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Wellness in Asheville is your weekly source for the latest wellness news, trends + events in Asheville. Join us for conversations with a diverse group of local wellness biz owners + practitioners across food, health, movement, wellbeing + spirituality. New episodes each Wednesday. (First episodes drop on August 4th, 2025) Subscribe to Wellness in Asheville! You'll be supporting the amazing local businesses that make Asheville a trendsetting wellness destination. Wellness in Asheville is brought to you by Be Well Asheville. Learn more: www.bewellasheville.com | @bewellasheville

Recent Episodes

35 - Redefining Healthy Aging with Dr. Golnosh Sharafsaleh, MD

Send us Fan Mail Introduction to Dr. Golnosh Sharafsaleh and the HEALTH Framework In this episode of the Wellness in Asheville Podcast, host Travis Richardson sits down with Dr. Golnosh Sharafsaleh, MD, known to her patients as Dr. G. She is a board-certified geriatrician and lifestyle medicine physician who owns Golden Oak Medicine, a concierge practice in Asheville, NC. Together they explore what it actually means to age well, long before symptoms show up. Dr. Golnosh shares the HEALTH fram...

62 MIN

34 - Environmental Medicine & Root-Cause Healing with Dr. Janet Opila-Lehman

Send us Fan Mail Introduction to Dr. Janet Opila-Lehman and Environmental Medicine In this episode of the Wellness in Asheville Podcast, host Travis Richardson sits down with Dr. Janet Opila-Lehman, a naturopathic doctor, occupational therapist, and bodywork practitioner with over 40 years of healthcare experience in Western North Carolina. Travis opens with his own family's story: a decade-long mystery illness that conventional medicine couldn't explain, eventually traced back to mold exposu...

57 MIN

33 - Precision Medicine, Genomics & Peptide Therapy with Dr. Troy Jackson

Send us Fan Mail Precision Medicine, Genomics & Peptide Therapy with Dr. Troy Jackson In this episode of the Wellness in Asheville Podcast, host Travis Richardson sits down with Dr. Troy Jackson, a family medicine physician and co-founder of Authentic Health, a direct primary care and precision medicine practice in Asheville, NC. Dr. Jackson left the insurance-based model behind to give patients more time, deeper lab work, and a genuinely personalized path to better health. Travis and Dr....

54 MIN

32 - Dr. James Pinkston on Regenerative Medicine and the Case for Aging Strong

Send us Fan Mail Dr. James Pinkston Returns: Regenerative Medicine and the Case for Aging Strong In this episode of the Wellness in Asheville Podcast, host Travis Richardson welcomes back Dr. James Pinkston, DO, of Asheville Non-Surgical Orthopedics, for a second conversation on regenerative medicine, pain relief, and what it actually takes to stay mobile as you age. Dr. Pinkston breaks down the science behind platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and stem cell therapy, clears up what "stem cells" real...

45 MIN

31 - Rehumanizing Primary Care with Dr. Chad Krisel

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Be Well Asheville Podcast, host Travis Richardson sits down with Dr. Chad Krisel, board-certified family physician and co-founder of Integrative Family Medicine of Asheville (IFMA). Travis is also a longtime patient of the practice, which makes this conversation especially personal. Together they unpack why traditional insurance-based primary care is structurally broken — and how the direct primary care model IFMA pioneered fifteen years ago realigns th...

67 MIN