Dr Oscar Serrallach joins me to discuss postnatal depletion and the consequences of it. Whether you are a mother, know a mother or have a mother, this episode is relevant to you. Dr Oscar Serrallach combines nutritional, environmental and lifestyle medicine to discuss a topic that rarely gets much air time but has a huge impact on all of us. Selected Links from the EpisodeDr Oscar Serrallach websiteThe Postnatal Depletion Cure bookThe Health LodgeACNEM websiteUnstress episode with Elizabeth Mucci on fertilityUnstress episode with Leach Hechtman on microbiome throughout the lifespanUnstress episode with Dr Leila Masson on childrens and mothers healthDownload the PDF transcription Dr Ron Ehrlich:Hello and welcome to Unstress. I'm Dr Ron Ehrlich. Now today's episode focuses on postnatal depletion and the consequences of it, and before you think this doesn't relate to you, the man or woman, then pause, look down. If you have a belly button and if you've gone through birth, then this is relevant to you. Okay, and another point to get your attention. We've all had a mother. We may know a mother. We may even be a mother. Well, stay tuned. This is, as I said, a really important show. My guest today is Dr Oscar Serrallach. Now Oscar is a general medical practitioner and has for many years been dedicated to remaining at the cutting edge of wellness healthcare. His dedication led him down the path of studying and practising functional medicine while addressing the multifactorial aspects of health and wellbeing. He's been on the board and served as the editor for the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine for many years and frequently presents for the college.Dr Ron Ehrlich:Oscar is well known in the field of postnatal health through personal family experience. He actually has three young children, a great learning experience for any practitioner, but also through the lens of functional integrative medicine. He came to realize the huge impact that nutritional, environmental and lifestyle have on the postnatal period, a period we have all been through. And the impact of it is, as you will hear, huge. Oscar brings his knowledge of postnatal depletion and the fourth trimester, which traditionally has been thought to last for only a few months. But it really lasts for well, no, no, I'm not gonna. I'm not, I won't spoil it. I'm going to leave it to Oscar. The Postnatal Depletion Cure is fabulous and he has also created a unique working environment working exclusively with a highly skilled and diverse team at the Health Lodge in Byron Bay, Northern New South Wales.Dr Ron Ehrlich:I hope you enjoy this conversation I had with Dr Oscar Serrallach.Welcome to the show Oscar.Dr Oscar Serrallach:Thanks, Ron. It’s great to be here. Looking forward to having our discussion today.Dr Ron Ehrlich:Oscar, you know, I sat and listened to your presentation at a recent course that we were both at on postnatal depletion and there are so many questions I wanted to ask you, but I wondered if you might just share with us, cause I know you're working up in Byron Bay, in Northern New South Wales, and you've got this amazing facility called the Health Lodge and I think it's actually when I heard about it, I thought, gee, every health practitioner would be envious of this. Can you share with us a bit about your journey and segueing into the Health Lodge? Tell us about it.Dr Oscar Serrallach:Yeah. So I come from an emergency medicine background and sort of moved into the world of sort of general practice. And one of the things I noticed with general practice is you’re often just working by yourself and silo into a department. And I kind of realized pretty quickly that after my training in GP that wasn't really going to work for me as an ongoing sort of career. And I'm very interested in nutritional medicine. I've grown up with homeopathy and so it was quite an easy transition into l...