dominance)
31:30: “Tea Juice” and Hormone-balancing/fertility smoothie and Bastyr Soup Recipes
34:00 Top Chinese/English herbs for balancing hormones
Milk thistle
White peony with Licorice
Vitex
Schisandra
36:00 Forms of herbal administration- Tinctures, Classical Pearls herbal granules
37:40 Effect of pregnancy in positively/negatively affecting pelvic healing
"I think that pregnancy and the postpartum time is the richest time a woman’s life for healing.”
Healing effects of stretching tissue/breaking up scar tissue
Presence of stem cells
Healing Birth Podcast where Dr. Beebe shares her experience of healing through pregnancy and birth
The completion of the birth energy loop, the energetic release of birth
45:45 Common physical consequences after C-section surgery and Cesarean birth recovery treatment modalities
48:15: The use of low-level laser/red light therapy in pelvic healing, birth recovery, urethral caruncle, fertility/amenorrhea, menopause
51:30 Intravaginal ozone for scar tissue healing and fertility (increases in AMH- Anti-Müllerian hormone: a test assessing ovarian reserve)
53:30: Use of ozone and baking soda for preventing pregnancy-related demineralization and tooth decay
Slight tangent: Mark and Anisa use Honest O3 ozonated toothpaste and Pure O3 oil pulling solution for tooth and gums
Rapid Fire Questions
55:30: Most common nutrient deficiency you see in female population- Zinc
56:00: Most overrated exercise- Kegel: we’re not doing it right
Most underutilized exercise- breath work
57:30: what would you change about the curriculum in your freshman health class after working in this field?
58:30: Contact
visrx.com- The vis = the vital force
Cesarean birth healing- healingcesareanbirth.com