The Whole Health Cure: Recent Episodes
Sharon Bergquist, MD
Experience, embrace, and discover how our simple every day choices affect our biology, mood, energy, creativity, and well-being. Each week host Dr. Sharon Bergquist talks with renowned researchers, physicians, nutritionists and wellness experts exploring the science behind true health and living to your fullest physical, emotional, and spiritual potential.
Relationships are fundamental to our overall health and well-being, yet we don't often explore how our early-life conditioning influences our adult connections. In this episode, I am joined by Thais Gibson, a counselor, speaker, leader, and founder of The Personal Development School, to explore the psychology of attachment styles. We discuss how our subconscious rules about love are deeply formed in childhood, and how these blueprints manifest into four main categories: secure, anxious, dismissive avoidant, and fearful avoidant. Here are the details of our conversation: [00:00:00] Introductions [00:02:29] Why relationship health is often overlooked in healthcare [00:03:35] Self-assessing your relationship patterns and defining the "secure attachment" style [00:07:35] Can attachment styles be rewired? An overview of the five pillars of change [00:10:05] Understanding the anxious attachment style and the fear of abandonment [00:14:29] Conditioning vs. genetic temperament [00:17:33] Advice for Busy Parents [00:19:51] Dismissive avoidant attachment style [00:24:41] Blended attachment styles and the fearful avoidant (disorganized) style [00:30:27] Hypervigilance and the "strange situation experiment" for disorganized attachment [00:32:26] How to support a partner who exhibits volatile or disorganized attachment behaviors[00:38:23] 3-step subconscious rewiring tool [00:43:12] Where to find Thais Gibson's resources and the Personal Development School [00:44:07] Outro, final remarks, and disclaimer
Short Bio:
Thais Gibson is a counselor, speaker, and leader in the personal development field. She has a Ph.D. and is certified in 13 modalities, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, NLP, Somatic Processing, and Trauma Work. Her scientific research, personal experience, and compassionate approach led to her founding the Gibson Integrated Attachment Theory™. Through her academic training and client-based research, Thais has created renowned and inspiring courses for personal development, growth, and relationships. These teachings have been distilled into the in-depth programs, courses, and modules inside of The Personal Development School.
Links:
Instagram, YouTube, Personal Development School, and The Thais Gibson Podcast
Dr. Majid Fotuhi earned his PhD in neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University in 1992 and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1997. Currently, he's an adjunct professor at the Mind Body Institute at Johns Hopkins University and teaches at George Washington University and Harvard Medical School. With 37 years of experience in teaching, clinical practice, and neuroscience research, Dr. Fotuhi has pioneered a multidisciplinary approach to enhancing brain vitality and cognitive performance at any age. His groundbreaking brain fitness program combines a comprehensive baseline brain portfolio assessment with 12 biweekly brain training sessions. This program targets lifestyle optimization and cognitive stimulation to improve memory, focus, and overall brain health. His program has delivered measurable success for patients dealing with memory loss due to aging, concussions, and ADHD, and he's been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals. He's also the author of three books, including his most recent titled The Invincible Brain.
Links:
drfotuhi, Instagram, and LinkedIn
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Dr. Jila Senemar, MD, FACOG, is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and founder of JilaMD, a personalized women’s midlife health and longevity practice in Miami. With more than 20 years of clinical experience, she specializes in perimenopause and menopause care, evidence-based hormone therapy, metabolic optimization and longevity Medicine, helping women restore energy, resilience, and long-term health through individualized, science-driven care. She is the founder of the Miami Menopause Collective, the EmpowHer Miami woman’s health exposition and SecondBloom Health, initiatives dedicated to expanding access to trusted education, community, and modern menopause care. Widely recognized for her clear, compassionate approach and rigorous commitment to evidence-based medicine, Dr. Senemar is a leading voice shaping the future of woman’s midlife health and longevity.
Links:
Connect with Jila on JilaMD, Instagram, and LinkedIn
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Ashley Koff, RD, is the USA Todaybestselling author of Your Best Shot (HarperOne), founder of The Better Nutrition Program (BNP), and a pioneering voice behind the emerging weight health movement.
A practitioner and thought-leader with more than 25 years of experience, Ashley has helped redefine how we approach weight, shifting the conversation from weight loss to weight health, a science-based framework focused on metabolic function, hormonal regulation, and sustainable outcomes. Through her work with patients, clinicians, leading brands and companies, and health organizations, Ashley has developed practical systems that translate complex nutrition science into personalized strategies people can actually implement.
A trusted expert featured across major media and a sought-after educator for health professionals, Ashley has been recognized as one of CNN’s Top 100 Health Makers and named “Hollywood’s Leading Dietitian” by InStyle. Through her clinical work, educational programs, and writing, Ashley continues to lead a growing movement toward better, not perfect, nutrition that supports long-term metabolic and weight health.
Long Bio:
Ashley Koff, RD, is the USA Todaybestselling author of Your Best Shot (HarperOne), founder of The Better Nutrition Program (BNP), and a pioneering voice behind the emerging weight health movement.
A practitioner and thought-leader with more than 25 years of experience, Ashley has helped redefine how we approach weight, shifting the conversation from weight loss to weight health, a science-based framework focused on metabolic function, hormonal regulation, and sustainable outcomes. Through her work with patients, clinicians, leading brands and companies, and health organizations, Ashley has developed practical systems that translate complex nutrition science into personalized strategies people can actually implement.
In Your Best Shot, Ashley introduces the concept of weight-health hormones, GLP-1, GIP, CCK, and PYY, as key regulators of weight health. The book presents the first functional assessment framework for these hormones along with a personalized optimization approach designed to support weight health whether using GLP-1 medications or not (“shot or not”).
A trusted expert featured across major media and a sought-after educator for health professionals, Ashley has been recognized as one of CNN’s Top 100 Health Makers and named “Hollywood’s Leading Dietitian” by InStyle. Through her clinical work, educational programs, and writing, Ashley continues to lead a growing movement toward better, not perfect, nutrition that supports long-term metabolic and weight health.
Links:
Connect with Ashley on The Better Nutrition Program, Instagram, LinkedIn, and buy her book Your Best Shot
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Scott Fulton is an internationally recognized redefiner in the positive aging space. A researcher, author, and adult educator, he teaches at three prominent universities on healthspan and aging. He’s a member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, sits on the prestigious True Health Initiative Council, and is past president of the National Aging in Place Council.
Coming from a diverse engineering research background, he’s known for translating complex science into applied, evidence-based preventive lifestyle medicine for aging well. He’s the Author of WHEALTHSPAN, and his latest book, FUNCTION, challenges some of the messaging around healthspan. It turns out that what we actually “DO” in everyday daily life is the most reliable predictor of healthspan.
Links:
Connect with Scott at Whealthspan and LinkedIn. Purchase his book FUNCTION: Turn Your Blind Spots into Strengths
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Chelsea Pottenger is a leading international keynote speaker, bestselling author of The Mindful High Performer, psychology postgraduate, and founder of EQ Minds.
She works with global brands like Google, Amazon, and Mercedes-Benz, delivering science-backed strategies on mental well-being, mindfulness, and sustainable high performance.
A former corporate executive who experienced postnatal depression in 2015, Chelsea transformed her life and made it her mission to help others thrive — mentally, physically, and professionally.
Now represented by The Harry Walker Agency, she has trained over 2 million people worldwide and is a proud ambassador for The Gidget Foundation.
Links:
Connect with her at The Mindful High Performer, EQ Minds, or on LinkedIn.
About Diana:
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Diana Hill, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, international trainer, and a leading expert on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)—a revolutionary approach to psychology that is changing our understanding of mental health. Drawing from the most current psychological research and contemplative wisdom, Diana bridges science with real-life practices to help people grow fulfilling and impactful lives. She is the author of four books including I Know I Should Exercise, But…, The Self-Compassion Daily Journal, ACT Daily Journal, and her latest Wise Effort: How to Focus Your Genius Energy on What Matters Most (September 2025). She's the host of the Wise Effort Podcast and her insights have been featured by NPR, Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, Real Simple, and other national media.
Long Bio:
Dr. Diana Hill, PhD is a clinical psychologist, author, international trainer, and recognized expert in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), compassion-based interventions, and psychological flexibility. With a background that bridges neuroscience, mindfulness, and behavior science, she is known for making complex psychological concepts both practical and inspiring.
A summa cum laude graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she majored in Biopsychology, Dr.Hill earned her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder, in collaboration with Dr. Debra Safer at Stanford University where she researched Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Appetite Awareness Training (AAT) for bulimia nervosa. She completed her clinical internship at the University of California, Davis, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at La Luna Intensive Outpatient Center, where she later served as Clinical Director and developed their ACT and AAT-based treatment program.
A leading voice in the evolution of ACT and Process-Based Therapy, Dr. Hill works closely with pioneers in the field. She co-leads ACT BootCamp Training for Therapists with ACT founder Dr. Steven Hayes, and is actively involved in shaping the future of therapy—including the applications of AI, revolutionizing the diagnostic system, network modeling, and process-based approaches. She serves as a senior meditation teacher and curriculum developer for the University of California’s Climate Resilience Initiative, helping integrate ACT and mindfulness into interdisciplinary environmental education.
Dr. Hill has contributed to publications in the International Journal of Eating Disorders and co-authored a seminal article on Process-Based Therapy, advancing evidence-based clinical practice. She is a contributor to PsychFlex, a digital platform that helps clinicians incorporate ACT into their work and track client outcomes in real time with ecological measurements, and she regularly speaks at global conferences, including the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS) World Conference, Innovations in Psychotherapy, and the Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference.
In addition to her clinical and academic work, Dr. Hill teaches at organizations and retreat centers such as InsightLA, Blue Spirit Costa Rica, PESI, and PraxisCET. She is on the clinical advisory board of Lightfully Behavioral Health and a board member of the Institute for Better Health.
She is the author of Wise Effort: How to Focus Your Genius Energy on What Matters Most (Sounds True, 2025), The Self-Compassion Daily Journal, I Know I Should Exercise But…, and ACT Daily Journal, and her insights have been featured in NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, Mindful, Prevention, Real Simple, Woman’s Day, and other leading media outlets. She is also the host of the Wise Effort podcast.
With over 20 years of study and practice in yoga and meditation, including studying in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, Dr. Hill integrates contemplative practice into her approach to healing and growth. She lives in California where she raises two sons, cares for bees, and embodies the Wise Effort principles she teaches—living a life guided by presence, purpose, and compassion.
Links:
Connect with her at drdianahill.com or on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Insight Timer @drdianahill.
About Dean:
Dr. Dean Sherzai is a behavioral neurologist and neuroscientist whose entire life has been dedicated to behavioral change models at the community and population level. Dean completed his medical and neurology residencies at Georgetown University, followed by a subsequent fellowship in neurodegenerative diseases at the National Institutes of Health. He then pursued a second fellowship in Dementia and Geriatrics at the University of California, San Diego. He also holds two master’s degrees in Advanced Sciences at UCSD and in Epidemiology from Loma Linda University. He has received a PhD in Healthcare Leadership, focused on community empowerment, from Loma Linda University/Andrews University. Additionally, he completed the Executive Leadership Program at Harvard Business School. His vision has always been to revolutionize healthcare by empowering communities to take control of their own health.
Dr. Ayesha Sherzai is a vascular neurologist and a research scientist. After completing her residency, she completed a fellowship in vascular neurology and Epidemiology at Columbia University Neurological Institute of New York. Dr. Sherzai is at the tail end of a master’s degree in public health in lifestyle epidemiology from Loma Linda University. Knowing the importance of empowering her patients and their communities, she completed an extensive culinary training program in New York and now teaches large populations how to make tasty, easy, and healthy meals for their brain health.
They are the authors of two best-selling books, The Alzheimer's Solution (2017, HarperCollins) and The 30 day Alzheimer's Solution (2021, HarperCollins). They are currently leading the largest community-based brain health initiative in the country.
About Michelle:
Michelle is an award-winning, NIH-funded researcher at the University of Michigan with thirty years studying how to help people change their healthy behavior in sustainable ways.
Her work focuses on how to adopt physical activity and other lifestyle behaviors in ways that can be sustained within the unpredictability of the real world - and her client list includes Kaiser Permanente, The Permanente Medical Group, Business Group on Health, Walmart, WW, and Anytime Fitness.
Michelle’s research on creating sustainable change is recognized as uniquely pragmatic for real-world applications. Her advice is sought for prominent initiatives, including the World Health Organization’s expert group on the Global Action Plan on Physical Activity and she was selected to be the inaugural chair of the United States National Physical Activity Plan’s Communication Committee. She has also written two critically acclaimed books about how to support lasting changes in lifestyle behaviors, No Sweat and The Joy Choice.
Michelle has a doctorate in Psychology (PhD), master’s degrees in Health Behavior/Health Education (MPH) and Kinesiology (MS) from the University of Michigan and she is a Fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. Michelle’s decades of academic research combined with her real-world coaching offers her a comprehensive perspective and permits her to create and scale engaging and practical sustainable-change systems for digital health and patient counseling.
Michelle speaks around the world, trains clinicians in easy-to-use sustainable-change methods, and is frequently interviewed in major media outlets including The New York Times, NPR, The Atlantic, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Prevention, Real Simple, and TIME. She ran with the Olympic Torch at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona.
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Connect with Michelle at her website, MichelleSegar.com, or LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellelsegar/
Emeran A. Mayer is a Gastroenterologist, Neuroscientist and Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, the Executive Director of the G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress & Resilience at UCLA and Founding Director of the Goodman Luskin Microbiome Center at UCLA. As one of the pioneers and leading researchers in the role of brain gut interactions in health and chronic disease, in particular in IBS, his scientific contributions to basic and translational enteric neurobiology with wide-ranging applications in clinical GI diseases and disorders is unparalleled. He has published close to 410 scientific papers, co-edited 3 books, published the best selling The Mind Gut Connection book in 2016 and The Gut Immune Connection book in June 2021. He is the recipient of the 2016 David McLean award from the American Psychosomatic Society and the 2017 Ismar Boas Medal from the German Society of Gastroenterology and Metabolic Disease. His most recent work has focused on alterations in the bidirectional communications within the brain gut microbiome system and their role in chronic inflammatory and functional diseases of the gut, obesity, and cognitive decline.
Links:
Dr. Mayer's Website: EmeranMayer.com
Dr. Mayer on Instagram and YouTube
Dr. Mayer's books, The Mind-Gut Connection and The Gut-Immune Connection
About Brady:
Brady Holmer is a researcher and science writer. He has a Master’s degree in Human Performance from the University of Florida. He frequently writes about exercise and nutrition in his popular newsletter, Physiologically Speaking, a publication dedicated to providing the latest science-based information on health and human performance.
Links:
Learn more about Brady at his website, bradyholmer.com
Follow Brady on X (@B_Holmer)
About Robynne:
Dr. Robynne Chutkan is an integrative gastroenterologist and the author of four books, Gutbliss, The Microbiome Solution, The Bloat Cure and The Antiviral Gut. Educated at Yale and Columbia, she is a faculty member at Georgetown Hospital and the founder of the Digestive Center for Wellness in Washington, D.C. A former Governing Board member and Training Committee Chair of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, she's authored dozens of scientific articles and lectured globally on the role of the microbiome in health and disease. A frequent medical expert on The Dr. Oz Show, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, and other media outlets, Dr. Chutkan is passionate about democratizing access to gut health information and introducing more dirt, sweat and vegetables into her patients lives.
Links:
Dr. Chutkan's Website: DrChutkan.com (formerly Gutbliss.com)
Dr. Chutkan on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, & YouTube
Be sure to order Dr. Chutkan's book, The Anti-Viral Gut: Tackling Pathogens from the Inside Out, releasing November 1.
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About Sam:
Sam Cutler is a Harvard-trained nutrition health coach and the founder of MINDFULL, a wellness brand dedicated to empowering individuals to take control of their health through sustainable, evidence-based practices. With a deep understanding of the intricate connection between nutrition, mental well-being, and physical health, Sam advocates for a holistic approach to wellness that goes beyond the scale. Her expertise has transformed the lives of countless people, helping them achieve lasting health and vitality. Sam is a sought-after speaker and thought leader, known for her compassionate and practical guidance on navigating the often-confusing world of modern wellness.
Links:
Follow Sam on Instagram (@thefitfatale)
Follow MINDFULL on Instagram (@mindfull.so)
Learn more about MINDFULL at www.mindfull.so
About Matt:
Dr. Matthew Dawson attended medical school at The University of Kentucky before completing his residency in emergency medicine at The University of Utah, where he served as both chief resident and fellow. After practicing medicine and serving as an associate professor at the University of Kentucky for seven years, Dr. Dawson developed a deep interest in genomics and epigenetics, realizing their potential to revolutionize our understanding of health and longevity.
As the CEO of TruDiagnostic, Dr. Dawson leads the company’s mission to advance the science of epigenetics and provide groundbreaking insights into aging and disease prevention. His dedication to optimizing human performance, which began with his personal focus on fitness and nutrition, has evolved into a professional pursuit of harnessing epigenetic data to extend health span and improve overall well-being. Under his leadership, TruDiagnostic is at the forefront of epigenetic testing and research, empowering individuals and researchers with actionable information about biological aging, disease susceptibility, and personalized health strategies. Dr. Dawson’s passion for using cutting-edge science to impact lives is evident in his efforts to bridge the gap between epigenetic research and practical healthcare applications. He has trained physicians and healthcare providers in the importance of epigenetic markers, ensuring that TruDiagnostic’s work continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible in preventive health. He regularly shares insights through public speaking and educational platforms, advocating for the role of epigenetics in reshaping healthcare.
Links:
Learn more about TruDiagnostic at trudiagnostic.com
Download the Hollis app
Follow TruDiagnostic on Instagram (@trudiagnosticofficial), X (@trudiagnostic), and LinkedIn (TruDiagnostic)
About Susannah:
Susannah Fox is a health and technology strategist. Her book, Rebel Health: A Field Guide to the Patient-Led Revolution in Medical Care, was recently published by MIT Press. She is a former Chief Technology Officer for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where she led an open data and innovation lab. She has served as the entrepreneur-in-residence at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and she directed the health portfolio at the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project.
Links:
Visit Susannah's website at susannahfox.com
Find Susannah on LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Threads, and Instagram
About Scott:
Scott Fulton is a unique leader in the aging space. He lectures on aging at two university campuses, is a member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, sits on the prestigious True Health Initiative Council, and is past president of the National Aging in Place Council. He is the author of Whealthspan, More Years, More Moments, More Money. Scott is also an Ironman triathlete and lives with his wife in Charlottesville, VA.
Links:
Find Scott's book, Whealthspan, More Years, More Moments, More Money, on Amazon at https://a.co/d/4gfK1NS
About Richard:
For the past 25 years, workplace health pioneer and thought leader Richard Safeer, M.D. has assessed cultures, trained leaders, and conducted and explored research on the intersection of individual and organizational behavior.
Dr. Safeer currently serves as the Chief Medical Director of Employee Health and Well-Being for Johns Hopkins Medicine where he leads the Healthy at Hopkins employee health and well-being strategy. Previously, he was the Medical Director of Preventive Medicine for CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield in Baltimore, Maryland.
In January 2023, with publisher Wiley, Dr. Safeer released A Cure for the Common Company: A Well-Being Prescription for a Happier, Healthier, and More Resilient Workforce. Dr Safeer is the first author to provide a step-by-step roadmap for creating a well-being culture that integrates science with practical solutions as demonstrated by the numerous real stories from successful companies.
He is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Medicine, the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and the American College of Preventive Medicine. He serves on the New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst Insight Council and previously served on the board of directors for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.
Links:
You can learn more about Richard’s work at RichardSafeer.com or follow him on LinkedIn.
If you’re looking for training on how to create a wellbeing culture on your team or organization, then go to CreatingAWellbeingCulture.com
A Cure for the Common Company: A Well-Being Prescription for a Happier, Healthier, and More Resilient Workforce is available on Amazon and wherever books are sold.
About Neal:
Neal Barnard, MD, FACC, is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC, and President of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
Dr. Barnard has led numerous research studies investigating the effects of diet on diabetes, body weight, hormonal symptoms, and chronic pain, including a groundbreaking study of dietary interventions in type 2 diabetes, funded by the National Institutes of Health, that paved the way for viewing type 2 diabetes as a potentially reversible condition for many patients. His latest book is The Power Foods Diet: The Breakthrough Plan that Traps, Tames, and Burns Calories for Easy and Permanent Weight Loss. With more than 120 recipes and beautiful food photography, it shows the surprising ability that certainfoods have to cause weight loss.
About Peter:
Peter Grinspoon, M.D. is a primary care physician and a cannabis specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of the new book ‘Seeing Through the Smoke: A Cannabis Expert Untangles the Truth about Marijuana’. He is a TedX speaker, a certified physician life coach, a board member of the physician advocacy group, ‘Doctors for Drug Policy Reform’ and an advisor to 'The Parabola Center'. He is the author of the groundbreaking memoir ‘Free Refills: A Doctor Confronts His Addiction’. He is frequently cited in the national media as a thought leader on cannabis, psychedelics, drugs of misuse, and addiction, and has had bylines in TIME, Newsweek, CNN, Salon, TruthDig, Reason, The Nation, Psychiatric Times, STAT, The Boston Globe, The L.A. Times, and MedPage Today.
About Peter:
Dr. Sprague holds the positions of Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine and Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics in Emory University’s School of Medicine. His primary teaching appointment is within the Physical Therapy Division in the Emory School of Medicine where he is the co-course coordinator for the Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation course, the course coordinator for the Introduction to Interventions course, and course coordinator for a course he developed entitled “A Movement System Approach to the Orthopaedic Client.” He is a Board Certified Clinical Specialist in Orthopaedic Physical Therapy and currently serves on the Committee of Content Experts for the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties. Dr. Sprague has extensive clinical experience working with high school and collegiate athletes in an interprofessional team setting and has assisted in the development and implementation of screening procedures assessing for musculoskeletal injury risk for collegiate and professional sports organizations. He has an active research agenda exploring movement as it relates to outcomes following ACL reconstruction and is interested in exploring teaching methodology that promotes learning related to the identification and treatment of movement dysfunction that results in pain and injury or is caused by pain and injury. Dr. Sprague lives in the Atlanta area and enjoys outdoor activities with his wife and 3 dogs.
About Peter:
Dr. Sprague holds the positions of Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine and Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics in Emory University’s School of Medicine. His primary teaching appointment is within the Physical Therapy Division in the Emory School of Medicine where he is the co-course coordinator for the Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation course, the course coordinator for the Introduction to Interventions course, and course coordinator for a course he developed entitled “A Movement System Approach to the Orthopaedic Client.” He is a Board Certified Clinical Specialist in Orthopaedic Physical Therapy and currently serves on the Committee of Content Experts for the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties. Dr. Sprague has extensive clinical experience working with high school and collegiate athletes in an interprofessional team setting and has assisted in the development and implementation of screening procedures assessing for musculoskeletal injury risk for collegiate and professional sports organizations. He has an active research agenda exploring movement as it relates to outcomes following ACL reconstruction and is interested in exploring teaching methodology that promotes learning related to the identification and treatment of movement dysfunction that results in pain and injury or is caused by pain and injury. Dr. Sprague lives in the Atlanta area and enjoys outdoor activities with his wife and 3 dogs.
About Jonathan:
Jonathan Fisher, MD, FACC, is a cardiologist, certified mindfulness teacher, and well-being and resiliency leader at Novant Health, supporting a team of 38,000. He is also the founder of Mind Heart Now LLC, delivering keynotes and workshops on mindfulness, stress mastery, total well-being, and heart-centered leadership for teams and organizations globally including IBM, Bank of America, IE Business School (Madrid), the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and many others.
He is a founding board member of The Charlotte Center for the Humanities and Civic Imagination; co-founded the Ending Clinician Burnout Global Community; and organized the world’s first global summit dedicated to ending clinician burnout, with over a thousand participants from 43 countries.
Dr. Fisher completed his medical training at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and Harvard University.
He lives in Charlotte with his wife, Julie, their three teen-aged children, and two doodle dogs, Cosmo and Hugo.
Dr. Fisher’s mission is to help others harness the power of the mind-heart connection to create a kinder, more compassionate world.
Links:
Connect with Jonathan on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/happyheartmd/
Visit Jonathan's website, https://www.drjonathanfisher.com/
Order Just One Heart: A Cardiologist's Guide to Healing, Health, and Happiness at https://a.co/d/31aUl69
A founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, Michael Greger, M.D., is a physician and internationally recognized speaker on nutrition. His science-based nonprofit, NutritionFacts.org, offers a free online portal hosting more than 2,000 videos and articles on myriad health topics. Dr. Greger is a sought-after lecturer and has presented at the Conference on World Affairs and the World Bank, testified before Congress, and was invited as an expert witness in Oprah Winfrey’s defense in the infamous “meat defamation” trial. A graduate of Cornell University School of Agriculture and Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Greger is also an acclaimed author. How Not to Die, The How Not to Die Cookbook, and How Not to Diet became instant New York Times Best Sellers. More than a million copies of How Not to Die have been sold. All proceeds Dr. Greger receives from the sales of his books and speaking honoraria are donated directly to charity.
Links:
Learn more about Dr. Greger's work at NutritionFacts.org
Order Dr. Greger's latest book, "How Not to Age," at nutritionfacts.org/book/how-not-to-age/
ADAIRA LANDRY, MD, MEd, is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School who studied and trained at University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Los Angeles; New York University; and Harvard with almost a decade of experience mentoring students and early-career professionals. She is an entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and award winning mentor. She co-founded Writing in Color, a nonprofit that teaches the craft of writing.
RESA E LEWISS MD is a professor of emergency medicine, TEDMED speaker, TimesUp Healthcare founder, designer, entrepreneur, and award winning educator, mentor, and point-of-care ultrasound specialist. She studied at Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, the NIH Howard Hughes Research Scholars Program, Harvard Emergency Medicine, and Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Roosevelt. She hosts the Visible Voices Podcast, amplifying content in the healthcare, equity, and current trends spaces.
They have written for CNBC, Fast Company, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Nature, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Science, Slate, STAT News, Teen Vogue, VOGUE, and USA Today. They have been quoted and featured in the Guardian, the HuffPost, The New Yorker, and The New York Times.
Links:
Connect with Adaira on X/Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram
Visit Adaira's website at www.adairalandryMD.com
Connect with Resa on LinkedIn, Instagram, and X/Twitter
Visit Resa's website at www.resalewissmd.com
Adaira’s Nonprofit: WritingInColor.org
Resa’s Podcast: The Visible Voices
Krystyna R. Morgan, MPH, NBC-HWC serves as Director of the WHSC Office of Well-Being (EmWELL) at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. The focus of the office is to lead the design, direction and implementation of well-being programs that address the current environmental stressors among clinicians, health professionals, faculty and staff in clinical, research and academic health sciences areas. The goals of the office include facilitating system-wide changes that enable team members to effectively practice in a culture that prioritizes and promotes wellness and professional fulfillment while optimizing the function of Emory’s health system and establishing a robust well-being research foundation.
Before EmWELL, Krystyna engaged in other innovative efforts, such as supporting the founding of Emory Lifestyle Medicine & Wellness, helping develop and implement the inaugural Emory Healthy Kitchen Collaborative and to secure its three consecutive grants, and co-launching and producing the first 172 episodes of The Whole Health Cure podcast for over 50,000 listeners. She has co-authored 6 peer reviewed articles and continues to present at national and international conferences.
Krystyna earned her Summa Cum Laude Master in Public Health degree at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta after completing a Summa Cum Laude Bachelor of Science in International Business at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. She is a National Board Certified Health and Well-being coach, has completed certifications in Plant Based Nutrition through T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies, and is a Diabetes Prevention Program Coach. She received the 2019 Donald A. Pegg Student Leadership Award from American College of Lifestyle Medicine in honor of the establishment of the Emory Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group and her ongoing efforts to increase recognition of lifestyle medicine at the university and its affiliated healthcare institutions.
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., received his B.A. from Yale University and his M.D. from Western Reserve University. In 1956, pulling the No. 6 oar as a member of the victorious United States rowing team, he was awarded a gold medal at the Olympic Games. He was trained as a surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic and at St. George’s Hospital in London. In 1968, as an Army surgeon in Vietnam, he was awarded the Bronze Star.
Dr. Esselstyn has been associated with the Cleveland Clinic since 1968. During that time, he has served as President of the Staff and as a member of the Board of Governors. He chaired the Clinic’s Breast Cancer Task Force and headed its Section of Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology.
In 1991, Dr. Esselstyn served as President of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons, That same year he organized the first National Conference on the Elimination of Coronary Artery Disease, which was held in Tucson, Arizona. In 1997, he chaired a follow-up conference, the Summit on Cholesterol and Coronary Disease, which brought together more than 500 physicians and health-care workers in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. In April, 2005, Dr. Esselstyn became the first recipient of the Benjamin Spock Award for Compassion in Medicine. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Cleveland Clinic Alumni Association in 2009. In September 2010, he received the Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame Award. Dr. Esselstyn received the 2013 Deerfield Academy Alumni Association Heritage Award In Recognition of Outstanding Achievement & Service, and the 2013 Yale University George H.W. Bush ’48 Lifetime of Leadership Award. Dr. Esselstyn has also received the 2015 Plantrician Project Luminary Award, the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award, and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award.
His scientific publications number over 150, “The Best Doctors in America” 1994-1995 published by Woodward and White cites Dr. Esselstyn’s surgical expertise in the categories of endocrine and breast disease. In 1995 he published his bench mark long-term nutritional research arresting and reversing coronary artery disease in severely ill patients. That same study was updated at 12 years and reviewed beyond twenty years in his book, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, making it one of the longest longitudinal studies of its type. In July of 2014 he reported the experience of 198 participants seriously ill with cardiovascular disease. During 3.7 years of follow up of the 89% adherent to the program, 99.4% avoided further major cardiac events.
Dr. Esselstyn and his wife, Ann Crile Esselstyn, have followed a plant-based diet since 1984. Dr. Esselstyn presently directs the cardiovascular prevention and reversal program at The Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute.
The Esselstyns have four children and ten grandchildren.
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For more information, please visit https://www.dresselstyn.com
David Goldman, MS, RD, CSCS, CPT, is the Chief Science Advisor to The Game Changers. He has a dual Ivy League graduate degree in physiology and nutrition and helped build Facebook HQ's nutrition program from scratch. David has years of experience as a dietitian and strength and conditioning specialist that spans from obesity research to coaching Olympic athletes and celebrities.
David talks about the evidence-based nutrition science for optimal athletic performance, addresses some common myths and beliefs around exercise, and shares what he learned from both his research and stories of the athletes that he works with personally.
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Zach Bush, MD is a physician specializing in internal medicine, endocrinology and hospice care. He is an internationally recognized educator on the microbiome as it relates to health, disease and our food production systems. Dr. Bush founded *Seraphic Group to develop root-cause solutions for human and ecological health and extend his passion for educating the world on topics such as the state of our soil - including the need to eradicate toxins such as glyphosate from our farming chain - and the importance of gut/brain communication as a vital part of our overall health/wellbeing.
Dr. Bush is a respected speaker and authority in the health and wellness space. He travels the world speaking to medical and farming communities as well as consumers who are interested in taking proactive control of their health.
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Robby Barbaro, MPH graduated from the University of Florida and is the cofounder of Mastering Diabetes and Amla Green. He worked at Forks Over Knives for six years before turning his attention in 2016 to coaching people with diabetes full time.
Robby was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 12 and has been living this lifestyle since 2006. In that time, while eating pounds of fruit every day, his HbA1c value has never exceeded 6.4%, and his blood glucose has been stable and easy to manage.
He is the co-host of the annual Mastering Diabetes Online Summit, a featured speaker at Whole Foods Global Headquarters, VegFest LA, Plant-Stock, Torrance Memorial Medical Center, and has been featured on Forks Over Knives, Healthline, Medical Medium, Vice, Thrive Magazine, Diet Fiction, Thrive Global, BestLife, and the wildly popular podcasts Plant Proof and Nutrition Rounds.
In this conversation, Robby talks about the New York Times bestselling book he coauthored with Cyrus Khambatta, PhD, called Mastering Diabetes, The Revolutionary Method to Reverse Insulin Resistance Permanently in Type 1, Type 1.5, Type 2, Prediabetes, and Gestational Diabetes.
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Website: https://www.masteringdiabetes.org/
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/masteringdiabetes/
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/user/mindfuldiabeticrobby
Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/masteringdib
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cyrus-khambatta-32686a4/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbybarbaro/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/masteringdiabetes.org/
Michael Greger, MD, FACLM, is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized professional speaker on a number of important public health issues. Dr. Greger has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the International Bird Flu Summit, among countless other symposia and institutions; testified before Congress; has appeared on shows such as The Colbert Report and The Dr. Oz Show; and was invited as an expert witness in defense of Oprah Winfrey at the infamous "meat defamation" trial. In 2017, he was honored with the ACLM Lifestyle Medicine Trailblazer Award.
Dr. Greger's most recent scientific publications in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Critical Reviews in Microbiology, Family and Community Health, and the International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition, and Public Health explore the public health implications of industrialized animal agriculture.
Dr. Greger is also licensed as a general practitioner specializing in clinical nutrition and is a founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He was featured on the Healthy Living Channel promoting his latest nutrition DVDs and honored to teach part of Dr. T. Colin Campbell's esteemed nutrition course at Cornell University. Dr. Greger's nutrition work can be found at NutritionFacts.org, which is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit charity.
He is the author of Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching and Carbophobia: The Scary Truth Behind America's Low Carb Craze. Both of his latest books, How Not to Die and the How Not to Die Cookbook, became instant New York Times Best Sellers. Dr. Greger is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University School of Medicine.
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Website: https://nutritionfacts.org
Free Daily Dozen App: https://nutritionfacts.org/daily-dozen-challenge/
Podcast: https://nutritionfacts.org/audio/
How Not to Die Book: https://nutritionfacts.org/book/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/NutritionFactsOrg
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org
Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/nutrition_facts
Free Downloadable Evidence-Based Eating Guide: https://nutritionfacts.org/healthkit/
Brenda Davis, RD, is a leader in her field and an internationally acclaimed speaker. As a prolific nutrition and health writer, she has co-authored 12 books with nearly a million copies in print in 14 languages. Her most recent works include Nourish (to be released Nov. 2020), Kick Diabetes Essentials (2019), The Kick Diabetes Cookbook (2018), Becoming Vegan: Comprehensive Edition (2014) and Becoming Vegan: Express Edition (2013). Both Becoming Vegan books have won awards, including the Canada Book Award, and have also received a star rating by the American Library Association as the “go-to books” on plant-based nutrition. Brenda has been a featured speaker at medical and nutrition conferences in over 20 countries on 5 continents. She is also co-author of several peer reviewed journal articles. Brenda is the lead clinical nutrition specialist for the diabetes intervention project in the Marshall Islands. Brenda is a past chair of the Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. In 2007, she was inducted into the Vegetarian Hall of Fame.
Reshma Shah, MD, MPH is a board-certified pediatrician and affiliate clinical instructor at Stanford University School of Medicine. She has additional training and certification in plant-based nutrition and cooking. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and two children.
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Brenda Davis and Reshma Shah are the authors of Nourish: The Definitive Plant-Based Nutrition Guide for Families.
To learn more about their work please visit:
https://reshmashahmd.com
https://www.brendadavisrd.com
Dr. Michelle Tollefson is a lifestyle medicine expert and obstetrician-gynecologist. She is a pioneer in women’s health and lifestyle medicine and a professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver. She is the editor-in-chief of the textbook Improving Women’s Health Across the Lifespan and co-authored PAVING a Woman’s Path through Menopause and Beyond with Drs. Frates and Comander. Dr. Tollefson was one of the first physicians ever trained as a wellness coach. She is an international speaker, women’s health consultant, mother to three kids, and a breast cancer survivor/thriver.
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Visit Michelle's website at drtollefson.net
Learn more about the PAVING the Path to Wellness program here
William H. Foege, MD, MPH is the Emeritus Presidential Distinguished Professor of International Health at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University and the Gates Fellow at The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is an epidemiologist who worked in the successful campaign to eradicate smallpox in the 1970s. Dr. Foege became Chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Smallpox Eradication Program, and was appointed director of CDC in 1977.
In 1984, Foege and several colleagues formed the Task Force for Child Survival and Development, a working group for the World Health Organization, UNICEF, The World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Its success in accelerating childhood immunization led to an expansion of its mandate in 1991 to include other issues that diminish the quality of life for children.
Dr. Foege joined The Carter Center in 1986 as its Executive Director, Fellow for Health Policy and Executive Director of Global 2000. In 1992, he resigned as Executive Director of The Carter Center, but continued in his role as a Fellow and as Executive Director of the Task Force for Child Survival and Development. In 1997, he joined the faculty of Emory University, where he is Presidential Distinguished Professor of International Health at the Rollins School of Public Health. In 1999, Dr. Foege became a Senior Medical Advisor for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In 1999, Dr. Foege resigned as Executive Director of the Task Force for Child Survival and Development, and in 2001, he retired from both Emory University and the Gates Foundation. However, he remains active in both organizations as Emeritus Presidential Distinguished Professor of International Health and as a Gates Fellow.
Valter Longo is the director of the Longevity Institute at USC in Los Angeles, and of the Program on Longevity and Cancer at IFOM (Molecular Oncology FIRC Institute) in Milan. His studies focus on the fundamental mechanisms of aging in simple organisms and mice and on how they can be translated to humans. Dr. Longo received the 2010 Nathan Shock Lecture Award from the National Institute on Aging (NIA/NIH) and the 2013 Vincent Cristofalo "Rising Star" Award in Aging Research from the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR).
Dr. Longo is an author of The Longevity Diet: Discover the New Science Behind Stem Cell Activation and Regeneration to Slow Aging, Fight Disease, and Optimize Weight.
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For more resources, please visit valterlongo.com and prolonlife.com
Carrie E. Levine is a certified nurse midwife, an Institute of Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner, the founder of the Whole Woman Health Clinic, and the author ofWhole Woman Health: A Guide To Creating Wellness For Any Age and Stage. She helps women find wholeness in imperfection, helping them restore their health at any age or stage. In her two decades of innovative healthcare practice, Levine has harnessed science and intuition to connect her patients’ physical symptoms and test results with their lifestyle choices and daily practices, resulting in whole, healthy, and happy lives. Sign up for her free weekly newsletters featuring recipes, podcasts, articles and more.
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Preeti Sudheendra, MD is a breast cancer medical oncologist at Ohio State/The James Cancer Hospital and has been in practice for almost 15 years. She also has an expertise in seeing patients who may be at high risk for developing breast cancer in the future due to genetic or other predispositions. Dr. Sudheendra has been involved with the American College of Lifestyle Medicine since 2022 and is the incoming co-chair for the ACLM Breast Cancer Subcommittee.
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Dr. Dawn Harris Sherling is a board-certified internal medicine physician who is also board-certified in obesity medicine. She began studying journalism before switching to pre-med studies at the University of Florida where she graduated with honors and as a phi beta kappa. She earned her M.D. with honors from the Yale University School of Medicine and then completed her residency at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital where she went on to serve as an attending physician and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard University. She moved back to her native Florida in 2008, and currently sees patients at a clinic for underserved populations and is an associate program director for the internal medicine residency at the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University. She is most recently the author of Eat Everything: How to Ditch Additives and Emulsifiers, Heal Your Body, and Reclaim the Joy of Food. Inspired to write this book after an additive-free trip to Italy seemingly cured her IBS, Dawn did a deep dive into the published literature on our microbiomes and how emulsifiers and other substances may be feeding the wrong bacteria in the wrong places, contributing to alarming rates of diet-related diseases.
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Visit Dawn's website here
Order Dawn's latest book, Eat Everything: How to Ditch Additives and Emulsifiers, Heal Your Body, and Reclaim the Joy of Food
Connect with Dawn on Twitter/X, Instagram, and Threads
Brenda Davis, RD, is one of the world’s leading plant-based pioneers and an internationally acclaimed speaker. Widely regarded as a rock star of plant-based nutrition, she has been referred to by VegNews as the “godmother” of vegan dietitians and was the 2022 recipient of the Plantrician Project’s Luminary Award. Brenda’s work focuses on ensuring that everyone who wishes to be plant-based can succeed brilliantly. She lives in Alberta, Canada, with her husband, Paul. Visit her at brendadavisrd.com.
Cory Davis, MBA, P.Ag, is a professional agrologist who has worked in natural resource management since 2012 and has been a lifelong advocate for animal welfare and environmental stewardship. His broad range of experience and diverse degrees encompassing business, the sciences, and intercultural relations have given him a unique, integrated perspective on sustainable practices and their effects on human health and well-being. Cory lives in British Columbia, Canada.
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Order Brenda and Cory's book, Plant-Powered Protein: Nutrition Essentials and Dietary Guidelines for All Ages, here
Visit Brenda's website, brendadavisrd.com
Jonathan Bonnet is a board-certified family, sports, obesity, and lifestyle medicine. He is an associate professor (affiliate) at Stanford University School of Medicine and the program director of medical weight loss at the clinical resource hub weight management center at the Palo Alto VA. Jonathan has a background in exercise physiology and is a certified personal trainer. He completed his undergraduate and medical school degrees at Ohio State University before finishing his family medicine residency at Duke University, and his sports medicine fellowship at the University of Florida. He also holds a master’s degree in public health from Harvard.
Jonathan serves on the board of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine and co-chairs the American College of Lifestyle Medicine's (ACLM) 30-hour CME board review course. He also serves as the advisor for the Emory University Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group and previously served on the board of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He has co-authored two editions of the Lifestyle Medicine Handbook and the first edition of the Medical Fitness Bible. He has published research in sleep medicine, nutrition, sports and exercise, obesity, and behavior change and serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine.
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Dr. Amy Comander is a breast oncologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center. She is Director of Breast Oncology and Cancer Survivorship at the Mass General Cancer Center in Waltham and at Newton Wellesley Hospital, and Medical Director of the Mass General Cancer Center in Waltham. Dr. Comander is Director of Lifestyle Medicine at the Mass General Cancer Center, which is the first cancer center to have a dedicated lifestyle medicine program. As an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, she enjoys teaching medical students and residents about oncology, as well as lifestyle medicine.
Given her strong interest in cancer survivorship and lifestyle medicine, Dr. Comander is dedicated to improving the quality of life, well-being, and outcome of individuals with cancer through important lifestyle interventions, including exercise, diet, and mind/body interventions. She promotes healthy lifestyles for both her active treatment patients as well as those in the survivorship phase of care. She practices what she preaches, having run marathons, including ten consecutive Boston Marathons so far, with the goal to improve the lives of those with a diagnosis of cancer.
In collaboration with Dr. Beth Frates, she has launched “PAVING the Path to Wellness,” a 12-week lifestyle medicine-based survivorship program for women with breast cancer. Along with Dr. Frates and Dr. Michelle Tollefson, she has published the “PAVING the Path to Wellness” workbook. Dr. Comander is currently proud to serve as the first oncologist on the Board of Directors of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. She is also on the Board of the Ellie Fund, a non-profit that provides services and support to women diagnosed with breast cancer in Massachusetts. She is a medical advisor to the non-profit organization, SurvivingBreastCancer.org. She has served as a medical advisor to Oneinforty, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating people of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage about the one-in-forty chance of having inherited a BRCA mutation. She is married to Jason, a physician-scientist at Mass Eye and Ear, and is the mom of two teenagers.
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Learn more about Amy's PAVING the Path to Wellness Program here
Find more tips for lifestyle change in the PAVING the Path to Wellness Workbook
Monique is the CEO and Co-founder of EatLove, a San Francisco-based digital health company specializing in personalized nutrition. EatLove partners with leading health systems, fitness companies, wellness centers, and private practices to deliver scalable, evidence-based nutrition programs that meet individual health needs and preferences.
As co-founder and former CEO, Monique Nadeau led Hope Street Group, a national public policy organization that harnesses technology to mobilize an extensive professional network outside of government to promote economic vitality. Policy areas: health (Affordable Care Act), education, and job creation. Her experience centers on building and growing organizations through deep collaboration with partners from across the country.
Prior, Monique was an investment banker in London, Paris, and New York, and became the youngest Managing Director globally at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. Monique's political work, including advising on presidential campaigns and for other national leaders, has centered on developing moderate, results driven economic policies.
Monique has a Masters from Harvard University. She completed her undergraduate studies at the School of International Service, American University in Washington, DC, and L’Université Paris-Sorbonne as well as studied at the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain. Monique served as economic advisor to Senator Mark Warner and political appointee to former Gov. Tim Kaine's from 2006-2014.
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Vesanto Melina, MS, RD, is a sought-after speaker at health conferences worldwide. A consultant for individuals as well as the government of British Columbia, she is the lead author of the last position paper on vegetarian diets for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Also, Vesanto received the prestigious Ryley-Jeffs Memorial Award from Dietitians of Canada. She resides in Vancouver, Canada, with her partner, Cam.
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Order Vesanto's latest book, Plant-Powered Protein: Nutrition Essentials and Dietary Guidelines for All Ages, here
Connect with Vesanto at her website, nutrispeak.com
Learn more about Vesanto's cookbooks at becomingvegan.ca, plant-poweredprotein.com, and kickdiabetescookbook.com
Edward M. Phillips, MD, is Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School and is Founder and Director of the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine (ILM) at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. In his work at the ILM since 2006 he has directed 26 live CME programs attended by over 25,000 clinicians from 115 countries.
In 2015 Phillips joined the VA Boston Healthcare System and now serves as Whole Health Medical Director. He is integrating Whole Health-lifestyle medicine training for students and trainees across the VA as National Whole Health Education Champion for Health Professions Trainees.Additionally, Phillips is a Fellow of American College of Sports Medicine (FACSM) and serves on the executive council that developed the Exercise is Medicine global initiative. He has >80 scientific publications. He served on the Advisory Board of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, the Health Sector and Military Settings Sectors of the United States National Physical Activity Plan and is a founding director of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine.
Phillips is an active clinician, educator and advocate who speaks and consults nationally guiding a broad-based effort to reduce lifestyle-related death, disease, and costs through clinician directed interventions with patients. His medical school, SUNY Buffalo, honored him with its Distinguished Alumni Award for his accomplishments in Lifestyle Medicine. The President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition has recognized Dr. Phillips, the ILM and the Lifestyle Medicine Education Collaborative with its Community Leadership Award. He appears on national media including Good Morning America, ESPN radio, Huffington Post, Slate, and Time Magazine. He co-hosted the NPR Daily Exercise Podcast, WBUR’s Magic Pill which was awarded an Edward R. Murrow award for Excellence in Innovation.
Juna Gjata graduated from Harvard College in 2017 with a Bachelor’s in Cognitive Neuroscience and Evolutionary Psychology and a minor in Music. While at Harvard, she was awarded the David M. McCord prize for Excellence in the Arts. She is also an accomplished concert pianist and composer, having performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall and The Kennedy Center’s Millennium stage. In 2018, Juna approached WBUR, Boston’s NPR station, with an idea for a podcast to dispel health and fitness misinformation loosely through the lens of her own struggles with body image, weight loss, and eating disorders. Eighteen months later, Food, We Need to Talk was launched. She co-hosts the podcast along with Dr. Eddie Phillips. The podcast has now reached over 2.5 million downloads.
In July 2023, Gjata and Phillips will also be publishing their book, Food, We Need to Talk: The Science-Based, Humor-Laced Last Word on Diet, Eating and Making Peace with Your Body, published by St. Martin's Press.
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Order Eddie and Juna's book, Food, We Need to Talk, out July 11, 2023
Ashley Madden is a certified holistic nutritionist, wellness-focused pharmacist, plant-based chef and talented food photographer. When a multiple sclerosis diagnosis shook up her world, Ashley turned to the power of plants to overhaul her diet and reclaim her life. Ashley’s work has been featured on One Green Planet, Forks Over Knives, Vegan Lifestyle Magazine and more. She currently lives in Taipei, Taiwan with her husband, Bernard.
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Check out Ashley's Instagram and website for plant-based recipe inspiration.
You can pre-order her latest cookbook Plant-Based Delicious now!
Benny Gavi, MD, is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and current clinical assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University. For the first sixteen years of his career, Dr. Gavi practiced medicine in a hospital setting at Harvard and Stanford. In 2012, he expanded to an internal medicine practice to focus on personalized health care. In this position, Dr. Gavi has become a strong advocate for and expert on health improvement and disease prevention through nutrition and other lifestyle factors. In addition to his medical practice, Dr. Gavi has spent the past decade sharing his passion for lifestyle choices and disease prevention through nutrition counseling and education.
Maya Eylon is a Doctor of Medicine candidate at Central Michigan University College of Medicine, pursuing her passion for helping others through holistic health care and preventive medicine. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in Pre-Medicine Studies at Whittier College, and, as a clinical researcher interested in integrative lifestyle medicine, has conducted research with Hadassah Medical Center and Stanford University School of Medicine.
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Jenny Bilko is a Registered Dietitian for Emory Executive Health and Emory Lifestyle Medicine and Wellness. She graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor’s degree in Dietetics. She completed her dietetic internship at University of Alabama at Birmingham along with her Master’s degree in Nutrition Science. She is a co-author for upcoming plant-based cookbook Plantology: A Cookbook based on the Science of Plant-Based Eating.
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Order Plantology on Amazon here to get a free meal planning guide from Sharon and Jenny.
Dr. Melissa Sundermann is a plant-based physician double board certified in both Internal Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine and has been practicing medicine for over 20 years. She also has training in Integrative Medicine through the University of Michigan and has completed a Professional Training Program in Mind Body Medicine through the Center for Mind Body Medicine based in Washington, DC. She has been featured in several Lifestyle Medicine articles and podcasts as well as an invited speaker for health/medical national conferences. She strongly believes in fostering a partnership with her patients and helping to guide them towards a healing pathway through self-care utilizing Lifestyle Medicine principles. Her 7 pillars of health include a wholefood/plant-based diet, daily movement, restorative sleep, avoidance of risky behaviors (such as tobacco, excessive alcohol, drug use), stress management, social connection and daily exposure to nature and fresh air.
Dr. Sundermann currently practices Lifestyle Medicine at Canyon Ranch Wellness Resort in Lenox, MA. Prior to this role, she practiced medicine with IHA in Ann Arbor, Michigan where she helped to launch the IHA Lifestyle Medicine Institute and also led the IHA Staywell Committee which focuses on optimizing the health and well-being for 3000 employees of IHA. She does her best to practice what she preaches and enjoys running, biking, hiking, skiing and spending time outdoors and creating adventures with her husband, 2 young adult children and 2 big furry dogs. She is a 10x Boston Marathon finisher, 3x Full Ironman Triathlon finisher and currently training for several upcoming Ultramarathons. She truly believes that age is just a number and is passionate about spreading this word to all of her patients, family and friends.
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For over 30 years as a 4th-generation physician, Dr. Bill Rawls has dedicated his life to medicine. When a health crisis in his early forties abruptly changed his quality of life, he came face to face with the limitations of modern medicine and began to research the vast possibilities of alternative treatments.
Today, Dr. Rawls shares the revelations that helped himself and thousands of others reclaim their lives and find their own paths to wellness. He is the bestselling author of Unlocking Lyme, The Cellular Wellness Solution, and is the Medical Director and Co-Founder of Vital Plan, Inc., a holistic health company and Certified B Corporation.
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Learn more about Bill's work at VitalPlan.com and CellularWellness.com
Dr. Ravi Komatireddy, MD, MCTI is a board-certified internal medicine physician who trained at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and the University of California San Diego. Additionally, he was the first wireless digital health scholar at the Scripps Translational Science Institute, where he earned a masters in clinical translational investigation.
Previously, he co-founded and served as Chief Medical Officer of two funded digital health startups: Lumiata Inc., a big data, AI healthcare company, and Reflexion Health Inc., a digital medicine, tele-health physical therapy solution using motion tracking cameras in the home. His interests include aerospace medicine and developing world digital health. He received the first grant from the NASA flight opportunities program to advance research in digital health and human spaceflight and continues to work with NASA on a COVID-19 Taskforce; he helped introduce a digital health model to medical startups operating in Nairobi, Kenya health tech ecosystem.
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Linda Shiue, MD is an internal medicine physician, chef and founder of Thrive Kitchen, a teaching kitchen for patients, at Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco, where she is the first Director of Culinary Medicine. She believes that the best medicine is prevention. Her cooking classes showcase seasonal produce, lavishly flavored with spices and fresh herbs. She is the author of the cookbook, Spicebox Kitchen: Eat Well and Be Healthy with Globally Inspired, Vegetable-Forward Recipes, which was awarded a Gold Award in the 2022 Nautilus Book Awards and selected as a finalist in the 2022 International Association of Culinary Professionals Awards. Dr. Shiue is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine and has served as faculty at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Stanford University. She also serves as a member of the boards of the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, Meals of Wheels San Francisco and the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative. She is a graduate of Brown University, San Francisco Cooking School, UCSF and the kitchen of Michelin-starred restaurant, Mourad, in San Francisco, and has a Certificate in Plant Based Nutrition from Cornell University.
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Tim Radak, DrPH, MPH, RDN is Academic Coordinator for the Public Health PhD program at Walden University, where he has taught public health courses since 2010. He previously served as Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Dietetic Internship Director at Appalachian State University, Senior Research Program Manager for the Cancer Prevention Institute of California, and Director of Nutrition for Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. He has been credentialed as a Registered Dietitian since 2000 and earned his doctorate in Public Health Nutrition at Loma Linda University.
Tim has authored or co-authored 15 articles and abstracts in peer-reviewed scientific journals, written several textbook chapters, and contributed to and participated in television, radio and newsprint media as an expert on various public health and nutrition topics. His research interests include: the relationship between plant-based diets and reduced risk of chronic diseases; epidemiology of chronic diseases; essential fatty acids requirements and metabolism; behavioral strategies for lifestyle modification; body composition; food insecurity; and nutritional assessment methodologies.
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Visit Tim's website or learn more about his work at Walden University here.
Anoop Kumar, MD is Co-founder of Health Revolution, creator of the Health Jumpstart program, host of the Healing Is Possible podcast, a front-line emergency physician, and author of the books Michelangelo's Medicine and Is This a Dream? He was drawn to the philosophy of Vedanta early in his life, especially its profound views on the complete anatomy of the human being–a perspective missing from modern medical science. Informed by this, he communicates a compelling narrative about the power each person has to heal and discover what true health means. Dr. Kumar is Board-Certified in Emergency Medicine and has a Master's degree in Management with a focus on Health Leadership.
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Anoop's Website: AnoopKumar.com
Anoop on Instagram and LinkedIn
Health Revolution and the Health Revolution Jumpstart Program
Emeran A. Mayer is a Gastroenterologist, Neuroscientist and Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, the Executive Director of the G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress & Resilience at UCLA and Founding Director of the Goodman Luskin Microbiome Center at UCLA. As one of the pioneers and leading researchers in the role of brain gut interactions in health and chronic disease, in particular in IBS, his scientific contributions to basic and translational enteric neurobiology with wide-ranging applications in clinical GI diseases and disorders is unparalleled. He has published close to 410 scientific papers, co-edited 3 books, published the best selling The Mind Gut Connection book in 2016 and The Gut Immune Connection book in June 2021. He is the recipient of the 2016 David McLean award from the American Psychosomatic Society and the 2017 Ismar Boas Medal from the German Society of Gastroenterology and Metabolic Disease. His most recent work has focused on alterations in the bidirectional communications within the brain gut microbiome system and their role in chronic inflammatory and functional diseases of the gut, obesity, and cognitive decline.
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Dr. Mayer's Website: EmeranMayer.com
Dr. Mayer on Instagram and YouTube
Dr. Mayer's books, The Mind-Gut Connection and The Gut-Immune Connection
Dr. Robynne Chutkan is an integrative gastroenterologist and the author of four books, Gutbliss, The Microbiome Solution, The Bloat Cure and The Antiviral Gut. Educated at Yale and Columbia, she is a faculty member at Georgetown Hospital and the founder of the Digestive Center for Wellness in Washington, D.C. A former Governing Board member and Training Committee Chair of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, she's authored dozens of scientific articles and lectured globally on the role of the microbiome in health and disease. A frequent medical expert on The Dr. Oz Show, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, and other media outlets, Dr. Chutkan is passionate about democratizing access to gut health information and introducing more dirt, sweat and vegetables into her patients lives.
Links:
Dr. Chutkan's Website: DrChutkan.com (formerly Gutbliss.com)
Dr. Chutkan on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, & YouTube
Be sure to order Dr. Chutkan's book, The Anti-Viral Gut: Tackling Pathogens from the Inside Out, releasing November 1.
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For more information about nutrition and other ways you can improve your brain health, you can take the free Better Brain Health Challenge available on my website
If you have questions or comments, you can find me on:
Linked In: Dr. Sharon Horesh Bergquist
Instagram: @drsharonbergquist
Twitter: @SHBergquistMD
Some of the studies mentioned in this episode:
Morris MC, Tangney CC, Wang Y, Sacks FM, Bennett DA, Aggarwal NT. MIND diet associated with reduced incidence of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's & Dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association. 2015;11(9):1007-1014.
Morris MC, Wang Y, Barnes LL, Bennett DA, Dawson-Hughes B, Booth SL. Nutrients And Bioactives In Green Leafy Vegetables And Cognitive Decline: Prospective Study. Neurology. 2018;90(3):e214-e222.
Morris MC, Evans DA, Bienias JL, et al. Dietary fats and the risk of incident Alzheimer disease. Archives of Neurology. 2003;60(2):194-200.
Cremonini AL, Caffa I, Cea M, Nencioni A, Odetti P, Monacelli F. Nutrients in the Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease. Oxid Med Cell Longev. 2019 Sep 4;2019:9874159.
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Dr. Mussallem is a consultant in the Department of General Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine. She is a diagnostic breast and lifestyle medicine specialist at The Robert and Monica Jacoby Center for Breast Health and serves as Medical Director for Mayo Clinic Florida Lyndra P. Daniel Center for Humanities in Medicine. Dr. Mussallem is double-board certified, including a board certification in Lifestyle Medicine. She has over 25 years of patient-centered clinical wellness experience and national recognition in the field of breast medicine, lifestyle medicine, integrative oncology, cancer prevention, and cancer survivorship, and a unique personal experience as a stage IV cancer patient diagnosed 3 months into medical school, as well as a heart transplant recipient. She shares that her journey as a patient cultivated her boundless energy and deep purpose to help guide patients toward renewed vitality. In 2015, she founded the Integrative Medicine and Breast Health Program at Mayo Clinic Florida, a patient-centered program that works with breast cancer patients during and after a breast cancer diagnosis, introducing them early on to the importance of lifestyle optimization and evidence-based mind-body practices alongside conventional cancer treatments with a goal to reframe the cancer diagnosis as a “teacher of life,” leading patients to discover renewed vitality through healthier living.
Links:
If you are not yet an organ donor – please register. You can register on your iPhone Health app or go to www.registerme.org
Dr. Dawn on Instagram & LinkedIn
https://www.mayoclinic.org/biographies/mussallem-dawn-m-d-o/bio-20055494
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Resources from Desiree Nielsen, RD
The Allsorts Podcast
good for your gut cookbook
Website: www.desireerd.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/desireenielsenrd/
Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@desireenielsennutrition
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Why does what we eat matter for our health and wellbeing?
"The more fruits and veggies you eat, the more you do for your health, your longevity, your happiness, it even lifts your mood."
Dr. Iris Schrijver is a certified Lifestyle medicine physician, specializing in clinical pathology and molecular genetics. She's an adjunct clinical professor of pathology at the Stanford University School of Medicine and a past president of the association for Molecular Pathology. Dr. Schrijver served as Medical Director of Clackamas Volunteers in Medicine and is now developing a lifestyle medicine service there. Because she believes that healthcare is a basic human right, her dedication to patients in medical progress through science has resulted in the publication of many original research articles, book chapters, and books. Together with her husband and astrophysicist, she wrote “Living with the Stars”, a popular science book about connections between the human body and the universe. Her goal is to make sure that everyone can get high-quality health care via lifestyle medicine.
In this conversation, Dr. Iris discusses the impact of lifestyle factors and happiness on health and longevity. She shares her journey from Genetics & Pathology to Lifestyle Medicine and how medicine is shifting with its new approach. She explains homeostasis and ways to prevent cancer by early detection. She talks about why good health matters and the typical timespan between disease diagnosis & discovery. She also shares what impacts our health the most: food, exercise, or genes. She explains how happiness contributes to health and longevity, how to be really happy despite challenges, the role of money in happiness, and why happy people live longer. She also touches upon the key lessons from the 75-year-old study on health and happiness. She highlights four factors that reduce lifespan - smoking & alcohol, lack of physical activity, the way we eat, and obesity. Tune in to learn more!
In this episode, you will learn:
- The science behind health and well being
- The importance of lifestyle in maintaining health
- The meaning of homeostasis and how to determine it
- The six pillars of lifestyle medicine and how to apply them
- The connection between body and mind in health and well being
Resources:
Learn more about Iris and her new book at https://lifestyleforhealthandwellness.com
You can access the Kindle edition here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B7X269S5
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Karen Owoc, ACSM-CEP, ACSM-CET is a clinical exercise physiologist in cardiopulmonary rehabilitation at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center and works privately as a medical fitness trainer and plant-based nutrition consultant.She is also a speaker on lifestyle medicine and has been the weekly TV health expert on KRON 4 news in San Francisco for the past 4-1/2 years, speaking on all aspects of health in over 200 television interviews. Certified by the American College of Sports Medicine, Karen focuses on the fascinating findings of human longevity and the centenarian lifestyle.
Because of her love for sports and family history of early-onset heart disease, Karen focused on a career path where food and exercise are used to treat, manage, and prevent disease. She just released her first book on functional longevity, “Athletes in Aprons: The Nutrition Playbook to Break 100” and also posts on her lifestyle blog, karenowoc.com.
To learn more about Karen's work:
Website: https://karenowoc.com (currently under maintenance)
Book: https://amazon.com/author/break100
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karenowoc/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KarenOwoc/
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenowoc/
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Amber Orman, MD, DipABLM is a double board-certified radiation oncologist and lifestyle medicine specialist focusing on breast cancer treatment and prevention. She is the Chief Wellness Office (CWO) of AdventHealth Medical Group. She is also the co-founder of the HEAL (Healthy Eating and Active Lifestyle) program at AdventHealth in Orlando, Florida. HEAL is an 8 week lifestyle medicine program designed to educate and inspire cancer patients to make positive changes to decrease cancer recurrence and improve overall healthspan. She is a mother to 3 teenagers and 2 poodles, wife to a witty nephrologist, and spends her free time trail running, lifting, rowing, cycling, and summiting Colorado’s peaks.
To learn more you can access this ACLM video about HEAL and accompanying article:
Video: https://youtu.be/BQAD95TqhD0
Article: How a commitment to lifestyle changes helped one woman face cancer | by American College of Lifestyle Medicine | Feb, 2022 | Medium
Website and Signup for HEAL: Breast (currently available in Florida):
HEAL: Breast Cancer | AdventHealth Cancer Institute
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Jennifer Shalz, MD is an internal medicine physician who is the medical director of the St. Luke’s Health System Department of Lifestyle Medicine. She develops and directs programs that use lifestyle interventions to help prevent, treat, and reverse chronic disease. Currently these programs include Cardiac, Peripheral Vascular Disease and Pulmonary Rehab; Nicotine Dependence Treatment; the St. Luke’s Lifestyle Medicine Clinic at the South Meridian YMCA; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia; and the St. Luke’s Complete Health Improvement Program. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine. She earned her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine and completed her internal medicine residency at David Grant Medical Center, Travis Air Force Base, CA. She practiced at three different VA Medical Centers after separating as a major from the USAF in 2000. Immediately prior to joining St. Luke’s in 2011, she served as a hospice medical director and provided supportive oncology care in the radiation oncology clinic at St. Alphonsus Cancer Care Center.
To learn more:
Lifestyle Medicine at St. Luke's (stlukesonline.org)
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Dr. Tom Rifai's lifestyle medicine and health transformation expertise is rooted in a rare combination of training and practice in psychology, internal medicine, lifestyle medicine and clinical nutrition.
He has a notable and strong family history of type 2 diabetes in both parents, a toxic, genetic form of cholesterol and has had the challenge of binge eating disorder, which brought him to the brink of death in 2007 and took his youngest brother’s life in 2017.
Now, in recovery, he has gathered over 20,000 hours of clinical experience leading and building multidisciplinary lifestyle intervention programs, working with thousands of patients. From his depth of professional and personal experiences, the Flex5™ Lifestyle Change System was born.
He authored and co-directs Harvard's online Lifestyle Medicine professional CME course, Nutrition and the Metabolic Syndrome, and is a co-host of the True Health Revealed podcast, supported by the non-profit True Health Initiative.
Past accolades include being president of the National Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists, Regional Medical Director of Metabolic Health for the Henry Ford Health System, Associate Medical Director of the world renowned Pritikin Longevity Center and a founding Pritikin Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation program educator, a Medicare approved program for heart disease reversal.
Rifai is now the Medical & Wellness Director for Magna International and CEO of digital health company Reality Meets Science.
Both companies are working together to bring the FlexMD Lifestyle Transformation app and digital platform to market next year.
And Dr Rifai‘s upcoming book, “The Flex5: Your 5 Keys to Get Lean, Reverse Disease and Forever Health” also promises to hit bookshelves next year.
To learn more:
- True Health Initiative
- Tom Rifai's Page
- 5 Keys to optimal wellness
- True Health Revealed Podcast
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Michelle Thompson, DO is a Lifestyle, Integrative, & Mind-Body Medicine Practitioner and Integrative Wellness & Culinary Medicine Maven.
Born and raised in the Shenango Valley, Dr. Thompson has developed a Free Healthy Living Series, where she lectures and provides experiential opportunities to anyone in the community seeking knowledge in integrative modalities. Her programs are eligible to receive credit toward insurance deductible by showing the participant has "taken a healthy step." She has taken her unique medicine approach out of the office to share in efforts to reach more people, designing programs with no financial, physical, age, or gender barriers. By collaborating with fellow practitioners, community members have experienced yoga with live acoustic guitar, aromatherapy, sound therapy with crystal singing bowls, flutes, gongs, didgeridoo, art therapy, reiki, tai chi, qigong, energy modalities, dancing mindfulness, breath work, guided imagery, kids yoga, meditation, nutrition, and lifestyle modalities all free of charge.
She has been active in teaching the whole food plant based diet to people in her community, creating cooking programs with a local chef and dietician, for eating to reverse disease. By promoting "Doctors in the Kitchen-Food is Medicine," an approved continuing medical education event, she hopes her peers will implement the changes they learn into the way they practice medicine and will become models of health and healing for their patients.
Currently, Dr. Thompson is employed by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and has a full-time integrative family medicine practice, seeing infants through the end of life using a natural approach to health care. Her specialty is reversing disease through diet, exercise, and lifestyle changes while empowering her patients to take charge of their health and work as a team with their physician. There are healing powers of proper nutrition in almost all disease processes, and she believes that eating for health can be pleasurable if we eat in a way that serves our body.
Links for further learning:
https://www.wholeheartedmedicine.org
https://www.bewelltherapies.org/
https://cmbm.org/
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For nearly two decades, Padmaja Patel, MD, DipABLM, has been a practicing internist in Midland, TX. She currently serves as the Medical Director of the Lifestyle Medicine Center at Midland Health and has advocated for offering a variety of comprehensive lifestyle intervention programs under physician supervision.
Dr. Patel serves on the Board of American College of Lifestyle Medicine and as Vice President of the Midland Quality Alliance, a clinically integrated network of physicians. She is a member of the National Quality Forum's 2021 Leadership Consortium and a founding member of the advisory board of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine's Health Systems Council. She also serves as the Chair of the Patient Care Subcommittee of ACLM's Health Systems Council and ACLM's Clinical Practice and Quality Advisory Panel.
Dr. Patel has been awarded the prestigious status of Fellow of ACLM for her outstanding achievement in the field of Lifestyle Medicine. She co-founded Healthy City, a non-profit organization, to raise awareness of the benefits of plant-based nutrition within her community.
To learn more, visit the following links:
- Dr. Patel's Website
- Dr. Patel's call to action to help integrate lifestyle medicine into healthcare
- Healthy City Non-Profit
- 21 Day Kickstart from PCRM
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Dr. Will Bulsiewicz (or "Dr. B") is an award winning gastroenterologist, internationally recognized gut health expert and the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, USA Today, and Indie Bound-bestselling author of Fiber Fueled and The Fiber Fueled Cookbook.
With a passion for plants and helping people, he sits on the Scientific Advisory Board and is the U.S. Medical Director of ZOE, has authored more than twenty articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, has given more than forty presentations at national meetings, presented to Congress and the USDA, and has taught over 10,000 students how to heal and optimize their gut health.
He completed a bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University, a medical degree from Georgetown University, and a master's in clinical investigation from Northwestern University. Dr. B was the chief medical resident at Northwestern and the chief gastroenterology fellow at The University of North Carolina, and received the highest award given by both his residency and fellowship. He completed an epidemiology fellowship on a grant from the National Institutes of Health at UNC's prestigious Gillings School of Global Public Health.
He lives in Charleston, South Carolina with his wife and children. You’ll find him on Instagram as @theguthealthmd , on Facebook as @theguthealthmd , and at his website theplantfedgut.com.
To learn more and connect:
- Website
- Fiber Fueled Book
- The Fiber Fueled Cookbook
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Hansa Bhargava, MD, FAAP is Chief Medical Officer at Medscape Education. Her leadership includes an eye to innovation and cutting-edge topics in health care. She has practiced for over 10 years as a clinician and was previously Senior Medical Director At WebMD. She has extensive experience in producing digital content, collaborating in partnerships, and in thought leadership.
Her previous position included working closely with the editorial, product, and news teams and developing digital apps. With expertise in parenting, mental health, and pregnancy, she has helped develop products such as the WebMD Baby App and WebMD Pregnancy App and has published on digitally monitoring pregnancy and outcomes. Her partnership efforts have included those with the University of Alabama, Jed Foundation, CDC, the White House, and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). She represents Medscape and WebMD in media including CNN, HLN, Politico, NPR, Vice, and WSJ Radio and writes regularly for Forbes. Bhargava has participated in conferences, doing keynotes/talks at meetings such as Peds2040, GaTech Innovation Day, Exponential Medicine, and the FDA. She has moderated discussions at UNICEF, Emory Global Health Institute, and Health Connect South. In 2012, she served as an expert panelist with first lady Michelle Obama at the WebMD/Let's Move Town Hall in Miami.
Outside of WebMD, Bhargava has worked with the AAP nationally and locally. She is an elected executive member of the AAP Committee on Communications and Media. She was previously on the advisory board for UNICEF and is currently is on the Global Council for Emory University Global Health Institute and on the advisory board for CWC.
A graduate of the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, she completed her residency at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. She is board certified in pediatrics. She lives in Atlanta and has two children.
Check out Dr. Bhargava's recent book Building Healthier Kids: Stress-Busting Tools for Parents
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Brian Asbill, MD is originally from Columbia, SC. He graduated cum laude from Davidson College in 1990 with a BS (Biology major), and received the MD degree from the Medical University of SC (valedictorian) in 1994. Dr. Asbill completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine (and met his wife) at University of Virginia in 1997, completed his cardiology fellowship training at MUSC in 2001 and subsequently joined Asheville Cardiology Associates where he served as an invasive, non-interventional cardiologist until 2020.
While working at ACA, he additionally completed board certification in clinical lipidology in 2008, received his certificate in plant-based nutrition from eCornell in 2013 and completed board certification in lifestyle medicine in 2017.
Dr. Asbill co-founded Ruckus Health in 2020 whose vision it is to support people holistically in uncovering their innate ability to live in physical, mental, emotional and spiritual balance. Also serves as the medical director of the cardiac rehab program for Mission Health and the medical director for the Plantstrong immersion programs.
Dr. Asbill is married with two boys, ages 20 and 16. Enjoys cooking (and eating), reading, hiking and spending as much time outside as possible.
Currently he serves as the medical director of the cardiac rehabilitation program for Mission Health and has also co-founded Ruckus Health whose vision is “To support people holistically in uncovering their innate ability to live in emotional, mental, physical and spiritual balance.”
Dr. Asbill is a return guest (first appearance Episode 45, where we talked about reversal of cardiovascular disease). Today we talk about heart health risk and plant-based diet. First, what are the assessment methods of heart health and heart disease risks? Dr. Asbill talks about the ASCVD and MESA scores, their reliability and value. We discuss the role of statins, and how they compare to dietary interventions such as switching to plant-based diet. Dr. Asbill explains calcium scores, cholesterol and other measure of heart health. We also discuss the role of exercise and the impact of stress. Tune in to learn more!
Links to explore:
- ruckus health
- Previous Episode of The Whole Health Cure: Episode 45
- Mission Health Website
- Plant-Based Prevention of Disease
- Plantstrong Podcast
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Danielle Dick, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology and Genetics. She is an internationally recognized and award-winning expert on genetic and environmental influences on human behavior. She has led and contributed to more than 20 grants from the National Institutes of Health, with grant funding totaling over 30 million dollars. She has more than 350 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of child development, addiction, mental health, genetics, and human behavior, and has won numerous national and international awards for her work. She has been named one of the most highly cited researchers in the world. Danielle is an author of THE CHILD CODE.
In this conversation Danielle talks about how our genes and environment can influence our health and behavior. We talk about things like substance abuse, eating disorder, depression and other psychiatric conditions - is it individual's fault? Danielle says that "our brains are all wired very differently on the inside". When talking about addiction, Danielle explains that, interestingly, how our brains process reward appears to be more important than predisposition to specific substance. Emotion regulation is another big factor that influences addictive behaviors. We discuss anxiety, the role it plays, and the evolutionary advantage it was born from. Danielle concludes that genetic code we are born with is important, but it does not mean we are destined to have problems. Environment plays an important role and can make a huge difference. Finally, we discuss how this science translates in child care and parenting. Understanding your child's disposition is key for applying appropriate parenting strategies and nurturing a healthy family environment. Tune in to learn more!
To learn more about Danielle's work:
Website: DanielleDick.com
Book: TheChildCode.com
Social Media: @DrDanielleDick on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn
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Tim Cunningham, RN, DrPH, FAAN is Co-Chief Well-Being Officer at Emory Healthcare and the Woodruff Health Sciences Center at Emory University. He holds a joint appointment as adjunct associate professor at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory Healthcare and serves as Vice President of Practice and Innovation for Emory Healthcare. He collaborates with interprofessional teams to support structural and systemic well-being support change for healthcare staff and professionals, university staff and faculty, researchers, learners, and community members. His clinical background is emergency nursing, however, he never thought that he would become a nurse.
Cunningham’s first passion was in the performing arts—theatre, clown, dance and acrobatics. He worked as an actor for nearly a decade in various regional theatres in the U.S. and internationally. It was because of those experiences that he began work with Clowns Without Borders in 2003. A small non-profit organization, Clowns Without Borders sends professional artists into war zones, refugee camps and other zones of crisis with the simple mission of catalyzing laughter and playfulness. Tim has performed in more than 20 countries with the clowns, he served for five years as the Executive Director of CWB, and now he sits on their Board of Directors. It was working in a pediatric ward in pre-earthquake Haiti that inspired Tim to study nursing.
He graduated from the Clinical Nurse Leader program at the University of Virginia in 2009 and then worked an emergency/trauma nurse at the UVA Health, Children’s National Medical Center and New York Presbyterian, Cornell. Tim completed his Doctorate of Public Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University in 2016. His dissertation focused on psychosocial support of expatriate Ebola aid workers in West Africa, with an emphasis on Narrative Medicine. He then joined the faculty at UVA with a joint appointment in the School of Nursing and Department of Drama.
Tim is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. His publications focus on compassion and well-being. Tim’s co-authored textbook, Self-Care for New and Student Nurses challenges the way we as learners and leaders approach the critical practices of caring for ourselves that we may care for others.
To learn more:
- Reach an article "Emory’s Woodruff Health Sciences Center establishes Office of Well-Being"
- Read The Blue Ridge Academic Health Group Report from 2018
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Dr. Cassandra L. Quave is Curator of the Herbarium and Associate Professor of Dermatology and Human Health at Emory University, where she leads anti-infective drug discovery research initiatives and teaches courses on medicinal plants, food, and health. She earned degrees in biology and anthropology (B.S.) from Emory University in 2000, and a Ph.D. in biology in 2008 from Florida International University under the direction of Dr. Brad Bennett. She completed postdoctoral fellowships in microbial pathogenesis at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences under the direction of Dr. Mark Smeltzer (2009-2011) and in human health at Emory University under the direction of Dr. Michelle Lampl (2011-2012). As a medical ethnobotanist, her work focuses on the documentation and pharmacological evaluation of plants used in traditional medicine. She has led field expeditions in the Amazon, Mediterranean and the Balkans. Dr. Quave’s research is supported by the National Institutes of Health, industry contracts, and philanthropy. She is a Fellow of the Explorers Club, a past President of the Society for Economic Botany, a recipient of the Emory Williams Teaching Award, and Charles Heiser, Jr. Mentor Award. This year, Dr. Quave was honored with the American Botanical Council’s James A. Duke Excellence in Botanical Literature Award and the American Herbal Products Association Herbal Insight Award. She serves on the editorial boards for Natural Product Reports, Scientific Reports, and Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, and is an associate editor for Frontiers in Pharmacology.
Beyond her academic research and teaching activities, Dr. Quave dedicates significant effort to scientific outreach and engagement with the public. She is the co-creator and host of “Foodie Pharmacology,” a podcast dedicated to exploring the links between food and medicine, now in its fourth season. She is the creator of the “Teach Ethnobotany” channel on YouTube, which is dedicated to sharing educational videos about botanicals, pharmacology, and natural products. Dr. Quave has authored more than 100 scientific publications, one popular science book, two edited books, twenty book chapters, and seven patents; her work has been cited in the scientific literature more than 5,000 times. Her research has been the subject of feature profiles in the New York Times Magazine, BBC Science Focus, National Geographic Magazine, NPR, PBS, and the National Geographic Channel. She has written opinion essays for The Wall Street Journal and The Conversation. Quave is author of an acclaimed science memoir, The Plant Hunter: A Scientist’s Quest for Nature’s Next Medicines (Viking, 2021), which was listed as one of the Best Nonfiction Books of the Year by Kirkus Reviews.
To explore Dr. Quave's work please visit the following links:
The Plant Hunter Book
Foodie Pharmacology Podcast
Research
Donate to Dr. Quave's Lab Research
Dr. Quave's Website
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Dustin Harder is the host and creator of the original vegan travel culinary series The Vegan Roadie, and podcast Keep On Cookin'. Dustin currently works in culinary development with restaurants and non-profit organizations to implement plant-based recipes. He also works as a private chef and cooking instructor. Previously an actor in song and dance, Dustin gave up his tap shoes to study culinary arts at the Natural Gourmet Institute in NYC in 2014. He has since been featured in such publications as Eating Well, VegNews, Vegan Lifestyle Magazine, Chowhound, Vegetarian Times and Paste Magazine. Dustin appeared on Food Networks Girl Scout Baking Championship showcasing vegan baking paired with girl scout cookies in February 2020.
Dustin is the author of three cookbooks; Epic Vegan Quick and Easy, Epic Vegan and The Simply Vegan Cookbook. The Simply Vegan Cookbook has been added to Forbes list of "Best Vegan Cookbooks".
Dustin currently serves as the culinary specialist with The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
For more information, please explore:
The Vegan Roadie Official Website
Keep On Cookin' on Apple Podcasts
Universal Meals: Food Everyone Can Enjoy (pcrm.org)
Epic Vegan Quick and Easy: Simple One-Pot and One-Pan Plant-Based Recipes: Harder, Dustin: 9781592339860: Amazon.com: Books
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Rollin McCraty, Ph.D. is Director of Research of the HeartMath Research Center at the HeartMath Institute. As a psycho-physiologist, Dr. McCraty’s research interests include the physiology of emotion, heart-brain communication and the global interconnectivity between people and the earth’s energetic systems. Findings from this research have been applied to the development of tools and technology to optimize individual and organizational health, performance, and quality of life. Dr. McCraty has acted as Principal Investigator in numerous studies examining the effects of emotions on heart–brain interactions and on autonomic, cardiovascular, hormonal, and immune system function, and outcome studies to determine the benefits of positive emotion-focused interventions and heart rhythm coherence feedback in diverse organizational, educational and various clinical populations.
He has been featured in a number of documentary films such as I Am, The Truth, The Joy of Sox Movie, The Power of the Heart, Solar Revolution, and The Living Matrix among many others.
To learn more please visit:
- HeartMath Institute
- HeartMath Inc.
- HeartMath Experience Training (free)
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Dr. Reddy is the director of interventional cardiology at the James A Haley VA Medical Center in Tampa, FL. He completed his general and interventional cardiology fellowship training at Winthrop University Hospital in Long Island, NY. After practicing interventional cardiology for ten years, he changed his focus towards cardiovascular health promotion and disease prevention, using lifestyle and nutrition based strategies. He is a member of American College of Cardiology’s working group on nutrition and lifestyle. In addition, he serves as a board of director and the treasurer for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He is the founding Co-Chair of Veterans Health Administration/Department of Defense member interest group and the Cardiology member interest group under the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Reddy is board certified in Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology and Lifestyle Medicine.
He is closely involved with the department of Whole Health at the Tampa VA hospital. Working in partnership with the local Whole Health leadership, he established two preventive cardiology clinics.
HEAL – Healthy Eating and Living – Introductory Program
CALM – Comprehensive Approach to Lifestyle Medicine – 6 weeks of multidisciplinary program.
He is passionate and deeply committed to the idea of health promotion and disease prevention, using lifestyle and nutrition related tools. It is with this passion and commitment, he boldly challenges his patients with – “I have a carrot and a stent, you pick!”
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In this episode Laurence S. Sperling, M.D., FACC, FAHA, FACP, FASPC talks about prevention of heart disease. Dr. Sperling covers a range of topics related to cardiovascular disease and its prevention. What is preventive cardiology? How can we prevent heart disease in individuals and populations? What are the risk factors for heart disease? Dr. Sperling discusses the opportunities in healthcare as it relates to cardiovascular health, and why this topic is especially relevant in the time of the pandemic. Dr. Sperling talks about local and national projects he is leading to restore cardiovascular health and closes with tips on what each of us can do to make an impact. Tune in to learn more!
Laurence S. Sperling, M.D., FACC, FAHA, FACP, FASPC is the Founder of Preventive Cardiology at the Emory Clinic . He is the Executive Director of the Million Hearts program with the CDC and CMS. He is currently the Katz Professor in Preventive Cardiology at the Emory University School of Medicine. In addiiton, Dr. Sperling is a Professor in the Rollins School of Public Health in Global Health. Dr. Sperling Is a member of the writing group for the 2018 Cholesterol Guidelines, serves as Co-Chair for the ACC's Cardiometabolic and Diabetes working group, and is Co-Chair of the WHF Roadmap for Cardiovascular Prevention in Diabetes. He was awarded The American College of Cardiology Harry B. Graf Career Development Award for Heart Disease Prevention and The American Heart Association Council on Clinical Cardiology Scholarship for Physical Activity and Public Health in 2001.
Dr. Sperling is originally from New York. He received his undergraduate degree from Emory College where he was accepted into Emory University School of Medicine’s Early Acceptance Program as a college sophomore. He graduated with his M.D. in 1989, and subsequently completed 8 additional years of training at Emory including a residency in internal medicine, chief resident year at Emory University Hospital, an NIH-supported research fellowship in molecular and vascular medicine, and a clinical fellowship in cardiovascular diseases.
Dr. Sperling serves or has served as medical director for a number of unique programs at Emory including The HeartWise Risk Reduction Program, InterVent Atlanta, Staying Aloft, and has served as special consultant to The Centers for Disease Control. He founded (in 2004) and directs the first and only LDL apheresis program in the state of Georgia. He has been voted one of America’s and Atlanta’s Top Doctors and appeared often on local and national TV, newspaper, radio, and magazines. In 2011 he was chosen as one of 20 national dietary experts by U.S. News and World Report to evaluate and rank America’s popular diets. He has received awards for excellence in both teaching (including 4 Golden Apple Awards and The Dean’s Teaching Award) and mentorship. He was chosen by the Dean at Emory University School of Medicine to be among the first faculty society advisors for the school’s new curriculum. He had served as Associate Director of the Cardiovascular Fellowship Training program at Emory for over a decade. He has been an investigator in a number of important clinical trials including JUPITER, COURAGE, and BARI-2D and has authored over 250 manuscripts, abstracts, and book chapters. He is co-editor of the American College of Cardiology’s Diabetes Self Assessment Program, was a member of the American College of Cardiology Prevention Committee. In addition, he served as Presdient for The American Society for Preventive Cardiology.
Dr. Sperling has been a marathon runner having completed the New York, Prague, and Atlanta marathons. In 2010 he ran the original course from Marathon to Athens, Greece to celebrate the 2500th anniversary of this event. He lives in the Druid Hills neighborhood of Atlanta with his wife, Sidney. Their sons, Mathew and Daniel have been students at Emory.
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Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., received his B.A. from Yale University and his M.D. from Western Reserve University. In 1956, pulling the No. 6 oar as a member of the victorious United States rowing team, he was awarded a gold medal at the Olympic Games. He was trained as a surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic and at St. George’s Hospital in London. In 1968, as an Army surgeon in Vietnam, he was awarded the Bronze Star.
Dr. Esselstyn has been associated with the Cleveland Clinic since 1968. During that time, he has served as President of the Staff and as a member of the Board of Governors. He chaired the Clinic’s Breast Cancer Task Force and headed its Section of Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology.
In 1991, Dr. Esselstyn served as President of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons, That same year he organized the first National Conference on the Elimination of Coronary Artery Disease, which was held in Tucson, Arizona. In 1997, he chaired a follow-up conference, the Summit on Cholesterol and Coronary Disease, which brought together more than 500 physicians and health-care workers in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. In April, 2005, Dr. Esselstyn became the first recipient of the Benjamin Spock Award for Compassion in Medicine. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Cleveland Clinic Alumni Association in 2009. In September 2010, he received the Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame Award. Dr. Esselstyn received the 2013 Deerfield Academy Alumni Association Heritage Award In Recognition of Outstanding Achievement & Service, and the 2013 Yale University George H.W. Bush ’48 Lifetime of Leadership Award. Dr. Esselstyn has also received the 2015 Plantrician Project Luminary Award, the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award, and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award.
His scientific publications number over 150, “The Best Doctors in America” 1994-1995 published by Woodward and White cites Dr. Esselstyn’s surgical expertise in the categories of endocrine and breast disease. In 1995 he published his bench mark long-term nutritional research arresting and reversing coronary artery disease in severely ill patients. That same study was updated at 12 years and reviewed beyond twenty years in his book, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, making it one of the longest longitudinal studies of its type. In July of 2014 he reported the experience of 198 participants seriously ill with cardiovascular disease. During 3.7 years of follow up of the 89% adherent to the program, 99.4% avoided further major cardiac events.
Dr. Esselstyn and his wife, Ann Crile Esselstyn, have followed a plant-based diet since 1984. Dr. Esselstyn presently directs the cardiovascular prevention and reversal program at The Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute.
The Esselstyns have four children and ten grandchildren.
Dr. Esselstyn will be speaking at the virtual event on March 12, 2022:
Women vs. Inflammation: Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease and Inflammation
For more information, please visit: https://www.dresselstyn.com
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John La Puma, MD, FACP is the New York Times best selling author of seven books, translated into 10 languages, with over a million copies sold. Co-founder of ChefMD, a consumer-health media company, he is considered the founder of culinary medicine, now taught in 40% of U.S. medical schools and worldwide. He is also Founder of EcoMedicine.org, a nature-based approach to optimal well-being and optimal aging.
Dr. La Puma has lectured on nature therapy and culinary medicine at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, Stanford University, TEDMED and TEDx, Kaiser Permanente and aboard The World. With Leeza Gibbons and Joan Lunden, Dr. La Puma co-hosted the national cable weekly series “Health Corner”, underwritten by Walgreenʼs, for Lifetime TV for five years and 120 episodes. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers, three medical books and hundreds of other works. His first general-audience book, with Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute Founder Michael Roizen, M.D, RealAge Diet: Make Yourself Younger with What You Eat became a NYTimes bestseller, as did his ChefMD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine.
Dr. La Puma focuses on helping patients connect with nature as a way of enhancing wellness, preventing and treating medical problems, and creating more joy in their lives. He has identified Nature Deficit Disorder as a clinical problem and created ComfortNatureQuiz.com to help people identify their comforting places in nature, and SADQuiz.com as a way of detecting Seasonal Affective Disorder. He considers outdoors to be an outpatient clinic, with the ability to help people live, feel and look years younger. Dr. La Puma currently stewards a biodiverse, regenerative certified organic educational farm in Santa Barbara, California.
Resources and links:
Free RealAge recipe download, and Nature as Medicine Primer
https://www.drjohnlapuma.com/join-our-community/
Quizzes
naturedeficitquiz.com
comfortnaturequiz.com
www.SADquiz.com (to give resources for and likelihood for Seasonal Affective Disorder)
Farm website
www.lapumafarms.com
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Sean Hashmi, MD, MS, FASN, is a practicing Nephrologist and Obesity Medicine specialist in southern California. He is a sought-after speaker on topics ranging from health, nutrition, fitness, and wellness. Currently, Dr. Hashmi serves as the Regional Director for Clinical Nutrition and Weight Management at a large healthcare ogranziation in Southern California. Driven by his lifelong commitment to be of service to others, Dr. Hashmi provides evidence-based health, nutrition, and wellness research through his 501c(3) nonprofit, SELFPrinciple.org. In addition, SELF Principle also supports children's education efforts through scholarships, books, and supplies.
To learn more about Dr. Hashmi's work, please follow the links below:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/selfprinciple
Podcast: https://podcast.selfprinciple.org/
Website: https://www.selfprinciple.org/
Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/selfprinciple
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Rollin McCraty, Ph.D. is Director of Research of the HeartMath Research Center at the HeartMath Institute. As a psycho-physiologist, Dr. McCraty’s research interests include the physiology of emotion, heart-brain communication and the global interconnectivity between people and the earth’s energetic systems. Findings from this research have been applied to the development of tools and technology to optimize individual and organizational health, performance, and quality of life. Dr. McCraty has acted as Principal Investigator in numerous studies examining the effects of emotions on heart–brain interactions and on autonomic, cardiovascular, hormonal, and immune system function, and outcome studies to determine the benefits of positive emotion-focused interventions and heart rhythm coherence feedback in diverse organizational, educational and various clinical populations.
He has been featured in a number of documentary films such as I Am, The Truth, The Joy of Sox Movie, The Power of the Heart, Solar Revolution, and The Living Matrix among many others.
To learn more please visit:
- HeartMath Institute
- HeartMath Inc.
- HeartMath Experience Training (free)
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Liana Lianov, MD, MPH, FACLM, FACPM, DipABLM is the President of Global Positive Health Institute. As an innovative global leader in lifestyle medicine, Liana Lianov, MD, MPH, FACLM, FACPM, DipABLM has advanced the movement for integrating positive psychology into health care. She led the development of the original lifestyle medicine core competencies for physicians and health professionals, which have recently been expanded to include positive psychology-based knowledge and skills. She serves as the President of the Global Positive Health Institute, chair of the Happiness Science and Positive Health Committee of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM), lead faculty for the ACLM Physician and Health Professional Wellbeing Program, and vice-chair of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine.
Dr. Lianov is the immediate past president of the Positive Health and Wellbeing Division of the International Positive Psychology Association, A few of her notable past roles include president of the ACLM, director for the Healthy Lifestyles Division of the American Medical Association and board regent for the American College of Preventive Medicine. She also directed programs in heart disease, stroke and cancer prevention at the California Department of Health Services.
In 2018, Dr. Lianov convened the inaugural Summit on Happiness Science in Health Care cosponsored by the ACLM and Dell Medical School, which led to scholarly publications and a groundbreaking book on how to integrate happiness science into medical practice, Roots of Positive Change, Optimizing Health Care with Positive Psychology. To further this mission, she founded the Global Positive Health Institute (https://www.positivehealth.world) which provides positive psychology education and practical tools for health professionals to use in their clinical practices and support their personal well-being. You can follow her work with the GPHI on FB and Instagram @globalpositivehealth. Her latest book, Strengths in the Mirror, Thriving Now and Tomorrow shares inspirational stories from colleagues and sums up how we all can flourish through healthy lifestyles, positive activities and personal strengths.
To learn more, explore the links below:
- Strengths in the Mirror, by Liana Lianov, MD, MPH Book
- Global Positive Health Institute - https://positivehealth.world
- My Happy Avatar - http://www.myhappyavatar.com
- The Greater Good Science Center and Greater Good In Action
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In this episode we interview Cath Lee, Lar Lee and Matt Crane - founders of Semaine Health, "a health and wellness company that takes women’s pain seriously". Cath and Lar, twin sisters, describe their personal journey with endometriosis and years of period pain. Together with Matt (Lar's husband), they started experimenting with trying natural plant-based ingredients, vitamins and supplements, to help alleviate pain, decrease inflammation, improve digestion and mood, while also doing research on existing evidence. This research and experimentation ultimately lead them to creating a plant-based supplement and starting a company called Semaine Health. The supplement has 9 clearly listed ingredients and Matt describes how they play a role in supporting a healthy body during period time - for example magnesium, Vitamin D, or curcumin. Lar and Cath share their passion for building a community, where talking about women's health, including period pain and menopause is normal. Tune in to learn more about their story!
Catherine Lee was born and raised in Maryland in the suburbs of D.C. She graduated from Agnes Scott College and got her MPA at Georgia State. For 15 years she did economic development for the cities of Decatur and Chamblee, Georgia. In 2019, Catherine, her twin sister and brother-in-law, created Semaine Health, a womxn’s wellness company that creates all-natural, science-backed solutions to common problems like period pain, hormone imbalances and UTIs. Semaine products are currently sold online, Thrive Market and at Target stores nationwide. Catherine lives in Decatur, GA with her rescue dog, is an ENFJ and loves to talk all things about womxn’s health.
Lauren Lee calls Atlanta home, but originally hails from the metro DC area. She graduated magna cum laude from Agnes Scott College and launched her 15 year career in graphic design, art design and creative leadership. Lauren worked for award winning agencies both in the US and UK, and pursuing her travel dreams around the world. In 2019 she cofounded Semaine Health Co., a plant-based supplement company that supports and finds solutions for women at every stage of her life, from her first period through menopause (and every UTI in between). Lauren uses her creative background to help women feel empowered about their health and health choices, and is passionate about making the wellness space more equitable and inclusive.
Matthew Crane completed his BS and MS at Case Western Reserve University. He completed his PhD in Bioengineering at Georgia Tech, where his work was highlighted by The New York Times, The Scientist and Nature Methods. Matthew completed postdoctoral research at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Washington. He joined the University of Washington School of Medicine faculty before leaving in 2019 to help start Semaine Health. He is passionate about designing natural products that take a rigorous and clinical approach to help address common but neglected problems.
Check out Semain Health website to learn more!
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Jacob Mirsky, MD, MA is a primary care physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital Revere HealthCare Center and a consultation physician at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine. Dr. Mirsky attended medical school at the University of California San Francisco and completed residency in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston as part of the Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates primary care track. In addition to his primary care practice, he leads virtual group visits (also called shared medical appointments) in primary care focused on healthy lifestyle change for symptom management and disease prevention. He helped open the MGH Revere Food Pantry in 2019, which provides free plant-based foods to patients with food insecurity, and he currently serves as its Medical Director. Dr. Mirsky also founded and is the Medical Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine Healthy Lifestyle Program (HLP). The HLP has a mission to establish healthy lifestyle change as the standard of care for preventing and treating chronic disease.
In this conversation Dr. Mirsky talks about the idea, background and concept of shared medical appointments, also called group visits. Dr. Mirsky discusses the benefits of group visits for both - the patient and the provider - especially for managing and reversing conditions like hypertension, type II diabetes, and helping with weightloss through lifestyle medicine. He touches on how it enhances patient experience, allowing them more time with provider and building a support group; and contributes to physician satisfaction potentially counteracting burnout. Tune in to learn more about the evolution of the program and the success stories of patients who participate!
To learn more, please visit:
- Website: https://www.massgeneral.org/medicine/internal-medicine/healthy-lifestyle-program
- Twitter: @DrJacobMirsky
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David Prologo, MD is a Christian, a Husband, a Father, and a Fighter. He is a dual board-certified interventional radiologist and obesity medicine specialist. Dr. Prologo has spent more than twenty years specifically analyzing the phenomenon of diet attrition—why do diets always fail? More importantly, when they do fail, why do we blame the patients for that failure?
That journey led Dr. Prologo to perform first in human advanced interventional procedures to manage obesity, diabetes, and other metabolic conditions. It further led to the identification of the catching point—a clear pivot point beyond which calorie restriction and exercise are easier for patients. Dr. Prologo has been recognized nationally and internationally for his work, including features on The Today Show, in the Washington Post, on Capitol Hill, in numerous in peer-reviewed journal publications, countless web based invited expert articles, and much more.
He currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and two children. Dr. Prologo continues to advocate for those who are in pain or struggle with weight loss – particularly driving an agenda of acceptance, inclusion, and love.
In this conversation Dr. Prologo talks about his recent clinical trial that quickly gained attention, which involved freezing the hunger nerve. Dr. Prologo shares why and how this trial was effective in helping patients with weightloss long term. We then transition the conversation to weightloss in general: why do most diets fail, how does a physiology of an overweight patient differ from the one with normal BMI, willpower relevance, success factors and introduce the notion of the catching point. Dr. Prologo elaborates on the science, lessons learned and his experience of working with his patients, which he also summarized in his upcoming book "The Catching Point Transformation" available for preorder today. Tune in to learn more!
To learn more please visit:
- Visit the site and preorder the book here.
- Website www.drprologo.com
- Twitter https://twitter.com/jdprologo
- Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jdprologo/
- Facebook https://www.facebook.com/jdprologo
- Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/j-david-prologo-md-fsir-abom-d-40071861/
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Kristi Artz, MD, diplABLM, is a practicing board certified Emergency Medicine specialist since 2006, ABLM certified diplomat 2018 and Lifestyle Medicine specialist 2021. She serves as Medical Director of Lifestyle Medicine at Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, MI. She is an Advisory Board member for Health Meets Food and is a Certified Culinary Medicine specialist since 2017. She is the physician lead for Spectrum Health’s Culinary Medicine program. Dr. Artz led the strategic development and implementation of a comprehensive lifestyle medicine department at Spectrum Health with a focus on virtual care delivery, value-based cost reduction modeling and medical education. Dr. Artz believes in the value of educating current and future physicians in the practice of Lifestyle Medicine and truly meeting patients where they are at in order to encourage and facilitate positive health behavior change in their lives.
In this conversation we discuss the role and the place of lifestyle medicine in patient care. Dr. Artz shares her experience with integrating innovative models and approaches in her practice at Spectrum Health. We talk about lifestyle-focused care, how it can help and what it consists of, touching on health pillars such as nutrition, movement, sleep, stress resiliency. Dr. Artz describes some of the programs she leads, including culinary medicine program, group visits, classes, supervised fasting and fasting mimicking diet, and talks about her patients' experience and success they have seen. Tune in to learn more!
For more information please visit:
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Lifestyle Medicine practice at Spectrum Health: Lifestyle Medicine Practice | Spectrum Health
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Online registration page for Lifestyle and culinary medicine consumer programs: Spectrum Health System (onlineregistrationcenter.com)
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Connect with Dr. Artz on social media.
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TJ Waterfall is a registered sports nutritionist specialising in plant-based nutrition. TJ has a first-class Master's degree in clinical and public health nutrition from University College London (currently in the top 10 universities in the world) and has since worked with many world-class elite athletes, including several UK Olympians. TJ recently authored a book published by Penguin, The Plant-Based Power Plan, to make lots of the evidence-based strategies, advice and tips he uses with his clients accessible to anyone interested in improving their health and fitness on a plant-based diet.
In this conversation TJ shares what sets plant-based diet apart when it comes to athletic performance - we talk about recovery, antioxidants load, gut health, micronutrients, and anti-inflamatory quality of the diet overall. TJ also addresses common question related to protein intake requirements, effectiveness of plant-based nutrition for elite athletes and weight-lifters, carb-loading, and many other common questions he receives when working with his clients. Tune in to learn more!
For additional resources, please visit the following:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tj_waterfall
- TJ's book, The Plant-Based Power Plan (US): https://www.amazon.com/Plant-Based-Power-Plan-Increase-Strength/dp/024147244X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+plant+based+power+plan&qid=1623612793&sr=8-1
- TJ's book, The Plant-Based Power Plan (UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Plant-Based-Power-Plan-Increase-Strength/dp/024147244X
- Website: www.meatfreefitness.co.uk
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William Hsu, MD is the Chief Medical Officer at L-Nutra - a company that is leading the science of Longevity Through Nutrition. To date, L-Nutra had numerous scientific breakthroughs, attracted over $36 million in funding and carried out 14 clinical trials. One of their key discoveries was unlocking the benefits of periodic fasting (fasting for more than two days). Their research showed that periodic fasting induces a special stress leading to cellular rejuvenation – a powerful mechanism for slowing cellular aging.
Prior to joining L-Nutra as CMO, Dr. Hsu was the VP of International Programs and Medical Director of the Asian Clinic at Joslin Diabetes Center, a teaching and research affiliate of Harvard Medical School.
In his role, Dr. Hsu continues to advance the science and research that L-Nutra and multiple global research centers conduct on the Fasting Mimicking Diet® and other proprietary prescriptive formulations. Dr. Hsu also advances global awareness and adoption of cutting edge nutri-technologies such as the Fasting Mimicking Diet within healthcare practices and associations, and among key opinion leaders, health policy makers, and payers in healthcare.
Dr. Hsu received his medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, and completed his fellowship training in Endocrinology and Metabolism at Harvard Medical School - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Joslin Diabetes Center.
In this conversation Dr. Hsu talks about the research around fasting, referring to the work of Dr. Valter Longo (check out Episode 63!). Dr. Hsu describes what fasting is, and how fasting mimicking diet is different, explaining physiological versus cellular fasting. Dr. Hsu goes in detail on the benefits of fasting (explaining autophagy; weight loss, specifically belly fat; improved relationship with food; mental clarity and others), and explains why mimicking fasting can be a valuable, and often less intimidating way to improve health and reverse chronic disease. Tune in to learn more!
For more information please visit:
https://l-nutra.com
https://prolonfast.com
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Jennifer Maynard spent over twenty years in the field of Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals, where she focused mainly in Oncology, Ophthalmology and Hematology, working to try to make a change for the better in human health. She left her career as a Pharma Executive to pursue her passion for “Food as Medicine,” as she believes that only by addressing what we put on our plates can we begin to truly combat chronic illness.
In this pursuit she founded Greater Greens, a regenerative farming operation that combines modern Ag technology, like vertical aquaponics, with regenerative farming practices to harvest the greatest benefits of nature, while still preserving and regenerating it. She focuses on the connectivity of soil health, plant health and human health. Once the farm was fully operational, she co-Founded Nutrition for Longevity (www.nutritionforlongevity.com) with L-Nutra (www.L-Nutra.com) to provide clean, healthy, farm fresh produce, precisely tailored meal kits, and lifestyle programs that follow the Longevity Diet and bring Food as Medicine to life.
Recently Jennifer founded United4Longevity (www.United4Longevity.com), a non-profit focusing on Food as Medicine and in collaboration with Nutrition for Longevity, provides nutritional solutions to address chronic illnesses to the most underserved communities across the US.
In this conversation Jennifer talks about the basics of longevity diet - focusing on whole, minimally processed foods, with high nutritional density and in optimal proportion of macronutrients. Should you eat raw? Is portion control important, or should we pay more attention to calories? Can you be full on plant-based diet? Can you get enough protein? How important is knowing where our food comes from? Tune in to get answers for all of these questions and more!
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Amy Hanus leads Full Plate Living, a foundation-funded FREE online nutrition resource for people who want doable small-steps that lead to big health outcomes. As the Program Director for the Ardmore Institute of Health foundation, Amy loves being able to share the power of fiber foods and how eating a plant predominant diet can transform our health.
She helped develop Full Plate Living’s lifestyle medicine nutrition approach, which shows you how to eat full plates of healthy, delicious food without feeling famished, frustrated or deprived. The best part of her job, she says, is celebrating when a member reaches a health goal, like seeing a number on the scale they haven’t seen in decades or wowing their doctor with an improved A1C or lower cholesterol.
In this conversation Amy shares brief history of the foundation, their mission and purpose and how the Full Plate Living program delivers on that mission. Amy talks about the main concepts of Full Plate Program - fiber-focus approach, getting a variety of fresh whole fruits and veggies, legumes, grains, feeling satisfied with the abundance of food, while also achieving your health goals. She share simple tips for turning any meal (like frozen lasagna) into a Full Plate Meal! Amy also answers common question about "too much carbs" and "not enough protein". Tune in to learn more!
Join Full Plate Living for FREE and get access to the abundance or resources, recipes, tutorials, classes, live workshops and so much more:
https://www.fullplateliving.org
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Dr. Liana Lianov is the Founder and President of Global Positive Health Institute, assisting physicians and health professionals to leverage the science of positive psychology and lifestyle medicine to achieve flourishing in themselves and their patients. She is an International leader in Lifestyle Medicine and positive psychology, leading the movement to promote the science of positive psychology and health in health care; president of the Positive Health and Wellbeing Division of the International Positive Psychology Association; chair of the Happiness Science and Positive Health Committee at the American College of Lifestyle Medicine; vice chair American Board of Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Lianov is also the author of "Strengths in the Mirror" (2021); editor and author of "Roots of Positive Change, Optimizing Health Care with Positive Psychology" (2019).
This episode was originally recorded last year, and we are re-casting it to celebrate the launch of the Global Positive Health Institute and its upcoming inaugural conference "POSITIVE HEALTH FOR BEST OUTCOMES: MOVING FROM TRAUMA TO GROWTH". To learn more and register, follow this link.
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Dr. Lianov is a past president of the ACLM, a past board regent of ACPM, and the former Healthy Lifestyles Division Director for the American Medical Association. She previously directed a number of heart disease and stroke prevention, cancer detection, and other chronic diseases and mental health services programs at the California Department of Health Services. Her leadership of the inaugural national Summit on Happiness Science in Health Care, her publications, including the groundbreaking book Roots of Positive Change: Optimizing Health Care with Positive Psychology,and presentations are spearheading the integration of positive psychology interventions in health care.
Bob Gold is one of the world’s leading behavioral technologists with more than 20 years applied research and development in the behavioral and cognitive science of human motivation, activation and resiliency; with a specialty in the design of clinical care plans and digital therapeutics that integrate pyscho-social factors and determinants into physical care plans for chronic and complex population health management.
Bob focuses his energy on recrafting clinical care plans and medication therapies into behaviorally-based remote care coordination, transitions of care, and rehabilitation/recovery digital therapy programs to achieve a sustainable population health business model for health systems, health plans, pharmaceutical companies and governments; reducing adverse events such as unnecessary ED visits and readmissions, collecting valuable ePROs (electronic patient-reported outcomes) and taking advantage of opportunities for CMS value-based and RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) reimbursements associated with the implementation of these programs.
Bob’s evidence-based methods provide an individualized, disciplined and nurturing experience within the framework of a person’s lifestyle and typical day while improving satisfaction and adherence; especially for complex and chronic conditions that include co-morbidities and difficult to navigate patient health journeys.
Bob’s BehavioralRx® and Concierge Care® system has also shown to bring back Joy in Practice for doctors and nurses enabling them to spend more time on high impact clinical work.
In this conversation Bob discusses simple strategies for getting the most out of your doctor appointment - what to bring, how to prepare, how to engage and follow up. Bob also talks about the importance of perspective - building confidence and self-efficacy, realistic goal-setting with proposed healthcare plan, improving outlook, and the impact it can make on compliance and success. Finally, Bob shares a variety of digital solutions based on behavioral health science that can help us improve our habits and behaviors and ensure health long-term.
To learn more:
- https://gomohealth.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/gomohealth
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/gomo-health/
- https://twitter.com/gomohealth
- https://www.instagram.com/gomohealth/
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDYK6ni8hC2rDkEhDptFTGQ
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David Hanscom is an orthopedic spine surgeon whose practice focused on patients with failed back surgeries. He quit his practice in Seattle, WA to present his insights into solving chronic pain, which evolved from with his own battle with it. The second edition of his book is, Back in Control: A Surgeon’s Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain. His website, www.backincontrol.com presents an action plan and his most recent program, “The DOC Journey” guides patients more clearly through the complexities of solving chronic pain. It can be accessed at www.thedocjourney.com. It includes weekly group sessions that have been a powerful addition to the healing process.
His latest book is, Do You Really Spine Surgery? – Take Control with a Surgeon’s Advice. It is intended for health care providers and patients alike to make a clear and informed decision about undergoing spinal surgery.
In this conversation Dr. Hanscom shares his personal journey through pain and how it informed his professional journey inspiring the methods he practices today. He challenges us to consider causes of back pain and factors that influence it. We talk about stress, sleep, anxiety, trauma and how they impact pain, as well as discuss a variety of therapy approaches, technics and skills that may help one become pain-free.
For more information, please refer to the links and resources below.
Websites:
The DOC (Direct your Own Care) Journey – www.thedocjourney.com
Back in Control – www.backincontrol.com
Books:
Back in Control: A Surgeon’s Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain
Do You Really Need Spine Surgery? Take Control with a Surgeon’s Advice
Social Media
Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/drdavidhanscom
Twitter Page - https://twitter.com/DrDavidHanscom
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/DrDavidHanscom
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Dr. Anurag Sahu is an adult cardiologist at Emory University Hospital. He is an Associate Professor of Cardiology and an Associate Professor of Radiology at the Emory School of Medicine. His areas of expertise include adult congenital heart disease, advanced cardiac imaging, and cardiac intensive care.
He developed the cardiac intensive care service line at Emory University Hospital, leads the high-risk cardiac pregnancy program, is the director of the cardiac MRI/CT fellowship program, and serves on faculty for the adult congenital heart program at Emory which is the largest of its kind in the Southeast. He has a passion for prevention and works extensively with his patients on realistic goal setting and what he believes are the 5 facets of maintaining health - mindset, mental health, sleep, nutrition, and mobility.
In this conversation Dr. Sahu explains congenital heart disease, talks about trends of disease and its treatment over the past few decades, and discussed the variety of lifestyle choices and behaviors (such as food choices and habits, exercise, sleep and how we spend our time) that can significantly impact the heart health.
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Experience activators are mindsets that all individuals have — which generate energy and expand our capacity to improve overall experiences and quality of life. They can be strengthened through both personal action and organizational support and include: resilience, mindfulness, optimism, openness, purpose, gratitude, self-efficacy, and emotional regulation.
People with high levels of experience activators have low levels of stress, high levels of well-being, engagement, and productivity, compared to people with medium vs. low levels of experience activators. Limeade Institute conducted a study to investigate the power of experience activators and their impact on work-related outcomes, overall well-being, and stress levels and we discuss the implications of that research today with Lindsay Lagreid.
For more information please visit the following:
Mindset webinar recording
Mindset research paper
Mindset research overview
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Lindsay Lagreid is the Senior Advisor of the Limeade Institute. In her Senior Advisor role, Lindsay is responsible for providing strategic and operational guidance to Limeade customers, prospects and internal stakeholders. Lindsay shares key industry research with the employee experience market and provides innovative direction to the Limeade product team. With nearly 10 years of customer account management and B2B software sales leadership experience, she is deeply knowledgeable and interested in the intersection of technology and people. Lindsay is passionate about improving the way people feel about work and making workplaces more human.
In this conversation we discuss all aspects of burnout. We start with definition and 3 stages: exhaustion, cynicism, giving up. Lindsay explains the difference between burnout and stress, shares a variety of factors that contribute to burnout, and describes the multiplicity of ways burnout is expressed in different people. We finally dive into strategies for recovery, and the important parts that individuals and organizations have to play. Tune in to learn more!
To learn more, please visit Limeade Institute webpage.
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Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., received his B.A. from Yale University and his M.D. from Western Reserve University. In 1956, pulling the No. 6 oar as a member of the victorious United States rowing team, he was awarded a gold medal at the Olympic Games. He was trained as a surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic and at St. George’s Hospital in London. In 1968, as an Army surgeon in Vietnam, he was awarded the Bronze Star.
Dr. Esselstyn has been associated with the Cleveland Clinic since 1968. During that time, he has served as President of the Staff and as a member of the Board of Governors. He chaired the Clinic’s Breast Cancer Task Force and headed its Section of Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology.
In 1991, Dr. Esselstyn served as President of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons, That same year he organized the first National Conference on the Elimination of Coronary Artery Disease, which was held in Tucson, Arizona. In 1997, he chaired a follow-up conference, the Summit on Cholesterol and Coronary Disease, which brought together more than 500 physicians and health-care workers in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. In April, 2005, Dr. Esselstyn became the first recipient of the Benjamin Spock Award for Compassion in Medicine. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Cleveland Clinic Alumni Association in 2009. In September 2010, he received the Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame Award. Dr. Esselstyn received the 2013 Deerfield Academy Alumni Association Heritage Award In Recognition of Outstanding Achievement & Service, and the 2013 Yale University George H.W. Bush ’48 Lifetime of Leadership Award. Dr. Esselstyn has also received the 2015 Plantrician Project Luminary Award, the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award, and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award.
His scientific publications number over 150, “The Best Doctors in America” 1994-1995 published by Woodward and White cites Dr. Esselstyn’s surgical expertise in the categories of endocrine and breast disease. In 1995 he published his bench mark long-term nutritional research arresting and reversing coronary artery disease in severely ill patients. That same study was updated at 12 years and reviewed beyond twenty years in his book, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, making it one of the longest longitudinal studies of its type. In July of 2014 he reported the experience of 198 participants seriously ill with cardiovascular disease. During 3.7 years of follow up of the 89% adherent to the program, 99.4% avoided further major cardiac events.
Dr. Esselstyn and his wife, Ann Crile Esselstyn, have followed a plant-based diet since 1984. Dr. Esselstyn presently directs the cardiovascular prevention and reversal program at The Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute.
The Esselstyns have four children and ten grandchildren.
For more information, please visit:
https://www.dresselstyn.com
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Brittany Verras is a clinical dietitian who is board certified in lifestyle medicine. She specializes in plant-based nutrition and diabetes related care. Brittany earned a master's of public health before pursuing a nutrition program through Kansas State University. She completed her clinical training at Emory University Hospital and now works in clinic at Emory Student Health and provides counseling through a small private practice. She is proud to have helped establish The Lifestyle Clinic that currently operates out of the Emory Family Medicine Clinic in Dunwoody and to be supporting the Emory Healthy Kitchen Collaborative.
In this conversation Brittany talks about the role of nutrition, and specifically plant-based nutrition, in diabetes management. Having Type I diabetes herself, Brittany shares her personal experience of how plant-based nutrition allows her to improve her life quality. Brittany also explains the differences between Type I and II, and how food choices have very profound effect on both. She talks about her favorite nutrient - fiber, and its importance. Tune in to learn more about why and how to make food choices that optimize your health!
Connect with Brittany here:
IG: @eatwell_atl
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Amit Shah, MD, MSCR is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology with an adjunct appointment in Medicine (Cardiology) at Emory University. He is also Chief of Preventive Cardiology and Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation at the Atlanta VA Healthcare System.
Dr. Shah completed his undergraduate degree in physics, and certificate in biophysics, at Princeton University, and his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. He completed residency in Social Internal Medicine at Albert Einstein, Montefiore in 2009, and cardiology fellowship at Emory University in the Clinical Investigator Track in 2013, where he also earned a Master of Science in Clinical Research.
Dr. Shah works on several projects in the space of cardiovascular disease prediction and prevention. His work leverages quantitative physiological biomarkers and heart/brain imaging to understand the relationship between the brain and heart. He also works on improving healthcare delivery with innovative tools in the preventive cardiology space, and his team at the VA uses a technology-enabled approach at empowering veterans with holistic lifestyle change.
Since Dr. Shah joined the Emory faculty in 2013, he has been continuously funded by the American Heart Association, Georgia Research Alliance, Coulter Foundation, and National Institutes of Health. He has won several awards from the American Heart Association for his research, and published over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts, of which many have been featured in high-impact journals such the JAMA network and Circulation.
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Staci Rieder is a Certified Integrative Nutrition Health and Wellness Coach through The Institute of Integrative Nutrition. She has been on a life long journey of learning and sharing natural modalities to improve the quality of life and to live from the heart. She is passionate about food, plants, cooking, yoga, meditation, hiking, gardening and her 19 year old daughter who lives in Colorado. Becoming a mother was even more of an impetus for Staci to better care for herself and her daughter with healthy food and herbs, and also when she created her original “Lovin’ Spoonful” logo. Staci loves to nourish everyone she knows. She came to Atlanta a year ago to help care for her healthy mother and her mother’s 10 year old dog, who is like another child to Staci. Staci has also been on an inner journey to listen to her heart, and bring self care, at all costs. She loves watching life thrive in the best conditions possible and also nurturing in challenging situations. Before leaving Colorado, where she lived for 27 years, Staci worked as a Nutritional Consultant at an outpatient alcohol recovery program, where she exceled by bringing her eclectic skills creatively to each of her clients. She is now back in Atlanta, closer to the ocean, her absolute favorite place. She currently works with clients individually on Zoom and looks forward to being able to teach her experiential herbal and cooking classes and to lead healing heartful self-care retreats. When she is not working, you can find her in the woods gathering wild plants, or in her garden at the Blue Heron Nature Preserve, walking the dog, doing yoga, or, of course, in the kitchen preparing her love-filled, healing food or making herbal medicines and body care products. She Holds a Certificate in Mental Health and Addiction Nutrition through The Academy for Addiction & Mental Health Nutrition. She is a Certified Herbalist and Herbal Medicine Maker, a Certified Macrobiotic Counselor and Macrobiotic Chef through the Nova Healing Arts school in Boulder, CO, and aCertified Birth and Post-Partum Doula through CAPPAand Birthing from Within.
In this conversation Staci shares her experience with using her knowledge and expertise in addiction recovery. She explains how different aspects of health play a role in the physical, mental and emotional well-being. Staci talks about the importance of nutrition, movement, mindfulness and the power of herbs to heal those dealing with addiction. Tune in to learn more!
Check out this recent article, featuring Staci that talks about 4 Easy & Nutritious Veggies to Grow.
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Anthea is a registered dietitian at the private practice Culina Health and a freelance health reporter based in New York City. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Emory University and is one month away from completing her Master’s in Clinical Nutrition at New York University. She completed her clinical training at NYU Langone Health.
Anthea believes that how and what we eat drives the way we feel, think, and live. She learned this firsthand during her time as a writer for Health magazine, where she worked with countless dietitians and doctors to craft stories about the impact of our food choices on our physical and mental well-being.
This experience inspired Anthea to devote her career to helping others harness the power of real foods to stay well. She does this through one on one nutrition counseling and continues to work as a contributor covering food and nutrition for popular media outlets including Health.com, Livestrong.com, and BuzzFeed Health, among others.
In the conversation we cover out common questions related to the link between food and medicine. We talk about intermittent fasting, vitamins, and vitamin deficiencies, best food to improve our immune system, healthy sugars, optimal time for fueling the workouts, effects of alcohol, as well as anti- and pro-inflammatory foods. Tune in to learn more!
LINKS
Personal website: www.alivewellnutrition.com
Instagram: @alivewellnutrition
Private practice website: www.culinahealth.com
Resources referred to in the conversation:
Intermittent fasting:
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-nutr-071816-064634?url_ver=Z39.88-2003𝔯_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org𝔯_dat=cr_pub%3Dpubmed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5783752/
https://culinahealth.com/2020/07/08/intermittent-fasting-guide/
Vitamin C for Immunity:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17636648/
https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminC-HealthProfessional/
Gut Health & Immunity:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2515351/
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Margaret Moore, MBA, is an executive coach and founder and CEO of Wellcoaches Corporation, a coaching school for health professionals, which has trained more than 13,000 coaches in 50 countries since 2000.Prior to Wellcoaches, Margaret was an executive in the biotechnology industry in the US, UK, Canada, France for 17 years, including serving as CEO and COO of two biotech companies.
Margaret is co-founder (2009) and chair of the Institute of Coaching at McLean, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, and is co-director of the Coaching in Leadership & Healthcare conference offered by Harvard Medical School since 2008.
In 2010 Margaret co-founded the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching, now a nonprofit subsidiary of the National Board of Medical Examiners, establishing standards and reimbursement for the coaching workforce in healthcare.
Moore teaches transformational leadership at Harvard Medical School’s Office of Global Education, and coaching psychology at Harvard Extension School. She is co-author of 20 peer-reviewed articles and 7 book chapters on coaching, the peer-reviewed Coaching Psychology Manual published by Wolters Kluwer, and Harvard Health Books Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life and Organize Your Emotions, Optimize Your Life.
In this conversation Coach Meg talks about coaching as a way to unlock one's full potential. We talk about different kinds of coaching - lifestyle, career, health, and other specialized aspects of coaching. Coach Meg shares basic core principles of coaching, the importance of mindfulness and self-reflection, the power and learning that comes from knowing one's emotions, and strategies for preventing burnout and finding joy in your work . Tune in to learn more!
For more resources please visit:
www.coachmeg.com
www.wellcoaches.com
www.instituteofcoaching.org
www.nbhwc.org
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Asata Reid MPH, MS Ed., is a professional chef and community health educator, and the founder of Life Chef LLC - a culinary education service focused on healthy cooking and nutrition for all of life’s stages.
As a partner of Small Bites Adventure Club, Chef Asata helps to develop recipes and activities for Farm to Home Explorer Kits and the Taste Test Boxes that are sent to classrooms and organizations. These turnkey activities help children discover, love and eat fruits and vegetables.
Asata has worked with Kaiser Permanente for over 13 years as a Health Educator, and facilitates classes in smoking cessation, sleep improvement, diabetes prevention and other wellness topics that impact the community.
With partners such as Georgia Organics, the Atlanta Community Food Bank, the Georgia Department of Public Health, and Quality Care for Children, she provides nutrition and culinary training for youth, adults and seniors, as well as professional development for school nutrition staff, and technical assistance for Farm to School/ECE programs.
Chef Asata teaches cooking and nutrition in the afterschool program at Drew Charter School where she also recently (2018/19) launched a life skills Cooking Club for upperclassmen as a continuation of the work from Michelle Obama’s health initiative Chefs Move to Schools. She co-founded the Cooking School at Irwin Street, served as the Health Education Director for Sevananda Natural Foods Market and Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture, and is the former Nutrition Health Educator at the HEALing Community Center in Atlanta’s historic West End.
Asata completed her Master of Public Health at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health where she completed a thesis on the complexities of picky eating. Asata also holds a Master of Science in Education from the University of Kansas where she developed a plan for integrating health and nutrition into PreK to 5th grade STEM curriculum. She is an honors graduate of Florida A&M University where she earned her BS in Journalism, and graduated with honors from the International Culinary School at the Arts Institute of Atlanta.
As a wife and mother, Asata enjoys slow family meals and her superpower is getting people to love eating their vegetables. In 2021, she self-published her first book “How to Feed a Kid: A Parent’s Guide”.
To learn more please visit:
- New self-published book, How to Feed a Kid: A Parent's Guide available on Amazon for print or download.
- Ongoing virtual kids' cooking classes with the Hand Heart and Soul Project.
- Farm to Home Explorer Kits and Farm to School Taste Test Boxes with Small Bites Adventure Club: https://smallbites.club/
Good Food Good Mood series with Atlanta Eats and Kaiser Permanente (for Peachtree TV) GOOD FOOD GOOD MOOD RECIPE SERIES:
- Pistachio Crusted Salmon and Kale Salad
- Power Up Breakfast
- Southwestern Black Bean Burger
- Antioxidant Bomb Parfait
- Butternut Squash & Black Bean Chili
Social Media:
- Instagram: @chefasata.lifechef
- FB: https://www.facebook.com/lifechef/
- Twitter: @Chefasata
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Dr. Joe Nocera completed his undergraduate at the University of California, Los Angeles. He completed his graduate training at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and The University of Georgia. Following his graduate studies, Dr. Nocera completed post-doctoral training in the Departments of Neurology and Aging at the University of Florida. In 2009, while at UF he transitioned into the faculty ranks in the Department of Aging and Geriatric Research and concurrently became a Health Science Specialist at the VA Medical Center in Gainesville, FL. In 2012 he moved to Atlanta where he became an Assistant Professor in Neurology at Emory and a Health Science Specialist in the Atlanta VA Rehabilitation R&D Center of Excellence for Visual and Neurocognitive Rehabilitation. Dr. Nocera’s research interests include interactions between physical function and cognition with particular emphasis on the impact of dual tasking on locomotion and balance control. Dr. Nocera is also interested in the efficacy of exercise intervention programs for improving mobility and cognitive function in older adults and individuals with in Parkinson's disease.
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Wendy Baer, MD, is Assistant Professor holding joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Baer serves as Director of Psychiatric Oncology at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, and also serves as Vice Chair for Wellness in the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology.
In her work at Winship Cancer Institute, Dr. Baer helps patients and their families deal with the stress of receiving a cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment. As a Psychiatrist she has expertise in treating clinical depression and anxiety both with medications and psychotherapy to help people manage emotions, behaviors and relationships. The fundamental goal of Dr. Baer's practice is to promote wellness and maximize patients' quality of life as much as possible. She believes strongly in the team approach to patient care and collaborates regularly with patients, doctors, nurses and social workers.
In this conversation we talk about burnout: understanding the burnout, its signs and expressions. What fields and professions are especially prone to burnout? Does the role, the attitude, or the culture within a workplace make a difference? How and why the spread of burnout changed in the context of COVID-19 pandemic? Dr. Baer also talks about working through and out the burnout, through better understanding its causes on personal level and taking intentional steps to structure your external environment and internal energy to combat it. We talk about taking care of different domains - physical, emotional and spiritual. Tune in to learn more!
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Dr. Jud is the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and associate professor in psychiatry at the School of Medicine at Brown University, as well as a research affiliate at MIT. Before that, he held research and teaching positions at Yale University and the University of Massachusetts’ Center for Mindfulness. Read more about his research here. He is passionate about understanding how our brains work, and how to use that knowledge to help people make deep, permanent change in their lives — with the goal of reducing suffering in the world at large.
As an addiction psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for treating addictions, Dr. Jud has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for habit change, including both in-person and app-based treatments for smoking, emotional eating, and anxiety (Eat Right Now, Unwinding Anxiety and Craving to Quit).
Based on the success of these programs in the lab, he co-founded MindSciences, Inc. to create app-based digital therapeutic versions of these programs for a wider audience, working with individuals, corporations, and hospital systems to put effective, evidence-based behavior change guidance in the hands of people struggling with unwanted behaviors and “everyday addictions.”
In this episode Dr. Jud shares the biggest takeaways from his new book “Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind” that got released on March 9, 2021 is already an #1 Best Seller. What if we looked at worry as if it were a bad habit?
Dr. Jud describes the effects of uncertainty on our mental and emotional health. Uncertainty can take us out fo the "safety zone" and put us in a state of high alert, that leads to anxiety. But what if, instead of entering the "panic zone", we learn how to enter the "learning zone"? Dr. Jud teaches us how to recognize anxiety, and build new habits that help us grow in a calmer state of mind. We cannot think our way out of anxiety…. but we can feel our way out of it! What does that look like? Dr. Jud shares a framework and related tools to do just that. Tune in to the episode to learn more!
For more information please visit:
www.drjud.com
https://drjud.com/book/
Learn more about the app-based behavior change programs from DrJud and MindSciences for eating, anxiety, and smoking cessation.
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Dr. Monica Parker, is a graduate of Fisk University and The University of Nebraska Medical Center. She joined the Emory School of Medicine faculty in 1995. She has transitioned roles as a geriatric, primary care provider to that of clinical research investigator. She now leads the Minority Engagement Core (MEC), one of six cores of the Emory Goizueta Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Dr. Parker serves as Co-investigator on several NIH-funded projects. One of Atlanta’s top dementia care experts, she advocates and educates about Alzheimer’s, caregiving resources and the importance of research participation for the elimination of health disparities in persons of color. She has co-authored several peer reviewed articles on the differences in neurocognitive disorders between African and European Americans, African American caregiving needs, and research participation for African Americans with colleagues at the Mayo Clinic, Oregon Health Sciences University, Ohio State University and Emory University.
She is active in several civic and professional organizations, most notably, she was appointed the inaugural Health and Human Services Facet Director of The Links Incorporated (2010-2014). She serves on several Boards to include AGRHODES Nursing and Rehab, Georgia Alzheimer’s Association Board of Governors, The Health Outcomes Task force for the National Alzheimer’s Association, Georgia Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias State Task Force, Georgia Museum of Art (GMOA) and the Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism for the State Bar of Georgia.
A recipient of several honors, she was “A Key to A Cure” Awardee by the Wesley Woods Foundation and Atlanta Magazine’s “Groundbreaker of the Year”. Castle- Connolly Associates named her one of Atlanta’s Top Doctors, in Family/Geriatric Medicine 2009-2013, as published in the Atlanta Magazine.
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In honor of February, Heart Health Month, we are recasting our favorite conversations with heart health experts!
In this episode Laurence S. Sperling, M.D., FACC, FAHA, FACP, FASPC talks about prevention of heart disease. Dr. Sperling covers a range of topics related to cardiovascular disease and its prevention. What is preventive cardiology? How can we prevent heart disease in individuals and populations? What are the risk factors for heart disease? Dr. Sperling discusses the opportunities in healthcare as it relates to cardiovascular health, and why this topic is especially relevant in the time of the pandemic. Dr. Sperling talks about local and national projects he is leading to restore cardiovascular health and closes with tips on what each of us can do to make an impact. Tune in to learn more!
Laurence S. Sperling, M.D., FACC, FAHA, FACP, FASPC is the current Executive Director of the Million Hearts Initiative for the Division of Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He is the Founder and was the Director of The Heart Disease Prevention Center at Emory since 1997. He is currently the Katz Professor in Preventive Cardiology at the Emory University School of Medicine, and Professor of Global Health in the Rollins School of Public Health. He served as the President of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology from 2014-2016, served on the writing committee of 2018 the ACC/ AHA Guideline on the Management on Blood Cholesterol, and served as Chair of the World Heart Federation writing group on the Roadmap for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention among People Living with Diabetes. Dr. Sperling was the recipient of the 2017 Award of Honor from the Alumni Association of Emory University School of Medicine. He has received awards for excellence in teaching (including 4 Golden Apple Awards and The Dean’s Teaching Award), mentorship (Emory SOM 2018 Mentorship Award), and the R. Wayne Alexander Research mentor award. He has authored over 350 manuscripts/ abstracts/ books, and has been an invited speaker on every continent except Antarctica.
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Dr. Reddy is the director of interventional cardiology at the James A Haley VA Medical Center in Tampa, FL. He completed his general and interventional cardiology fellowship training at Winthrop University Hospital in Long Island, NY. After practicing interventional cardiology for ten years, he changed his focus towards cardiovascular health promotion and disease prevention, using lifestyle and nutrition based strategies. He is a member of American College of Cardiology’s working group on nutrition and lifestyle. In addition, he serves as a board of director and the treasurer for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He is the founding Co-Chair of Veterans Health Administration/Department of Defense member interest group and the Cardiology member interest group under the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Reddy is board certified in Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology and Lifestyle Medicine.
He is closely involved with the department of Whole Health at the Tampa VA hospital. Working in partnership with the local Whole Health leadership, he established two preventive cardiology clinics.
HEAL – Healthy Eating and Living – Introductory Program
CALM – Comprehensive Approach to Lifestyle Medicine – 6 weeks of multidisciplinary program.
He is passionate and deeply committed to the idea of health promotion and disease prevention, using lifestyle and nutrition related tools. It is with this passion and commitment, he boldly challenges his patients with – “I have a carrot and a stent, you pick!”
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Daniel Parson is in his twenty-third season of organic growing. He started in 1998 at wildflower organics in Dawsonville, GA, where he worked four years. Next, he managed the Clemson University student organic farm for two years, and operated Gaia Gardens in Decatur, GA for five. In 2009, he started a new venture, Parson Produce, supplying a CSA, local restaurants, and farmers markets in Clinton, SC. In 2014, Daniel moved to Oxford, GA to start a campus farm for Oxford College of Emory University, producing food for the dining hall, CSA, and Emory Farmers Market while serving as a resource for student education and research.
Daniel has two degrees from Clemson, a BS in Biological Sciences and an MS in Plant and Environmental Science, focusing on cover crops and organic systems. In addition to growing produce, Daniel has presented workshops on various organic topics to many state and regional groups, including the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association, Southern SAWG and Georgia Organics. Daniel received the 2009 Georgia Organics Land Steward of the Year Award and in 2008 was listed on Mother Nature Network’s 40 farmers under 40. Also, he served on the Georgia Organics board from 2006-2008 and the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association board from 2012-2014.
In this episode Daniel makes an introduction to home gardening that can help people think about planting this season. Daniel talks about site selection (sun, proximity, and water); soil management and testing; mapping/calendar/rotations; crop selection and timing-garden calendar from UGA; weed management: cultivation and mulching; harvest timing -getting the most out of your planting.
UGA extension is our best resource in Georgia and every state has a similar service if there are listeners from other parts of the country.
https://secure.caes.uga.edu/extension/publications/files/html/B577/B577PlantingChart.pdf
To learn more. please visit:
https://oxford.emory.edu/academics/organic_farm.html
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Jenny Bilko, MS, RDN, LD is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist at the Emory Executive Health Clinic, the Paul W. Seavey Comprehensive Internal Medicine Clinic, and the Emory Lifestyle Medicine and Wellness Center. She received a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Dietetics from the University of Georgia. She completed Dietetic Internship and received Master’s degree in Nutrition Science at University of Alabama at Birmingham. Jenny also has a Certificate in Training for Vegetarian Nutrition.
Jenny is passionate about nutrition for prevention and management of chronic disease through plant-based and Mediterranean diet. She provides education and counseling to patients for weight loss, heart health, diabetes, etc.
Alzheimers is the most common type of dementia and the 6th leading cause of death un United States. In every disease there is a genetic component and the environmental component. When it comes to Alzheimers - what does that distribution look like? Jenny Bilko, RD talks about the MIND diet and how to take advantage of foods that we eat to manage and prevent Alzheimers.
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In this episode, we talk to Catherine Mitchell Jaxon, a food allergy parent and one of the founders of Mission MightyMe. Mission MightyMe is a revolutionary food company on a mission to end the food allergy epidemic, by making it deliciously simple for parents to follow new pediatric guidelines for including peanuts and other common food allergens in infant diets. The company was co-founded by world-renowned pediatric allergist Dr. Gideon Lack, whose groundbreaking research proved that most peanut allergies can be prevented. Dr. Lack founded the company with pioneering food allergy advocate Todd Slotkin (co-founder of FARE/Food Allergy Research & Education) and food allergy parents, Catherine and JJ Jaxon, whose personal struggle with food allergy prevention inspired the company.
Food allergies are a huge public health problem impacting 1 in every 13 children in the U.S. In the last two decades, the rate of food allergies in children has increased by more than 50% and the rate of nut allergies has tripled. Experts now believe feeding guidelines issued twenty years ago, advising parents to avoid feeding babies potentially allergenic foods like peanuts, may be partially responsible. When these foods were removed from infant diets, food allergy rates skyrocketed.
In 2015 however, everything changed, thanks to a landmark clinical trial (the Learning Early About Peanut study), led by Mission MightyMe Co-Founder Dr. Gideon Lack. The LEAP Study showed that more than 80% of peanut allergies can be prevented by regularly including peanut in babies’ diets, starting in the first year of life. The LEAP Study findings were groundbreaking. Children who completely avoided peanut until age five were over 5x more likely to develop a peanut allergy than children who consistently consumed peanut, starting in the first year of life until age 5. This discovery completely upended the old feeding guidelines. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Institutes of Health have now joined dozens of other health organizations around the world in recommending peanut introduction in infancy to prevent peanut allergies.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the NIAID, said the LEAP Study findings could potentially save “thousands and thousands of kids from peanut allergies.” However, there was still a huge problem – peanuts and peanut butter are choking hazards for infants, and the entire baby food industry is allergen-free. The Jaxons discovered this when trying to include nuts in their infant son’s diet, in hopes of preventing him from developing a nut allergy like his older sister. So they partnered with Dr. Lack to develop a line of foods that makes it easy and enjoyable to include nuts and other common food allergens in infant diets.
The company’s first product launched in April - Proactive Peanut Puffs. The puffs were developed in accordance with the LEAP Study and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations, contain the exact amount of recommended peanut protein, use organic, simple ingredients, dissolve quickly for babies, and also taste delicious.
In 2021, Mission MightyMe plans to roll out the first ever multi-nut puff, which turns a collection of tree nuts into a delicious, baby-friendly puffed snack. More product extensions containing other common food allergens are also in development.
The mission is baked into the business model to achieve mass market adoption, but Mission MightyMe also gives back to food allergy prevention research and education to help end the food allergy epidemic and make children’s lives better in the process.
Website: http://www.missionmightyme.com
Food Allergy Prevention Research
Pediatric Feeding Guidelines
Instagram: @Mission MightyMe
Facebook: Mission MightyMe
Twitter: @MightyMeKids
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Why We Started Mission MightyMe Video
You Tube: MMM on YouTube
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Tim Cunningham never thought he would become a nurse. His first passion was in the performing arts—theatre, clown, dance and acrobatics. He worked as an actor for nearly a decade in various regional theatres in the U.S. and internationally. It was through those experiences that he began work with Clowns Without Borders in 2003. A small non-profit, Clowns Without Borders sends professional artists into war zones, refugee camps and other zones of crisis with the simple mission of catalyzing laughter and playfulness. Tim has performed in more than 20 countries with the clowns, he served for five years as the Executive Director of CWB and now sits on their Board of Directors. It was working in a pediatric ward in pre-earthquake Haiti that inspired Tim to study nursing.
He graduated from the Clinical Nurse Leader program at the University of Virginia in 2009 and then worked an emergency/trauma nurse at the UVA Health System, Children’s National Medical Center and New York Presbyterian, Cornell. He has worked internationally as a clinician in post-earthquake Haiti; Sierra Leone, during the Ebola outbreak with the organization, Partners in Health; and most recently with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. His work as a clown and nurse keeps bringing him back to the central question: What keeps people resilient?
This question helped him complete his Doctorate of Public Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. His dissertation focused on psychosocial support of expatriate Ebola aid workers in West Africa, with an emphasis on Narrative Medicine. In 2016 He joined the faculty at UVA with a joint appointment in the School of Nursing and Department of Drama. He also served as the Director of the Compassionate Care Initiative. Currently, Tim is the Vice President of Practice and Innovation at Emory Healthcare where he also holds an appointment as Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Nell Hodgson School of Nursing at Emory University. Tim is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.
In this conversation Tim shares his unusual journey, the suffering he faced and meaning and lessons he gathered from them. Tim talks about the power and importance of non-verbal communication, finding connection, maintaining humanity, and guides us to find our our definition of resiliency.
Tune in to learn more!
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Twitter: @timcunninghamrn
Website: timcunninghamrn.com
Book: agoodkite.com
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Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized professional speaker on a number of important public health issues. Dr. Greger has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the International Bird Flu Summit, among countless other symposia and institutions; testified before Congress; has appeared on shows such as The Colbert Report and The Dr. Oz Show; and was invited as an expert witness in defense of Oprah Winfrey at the infamous "meat defamation" trial. In 2017, he was honored with the ACLM Lifestyle Medicine Trailblazer Award.
Dr. Greger's most recent scientific publications in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Critical Reviews in Microbiology, Family and Community Health, and the International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition, and Public Health explore the public health implications of industrialized animal agriculture.
Dr. Greger is also licensed as a general practitioner specializing in clinical nutrition and is a founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He was featured on the Healthy Living Channel promoting his latest nutrition DVDs and honored to teach part of Dr. T. Colin Campbell's esteemed nutrition course at Cornell University. Dr. Greger's nutrition work can be found at NutritionFacts.org, which is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit charity.
He is the author of Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching and Carbophobia: The Scary Truth Behind America's Low Carb Craze. Both of his latest books, How Not to Die and the How Not to Die Cookbook, became instant New York Times Best Sellers. Dr. Greger is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University School of Medicine.
In this conversation we talk through some of Dr. Greger's previous work and discuss his new book "How Not to Diet" that has released in December 2019. Every month seems to bring a trendy new diet or weight loss fad—and yet obesity rates continue to rise, and with it a growing number of diseases and health problems. In "How Not to Diet" Dr. Greger suggests a different approach. He dives deep in the science and lays out the key ingredients of the ideal weight-loss —factors such as calorie density, the insulin index, and the impact of foods on our gut microbiome—showing how plant-based eating is crucial to our success. Dr. Greger talks about the latest discoveries in cutting-edge areas like chronobiology to reveal the factors that maximize our natural fat-burning capabilities.
The How Not to Diet Cookbook is primed to be a revolutionary new addition to the cookbook industry: incredibly effective and designed for everyone looking to make changes to their dietary habits to improve their quality of life, weight loss notwithstanding.
To learn more, please visit:
Cookbook: https://nutritionfacts.org/book/how-not-to-diet-cookbook/
Website: https://nutritionfacts.org
Free Daily Dozen App: https://nutritionfacts.org/daily-dozen-challenge/
Podcast: https://nutritionfacts.org/audio/
How Not to Die Book: https://nutritionfacts.org/book/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/NutritionFactsOrg
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nutrition_facts
Free Downloadable Evidence-Based Eating Guide: https://nutritionfacts.org/healthkit/
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Kate Galli is a vegan health coach, animal rights activist and creator of strongbodygreenplanet.com. Kate is relentlessly focused on creating a fit, strong, healthy, happy, Compassionate Vegan World.
She will help you create the Mindset that makes your best #plantstrong eating and exercising choices simple and sustainable.
Kate got into fitness as a way to transform her body and confidence. She made a career of it 15 years ago and over the past 4-5 years has focused on Vegan Health Coaching as one of the most powerful ways to advocate for the animals is to be fit, strong, healthy and happy.
Kate is qualified as a Master Personal Trainer, Life Coach, NLP Practitioner and has also completed the eCornell Plant Based Nutrition Certificate program.
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Ijeoma Isiadinso, MD MPH FACC FASNC is a Board Certified Cardiologist at the Emory Heart and Vascular Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Isiadinso earned a dual degree in Medicine and Public Health during medical school. She joined the faculty at Emory University School of Medicine in 2010 after completing her Internal Medicine Residency and Cardiology Fellowship at Temple University Hospital. She is Board Certified in General Cardiology, Nuclear Cardiology, Echocardiography.
She is clinical cardiologist in the Emory Center for Heart Disease Prevention. She is a dedicated educator and serves as the CME Course Co-Director for both the Emory Symposium on Coronary Atherosclerosis Prevention and Education (ESCAPE) Conference and the Annual Emory Women and Heart Disease Conference. Dr. Isiadinso served as the Director of the Emory Women's Heart Center at Decatur and Lithonia. She is passionate about preventing heart disease in women.
Dr. Isiadinso's clinical research interest is focused on cardiovascular disease in patients with systemic inflammatory rheumatic diseases (specifically SLE and RA). For reasons that are not fully understood, this patient population is at increased risk for CVD and has a greater prevalence of traditional CV risk factors compared with the general population. Dr. Isiadinso's interest is to gain a better understanding of this increased risk through collaborative research projects and increase awareness among patients and clinicians through educational activities. Her clinical practice includes providing CVD screening, evaluation, and treatment of patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases.
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Timothy Harrison, Associate Director for CBCT® at the Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics at Emory University, oversees the center’s programs, including the teacher certification process and implementation of CBCT for research purposes.
As a Senior Instructor, Tim has taught clinicians at the Cleveland Clinic and the Cambridge Health Alliance, as well as nurses through the Emory Nursing Professional Development Center. He has taught CBCT to teens in foster care, incarcerated individuals, college students and HIV+ patients. Ongoing courses include CBCT for students at the Emory School of Medicine, chaplain residents in Emory’s hospitals, and teachers in the Atlanta Public Schools.
Tim has consulted on a number of peer-reviewed published research projects with special populations, including veterans with PTSD, breast cancer survivors, and parents of autistic children. He also directs the implementation of CBCT as part of a 5-year research grant funded by the US Department of Education for training and supporting new public school teachers.
Tim has a Master’s degree from Harvard University and practiced different forms of meditation for two decades before training in CBCT.
Timothy Harrison joined the staff of the Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics (formerly Emory-Tibet Partnership) in 2013 and is the associate director for CBCT®(Cognitively-Based Compassion Training). In this capacity, he coordinates the expanding CBCT® Teacher Certification program as well as the provision of CBCT® for research studies. Harrison teaches CBCT® courses to students at the Emory School of Medicine and to residents in the Emory Healthcare Spiritual Health education program. Additionally, he teaches CBCT® to undergraduate students through Emory’s Counseling and Psychological Services, and he works with several community outreach and research programs, offering CBCT® to public school teachers, vulnerable children and adolescents, and participants in numerous research studies. Harrison was a long-term practitioner of both lo jong and Zen meditation before expanding his outreach to those of various backgrounds through CBCT®.
In this conversation Tim teaches us to become aware of stress in our own bodies, and how that simple act of noticing is the first step of working through it. He talks about early signs and long-term consequences of prolonged stress, and shares how practicing kindness and compassion towards self and those around can help alleviate our suffering. Tune in to learn more!
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https://www.compassion.emory.edu/cbct-compassion-training/index.html
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Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized professional speaker on a number of important public health issues. Dr. Greger has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the International Bird Flu Summit, among countless other symposia and institutions; testified before Congress; has appeared on shows such as The Colbert Report and The Dr. Oz Show; and was invited as an expert witness in defense of Oprah Winfrey at the infamous "meat defamation" trial. In 2017, he was honored with the ACLM Lifestyle Medicine Trailblazer Award.
Dr. Greger's most recent scientific publications in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Critical Reviews in Microbiology, Family and Community Health, and the International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition, and Public Health explore the public health implications of industrialized animal agriculture.
Dr. Greger is also licensed as a general practitioner specializing in clinical nutrition and is a founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He was featured on the Healthy Living Channel promoting his latest nutrition DVDs and honored to teach part of Dr. T. Colin Campbell's esteemed nutrition course at Cornell University. Dr. Greger's nutrition work can be found at NutritionFacts.org, which is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit charity.
He is the author of Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching and Carbophobia: The Scary Truth Behind America's Low Carb Craze. Three of his recent books — How Not to Die, the How Not to Die Cookbook, and How Not to Diet — became instant New York Times Best Sellers. His latest book, How to Survive a Pandemic, was just released in May. View the trailer for How Not to Die here, for How Not to Diethere, and for How to Survive a Pandemic here. Dr. Greger is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University School of Medicine.
Dr. Greger is proud to be a Council of Directors member of the global voice for lifestyle as medicine, the True Health Initiative (THI). This is a growing coalition of more than 360 world experts representing 35 countries. It is an unprecedented assembly that includes physicians, university Deans, former Surgeon Generals, Olympic athletes, chefs, environmental professionals and a diverse group of nutritionists. Together they offer clarity over confusion and support the foundational principles of healthy eating and healthy living.
All speaking fees and proceeds Dr. Greger receives from the sale of his books and DVDs are donated to charity. To invite him to speak, fill out the Speaking Request form. To make an interview inquiry, fill out the Interview Inquiries form.
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Dr. Jud is the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and associate professor in psychiatry at the School of Medicine at Brown University, as well as a research affiliate at MIT. Before that, he held research and teaching positions at Yale University and the University of Massachusetts’ Center for Mindfulness. Read more about his research here. He is passionate about understanding how our brains work, and how to use that knowledge to help people make deep, permanent change in their lives — with the goal of reducing suffering in the world at large.
As an addiction psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for treating addictions, Dr. Jud has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for habit change, including both in-person and app-based treatments for smoking, emotional eating, and anxiety (Eat Right Now, Unwinding Anxiety and Craving to Quit).
Based on the success of these programs in the lab, he co-founded MindSciences, Inc. to create app-based digital therapeutic versions of these programs for a wider audience, working with individuals, corporations, and hospital systems to put effective, evidence-based behavior change guidance in the hands of people struggling with unwanted behaviors and “everyday addictions.”
In this conversation Dr. Jud explains the habit loop and how addiction is formed. He gets into the science of addiction, willpower and mindfulness, and how a shift in perspective can help address bad habits and break addiction. Tune in to learn more!
Learn more at drjud.com .
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Review Dr. Jud’s research on Google Scholar.
Check out Dr. Jud’s upcoming appearances & trainings.
Learn more about the app-based behavior change programs from DrJud and MindSciences for eating, anxiety, and smoking cessation.
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Ellen Idler, PhD is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Sociology, and Director of Emory’s Religion and Public Health Collaborative, with additional Emory appointments at the Rollins School of Public Health, the Center for Ethics, and the Graduate Division of Religion. She earned her PhD from Yale University and held a fellowship at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Dr. Idler is a Fellow and past Chair of the Behavioral and Social Sciences Section of the Gerontological Society of America. She served as Chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Aging and the Life Course and received its 2021 Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award. She studies the influence of attitudes, beliefs, and social connections on health, including the effect of self-ratings of health on mortality and disability, and the impact of religious participation on health and the timing of death among the elderly. Her research papers have been cited over 20,000 times and she received Emory’s Millipub Award in 2011 for an article with 1000+ citations. She is an Academic Editor for PLoS One and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences; Innovation in Aging; and Palliative and Social Care.
In this conversation we talk about the effects of religion on physical, emotional and mental health. How does this work? What components of religion practice have the biggest impact? What do studies show on individual and community levels? What are the trends we have seen with generations? Tune in to learn more!
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Robby Barbaro, MPH graduated from the University of Florida and is the cofounder of Mastering Diabetes and Amla Green. He worked at Forks Over Knives for six years before turning his attention in 2016 to coaching people with diabetes full time.
Robby was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 12 and has been living this lifestyle since 2006. In that time, while eating pounds of fruit every day, his HbA1c value has never exceeded 6.4%, and his blood glucose has been stable and easy to manage.
He is the co-host of the annual Mastering Diabetes Online Summit, a featured speaker at Whole Foods Global Headquarters, VegFest LA, Plant-Stock, Torrance Memorial Medical Center, and has been featured on Forks Over Knives, Healthline, Medical Medium, Vice, Thrive Magazine, Diet Fiction, Thrive Global, BestLife and the wildly popular podcasts Plant Proof and Nutrition Rounds, and is the author of the instant New York Times Bestseller book Mastering Diabetes with Cyrus Khambatta, PhD.
In this conversation Robby Barbaro talk about the book he coauthored with Cyrus Khambatta, PhD called Mastering Diabetes,The Revolutionary Method to Reverse Insulin Resistance Permanently in Type 1, Type 1.5, Type 2, Prediabetes, and Gestational Diabetes.
In this episode Robby shares his personal story of living with Type I Diabetes and how his curiosity and experimenting with different diets led him to discovering plant-based nutrition, starting his coaching career and writing a book with his business partner Cyrus Khambatta, PhD. Robby describes the path of physiology of diabetes, addressees common myths and misconceptions, explains the different types of diabetes, and shows how different diets can help to either worsen or improve or even reverse diabetes. Tune in to learn more!
To learn more about Robby's work please visit:
Website: https://www.masteringdiabetes.org/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/masteringdiabetes/
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/user/mindfuldiabeticrobby
Twitter: https://twitter.com/masteringdib
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cyrus-khambatta-32686a4/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbybarbaro/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/masteringdiabetes.org/
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Jeremy Beckworth, MD is a physician who has worked at Emory since 2007. He is a Physical Medicine and Rehab physician but also is boarded in Pain Medicine and Electrodiagnostic Medicine. He is the co-director of the Emory Spine Center and the associate residency program director for Rehab Medicine.
He has developed a keen interest in lifestyle medicine and specifically the impact of lifestyle medicine on pain. He has led local community health programs like CHIP (Complete Health Improvement Program), monthly plant-based cooking classes and the Nedley Depression & Anxiety Recovery Program (a lifestyle medicine program).
In this conversation we discuss spine issues and how lifestyle medicine can impact their consequences, including pain. What is the relation between diet and spine health? Are chronic pain and depression related? Tune in to learn more about these and other questions!
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Authors Reshma Shah, MD, a plant-based pediatrician and affiliate clinical instructor at Stanford University School of Medicine, and Brenda Davis, RD, a world-renowned expert and pioneer in plant-based nutrition, are passionate about empowering parents to become the experts of nourishing their families. They talk about what how to feed your family for optimal health and wellness: how a diet centered around plants can optimize health, prevent chronic disease, care for our planet, and be an act of radical compassion; nutrition specifics for all the stages of childhood—from pregnancy and breastfeeding all the way through adolescence; and tips, strategies, and mouthwatering recipes to bring all of this information to their dinner tables as they transition to plant-based eating. Tune in to learn more and pre-order their new book - Nourish: The Definitive Plant-Based Nutrition Guide for Families -- With Tips & Recipes for Bringing Health, Joy, & Connection to Your Dinner Table.
Brenda Davis, RD, is a leader in her field and an internationally acclaimed speaker. As a prolific nutrition and health writer, she has co-authored 12 books with nearly a million copies in print in 14 languages. Her most recent works include Nourish (to be released Nov. 2020), Kick Diabetes Essentials (2019), The Kick Diabetes Cookbook (2018), Becoming Vegan: Comprehensive Edition (2014) and Becoming Vegan: Express Edition (2013). Both Becoming Vegan books have won awards, including the Canada Book Award, and have also received a star rating by the American Library Association as the “go-to books” on plant-based nutrition. Brenda has been a featured speaker at medical and nutrition conferences in over 20 countries on 5 continents. She is also co-author of several peer reviewed journal articles. Brenda is the lead clinical nutrition specialist for the diabetes intervention project in the Marshall Islands. Brenda is a past chair of the Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. In 2007, she was inducted into the Vegetarian Hall of Fame.
Reshma Shah, MD, MPH is a board-certified pediatrician and affiliate clinical instructor at Stanford University School of Medicine. She has additional training and certification in plant-based nutrition and cooking. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and two children.
Brenda Davis and Reshma Shah are the authors of Nourish: The Definitive Plant-Based Nutrition Guide for Families, due out in November, 2020.
To learn more about their work please visit:
https://reshmashahmd.com
https://www.brendadavisrd.com
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Dr. A. Cecile J.W. Janssens is professor of Epidemiology in the department of Epidemiology of the Rollins School of Public Health. Her research concerns the translation of genomics research to applications in clinical and public health practice, and focuses on the polygenic prediction of multifactorial diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. She is best known for her theoretical and methodological studies that outline the future predictive ability and utility of genetic testing. Dr. Janssens has published over 200 papers in international scientific journals, including articles on the psychological, behavioral, ethical and societal aspects of genetic testing, the quality of evidence, research methodology and research ethics. Dr. Janssens is a lecturer in graduate and post-graduate courses in local, national and international programs, in which she teaches about prediction, critical thinking, scientific writing, and research methods. Dr. Janssens has degrees in economics, psychology, and epidemiology and received her PhD from Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
This week's conversation is about genome testing - what it can and cannot do, what is its role in prediction, as well as management and treatment of disease, and bases for personalized medicine.
Follow Dr. Janssens at @cecilejanssens .
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Dr. David Schulman is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Emory University, where he has served on faculty for nineteen years. He is the Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellowship training program, and also Director of Emory School of Medicine's Foundations of Medicine Phase, which comprises the first eighteen months of education for our medical students.
In this conversation Dr. Schulman discusses the most typical sleep disorders and what to do with them. We talk about insomnia, restless leg syndrome, how coffee and electronic devices affect our sleep. Dr. Schulman also shares strategies to fall asleep, stay asleep and go back to sleep. Tune in to learn more!
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Dr. Reddy is the director of interventional cardiology at the James A Haley VA Medical Center in Tampa, FL. He completed his general and interventional cardiology fellowship training at Winthrop University Hospital in Long Island, NY. After practicing interventional cardiology for ten years, he changed his focus towards cardiovascular health promotion and disease prevention, using lifestyle and nutrition based strategies. He is a member of American College of Cardiology’s working group on nutrition and lifestyle. In addition, he serves as a board of director and the treasurer for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He is the founding Co-Chair of Veterans Health Administration/Department of Defense member interest group and the Cardiology member interest group under the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Reddy is board certified in Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology and Lifestyle Medicine.
He is closely involved with the department of Whole Health at the Tampa VA hospital. Working in partnership with the local Whole Health leadership, he established two preventive cardiology clinics.
HEAL – Healthy Eating and Living – Introductory Program
CALM – Comprehensive Approach to Lifestyle Medicine – 6 weeks of multidisciplinary program.
He is passionate and deeply committed to the idea of health promotion and disease prevention, using lifestyle and nutrition related tools. It is with this passion and commitment, he boldly challenges his patients with – “I have a carrot and a stent, you pick!”
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Cherie C. Hill, MD, FACOG is an Assistant Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Emory University School of Medicine. She is a graduate of Xavier University of Louisiana, and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UC Los Angeles. She completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Duke University, where she served as Chief Resident, with a GME concentration in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement. Dr. Hill has a clinical interest in minimally invasive gynecologic surgery for management of gynecologic disorders, particularly abnormal uterine bleeding and fibroids, in addition to comprehensive obstetrics and well-woman care. Beyond the clinical setting, Dr. Hill serves as the Wellness Ambassador and Chair of the Wellness Committee for the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, and as Director of the Resident Wellness Program. She serves on the Health Advisory Board for the Center for Children’s Health: The Environment, The Microbiome, & Metabolomics (C-CHEM2). Her research interests include resident well-being and determinants of preterm birth. She maintains her own wellness through participation in public service, mentorship of local students; quality time with her husband, 2 children, extended family and friends.
In this conversation Dr. Hill talk about women's health and prevention based on what she sees in her clinical practice. She then shifts to discussing self-care, what it looks like, where to start, its importance and challenges. It is not a coincidence Dr. Hill is so dedicated to the topic, and she discusses her motivation for creating the movement around selfceare in both her clinical and academic environment, as well as personal life. Tune in to learn more!
For more information please visit:
Instagram @cheriechillmd and @emorygynob
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Will Bulsiewicz, MD MSCI ("Dr. B") is a graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine. He trained in internal medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and gastroenterology at The University of North Carolina Hospitals. He also earned a Master of Science in Clinical Investigation (MSCI) from Northwestern University and a certificate in nutrition from Cornell University. Dr. Bulsiewicz is board-certified in both internal medicine and gastroenterology.
Dr. B. is a respected clinician and the recipient of numerous awards. At Northwestern, he received the prestigious Rambach Award, was elected into the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society, and was Chief Medical Resident. At UNC, he once again received the highest clinical award given by the program and was Chief Gastroenterology Fellow.
Dr. B also has an accomplished background in research, with more than 20 articles published in peer reviewed scientific journals including repeatedly publishing in the top American gastroenterology journals: Gastroenterology, The American Journal of Gastroenterology, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. He has given more than 40 presentations at national meetings. He also did an epidemiology fellowship at the world renowned UNC - Gillings School of Global Public Health and received a prestigious grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Dr B started his @theguthealthmd Instagram page in 2016 and it has quickly become the Internet’s most trusted source for gut health guidance. He has been featured in numerous national magazines, including Men’s Health, Women's Health and Reader’s Digest, has been profiled by The Post & Courier and Vanderbilt Magazine, and he regularly gives sold out lectures on gut health.
He is in clinical practice at Lowcountry Gastroenterology in Charleston, SC.
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Web: https://theplantfedgut.com/book/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/theguthealthmd/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/theguthealthmd/
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Eric graduated from the New York City Police Academy in 1984 as one of the highest-ranked students in his class. After initially serving with the New York City Transit Police Department, he was transferred to the New York City Police Department (NYPD) with the merging of the city’s police forces. During the course of his 22-year law enforcement career, Eric served in the 94th Precinct (Greenpoint), 88th Precinct (Clinton Hill and Fort Greene), and the 6th Precinct (Greenwich Village and West Village), where he retired at the rank of captain. As a member of New York’s Finest, Eric made the kind of life-and-death decisions that reflect insight, expertise, and poise under fire, earning him a reputation for going above and beyond the call of duty.
In 1995, Eric co-founded 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, an advocacy group that rose to nationwide prominence speaking out against police brutality, racial profiling, and departmental diversity. He also served at one time as president of the Grand Council of Guardians, a statewide fraternal society for African-Americans in law enforcement. Through leadership roles in these organizations, Eric helped raise thousands of dollars for worthy causes across New York City.
Eric was elected to the first of four terms in the New York State Senate in 2006, where he represented a diverse range of neighborhoods across brownstone and central Brooklyn. During his tenure in the State Legislature, he chaired both the Veterans, Homeland Security, and Military Affairs Committee and the Racing, Gaming, and Wagering Committee. In 2013, Brooklynites elected Eric as the first person of color to serve as their borough president; he is currently serving his second term as Brooklyn’s chief executive.
In 2016, Eric was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Having lost vision in his left eye and suffering from nerve damage in his hands and feet, he went against the initial recommendations of his doctors and pursued a whole-food, plant-based diet. Within three months, Eric reversed his diabetes diagnosis, and he has subsequently been able to impact the health of countless New Yorkers facing chronic diseases, including his own mother.
Eric lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where he has resided for more than 20 years. He enjoys biking through his neighborhood, meditating, and exploring new cultures through travel. Eric is the proud father of Jordan, an aspiring filmmaker and graduate of American University.
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Neal Barnard, MD, FACC, is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC, and President of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
Dr. Barnard has led numerous research studies investigating the effects of diet on diabetes, body weight, and chronic pain, including a groundbreaking study of dietary interventions in type 2 diabetes, funded by the National Institutes of Health, that paved the way for viewing type 2 diabetes as a potentially reversible condition for many patients. Dr. Barnard has authored more than 90 scientific publications and 20 books for medical and lay readers, and is the editor in chief of the Nutrition Guide for Clinicians, a textbook made available to all U.S. medical students.
As president of the Physicians Committee, Dr. Barnard leads programs advocating for preventive medicine, good nutrition, and higher ethical standards in research. His research contributed to the acceptance of plant-based diets in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. In 2015, he was named a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. In 2016, he founded the Barnard Medical Center in Washington, DC, as a model for making nutrition a routine part of all medical care.
Working with the Medical Society of the District of Columbia and the American Medical Association, Dr. Barnard has authored key resolutions, now part of AMA policy, calling for a new focus on prevention and nutrition in federal policies and in medical practice. In 2018, he received the Medical Society of the District of Columbia’s Distinguished Service Award. He has hosted four PBS television programs on nutrition and health.
Originally from Fargo, North Dakota, Dr. Barnard received his M.D. degree at the George Washington University School of Medicine and completed his residency at the same institution. He practiced at St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York before returning to Washington to found the Physicians Committee.
In this conversation Dr. Barnard talks about his new book - Your Body in Balance - and shares the science behind how common hormone-related conditions—like infertility, weight gain, menopausal symptoms, breast and prostate cancers, thyroid problems, and acne—can be affected by and improved by simple diet changes. We also discuss other conditions like diabetes, women's health, and mens health, including erectile dysfunction. Tune in to learn more!
To learn more about Dr. Barnard's work, please visit:
www.pcrm.org
https://www.pcrm.org/yourbodyinbalance
https://www.facebook.com/PCRM.org/
https://www.facebook.com/NealBarnardMD/
https://twitter.com/PCRM
https://twitter.com/DrNealBarnard
https://www.instagram.com/physicianscommittee/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/drnealbarnard/?hl=en
https://kickstart.pcrm.org/en (PCRM’s free 21 day kickstart app)
Photo credit: Steve Shapiro, Commercialimage.net
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As an innovative leader in lifestyle medicine, Dr. Lianov has advanced the movement in the US and internationally. She currently serves as the Chair of the Happiness Science and Positive Health Committee of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM), lead faculty for the ACLM Physician and Health Professional Well-Being Program, vice-chair of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine, and President of the Positive Health and Wellness Division of the International Positive Psychology Association. She is also the lead faculty for the first of its kind intensive lifestyle medicine physician curriculum sponsored by American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) and ACLM. For this program and related work, Dr. Lianov received the 2015 Distinguished Service Award from ACPM. She is the lead author for the 2010 publication in the Journal of the American Medical Association unveiling the lifestyle medicine core competencies for physicians developed by a national blue ribbon panel of health professional organizations, which she chaired.
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Dr. Lianov is a past president of the ACLM, a past board regent of ACPM, and the former Healthy Lifestyles Division Director for the American Medical Association. She previously directed a number of heart disease and stroke prevention, cancer detection, and other chronic diseases and mental health services programs at the California Department of Health Services. Her leadership of the inaugural national Summit on Happiness Science in Health Care, her publications, including the groundbreaking book Roots of Positive Change: Optimizing Health Care with Positive Psychology, and presentations are spearheading the integration of positive psychology interventions in health care.
Peter Sprague, PhD, holds the positions of Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine and Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics in Emory University’s School of Medicine. His primary teaching appointment is within the Physical Therapy Division in the Emory School of Medicine where he is the co-course coordinator for the Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation course, the course coordinator for the Introduction to Interventions course, and course coordinator for a course he developed entitled “Movement System in Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Practice.” He is a Board Certified Clinical Specialist in Orthopaedic Physical Therapy and currently sits on the Orthopaedic Specialty Council for the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties, serving a four year appointment beginning in January 2018. Dr. Sprague has extensive clinical experience working with collegiate athletes in an interprofessional team setting and has assisted in the development and implementation of screening procedures assessing for musculoskeletal injury risk for collegiate and professional sports organizations. He has an active research agenda exploring musculoskeletal injury risk reduction in active populations and is interested in exploring the effects of movement-based interventions on population health. Dr. Sprague lives in the Atlanta area and enjoys outdoor activities with his wife and 3 dogs.
In this conversation Dr. Sprague talks about the nature and importance of human movement. Not just the fact that we move, but how we do it. What does the science say about the various benefits of multifaceted versatile movement through the day and how it can inherence our overall physical state? Tune in to learn more!
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Leah Garcés is the president of Mercy For Animals and author of Grilled: Turning Adversaries into Allies to Change the Chicken Industry. She has nearly 20 years of leadership experience in the animal protection movement and has partnered with some of the world’s largest food companies on her mission to build a better food system.
Leah oversaw international campaigns in 14 countries at the World Society for the Protection of Animals and launched Compassion in World Farming in the United States. Her work has been featured in many national and international media outlets, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, BuzzFeed, VICE, and the Chicago Tribune. Leah has an M.S. in Environment and Development from King’s College London and has presented at global forums including RIO+10 and the World Health Organization conference on the detrimental impact of industrial animal agriculture on health, food sovereignty, and sustainability.
Half Colombian and half American, Leah has lived in Spain, the United States, and the United Kingdom. She is fluent in English and Spanish.
GRILLED BOOK
Released in 2019, Leah’s first book, Grilled, is part memoir, part activist tell-all. Leah illustrates how her fight to end factory farming and construct a compassionate food system led her to collaborate with unlikely allies in the food industry. The book is a must-read for new and veteran animal advocates, as well as those looking to learn more about the food industry—and how to change it.
Please contact Diane May (dianem@mercyforanimals.org) to request a copy of Grilled.
SELECT MEDIA
Interviews and Articles
The Ezra Klein Show: Political Animals (with Leah Garcés)
Vox: Battle-tested lessons from the animal rights struggle
Vox: Replacing beef with chicken isn’t as good for the planet as you think
New York Times: Abusing Chickens We Eat
Civil Eats: Americans Eat More Chicken Than Ever. Leah Garcés Is Working to Change the Industry.
New York Times: Animal Cruelty or the Price of Dinner?
Ozy: The Vegan Activist Working Across Grocery Aisles for Change
Tenderly: Mercy For Animals President Leah Garcés Has a Plan
WIRED: Why We Can’t See Inside Poultry Production, and What Might Change If We Could
VICE: Why a Chicken Farmer in North Carolina Exposed the Depressing Conditions on His Own Farm
Women You Should Know: Food’s Bright Future: Leah Garcés and the Long Struggle to Replace Factory Farming
Food Safety News: African Swine Fever’s Lesson: Big Animal Ag Is Fragile and Biohazard Suits Are Not Unusual
New York Daily News: Iowa’s New Ag-Gag Bill Assaults Free Speech Again
Videos and Speeches
TEDxSeattle
Harvard Grilled talk: Turning Adversaries into Allies
Harvard Animal Law Week
NowThis: Former Factory Farmer Tries an Impossible Burger
NowThis: KFC Is Introducing Chicken-less Nuggets
WEBSITE
www.leahgarces.com
SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter: @leah_garces
: @leahgarces
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This is a very special episode - Episode # 100! THANK YOU to everyone for your continued support!
In this episode Laurence S. Sperling, M.D., FACC, FAHA, FACP, FASPC talks about prevention of heart disease. Dr. Sperling covers a range of topics related to cardiovascular disease and its prevention. What is preventive cardiology? How can we prevent heart disease in individuals and populations? What are the risk factors for heart disease? Dr. Sperling discusses the opportunities in healthcare as it relates to cardiovascular health, and why this topic is especially relevant in the time of the pandemic. Dr. Sperling talks about local and national projects he is leading to restore cardiovascular health and closes with tips on what each of us can do to make an impact. Tune in to learn more!
Laurence S. Sperling, M.D., FACC, FAHA, FACP, FASPC is the current Executive Director of the Million Hearts Initiative for the Division of Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He is the Founder and was the Director of The Heart Disease Prevention Center at Emory since 1997. He is currently the Katz Professor in Preventive Cardiology at the Emory University School of Medicine, and Professor of Global Health in the Rollins School of Public Health. He served as the President of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology from 2014-2016, served on the writing committee of 2018 the ACC/ AHA Guideline on the Management on Blood Cholesterol, and served as Chair of the World Heart Federation writing group on the Roadmap for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention among People Living with Diabetes. Dr. Sperling was the recipient of the 2017 Award of Honor from the Alumni Association of Emory University School of Medicine. He has received awards for excellence in teaching (including 4 Golden Apple Awards and The Dean’s Teaching Award), mentorship (Emory SOM 2018 Mentorship Award), and the R. Wayne Alexander Research mentor award. He has authored over 350 manuscripts/ abstracts/ books, and has been an invited speaker on every continent except Antarctica.
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Jonathan K. Crane is the Raymond F. Schinazi Scholar of Bioethics and Jewish Thought at Emory University’s Center for Ethics. He is also an Associate Professor of Medicine, Emory School of Medicine, and an Associate Professor of Religion, Emory College.
He earned a B.A. (summa cum laude) from Wheaton College in Massachusetts, a M.A. in international peace studies from the University of Notre Dame, a M.Phil. in Gandhian thought from Gujarat Vidyapith in India, a M.A. in Hebrew Literature and rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, and a Ph.D. in religion from the University of Toronto. The co-author of Ahimsa: The Way to Peace, co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality, author of Narratives and Jewish Bioethics, editor of Beastly Morality: Animals as Ethical Agents, author of Eating Ethically: Religion and Science for a Better Diet, and editor of Shades: Race with Jewish Ethics (forthcoming), he is the founder and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Jewish Ethics. A past president of the The Society of Jewish Ethics, he frequently speaks and publishes broadly on Judaism, ethics and bioethics, comparative religious ethics, narrative ethics, eating, environmental and animal ethics, among other topics. He was awarded an honorary degree from Wheaton College.
In this episode Dr. Crane and Dr. Bergquist discuss the ethical side of eating animals. What is the impact of eating animals on our health? And health of others? Animals? Environment? How does poverty and racial disparity come into the picture? If those are just facts that can be easily settled on, what part does the ethics play? Where do our believes come from? What does religion have to say about "diet"? All these questions are also answered in the new Ethics Around Eating Animals course offered at Emory University. Tune in to learn more!
Food Studies & Ethics Program (FS&E)
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Arefa Cassoobhoy is a board certified internal medicine doctor who is passionate about health literacy and committed to raising awareness of health topics that are currently under the radar and affect vulnerable communities. Her projects focus on empowering individuals and communities to improve their health through collaborations including advocacy, research, and education.
As Senior Medical Director at WebMD, Cassoobhoy and the medical team ensure all content across WebMD is not only correct and current, but also easy to understand and useful. She oversees a national network of doctors that reviews content across the site and works with editorial teams on strategy and content development covering articles, videos, mobile applications and tools.
Cassoobhoy sees patients and serves on the Board of Directors at the Clarkston Community Health Center. This rapidly growing, non-profit clinic provides healthcare to underinsured and uninsured individuals many of whom are recent immigrants.
Involved with medical education and alumni engagement, Cassoobhoy serves on the Emory School of Medicine Alumni Board and the Rollins School of Public Health Community Advisory Board.
Always learning, Cassoobhoy is pursuing board certification in lifestyle medicine. This is an evidence-based approach to prevent and treat disease with changes in diet, exercise and other lifestyle modifications.
As a spokesperson for WebMD and Medscape, she is active on social media platforms including Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit, as well as media interviews and speaking engagements.
In this episode Dr. Cassoobhoy talks about strategies you can use to vet and filter the health-related information you see in news and media. This is especially helpful in the times like today. Tune in to learn more!
To learn more or connect with Dr. Cassoobhoy, please visit
https://www.linkedin.com/in/arefacassoobhoy/
https://www.instagram.com/arefacassoobhoymd/
https://twitter.com/ArefaMD
Recent blog posts:
https://blogs.webmd.com/arefa-cassoobhoy-md
https://www.webmd.com/coronavirus
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Dr. William “Chance” Nicholson joined the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing as an assistant professor in August 2019. He received his PhD from the University of Alabama at Birmingham with a focus on neurophysiological correlations between the vagus nerves’ cholinergic pathways, psychiatric comorbidities (e.g., perceived stress, depression, and post-traumatic stress) and HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders. Dr. Nicholson's research interests and publications center on neurophysiological substrates that form the basis of cognitive-behavioral symptoms (e.g., anger, impulsivity, depression, suicidality) often observed in trauma-based disorders, in particular post-traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder.
In this episode Dr. Nicholson and Dr. Bergquist talk about self-regulatory behaviors in the context of stress. How do things like fidgeting and gesticulation work on physiological level to moderate our stress response? What are other behaviors that are or are not conscious that help our body to "make sense" of the world? Are all of those behavior beneficial? Understanding and being mindful of these tools can help us make choices more consciously, be less reactive and be more in touch with ourselves and those around us.
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Dr. William “Chance” Nicholson joined the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing as an assistant professor in August 2019. He received his PhD from the University of Alabama at Birmingham with a focus on neurophysiological correlations between the vagus nerves’ cholinergic pathways, psychiatric comorbidities (e.g., perceived stress, depression, and post-traumatic stress) and HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders. Dr. Nicholson's research interests and publications center on neurophysiological substrates that form the basis of cognitive-behavioral symptoms (e.g., anger, impulsivity, depression, suicidality) often observed in trauma-based disorders, in particular post-traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder.
In this episode Dr. Nicholson and Dr. Bergquist talk about heart rate variability, or HRV. With the wearable devices becoming more and more popular, HRV is often thrown around as one of the metrics being measured, but do we understand what it means? What does it reflect? How is it descriptive of our health and wellness, if at all? Should our HRV be low or high? What are the factors that influence it and what we can do to improve our HRV? We answer all of those questions and more in this episode. Tune in to learn more!
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Dr. Wei Huang is an Associate Professor in Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. She received her medical degree in Shanghai, PhD in Neuroscience/Psychology at Vanderbilt University, and residency training at UNC Chapel Hill. Besides being a Board-certified physiatrist, Dr. Huang is also certified in Integrative Holistic Medicine and is a certified acupuncturist in Georgia. She is the founding physician of the first acupuncture clinic and the first integrative medicine clinic at the Atlanta VA Medical Center, and often acts as a consultant to regional medical centers to set up acupuncture clinics. She is currently a Medical co-Director of Acupuncture Service which opened in December last year as a Specialty Service under the Emory Clinics. Dr. Huang is on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and also acts as an ad hoc reviewer for multiple journals, including BMJ, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, European Journal of Integrative Medicine, and Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, all publishing research articles in complementary alternative medicine. Her own research and publications have been in acupuncture, Tai Chi, sleep, and traumatic brain injury. To commemorate her services, the Women’s Veterans for Social Justice awarded her withLifetime Award for Research and Practice in Integrative Medicine in 2017.
Acupuncture is one of the oldest ways of treatment that has been gaining popularity in the past 20 years. In this conversation Dr. Huang discuses the basics of acupuncture treatment. How does it work? What is the history of it? What conditions is it effective for? How long does it take to see the effects? How to find a good acupuncture specialist? What are the cases when acupuncture is covered by insurance? Dr. Huang covers all of those questions and shares some of the easy ways we can use acupuncture principles even at home. Tune in to learn more!
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Jennifer Mascaro, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Division of Preventive Medicine of the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine.
Dr. Mascaro is a member of the Cancer Prevention and Control research program at Winship Cancer Institute.
Dr. Mascaro holds a PhD in biological anthropology from Emory University. Her doctoral work examined the impact of compassion meditation on social cognition and brain function, and post-doctoral work investigated the biological bases of paternal caregiving behavior.
Dr. Mascaro's current research program examines interventions that enhance social connectivity, and in so doing, impact health. Ongoing projects include longitudinal investigations of compassion and mindfulness meditation training for diverse populations including Emory Healthcare employees, medical and physician’s assistant students, and veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.
We talk about social distancing, its meaning and effects. There is existing and emerging research about loneliness and isolation - the differences between the two, how each affects our health and wellbeing in different ways. Is physical isolation a determinant for feeling lonely? Can technology and connectedness through online communing be effective to overcome it or mitigate its effects? What are the things we can do to still continue to participate in and build communities in spite of isolation and social distancing? Dr. Mascaro also talks about other triggers that may be influencing mental health of people today - uncertainty, lack of control, lack of predictability, hightened stress - and how those can effect us in short and long term. We discuss the tools we can use to deal with all of this, the silver lining we can focus on, the good to look forward to.
Tune in to learn more!
There is a number of resources that are available for free for various groups especially affected by current events.
Headspace is offering free Headspace Plus access for Healthcare professionals: https://www.headspace.com/health-covid-19
The yoga app Down Dog is offering free subscriptions to anyone through April 1 and to anyone with a .edu email address until July 1: https://www.downdogapp.com/
Calm is offering free meditation resources, including their widely acclaimed Sleep Stories as well as meditation sessions for kids:
https://www.calm.com/blog/take-a-deep-breath?utm_source=lifecycle&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=difficult_times_subs_031720
The VA has free apps developed for those wanting help interacting with difficult emotions:
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Coach APP: https://mobile.va.gov/app/act-coach
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Mindfulness: https://mobile.va.gov/app/mindfulness-coach
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Erin Malawer is a digital health entrepreneur and food allergy advocate. She is the founder of Allergy|Health which brings expert guidance and up-to-date information to patients and caregivers. Erin serves on the Food Allergy Task Force at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington D.C. In addition to advising pharmaceutical companies, tech start-ups, food manufacturers, media outlets, restaurants, and others on food allergies, Erin consults and contributes to a variety of media sources including Bloomberg, Politico, CBS Radio, CBS News, Healthline, WebMD, and Fox 5. Erin was featured on the Discovery Chanel documentary, “Emerging Epidemic: Food Allergies in America” (2013) and is the food allergy columnist and medical editor for the publication,Allergy & Asthma Today.
Through her organization,AllergyStrong, Erin is focused on helping the at-risk and underserved community living with food allergies. Erin especially enjoys working with children and recently produced a public service announcement aimed at dispelling myths and promoting basic guidance about food allergies for underserved youth and those that support them.
In this conversation Erin shares how she started down the path of food allergy research after her son got diagnosed with food allergies as a toddler. Erin explains in detail what happens when a person eats the food they are allergic to, discusses potential consequences and talks about different tests available on the market. Erin also explains how food allergy is different from food intolerance and addresses common myths about both. Tune in to learn more!
For more information please refer to the following resources:
Social media: @allergystrong or @shmallergy
Website: allergystrong.com or follow Allergy Shmallergy (our blog) on twitter/Facebook
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Kelly Weisinger is an Assistant Director at the Emory Office of Sustainability Initiative. An Atlanta native, Kelly joined Emory in 2012 as Sustainability Program Coordinator, and as the goals and programs of the office grew, was named Assistant Director in 2015. She conducts faculty and staff outreach and engagement and works with all of Emory's university and healthcare departments to improve operations, reduce environmental impact and create dialogue around sustainability issues. She works to green the supply chain across the University including ensuring sustainability is factored into supplier contracts and analyzes Emory'/s carbon footprint to implement strategies toward climate action goals.
Previously, Kelly spent two years working in transportation and sustainability with the Midtown Alliance in Atlanta. She earned a Master in Environmental Law and Policy from Vermont Law School in 2009 while working full-time as Assistant Director of Admissions for the Law School. She earned a bachelor of arts in environmental studies and anthropology from Connecticut College, and serves on The Lovett School Sustainability Advisory Board, the College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center Advisory Board, and the City Schools of Decatur Operations Advisory Committee.
This is a conversation about sustainability - what it means, why it is important, and how we can connect the health of the environment to the health of people. Kelly talks about various aspect of sustainability - including food and transportation - and the simple steps each of us can take to be respectful of the limited resources we have.
To learn more please visit: https://sustainability.emory.edu
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Brenda Davis, registered dietitian, is a leader in her field and an internationally acclaimed speaker. As a prolific nutrition and health writer, she has co-authored 11 books with over 800,000 copies in print in 14 languages. Her most recent works include Kick Diabetes Essentials (2019), The Kick Diabetes Cookbook (2018), Becoming Vegan: Comprehensive Edition (2014) and Becoming Vegan: Express Edition (2013). Brenda has been a featured speaker at medical and nutrition conferences in over 20 countries on 5 continents. She is also co-author of several peer reviewed journal articles. Brenda is the lead clinical nutrition specialist for the diabetes intervention project in the Marshall Islands, and recently completed a lifestyle intervention demonstration program in Lithuania. Brenda is a past chair of the Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
In the conversation Brenda explain physiological processes of diabetes, differentiates between different types, addresses common myths and misconceptions, and explains how our diet and lifestyle can not only prevent, but also arrest and often reverse Type II Diabetes. What is the best diet? Can you eat carbs? What about fruit? What is the role of fasting? Learn what the evidence has to say about all these questions and more!
To learn more about Brenda's work, please visit:
https://www.brendadavisrd.com
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Meagan L. Grega, MD, is the Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Kellyn Foundation (www.kellyn.org), a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice. Kellyn provides school-based healthy lifestyle education and “Garden as a Classroom” programs; supports access to nutrient-dense produce via the Eat Real Food Mobile Market and Lehigh Valley Corner Store Initiative; engages participants in hands-on, plant-based cooking classes in community settings and offers intensive therapeutic lifestyle change interventions for individuals and families. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Bucknell University with a B.S. in Biochemistry/Cell Biology and earned her MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School.
Dr. Grega spent several years as a medical officer in the United States Navy, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Commander before resigning from active duty service. She has been a staff Family Physician at Hunterdon Medical Center, the Director of Women's Health Services at Lafayette College and is currently the Managing Director of Llantrisant Retreat and Wellness Center (www.llantrisantretreat.com), the home of Kellyn Foundation. She is a member of the ACLM Speaker’s Bureau and frequently lectures on the topics of Lifestyle Medicine at colleges, universities, hospital Grand Rounds, medical residency programs and community forums. Mentoring residents, medical, dietician and nursing students is one of her passions. She is honored to serve as adjunct faculty for the St. Luke’s University Health Network Anderson Campus Family Medicine and Internal Medicine Residency programs and as a faculty advisor for the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University/SLUHN medical student Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group (LMIG). She has been a featured speaker at American College of Lifestyle Medicine Annual Conferences, is a member of the True Health Initiative Council of Directors and serves as a member of several national task force groups dedicated to the expansion of evidence-based lifestyle medicine services. Dr. Grega is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, a Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and is board certified in both Family Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine.
Child/Family health in general, and the obesity epidemic in particular, are issues in which Dr. Grega has had a long-standing interest. She believes the benefits of regular exercise, adequate sleep, supportive social connections, healthy food choices and the art of balance are the keys to improving our children’s future, as well as our own. Towards that end, she is committed to finding practical solutions that can be implemented by families and communities to strengthen each other physically, emotionally and spiritually.
To learn more, please visit:
Kellyn Website is www.kellyn.org
Kellyn FB is www.facebook.com/kellynfoundation
KellynTwitter: @kellynorg
Kellyn email is: info@kellyn.org
Information about the Lehigh Valley Lifestyle Medicine Symposium that will be held March 27-28, 2020 can be found at www.lvlifestylemedicine.org. Listeners of this show can get a 10% discount for the registration fee for the Symposium. To receive the discount please email info@kellyn.org to receive the promo code to be used during registration on the website.
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Dr. Bussey-Jones received her BS in Sociology and later her MD from Emory University. She has nationally recognized educational expertise in the areas of minority health, health equity, as well as patient and provider education. She has developed several program initiatives addressing health promotion and disease prevention for vulnerable populations. Dr. Bussey-Jones has also developed and directed curricula on cultural competence, disparities, and social determinants of health for students, residents, and faculty and was recognized with an Educational Innovation Award for this work. She has also chaired the National Disparities Education Task Force for the Society of General Internal Medicine organization and served as editor for a special issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine dedicated to disparities education. In this role, her leadership resulted in an award-winning national disparities course, web-based educational modules, and two national symposia on disparities at both the Society of General Internal Medicine and at the American Association of Medical Colleges.
How does our social-economic status effect the quality of healthcare we receive? In this conversation Dr. Bussey-Jones talks about social determinants of health and describes challenges with healthcare equality. Dr. Bussey-Jones also brings to our attention to the implicit biases present in healthcare professionals, which, when acknowledge and brought to surface, can be effectively eliminated. Tune in to learn more!
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Zach Bush MD is a physician specializing in internal medicine, endocrinology and hospice care. He is an internationally recognized educator on the microbiome as it relates to health, disease and our food production systems. Dr. Bush founded *Seraphic Group to develop root-cause solutions for human and ecological health and extend his passion for educating the world on topics such as the state of our soil - including the need to eradicate toxins such as glyphosate from our farming chain - and the importance of gut/brain communication as a vital part of our overall health/wellbeing.
Dr. Bush is a respected speaker and authority in the health and wellness space. He travels the world speaking to medical and farming communities as well as consumers who are interested in taking proactive control of their health.
In this conversation Dr. Bush discussed his career journey towards becoming a triple board-certified physician who studies microbiome, his discoveries around the influence of microbial environment of soil and gut, and the healing that is possible in right conditions.
To learn more, please visit:
ZachBushMD.com
Instagram/ZachBushMD
Facebook/ZachBushMD
Twitter/ZachBushMD
Youtube/ZachBushMD
FarmersFootprint.us
Instagram/farmersfootprint
Facebook/farmersfootprint
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Dr. William “Chance” Nicholson joined the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing as an assistant professor in August 2019. He received his PhD from the University of Alabama at Birmingham with a focus on neurophysiological correlations between the vagus nerves’ cholinergic pathways, psychiatric comorbidities (e.g., perceived stress, depression, and post-traumatic stress) and HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders. Dr. Nicholson's research interests and publications center on neurophysiological substrates that form the basis of cognitive-behavioral symptoms (e.g., anger, impulsivity, depression, suicidality) often observed in trauma-based disorders, in particular post-traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder.
In this conversation Dr. Nicholson explains the fascinating ways in which emotional states, like anger, stress or depression, effect our physiological state. What do flu and depression have in common? And how can understanding of those connections help us improve our overall well-being? Tune in to learn more!
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Jenny Bilko, MS, RDN, LD is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist at the Emory Executive Health Clinic, the Paul W. Seavey Comprehensive Internal Medicine Clinic, and the Emory Lifestyle Medicine and Wellness Center. She received a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Dietetics from the University of Georgia. She completed Dietetic Internship and received Master’s degree in Nutrition Science at University of Alabama at Birmingham. Jenny also has a Certificate in Training for Vegetarian Nutrition.
Jenny is passionate about nutrition for prevention and management of chronic disease through plant-based and Mediterranean diet. She provides education and counseling to patients for weight loss, heart health, diabetes, etc.
In this conversation Jenny answers the common nutrition questions she hears from her patients every day: What is the best diet? What is "healthy" bread? Does portion control work? What is calorie density? Are bananas good for me?... Jenny also addresses common myths and misconception about diet.
Jenny is a Registered Dietitian you see if you come to receive a Wellness Assessment at Emory Lifestyle Medicine & Wellness. To learn more or schedule your visit, please go to:
http://bit.ly/EmoryWellness
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Dr. Colin Zhu is a primary care physician who is Board-Certified in family practice and lifestyle medicine. Passionate about the intersection of medicine, food, and nutrition, Dr. Zhu trained as a chef and a health coach at the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health & Culinary Arts and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York City following completion of his medical degree.
In medical practice known as locum tenens, Dr. Zhu has spent the last four years in a series of contract physician roles that include time in Nevada, where he worked with a Native American population at a tribal-run outpatient clinic, a Veterans Affairs system in Louisiana and a county medicine department in Santa Cruz, California that runs its own homeless shelter. A fourth position found him at a community health clinic in Seattle with a diverse refugee population. Currently, he works in Los Angeles.
His traveling work has been featured in publications such as The DO, MedPage Today, and Stat News. To share his unique blend of medical knowledge with a wider audience, Dr. Zhu launched TheChefDoc website, an online wellness and lifestyle education platform which has been featured in Jarry Magazine, OWaves, and Brit + Co. Colin is also the author of "Thrive Medicine: How To Cultivate Your Desires and Elevate Your Life.“ A book on enhancing emotional wellness. Also is the podcast host of Thrive Bites which he interviews health and wellness experts from all over the world and distills concise insights for your community.
In this conversation Dr. Zhu shares his personal journey that led him to integrate medicine, food and nutrition. He talks about the power of lifestyle medicine and shares tips for living a life filled with meaning and joy.
To learn more, please visit:
Website: https://www.chefdoczhu.com/
Thrive Medicine the book: https://www.chefdoczhu.com/store
Thrive Bites Podcast: https://thrivebites.podbean.com/
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Maura George MD, FACP is an associate professor of medicine at Emory and a primary care internist at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. She completed her undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering at Princeton University, her medical degree at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and her internal medicine residency at Emory University. In addition to her clinical work at Grady, Dr. George is very involved in the School of Medicine, teaching medical students longitudinally as a small group advisor and as course director for several required and elective courses including Community Learning and Social Medicine (CLSM), an 18-month required course with community and classroom components. She runs the new Health Equity, Advocacy, and Policy (HEAP) Track through graduate medical education for residents and fellows. Her scholarly work focuses on curricular development regarding the social determinants of health, advocacy, and ethics. In addition, Dr. George serves as the co-chair of the Ethics Committee for Grady Memorial Hospital and a faculty fellow of the Emory Center for Ethics. She is a board member for Georgia Watch, a state-wide consumer advocacy organization, and the past chair of the Society for General Internal Medicine's national ethics committee. She has won awards for her teaching and service, including the Evangeline T. Papageorge Distinguished Teaching Award.
For more information please visit:
Social Determinants of Health:
https://www.kff.org/disparities-policy/issue-brief/beyond-health-care-the-role-of-social-determinants-in-promoting-health-and-health-equity/
"Ask Me 3":
http://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/Tools/Ask-Me-3-Good-Questions-for-Your-Good-Health.aspx
Teach back:
https://www.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/quality-resources/tools/literacy-toolkit/healthlittoolkit2-tool5.html
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Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized professional speaker on a number of important public health issues. Dr. Greger has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the International Bird Flu Summit, among countless other symposia and institutions; testified before Congress; has appeared on shows such as The Colbert Report and The Dr. Oz Show; and was invited as an expert witness in defense of Oprah Winfrey at the infamous "meat defamation" trial. In 2017, he was honored with the ACLM Lifestyle Medicine Trailblazer Award.
Dr. Greger's most recent scientific publications in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Critical Reviews in Microbiology, Family and Community Health, and the International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition, and Public Health explore the public health implications of industrialized animal agriculture.
Dr. Greger is also licensed as a general practitioner specializing in clinical nutrition and is a founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He was featured on the Healthy Living Channel promoting his latest nutrition DVDs and honored to teach part of Dr. T. Colin Campbell's esteemed nutrition course at Cornell University. Dr. Greger's nutrition work can be found at NutritionFacts.org, which is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit charity.
He is the author of Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching and Carbophobia: The Scary Truth Behind America's Low Carb Craze. Both of his latest books, How Not to Die and the How Not to Die Cookbook, became instant New York Times Best Sellers. Dr. Greger is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University School of Medicine.
In this conversation we talk through some of Dr. Greger's previous work and discuss his new book "How Not to Diet" that has released in December 2019. Every month seems to bring a trendy new diet or weight loss fad—and yet obesity rates continue to rise, and with it a growing number of diseases and health problems. In "How Not to Diet" Dr. Greger suggests a different approach. He dives deep in the science and lays out the key ingredients of the ideal weight-loss —factors such as calorie density, the insulin index, and the impact of foods on our gut microbiome—showing how plant-based eating is crucial to our success. Dr. Greger talks about the latest discoveries in cutting-edge areas like chronobiology to reveal the factors that maximize our natural fat-burning capabilities.
To learn more, please visit:
Website: https://nutritionfacts.org
Free Daily Dozen App: https://nutritionfacts.org/daily-dozen-challenge/
Podcast: https://nutritionfacts.org/audio/
How Not to Die Book: https://nutritionfacts.org/book/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/NutritionFactsOrg
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nutrition_facts
Free Downloadable Evidence-Based Eating Guide: https://nutritionfacts.org/healthkit/
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Dr. Salvatore Lacagnina is the System Medical Director of Wellness and Employee Health for Lee Health. In this role, his mission is to inspire, educate and empower people to improve their health and wellness. Dr. Sal, as he likes to be called, is one of Lee Health’s champions responsible for developing a comprehensive health, wellness and preventive care program for more than 19,000 employees and family members.
He is the Medical Director for the LH Employee Health clinics and the Medical Director for the Healthy Life Centers in Cape Coral, Ft. Myers and Babcock Ranch, Florida.
From 1994-2010 he practiced Internal Medicine with the Lee Physician Group and served as its Medical Director until 2010 before taking on his role as System Medical Director of Wellness and Employee Health. His emphasis is on the prevention and reversal of cardio metabolic diseases, diabetes, weight management, cancer risk factor reduction and overall lifestyle medicine.
Dr. Sal earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine and he is Board Certified in Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine and is a Diplomat of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.
Dr. Sal writes a weekly column about health and wellness in The News-Press and a monthly column for the Cape Coral Chamber of Commerce Trends publication. He also speaks publically throughout the community.
In this episode Dr. Sal talks about American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) and reflects on the recent ACLM conference, that he and Dr. Bergquist - the podcast's host - both attended.
Founded in 2004, the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) is the medical professional society for physicians and other professionals dedicated to clinical and worksite practice of Lifestyle Medicine as the foundation of a transformed and sustainable health care system. Practice involves the use of evidence-based therapeutic approaches, such as eating a predominantly whole food, plant-based diet, getting regular physical activity, adequate sleep, managing stress, avoiding use of risky substances and pursuing other non-drug modalities, to treat, reverse, and prevent chronic disease. ACLM educates, equips, empowers and supports its members as they provide evidence-based Lifestyle Medicine as the first treatment option in clinical practice and worksite settings through live and online CME-accredited events and educational offerings, certification, clinical practice tools, patient education resources, economic research, networking opportunities and advocacy efforts. Today, ACLM has more than 3,000 members—and growing—across the world on every continent with 14 international Lifestyle Medicine organizations represented by ACLM’s Lifestyle Medicine Global Alliance. Lifestyle Medicine is one of the fastest growing career fields of medicine globally and holds the promise for true health reform as it addresses the root-cause of chronic illness. Board certification is now available through ACLM’s certification partner, The American Board of Lifestyle Medicine.
To learn more, please visit:
https://www.lifestylemedicine.org
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Michael A. Klaper, M.D. Dr. Michael Klaper is a gifted clinician, internationally-recognized teacher, and sought-after speaker on diet and health. In addition to his clinical practice and private consultations with patients, he is a passionate and devoted educator of physicians and other healthcare professionals about the importance of nutrition in clinical practice and integrative medicine.
Dr. Klaper is the author of Vegan Nutrition; Pure & Simple (no longer in print) and has produced numerous health videos, webinars and dozens of articles for both scientific journals and the popular press. As a source of inspiration advocating plant-based diets and the end of animal cruelty worldwide, Dr. Klaper contributed to the making of two PBS television programs, Food for Thought and the award-winning movie, Diet for a New America (based on the book of the same name). Dr. Klaper teaches that “Health Comes From Healthy Living” and he is dedicated to the healing and flourishing of all living beings and our planet.
“Health is having a body that moves without pain, breathes without distress and allows us to perform the activities of life with complete presence and focused energy. Then, we can love fully and enjoy our lives to the fullest.”
Dr. Michael Klaper graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 1972. He served a medical internship at Vancouver General Hospital in British Columbia, Canada and received training in surgery, anesthesiology and orthopedics at the University of British Columbia Hospital in Vancouver. Additionally, he was trained in obstetrics at the University of California Hospital, San Francisco.
As his medical career progressed, Dr. Klaper began to realize (true to what science is bearing out today) that many of the diseases his patients presented – clogged arteries (atherosclerosis), high blood pressure (hypertension), obesity, adult-onset diabetes and even some forms of arthritis, asthma, and other significant illnesses – were made worse or actually caused by the high sugar, high fat, high salt, overly processed, animal product-based, Standard American Diet (S.A.D.).
Dr. Klaper served as Director of the Institute of Nutrition Education and Research from 1992 through 2015, where he conducted a study that focused on people who ate a completely plant-based or vegan diet.
Dr. Klaper practiced acute care medicine in New Zealand for three years and from 2009 through 2018, served on staff at the TrueNorth Health Center, North America’s premier nutritionally-based medical clinic that specializes in therapeutic fasting and health improvement through a whole food, plant-based diet.
A member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, Dr. Klaper was a member of the American Medical Student Association’s Nutrition Task Force and currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Plantrician Project and the "International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention."
For over 10 years, Dr. Klaper hosted a popular medical information radio program “Sounds of Healing” on WPFW in Washington, DC and KAOI on Maui, Hawaii.
In the episode DR. Klaper shares his story and talks about his current project - Moving Medicine Forward, a Dr. Klaper and PlantPure Communities Medical School Nutrition Education Initiative, that is on the mission to change the way future doctors treat their patients, with the hope to improve the health of future generation.
This Initiative is created through partnership with PlantPure Communities (PPC), the 501c3 nonprofit organization founded by Nelson Campbell, son of Dr. T. Colin Campbell author of The China Study. PPC is providing administrative, organizational and strategic support to make these efforts even more effective.
To learn more, please visit:
https://www.doctorklaper.com/moving-medicine-forward
Please follow Dr. Klaper on social media:
FB: https://www.facebook.com/michaelklapermd/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/doctorklaper/?hl=en
Trinita Ervin is the Founder and CEO of Ladybug for GirlsTM a health and wellness social enterprise. Ladybug for Girls is a youth development program designed to encourage young girls to be healthier where the live, learn, and play.
Since launching her non-profit in 2008, the Ladybug for GirlsTM Foundation has served thousands of young girls and their families in metro Atlanta through their after-school programs, community workshops and through the installation of school gardens. The foundation mission is to empower elementary school girls with the tools to feel beautiful from the inside out. They achieve this by encouraging healthier lifestyles, building their self-confidence, strengthening their social awareness, and advocating for healthier environments locally and globally.
Through its ‘Global Girls Health’ campaign, the foundation also supports girls from the refugee community in the Clarkston area, adolescent girl’s health programming in the rural areas of Tamil Nadu, India and they’ve chartered their first international Ladybug for Girls Club in Liberia, Africa. The Ladybug for Girls Foundation, Inc. has also partnered with Emory University’s School of Medicine and Emory Rollins School of Public Health to provide students with applied public health experiences.
Trinita is a respected community leader with an extensive professional career in healthcare and health and wellness advocacy. She has served on the Board of Trustees for Leadership Sandy Springs and as Vice Chair for the Regional Board of Directors for the American Red Cross. She has served on the Board of Directors and as Health Chair for the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, MAC. She has furthered her leadership outreach by serving as an EPIC trainer for the American Academy of Pediatrics, serving on the Farm-to-School Advisory Council for Georgia Organics, as an Ambassador for Slow Food Atlanta and as a member of Georgia Shape, the Governor’s statewide initiative to address childhood obesity in Georgia. She recently received the 2018 Woman of Distinction award from the Sandy Springs Perimeter Chamber of Commerce for exceptional leadership for her professional endeavors, community involvement and sense of social responsibility.
Globally, Trinita is an Ambassador for EcoFemme a global women’s empowerment initiative in India, she’s a member of WASH United a water, sanitation and hygiene advocacy organization serving South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, and she is a member of the World Affairs Council of Atlanta. She is an active member of the American Red Cross Tiffany Circle Women Philanthropist, a member of Junior League of Atlanta, and a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
Trinita is a graduate of Spelman College and Georgia State University. She received her Health Coach certification from Emory University. She is certified in nutrition and dietary theory from the State University of New York and studied Child Nutrition, as well as, International Women’s Health and Human Rights at Stanford University.
To learn more please visit:
Website: https://ladybugforgirls.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LadybugForGirlsFoundation/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ladybugforgirls
IG: https://www.instagram.com/ladybugforgirls/
Linda Grabbe, PhD, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner and Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Her clinical expertise is in primary care and mental health care for homeless or incarcerated women and youth, providing Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills training and Community Resilience Model (CRM) training in group settings.
Her interests include the neurobiology of trauma and resilience, social justice, and social determinants of mental health. Dr. Grabbe is a healthcare provider with Community Advanced Practice Nurses, a small non-profit organization that operates a network of clinics in Atlanta homeless shelters for women, children, and youth.
Dr. Grabbe’s research has been with women and youth at risk for mental illness, homelessness, and substance abuse. Her current research includes measuring the impact of Community Resiliency Model training on wellbeing and the emotional state of women in substance abuse treatment, as well as on wellbeing, resiliency, burnout, and effects of secondary traumatic stress in clinical pharmacists, nurses, first responders, medical and nursing staff, and nursing students.
In this conversation we discuss the origins of Community Resiliency Model (CRM) and the the power it has to quickly reduce impact of stress and trauma and equip an individual to deal with future stress factors expanding their resiliency zone. We talk about key components of CRM, such as tracking, grounding and resourcing. Tune in to learn more!
Community Resiliency Model and Trauma-Informed Care Resources:
CRM training: Trauma Resource Institute http://traumaresourceinstitute.com/ Atlanta training March 9-13, 2020
Free CRM app: ichill or www.ichillapp.com
Miller-Karas, E. (2015). Building resilience to trauma: The trauma and community resiliency models. New York: Routledge Press.
Van der Kolk, B. (2014). The body keeps the score: Brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma. New York: Penguin Publishing Group. Or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEjnGsLN-0
Brain-hand model: Dan Siegel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm9CIJ74Oxw
ACE study: www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy
Listen to Nadine Burke Harris on ACEs!! https://www.ted.com/talks/nadine_burke_harris_how_childhood_trauma_affects_health_across_a_lifetime; also Ted Talk by Atlanta’s Dr. Stan Sonu
Movie: Resilience (watch the 2 minute trailer) https://vimeo.com/137282528
Background articles
Grabbe, L. & Miller-Karas, E. (2018). The Trauma Resiliency Model: A “Bottom-up” intervention for trauma psychotherapy. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 24(1): 76-84. doi: 10.1177/1078390317745133.
Grabbe, L., Ball, J., Hall, J. (2016). Girlhood Betrayals of Women Survivors of Childhood Trauma in Treatment for Addiction. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 48(3), 232-243. doi: 10.1111/jnu.12202
Contact lgrabbe@emory.edu for a list of Atlanta body-based psychotherapists
Audrey Gaskins is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Dr. Gaskins earned her doctoral degree in nutrition and epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2014. This training was preceded by a two-year fellowship in the Department of Epidemiology at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and a Bachelor’s of Science degree in engineering from Duke University in 2008.
Dr. Gaskins’s research is aimed at elucidating how environmental, dietary, and lifestyle factors experienced throughout the life course influence a couple’s ability to conceive and maintain a healthy pregnancy to term. Over the past decade, she has published over 100 articles on how diet and lifestyle factors affect semen quality, menstrual cycle function, time to pregnancy, miscarriage, and outcomes of assisted reproduction using a variety of population based studies. Her research has been cited over 1,500 times and resulted in numerous awards including multiple NIEHS Top 10 Extramural Science Papers of the Year and the Best New Researcher Award from the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology. In April 2017, Dr. Gaskins received a prestigious 5-year career development award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to further her research on how exposure to environmental chemicals such as air pollution interact with dietary factors to influence a couple’s fertility.
In addition to her research endeavors, Dr. Gaskins teaches courses ranging from research methods to nutrition and health and devotes a significant amount of time to mentoring students and fellows at Emory and Emory-affiliated hospitals. She is the current chair of the Nutrition Special Interest Group of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and on the editorial board for Fertility & Sterility, one of the leading academic journals of reproductive medicine.
What does the research say about the recent rise in infertility? What are the dietary and environmental factors contributing to fertility and healthy pregnancy? Dr. Gaskins answers these and many other questions in this interview. Tune in to learn more!
Dr. Gaskins profile:
https://sph.emory.edu/faculty/profile/index.php?FID=10025
Recent papers by Dr. Gaskins:
Gaskins AJ, Chavarro JE. Diet and fertility: a review. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2018 Apr;218(4):379-389
Gaskins AJ, Nassan FL, Chiu YH, Arvizu M, Williams PL, Keller MG, Souter I, Hauser R, Chavarro JE; EARTH Study Team. Dietary patterns and outcomes of assisted reproduction. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2019 Jun;220(6):567
Twitter: @audreyjane4
Stacie Renee Schmidt, MD is a health services researcher and clinical educator at Emory University School of Medicine, working in the urban public hospital setting of Atlanta, GA. Her work focuses on understanding disparities and improving the health and healthcare of patients. For nearly a decade, Dr. Schmidt has worked to identify and address social determinants of health affecting ambulatory patients in the primary care setting, particularly enhancing patient self-efficacy around self-management of disease through the adoption of healthy behaviors and by addressing food insecurity.
In this conversation, Dr. Schmidt shares her experience addressing food insecurity and diet-related illnesses by embedding a free fruit and vegetable prescription (FVRx) program within Group Classes offered to patients with diet-related illnesses. Her work was implemented in collaboration with community partners including Georgia Wholesome Wave, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Project Open Hand.
To learn more about various partners mentioned above, please visit:
https://www.wholesomewavegeorgia.org
https://openhandatlanta.org
Kip Slaughter Hardy, MS, RD, LD is a present manager of Food & Nutrition Projects & Performance Improvement at Emory University Hospital.
With her combined passion for sustainable food systems and her leadership experience in high volume food service in high acuity hospitals, Kip is uniquely positioned to facilitate a shift in healthcare food service to a system that is at once nourishing, delicious, affordable and sustainable.
Kip is a part of a number f professional organizations, such as Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics, Hunger & Environmental Nutrition Practice Group, Greater Atlanta Dietetic Association, Georgia Organics and Slow Food USA. She has been a part of various publications, presentation and workshops on the topics of food sustainability, healing attributes of food and strategies for introducing healthier menu options.
In this conversation Kip talks about recent trends in food service in large institutions, such as healthcare systems and higher education, the keys and challenges of shifting health and wellness culture and introducing change, and shares her experience from the recent projects that she has been working on. Finally, Kip lets us in on some of her favorite secrets of food planning and feeding her family, including her kids, and simple steps for those just getting started on their home-cooking journey. Tune in to learn more!
Timothy Harrison is the Associate Director for CBCT® at Emory University's Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics. While Tim has a master's degree in architecture from Harvard University, he decided in 2014 to dedicate himself full time to teaching and sharing the benefits of CBCT. He oversees the CBCT program, including multiple research initiatives and the rigorous teacher certification process. Tim regularly teaches CBCT nationally and internationally in academic institutions and healthcare settings, and he advises on the tailoring of CBCT for research with populations that have specific circumstances including cancer survivors, veterans with PTSD, HIV+ patients, and Emory medical students. He also enjoys offering CBCT through outreach programs such as in prisons and foster care homes, and to teachers in the Atlanta Public School system.
In this conversation, Tim talks about burnout, the reasons for it, its definition, and three main indicators that someone may be experiencing burnout. Most importantly, he discusses the way to counter it through self-reflection. We get into the science behind CBCT, discuss different kinds of empathy, and examine the latest research around compassion and kindness. Tune in to learn more.
Please visit the following links for more information:
Emory Compassion Center - https://compassion.emory.edu/index.html
CBCT Program Overview - https://compassion.emory.edu/cbct-compassion-training/index.html
Upcoming CBCT Public Offerings - https://compassion.emory.edu/cbct-compassion-training/cbct-courses/public.html
Dr. Rani Polak is the founding director of both the Culinary Healthcare Education Fundamentals (CHEF) Coaching program at the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, and the Center of Lifestyle Medicine at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel; as well as an Assistant Professors, Part Time, at the Department of PM & R, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Polak’s focus, along with clinical care, is on clinical and translational research relating to the Culinary Coaching method which combine culinary training with health coaching principles. Dr. Polak is the PI of the Culinary CoRe (Culinary Coaching Research) group which aimed at expanding the culinary coaching as an effective, scalable telemedicine method to improve nutrition; and a course director of a medical education program at Harvard Medical School that disseminate culinary coaching to hundreds clinician worldwide. Dr. Polak work has been featured in many media outlets including Scientific American, Herald Tribute, US News and World Reports and USA Today.
In this conversation Dr. Polak explains what is culinary medicine, its key components, and why it is an integral part of empowering patients to live a healthier lifestyle. Dr. Polak also talks about culinary coaching and shares innovative ways to deploy education and build skills. Tune in to learn more!
To learn more please visit:
Website: https://www.instituteoflifestylemedicine.org/?page_id=890
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RaniPolakMD
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CHEFCoaching/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rani-polak-md-mba-chef-22578744/
Robert Chapman is a wellness program manager for Emory Blomeyer Fitness Center / Health Fitness Corporation. He is also the assistant athletic director for the city of Snellville, GA Park and Recreation department, and a research coordinator for Emory University School of Public Health and American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM).
Before this, Robert was the lead manager at the DeKalb Medical Wellness Center, in charge of assisting the Wellness Center to become the first certified medical fitness center in the state of Georgia.
Working with the city of Snellville park and recreation department Robert had the opportunity to work with all age groups through different mediums of wellness and fitness programing.
Robert has a bachelors of Science degree in exercise science from Georgia State University, and an MBA with a concentration in Human Resource Management from Louisiana State University.
He loves spending time with his wife and 2 year old son. Robert loves to cycle, run, and exercise as often as possible.
In this episode Robert talks about improve human performance, including the “why” behind fitness, functional fitness and connecting fitness to your purpose, fitness communities and how they differ and how to select the right trainer. Tune in to learn more!
Susan Nathan, MD is a Geriatrician and Hospice and Palliative Medicine physician at VA Boston Healthcare System. She is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an adjunct Instructor in Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. She is the site director for the My Life, My Story Project at VA Boston. She is interested in the role of patient story in healthcare as well as education around serious illness communication.
This is a conversation about "My Life, My Story", a program that was started to help VA health care providers better understand their patients and provide them with insights and information that might not otherwise manifest through single visits. If the Veteran chooses to participate in the program, their story becomes part of their medical record. The effect this program had and continues to have on veterans and healthcare providers is truly remarkable.
To learn more, please visit:
https://www.va.gov/HEALTHCAREEXCELLENCE/news-room/newsletter/spotlight-on-excellence/2018/special/my-life-my-story.asp
Here is a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpzgVlExS20
Sandi Goldring specializes in helping people who are limited by pain, injury, and disability get back to their active lives. Sandi believes that the no matter what’s going wrong with your physical performance, you can learn how to move better and more comfortably so that you can function optimally.
In his clinic and online classes, Sandi uses the Feldenkrais Method as a non-medical, integrative approach to helping people bounce back from injury and feel well. Many of his clients have already have tried “everything” else, without the success they ultimately find with Feldenkrais.
After working as a massage therapist in a physical therapy clinic, Sandi went on to earn a Master’s degree in physical therapy from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. While in PT school, he discovered the full healing potential of Feldenkrais, first by getting help with his own injury, and subsequently observing a stroke patient’s astonishing improvement. By the time he graduated, he had already been accepted in a four-year professional Feldenkrais training.
Over the past twenty-five years, Sandi has worked across all age groups with many different conditions that interfere with living fully. He is devoted not only to showing people how to recover from disability and injury, but also how to prevent the same problems from recurring.
In 2005, he founded Advanced Movement Training, located in Sandy Springs, GA, where he helps people make rapid, lasting change and achieve their full potential.
In this conversation Sandi explains the history and science of Feldenkrais method, shares transformational stories from his clients and even leads a short demo to give listeners a sense of what it possible!
To learn more please visit:
https://advancedmovementtraining.com
Dr. Stancic is a board certified physician and the founder of Stancic Health and Wellness, LLC where she practices Lifestyle Medicine.
She received her M.D. degree from New Jersey Medical School in 1993. Dr. Stancic completed an Internal Medicine residency and served an additional year as Chief Medical resident at University Hospital in Newark, NJ. In response to witnessing the height of the catastrophic HIV epidemic while in medical school in Newark, she became very interested in the field of Infectious Diseases. She wanted to be part of the solution to the AIDS health care crisis, and went on to complete a fellowship in Infectious Diseases.
From 1999 to 2006, she served as Chief of Infectious Diseases at the Hudson Valley Veterans Administration Hospital in New York. During those years she treated hundreds of patients with viral hepatitis and HIV as well as other infectious diseases with a multidisciplinary approach to support her patients’ overall well-being.
Beyond her responsibilities as an Infectious Disease physician, researcher, and Chief of Infection Control, she directed the MOVE program, a federal VA initiative to encourage healthy lifestyles in veterans.
She later joined the viral hepatology team at Roche and conducted clinical studies for new, more efficacious treatments for hepatitis infections. During these research years, she continued to see patients at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital in New York City. She has authored several research papers in peer-reviewed medical journals.
In 1995, as a third year medical resident, Dr. Stancic was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. This unforeseen health challenge changed the course of her life, both professionally and personally.
In this interview Dr. Stancic shares her remarkable story of overcoming MS and running a marathon, despite the predictions of the doctors and against their best advice. She did it with plant-based diet. This change and the recovery that followed has laid the foundation for the work that Dr. Stancic does today.
To learn more please visit:
https://drstancic.com/about-dr-stancic
https://drstancic.com/personal-journey
https://www.forksoverknives.com/my-journey-from-doctor-to-ms-patient-and-back-thanks-to-plant-based-eating/#gs.8azb52
This is a part 2 of our conversation with Dr. William H. Foege.
William H. Foege, MD, MPH is the Emeritus Presidential Distinguished Professor of International Health at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University and the Gates Fellow at The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is an epidemiologist who worked in the successful campaign to eradicate smallpox in the 1970s. Dr. Foege became Chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Smallpox Eradication Program, and was appointed director of CDC in 1977.
In 1984, Foege and several colleagues formed the Task Force for Child Survival and Development, a working group for the World Health Organization, UNICEF, The World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Its success in accelerating childhood immunization led to an expansion of its mandate in 1991 to include other issues that diminish the quality of life for children.
Dr. Foege joined The Carter Center in 1986 as its Executive Director, Fellow for Health Policy and Executive Director of Global 2000. In 1992, he resigned as Executive Director of The Carter Center, but continued in his role as a Fellow and as Executive Director of the Task Force for Child Survival and Development. In 1997, he joined the faculty of Emory University, where he is Presidential Distinguished Professor of International Health at the Rollins School of Public Health. In 1999, Dr. Foege became a Senior Medical Advisor for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In 1999, Dr. Foege resigned as Executive Director of the Task Force for Child Survival and Development, and in 2001, he retired from both Emory University and the Gates Foundation. However, he remains active in both organizations as Emeritus Presidential Distinguished Professor of International Health and as a Gates Fellow.
Dr. Foege has championed many issues, but child survival and development, injury prevention, population, preventive medicine, and public health leadership are of special interest, particularly in the developing world. He is a strong proponent of disease eradication and control, and has taken an active role in the eradication of guinea worm, polio and measles, and the elimination of river blindness. By writing and lecturing extensively, Dr. Foege has succeeded in broadening public awareness of these issues and bringing them to the forefront of domestic and international health policies.
Dr. Foege is the recipient of many awards, holds honorary degrees from numerous institutions, and was named a Fellow of the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 1997. He is the author of more than 125 professional publications. He attended Pacific Lutheran University, received his medical degree from the University of Washington, and his Master of Public Health from Harvard University.
In this conversation Dr. Foege shares his philosophy of public health todays based on decades of his rich, diverse and all-encompassing experience. He talks about challenges, domestically and internationally, of structure, reimbursement and ethics of public health, as well as his personal experience working in many internationally renowned public health organizations he was and is a part of.
William H. Foege, MD, MPH is the Emeritus Presidential Distinguished Professor of International Health at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University and the Gates Fellow at The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is an epidemiologist who worked in the successful campaign to eradicate smallpox in the 1970s. Dr. Foege became Chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Smallpox Eradication Program, and was appointed director of CDC in 1977.
In 1984, Foege and several colleagues formed the Task Force for Child Survival and Development, a working group for the World Health Organization, UNICEF, The World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Its success in accelerating childhood immunization led to an expansion of its mandate in 1991 to include other issues that diminish the quality of life for children.
Dr. Foege joined The Carter Center in 1986 as its Executive Director, Fellow for Health Policy and Executive Director of Global 2000. In 1992, he resigned as Executive Director of The Carter Center, but continued in his role as a Fellow and as Executive Director of the Task Force for Child Survival and Development. In 1997, he joined the faculty of Emory University, where he is Presidential Distinguished Professor of International Health at the Rollins School of Public Health. In 1999, Dr. Foege became a Senior Medical Advisor for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In 1999, Dr. Foege resigned as Executive Director of the Task Force for Child Survival and Development, and in 2001, he retired from both Emory University and the Gates Foundation. However, he remains active in both organizations as Emeritus Presidential Distinguished Professor of International Health and as a Gates Fellow.
Dr. Foege has championed many issues, but child survival and development, injury prevention, population, preventive medicine, and public health leadership are of special interest, particularly in the developing world. He is a strong proponent of disease eradication and control, and has taken an active role in the eradication of guinea worm, polio and measles, and the elimination of river blindness. By writing and lecturing extensively, Dr. Foege has succeeded in broadening public awareness of these issues and bringing them to the forefront of domestic and international health policies.
Dr. Foege is the recipient of many awards, holds honorary degrees from numerous institutions, and was named a Fellow of the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 1997. He is the author of more than 125 professional publications. He attended Pacific Lutheran University, received his medical degree from the University of Washington, and his Master of Public Health from Harvard University.
In this conversation Dr. Foege shares his philosophy of public health todays based on decades of his rich, diverse and all-encompassing experience. He talks about challenges, domestically and internationally, of structure, reimbursement and ethics of public health, as well as his personal experience working in many internationally renowned public health organizations he was and is a part of. This is part 1 of a 2-part conversation that we will continue next week.
Daniel Parson is in his twenty-first season of organic growing. He started in 1998 at wildflower organics in Dawsonville, GA, where he worked four years. Next, he managed the Clemson University student organic farm for two years, and operated Gaia Gardens in Decatur, GA for five. In 2009, he started a new venture, Parson Produce, supplying a CSA, local restaurants, and farmers markets in Clinton, SC. In 2014, Daniel moved to Oxford, GA to start a campus farm for Oxford College of Emory University, producing food for the dining hall, CSA, and Emory Farmers Market while serving as a resource for student education and research.
Daniel has two degrees from Clemson, a BS in Biological Sciences and an MS in Plant and Environmental Science, focusing on cover crops and organic systems. In addition to growing produce, Daniel has presented workshops on various organic topics to many state and regional groups, including the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association, Southern SAWG and Georgia Organics. Daniel received the 2009 Georgia Organics Land Steward of the Year Award and in 2008 was listed on Mother Nature Network’s 40 farmers under 40. Also, he served on the Georgia Organics board from 2006-2008 and the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association board from 2012-2014.
To learn more please visit:
http://oxford.emory.edu/offices-and-services/organic-farm.html
https://www.facebook.com/oxfordcollegefarm
David Goldman, MS, RD, CSCS, CPT is the Chief Science Advisor to The Game Changers. He has a dual Ivy League graduate degree in physiology and nutrition and helped build Facebook HQ's nutrition program from scratch. David has years of experience as a dietitian and strength and conditioning specialist that spans from obesity research to coaching Olympic athletes and celebrities.
David talks about the evidence-based nutrition science for optimal athletic performance, addresses some of the myths and common beliefs, and shares what he learned from his research and the stories of the athletes that he works with personally.
The paper referenced:
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/11/1/130/htm
To learn more about The Game Changers movie, please visit: https://gamechangersmovie.com
To purchase tickets: https://www.fathomevents.com/events/the-game-changers
To follow on social media:
instagram.com/gamechangersmovie
facebook.com/gamechangersmovie
twitter.com/gcmovie
If you plan to be in Atlanta on September 16th, please join us for a celebratory gathering before the movie screening at Cafe Sunflower:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-game-changers-social-tickets-67898481185?aff=WHC
James Wilks is the producer of "The Game Changers" film, and a mixed martial artist best known for winning Season 9 of The Ultimate Fighter. He also serves a combatives trainer for government agencies including the US Marshals, US Marines, US Army Rangers and US Navy SEALs.
In this conversation James talks about "The Game Changers" - a new film produced by James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jackie Chan that documents the explosive rise of plant-based eating in professional sports, mixing real-time, groundbreaking science with cinematic stories of struggle and triumph. The film features some of the strongest, fastest and toughest athletes on the planet — and it’s backed by them too — with additional EPs including Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton, top-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic, and nine-time NBA All-Star Chris Paul. Directed by Oscar®-winner Louie Psihoyos, "The Game Changers" follows the story of James Wilks — elite Special Forces trainer and winner of The Ultimate Fighter — as he travels the world on a quest for the truth about meat, protein, and strength. Showcasing elite athletes, special ops soldiers, and visionary scientists. Wilks’ journey exposes outdated myths about food that not only affect human performance, but the health of the entire global population.
To learn more, please visit: https://gamechangersmovie.com
To purchase tickets: https://www.fathomevents.com/events/the-game-changers
To follow on social media:
instagram.com/gamechangersmovie
facebook.com/gamechangersmovie
twitter.com/gcmovie
If you plan to be in Atlanta on September 16th, please join us for a celebratory gathering before the movie screening at Cafe Sunflower:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-game-changers-social-tickets-67898481185?aff=WHC
Rebecca Portman is a Food and Nutrition Specialist with Forward Food, a Program of The Humane Society of the United States, and partners with institutions looking to increase more plant-strong menu options into their programs. Many K-12 schools, universities, hospitals, the military, detention centers, and the like, have a great interest in bringing more fruits, vegetables, and plant-based proteins to the center of the plate. Rebecca and her team of chefs and dietitians offers a variety of free tools and resources to assist programs implement sustainable, customized plant-strong programs for each individual institution, including hands-on culinary training and education.
Connect with Rebecca:
Email: rportman@humanesociety.org
Website: https://forwardfood.org
Newsletter: https://www.subscribepage.com/s5h1i0
Valter Longo is the director of the Longevity Institute at USC in Los Angeles, and of the Program on Longevity and Cancer at IFOM (Molecular Oncology FIRC Institute) in Milan. His studies focus on the fundamental mechanisms of aging in simple organisms and mice and on how they can be translated to humans. Dr. Longo received the 2010 Nathan Shock Lecture Award from the National Institute on Aging (NIA/NIH) and the 2013 Vincent Cristofalo "Rising Star" Award in Aging Research from the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR).
Dr. Longo is an author of "The Longevity Diet: Discover the New Science Behind Stem Cell Activation and Regeneration to Slow Aging, Fight Disease, and Optimize Weight".
In this conversation Dr. Longo discusses main take-aways from his 25 years of research and how it applies to aging, nutrition, and disease across the globe. He talks about the role of fasting, various kinds of it and how it effects our bodies on physiological level. Dr. Longo also introduces the term "fasting-mimicking diet", or FMD and explains its role in creating longe-term health and facilitating healing. Tune in to learn more!
For more resources, please visit:
https://valterlongo.com
https://prolonfmd.com/
Jonathan Bonnet is a board-certified Sports, Obesity, and Lifestyle Medicine physician. He is a team physician at Emory University and is passionate about optimizing health, improving performance, and promoting longevity. Jonathan has a background in exercise physiology and is also a certified personal trainer. He completed his undergraduate and medical school studies at Ohio State University before getting his master’s degree from Harvard University. He completed finishing his Family Medicine residency at Duke University, and his Sports Medicine Fellowship at the University of Florida.
Jonathan served on the board of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine from 2014-2016 and is currently on the editorial board of the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. He has published research in sleep medicine, nutrition, sports and exercise, obesity, and behavior change.
Jonathan is a co-creater of "The Lifestyle Medicine Handbook: An Introduction to the Power of Healthy Habits" and worked closely with Dr. Beth Frates who you may remember from Episode 26. In this episode he talks about pillars of lifestyle medicine and tools to create health long term. He shares his perspective on setting priorities, navigating busy lifestyle, and the implications of saying "yes" or "no" to things.
To connect with Dr. Bonnet please visit:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanbonnetmd/
Email: jonathan.p.bonnet@emory.edu
Helpful Resources/References:
American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM): https://www.lifestylemedicine.org/
"The Lifestyle Medicine Handbook: An Introduction to the Power of Healthy Habits": https://www.amazon.com/Lifestyle-Medicine-Handbook-Introduction-Healthy/dp/1606794132
ACLM Fitness Medicine and Rehab Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/116180372367990/permalink/352851805367511/
David Foster Wallace, “This is Water”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC7xzavzEKY
David Zahariades, The Art of Saying No”: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Saying-NO-Reclaim-Granted-ebook/dp/B074LZG7KS
Matthew Walker: Why We Sleep Part 1 (of 3): https://peterattiamd.com/matthewwalker1/
Peter Attia Podcast: The Drive: https://peterattiamd.com/podcast/
The Daily Stoic Email: https://app.convertkit.com/landing_pages/284508?v=6
Waking Up App: https://wakingup.com/
Hanni Berger is the founder & CEO of JOYVIAL giving you access to a network of trained and experienced health coaches who help the athletes of the business world (i.e. Executives) stay on their A-Game.
Hanni greatly values that a person’s well-being is dependent on many lifestyle choices but is most passionate about the topic of stress and the impact it has on our bodies. With 20 years of international corporate experience in high pressure roles and a number of challenges in her personal life, Hanni experienced firsthand the destruction stress had on her own health.
She studied at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and is an avid student of the work of Dr. Bruce Lipton and Dr. Joe Dispenza. As a keynote speaker, Hanni today shares how stress impacts every part of our physical and emotional wellbeing and offers solutions that allow her audience to thrive in all areas of their lives.
In this conversation Hanni shares her personal journey and what inspired her to leave a career of a successful executive and dedicate her life to helping others address stress and find more joy in their life. Hanni talks about how our body responds to stress, different technics that can help affectively process or prevent negative consequences of stress, and what does it look like on a practical level. She talks about the science of stress and inflammation and their effect on every physiological process in our body, including our genes. Tune in to learn more!
To learn more about Hanni's work please visit:
https://www.joyvial.com
Speaker Website: http://www.hanniberger.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joyvial
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/joyvial
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joyvialhealthcoaches/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9yZCc2VP21YlnYKnvgxd0Q
Free booklet to learn 14 proven ways to relieve stress and anxiety naturally: https://www.joyvial.com/reducestress
Find out your level of inflammation in the body by doing this non-invasive, pain-free test: https://www.joyvial.com/yourscore
Laurie Marbas, MD, MBA is double board certified family medicine and lifestyle medicine physician utilizing food as medicine since 2012. She worked with Dr. Joel Fuhrman creating a new medical model combining the power of nutrient-dense foods and intensive clinical psychological therapy to treat not only food addiction but chronic disease. She currently is the Managing Editor for the Plantrician Project’s International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention and works closely with the journal’s Editor in Chief, Dr. Kim Williams. The journal is focused on plant-based research and bringing this important work to the forefront of modern medicine and the general public.
In Colorado, she convinced a large hospital to create a lifestyle medicine program centered around a whole-foods, plant-based diet and showed resounding success. At another hospital, she conducted a one-month study of 26 employees on a plant-based diet. All employees were fed from the hospital’s kitchen and each individual had improvement in their health. She has spoken at the Golden VegFest in Colorado, the International Plant-based Nutrition Healthcare Conference, and other venues teaching about the value of the WFPB diet.
She received her dual degrees (MD and MBA) from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine and TTU School of Business. Laurie was awarded the Texas Tech University School of Medicine Gold Headed Cane Award, a symbol for excellence in the art of medicine and the care of patients. She wrote seven books while in medical school, six of which were in a series called “Visual Mnemonics”. These books used cartoons to help memorize vast amounts of information, which helped her when she was a mom attending medical school. She is a USAF veteran having served in the Middle East and South America. She is a wife, mom of three grown children, host of the Healthy Human Revolution podcast, author, speaker and an avid runner.
In this episode Dr. Marbas talks about starting the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention. What was the reason and motivation for the journal? Why is it important for public to have open access to the primary source of information? What are the challenges? What are the goals and the vision?
Dr. Marbas is also co-founder of Healthy Human Revolution whose mission is to provide the resources that will empower individuals with the knowledge, tools and mindset to successfully adopt and sustain a whole food plant based diet. Tune in to learn more about her work.
Journal website
http://IJDRP.org
IG and FB @IJDRP
Digest website
http://diseasereversaldigest.com
Healthy Human Revolution website
http://healthyhumanrevolution.com
Holding Bachelor of Science degrees in Chemistry and Human Biology and a Doctorate in Chiropractic, Dr. Amir A. Rashidian is the founder of the Mid-Atlantic Chiropractic Center. Established in 2006 and serving over 18,000 patient visits annually, the Mid-Atlantic Chiropractic Center focuses on high-tech diagnostics to detect and correct disturbances in the nervous system. The doctors at the Mid-Atlantic Chiropractic Center, promoting drugless health solutions, work with patients to eliminate the causes of disease and not merely the suppression of symptoms.
As a consultant, Dr. Amir has worked with 18 chiropractic practices, 16 of which were startup businesses that all reached profitability within the first 3 months of business launch. Dr. Rashidian attributes his success in opening practices to an intensive systematized marketing plan implemented 3 months prior to business launch. He has personally opened two very successful chiropractic practices.
A very active speaker at corporate events, conventions, and churches, he is also frequently interviewed by the local TV, radio, and newspaper. Additionally, Dr. Amir serves on the Board of Directors of Habitat for Humanity and is a major financial supporter of their local building projects. Furthermore, Dr. Amir also serves as the chairman of the Elder Leadership Team at Grace Community Church. He has won multiple honors and awards including Business Leader of the Year and Philanthropist of the Year.
He is happily married to his wife of 14 years and together they have three sons.
In this conversation Dr. Amir talks about stress, its sources, consequences and approaches to handle it. As he says, if we live long enough, we are bound to experience challenges that will be out of our control, and being well prepared and having the necessary tools to deal this stress. Learning how to handle stress, building habits and creating rituals that can help, and slowly increasing your stress load can build your stamina and achieve greatness. Tune in to learn more about Dr. Amir's story and learn simple tools to living a healthier life today and thriving years from now.
To learn more about Amir A. Rashidian, D.C. please visit:
Website: https://www.MidAtlanticClinic.com/
His book, The StressProof Life: The Secret to Health, Wealth, and Happiness on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/StressProof-Life-Secret-Health-Happiness/dp/0996300139/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=the+stressproof+life&qid=1562098866&s=gateway&sr=8-7
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MACCHealth/playlists
Cedric Bertelli is the founder and director of the Emotional Health Institute. Cedric is of French origin and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for over ten years. He began his training in Emotional Resolution in 2009 in France and has continued this work in the United States since 2011. In addition to working with clients individually, Cedric trains mental health professionals and educators across the United States on the Emotional Resolution process.
In this conversation Cedric talks about the physiology of emotional resolution as a technic of working through trauma, conceptualizing emotions, conscious and subconscious, and which of those defines our identity and triggers our reactions.
Ressources:
https://www.emotionalhealthinstitute.org
https://www.cedricbertelli.com
FaceBook:
https://www.facebook.com/theemotionalresolutioneffect/
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cedric-bertelli-◇-expert-in-emotional-resolution-68286224/
Twitter: @CedricBertelli
In 2013, Aaron graduated from Oregon Health & Science University School of Nursing. Since that time he has worked in a variety of in-patient, acute care settings from cardiac step-down to Behavioral Health as well as out-patient Urgent and Primary Care.
Most of his clinical experience and expertise is in cardiovascular care and disease management where he counseled hundreds of individual patients on lifestyle modification to prevent, arrest and sometimes reverse their chronic disease.
Aaron is a Board Certified Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner through the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine and received his training through the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, of which he is an active member.
He is also a graduate of the Wellcoaches online program for Health and Wellness Coaches, one of the premier, science-based programs for professional Health Coaches. After completing his training, Aaron began working privately with people outside the hospital to help them take personal responsibility for their health and transform their lives. He is currently finishing additional health coaching training through the Wellstart Health program.
From 2016 to 2019, Aaron co-hosted the Thought For Food Podcast, a show dedicated to public education around nutrition science, Lifestyle Medicine, athletic performance and critical thinking.
Aaron loves to write and contributes lifestyle related articles to a leading Digital Therapeutics company as well as his own blog.
His academic and clinical interests include nutrition science, Lifestyle Medicine, behavior change science, cardiovascular disease and sports performance as well as the prevention and treatment of metabolic syndrome with evidence-based lifestyle interventions.
Aaron has a background in rock climbing, mountain trail running and functional strength training. When he’s not working or training, he enjoys traveling, camping, making smoothies and spending time with his family in the mountains of Colorado.
This is the conversation about the unique role nurses can play in the field of lifestyle medicine and why it is important to empower them with the necessary tools.
In this episode Aaron shares his experience in the hospital system and how it inspired him to get training as a health coach and Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner. He talks about some of the frustrations and the inconsistencies in messaging and medical advice he has observed, and how it molded his professional work and career interests. Aaron shares data about how nurses are perceived in hospital setting and makes the case for why nurses are ideally suited for implementing Lifestyle Medicine in acute and primary care settings, and why hospitals and clinics should be investing in Lifestyle Medicine education for their nurses.
For more resources or to get in touch with Aaron please visit
https://www.aaronstuber.com/
Karen Goodlett MD is an internal medicine doctor, Assistant Physician Program Director of Quality Resource Management and Co-lead of 21-Day Plant Power Challenge sponsored by Kaiser’s Wellness Committee. In this interview she tells a story of how one person, and then a small group of people, made a big difference setting a trend and bringing plant-based nutrition into the mainstream of the culture in Kaiser.
This is how it unfolded:
In June 2013 Dr. Michael Greger (who was on our show last week!) was invited to speak to physicians at Kaiser Permanente regarding “Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death” (https://nutritionfacts.org).
In August 2013 Kaiser organized their 1st 21-Day Plant Power Challenge!
Dr. Goodlett was a participant in the challenge and converts to following a Low Fat Whole Food Plant-based Nutrition Lifestyle by the end of the Challenge.
September 2014 Kaiser had their 2nd 21-Day Plant Power Challenge (PPC). This time Dr. Goodlett was a Co-Leader of the Challenge.
In January 2015 Dr. Goodlett, along with other PPC leaders, created a webinar which was presented to Kaiser’s National Healthy Lifestyle Group on how to sponsor a 21-Day Plant Power Challenge, which led to other Kaiser Regions around the nation sponsoring 21-Day Plant Power Challenges patterned after their model.
In 2015 and 2016 Kaiser was a major sponsor of the Food as Medicine Conference held at the Emory Conference Center (now re-branded as the Remedy Food Project https://www.remedyfood.org) .
In September 2016 one of Kaiser's Nurses and Dr. Goodlett sponsored a smaller departmental 21-Day Challenge at the Kaiser Headquarters which led to the development of their weekly Plant Power Lunch Support Group at the Kaiser Headquarters.
In November 2016 The Kaiser PPC Leaders assisted The Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine in sponsoring the event - Kickstart Your Health Atlanta ( https://www.pcrm.org/news/news-releases/atlanta-physicians-prescribe-food-medicine-nov-1-health-challenge).
In January 2018 a Kaiser Nutritionist created a Whole Food Plant-based Nutrition Class for Kaiser’s Healthy Living Class offerings to our patients and the public.
In September 2018 Kaiser had their 3rd Plant Power Challenge for which Dr. Goodlett was a Co-Lead yet again.
In May 2019 Kaiser’s Weight Management Program began offering a Plant-based Nutrition Class.
Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized professional speaker on a number of important public health issues. Dr. Greger has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the International Bird Flu Summit, among countless other symposia and institutions; testified before Congress; has appeared on shows such as The Colbert Report and The Dr. Oz Show; and was invited as an expert witness in defense of Oprah Winfrey at the infamous "meat defamation" trial. In 2017, he was honored with the ACLM Lifestyle Medicine Trailblazer Award.
Dr. Greger's most recent scientific publications in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Critical Reviews in Microbiology, Family and Community Health, and the International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition, and Public Health explore the public health implications of industrialized animal agriculture.
Dr. Greger is also licensed as a general practitioner specializing in clinical nutrition and is a founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He was featured on the Healthy Living Channel promoting his latest nutrition DVDs and honored to teach part of Dr. T. Colin Campbell's esteemed nutrition course at Cornell University. Dr. Greger's nutrition work can be found at NutritionFacts.org, which is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit charity.
He is the author of Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching and Carbophobia: The Scary Truth Behind America's Low Carb Craze. Both of his latest books, How Not to Die and the How Not to Die Cookbook, became instant New York Times Best Sellers. Dr. Greger is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University School of Medicine.
In this conversation we talk through some of Dr. Greger's previous work and discuss his new book "How Not to Diet" that will release in December 2019. Every month seems to bring a trendy new diet or weight loss fad—and yet obesity rates continue to rise, and with it a growing number of diseases and health problems. In "How Not to Diet" Dr. Greger suggests a different approach. He dives deep in the science and lays out the key ingredients of the ideal weight-loss —factors such as calorie density, the insulin index, and the impact of foods on our gut microbiome—showing how plant-based eating is crucial to our success. Dr. Greger talks about the latest discoveries in cutting-edge areas like chronobiology to reveal the factors that maximize our natural fat-burning capabilities.
To learn more, please visit:
Website: https://nutritionfacts.org
Free Daily Dozen App: https://nutritionfacts.org/daily-dozen-challenge/
Podcast: https://nutritionfacts.org/audio/
How Not to Die Book: https://nutritionfacts.org/book/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/NutritionFactsOrg
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nutrition_facts
Free Downloadable Evidence-Based Eating Guide: https://nutritionfacts.org/healthkit/
Susi Hately (prounced HATE -LEE) helps entrepreneurs and executives who are skirting the edge of burnout. She helps them get back on their game and use their skills and talents most effectively. Building on her BSc. Kinesiology, and teaching yoga since 1999, she is the author of several best selling yoga therapy books and videos, and is founder of the Calm.Steady.Strong(tm) yoga program for cancer patients, survivors and their families which was studied at the University of Calgary from 2002-2009. Using yoga as the prime modality, Susi’s specialty is helping high achievers rechannel their energy so they aren't exhausted and depleted. She teaches them how to see their symptoms as their body's communication mechanism, and how to truly listen and act on what they are perceiving. The result - a calm, connected leader with sustainable productive energy.
This is a conversation about burnout: how to recognize it in the body, how to address it through movement and posture, creating mental clarity, achieving optimal performance and contributing to long-term happiness.
To learn more connect with Susi:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/susi.hately/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/susi.hately.FS/
Jennifer McKenna is founder & CEO of JMac Consulting. She is passionate about building the strongest, healthiest cultures possible, Jennifer has devoted the past 17 years to helping leaders consciously develop their leadership skills, create a strong vision, face enormous challenges and harness their impact to make a positive change in their companies and communities.
Jennifer talks about finding meaning and purpose in work and life, and how to do it in a balanced way. That includes making change fun and productive, setting boundaries and identifying clear priorities. Jennifer shares important tools and strategies for creating positive and fulfilling work environment that play to our strengths and create joy, instead of leading to burn out. Tune in to learn more!
JMac Consulting Links
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/jmac-consulting/about/?viewAsMember=true
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/changingbizforthebetter/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jmacconsulting/
Website - https://jmacconsulting.com
Dr. Javier Valle is an Assistant Professor in the Emory Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, a medical officer in the United States Navy Reserve, and a senior VA Quality Scholar Fellow--a 2-year healthcare quality improvement fellowship at the Atlanta VA Health Care System. Board certified in preventive medicine with a Master’s degree in Public Health in epidemiology, he practices lifestyle medicine at the Emory Lifestyle Medicine Clinic in Dunwoody and teaches lifestyle medicine to second and third-year medical students at the Emory School of Medicine. At the Atlanta VA Health Care System, he is the lead for implementation and evaluation activities of the Whole Health System. Whole Health is a national VA healthcare delivery system that is transforming the model of care from a disease-centered to a Veteran-centered approach to health.
Dr. Valle talks about the new VA initiative - Whole Health. As VA shifts from a health-care system focused primarily on treating disease to one guided by a personalized health plan that considers the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and environmental needs of Veterans, the Whole Health System acknowledges that health care involves more than the physical human body. The whole health model is a holistic look at the many areas of life that can affect someone's health — work environment, relationships, diet, sleep patterns, and more.
To learn more, please visit:
https://www.va.gov/PATIENTCENTEREDCARE/explore/about-whole-health.asp
The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of Dr. Valle and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of either the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs or Emory University.
Dr. Benameur graduated from the University of Oran in Algeria where she received her MD degree. She subsequently trained at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, then at the National Institutes of Health where she was awarded the excellence in research award. She moved to Atlanta to complete her residency and fellowship at Emory, and was selected as Chief resident of education. She was appointed to current position on the Emory faculty as Assistant Professor of Neurology in 2014, and has been part of the Neurohospitalist team ever since.
Her daily work consists of taking care of hospitalized patients with neurological diseases, and educating residents and medical students. She sees first-hand the effects of poor nutrition and a sedentary lifestyle on brain health, as it presents in a myriad of neurological diseases, the most common of which is stroke.
Her passion is teaching not only her patients and their families, but also other physicians and medical students about the importance that proper nutrition, exercise, sleep, and other lifestyle changes can have on brain health.
Dr. Benameur talks about the influence our lifestyle choices have on brain health. What is the effect of nutrition, exercise and sleep? What is the effect of chronic inflammation and stress? Is memory loss a normal part of aging? And finally, what actions and choices can we make to maintain optimal brain heath and good memory long-term? Tune in to learn more!
Dr. Benameur has a course on Coursera called Biohacking Your Brain's Health. You can find it here:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/biohacking-your-brains-health
Daniel Witkowski, MD, FACOG, FACLM is double board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Lifestyle Medicine. He is one of 30 Fellows of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine in the world.
Since August 2018 he has been employed as an Obstetrician/Gynecologist with Tufts Medical Center Community Care in Melrose, Massachusetts. Prior to that he was in private practice, since 1993, at Women’s Healthcare Associates, in Melrose, Massachusetts. He also serves as Chair of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at MelroseWakefield Healthcare.
Dr. Witkowski is a Certified Nutritionist and has been a Lifestyle Medicine Physician since 2011. He is the co-creator, with his wife Pamela, of Lifestyle Design MD™, a program where they educate individuals, families, and health practitioners on how to obtain optimal health and prevent and reverse chronic disease through nutrition, fitness, stress management, and lifestyle design. They are nationally recognized public speakers and trainers.
Dr. Witkowski received his medical degree from Tufts University in Boston, MA in 1989. He completed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, MD. He received his Certification in Plant Based Nutrition from the T. Colin Campbell Foundation, Cornell University.
Daniel and Pamela are high school sweethearts and have been married since 1984. They are the parents of 6 children and grandparents to Ella and Brody.
For more resources, please visit:
Website: https://www.danielwitkowskimd.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/danielwitkowskimd
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danielwitkowski_md/
Twitter: @danwitkowskimd
Stephan Esser, MD is a physician, author and motivational speaker specializing in sports medicine and lifestyle modification. He is dedicated to empowering individuals to achieve their best health and maximize fitness, fun and function.
Dr. Esser completed a Bachelor of Science at Palm Beach Atlantic University, Medical School at the University of South Florida College of Medicine, a residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School/Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, and a Fellowship in Sports Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. He currently works as a Sports & Spine Physician with Southeast Orthopedic Specialists in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. where he offers detailed clinical evaluations, lifestyle counseling, acupuncture and regenerative PRP and Stem cell injections. Prior to his career in medicine he was a competitive tennis player, achieving a ranking of #1 in the US in Men’s Open Doubles (2002).
This is a conversation about nutrition, its effect on muscles and joints, and optimal performance. Dr. Esser talks about mind-body connection, importance of sleep and recovery, and overall lifestyle. He discussed the orthopedics issues that he sees on daily basis, his comprehensive approach of treating the whole patient, and how plant-based diet plays into the process of healing. How to decrease inflammation in joints? What are the differences between different kinds of fat, and how abdominal fat specifically can disrupt hormonal balance? What can we do on daily basis to significantly alleviate chronic pain and even reverse some chronic conditions? Dr. Esser answers all those questions on this episode.
To learn more about Dr. Esser's work please visit:
Website: http://esserhealth.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/esserhealth/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EsserHealth/
Douglas Amis, Ed.D. is a Co-Founder of Health Zone Life and creator of the Health Zone Life Model along with Dr. Pankaj Vij.
Dr. Amis set out on this project with the objective of providing an open source model that medical professionals could freely use both as and educational tool and in their practice. The website’s goal is to provide platform for professionals who are leading the efforts to improve the health of individuals in the face of epidemic levels of diabetes and related diseases.
Previously Founder and President of Amisco Consulting Group, to provide management consulting services for start up through mid-sized companies. With over 25 years of experience in the electronics industry, Dr. Amis brings a comprehensive background in management, human resources, communications, media, compliance issues and organizational development to his roles as consultant and advisor with companies in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Silicon Valley.
As one of the principals of Semiconductor Systems Inc., Dr. Amis was instrumental in the achievement of a successful leveraged buy out of SSI from General Signal Corporation in December 1990. The results of this team was to create a company which would reinvent itself as a leading and innovative supplier of capital equipment for the Semiconductor, Flat Panel Display and Multi Chip Module industries. Growing the company from $14 million to $32 million before merging the company with FSI International in 1996.
He holds four masters degrees from the University of San Francisco in Educational Administration, Educational Psychology, Marriage and Family Counseling, Life Transition Counseling, an M.F.A. from the School of the Arts at New York University, and doctorates in Business Administration from Western Colorado University in Organizational Behavior and Management, Educational Psychology/Counseling from the University of San Francisco. Dr. Amis is a Life Clinical Member of the California Association for Marriage and Family Therapists and has been a licensed to practice in California since 1981, a Life member in with the American College of Forensic Examiners. He is a Life Diplomate in Counseling Psychology from the American Psychotherapy Association and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Counseling.
Early in his career Dr. Amis was both a professor and administrator at the University of San Francisco founding both the Mass Media Studies Program and the Gerontology program. He has provided consulting services internationally to multiple public and private sector organizations including high growth startup operations and Fortune 100.
For more resources, please visit:
Healthzonelife Model: http://healthzonelife.com/health-zone-life-model/
Healthzonelife on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/healthzonelife/
Healthzonelife on Twitter:https://twitter.com/amisco12
Virginia Shearer, the Eleanor McDonald Storza Director of Education at the High Museum of Art, has more than 20 years of experience in museum education. Ms. Shearer oversees all areas of the High’s Department of Education, where she focuses on creating a platform for engagement and connectivity that extends the museum’s reach and deepens the High’s relationships with the Atlanta community through experimental, collaborative, and research-based practice. Since joining the High in 2005, she has initiated, led, and participated in cross-institutional initiatives that are key to the museum’s future, including such innovative projects as the High’s summer piazza activation commission series, the newly designed Greene Family Learning Gallery, and a series of popular exhibitions focused on children’s picture book art.
From 2005 to 2012, Ms. Shearer served as the High’s Associate Director of Education, leading the Museum’s public programs team during a period of significant growth that included opening the Greene Family Education Center as a part of the Renzo Piano–designed expansion project, the Louvre Atlanta partnership, and the development of successful young audience initiatives, including the inaugural Teen Team program. She previously served as the Deputy Director for Education and Public Programs at the Tampa Museum of Art and as the Director of Education at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Early in her career, Ms. Shearer coordinated the ImaginAsia family program for the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution.
Ms. Shearer served as the Southeastern Regional Director for the Museum Education Division of the National Art Education Association from 2004 through 2006. In 2012, Ms. Shearer was selected as one of 25 museum professionals from around the world to participate in the prestigious Getty Leadership Institute program Museum Leaders: The Next Generation. She also participated in the Getty Leadership Institute’s Executive Education Program for Museum Leaders in 2014 and returned to the program as a mentor in 2016.
Ms. Shearer holds a B.A. (1992) in Humanities from Florida State University and a M.A.T. (1997) in Museum Education from The George Washington University.
This week we talk about the intersection between art and health and the program called "Musing Together". "Musing Together" is a High Museum of Art program in partnership with the Alzheimer's Association, Georgia Chapter, that lets those in early stage Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias and their care partners enjoy a free visit to the High, discuss and experience art in its fullness, and connect with their family and friends. Virginia talks about how the program was created, the principles it is based on, and shares the wonderful stories of the participants whose lives were deeply impacted and enriched through these efforts. Tune in to learn more!
High Museum of Art: https://high.org
Musing Together: https://www.high.org/Program/musing-together/
Credit: CatMax Photography, LLC.
Dr. Heather Prayor-Patterson is a clinical psychologist with an emphasis in health psychology. Over the last 8 years of practice, her focus has been on using cognitive-behavioral interventions to treat psychological concerns related of chronic medical conditions including insomnia, obesity, diabetes and chronic pain, as well as, using evidence-based treatments for depression and anxiety disorders. She completed her graduate training at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and additional health-focused trainings at the Salem Veteran Affairs Medical Center and the Cleveland Clinic. She has been an Assistant Professor of the Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences department at Emory University since 2017 engaging in clinical practice and supervision of medical residents.
In this conversation Dr. Prayor-Patterson talks about sleep issues that unfortunately have become so prevalent in today's society. She discuss the root causes, different kinds of sleep issues, including insomnia, and the ways we can help these conditions and retrain our bodies enabling them to finally get some rest. Tune in to learn more!
Brian Asbill, M.D., is a cardiologist at Asheville Cardiology Associates and Medical Director of Preventative Cardiology for Mission Health CHIP (Complete Health Improvement Program), an intensive therapeutic lifestyle change program offered through Lifestyle Medicine Institute for the prevention, management, and reversal of vascular disease. He serves on the Board of Directors for ASAP (Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project).
Dr. Asbill believes the foundation of good health is based on good habits, including eating the right foods, moving more and managing chronic stress. He most enjoy seeing patients take ownership of their health by incorporating lifestyle changes.
In this conversation Dr. Asbill shares a story about the patient who changed the course of his career. Dr. Asbill explains in detail the mechanism of cardiovascular disease, and speaks extensively and the concept of its reversal through lifestyle change.
Helpful links:
https://www.ornish.com
https://www.chiphealth.com
Steven Lawenda, MD is a board-certified Family Medicine physician in Southern California Kaiser Permanente. Dr. Lawenda graduated from UC Davis School of Medicine in 2001 with Honors in Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine. He completed his Family Medicine Residency at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island / Brown University in 2004 where he was awarded Resident Teacher of the Year. In 2013, Dr. Lawenda transformed his own health with plant-based nutrition and has since co-created Lifestyle Medicine programs that have transformed both the lives of patients and the way in which health care is delivered at his medical center. Dr. Lawenda recently co-authored a review of Lifestyle Medicine with several esteemed colleagues that was published in the Permanente Journal. He is a two-time recipient of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group Everyday Hero award.
In this conversation Dr. Lawenda shares hist story of transitioning to whole food plant-based lifestyle and the profound difference it made in his life. He discusses food addiction, calorie density, and reversal of common chronic conditions that is possible and well-documented in research.
Timothy Harrison is Associate Director for CBCT® (Cognitively- Based Compassion Training) at the Emory University Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics. He oversees the many CBCT programs, including multiple research initiatives and the rigorous teacher certification process. Tim regularly teaches CBCT nationally and internationally in academic institutions and healthcare settings, and he advises on the tailoring of CBCT for research with unique populations including cancer survivors, veterans with PTSD, HIV+ patients, and Emory medical students. Tim has a master’s degree in architecture from Harvard University has most enjoyed offering CBCT in outreach programs such as prisons and foster care homes and to teachers in the Atlanta Public School system.
In this conversation Tim talks about the practice and science of CBCT.
CBCT® is a cognitively-based compassion training that deliberately and systematically works to cultivate compassion. Through progressive exercises (beginning with the development of attentional stability and progressing through various analytical meditations), one gains insight into how one's attitudes and behaviors support or hinder compassionate response. The practice of CBCT intensifies the desire to help others, allowing compassion to become more natural and spontaneous in one's everyday life. It also helps increase personal resiliency by grounding one in realistic expectations of self and others.
To learn more, please visit:
CBCT Overview: http://compassion.emory.edu/cbct-compassion-training/index.html
CBCT Courses: http://compassion.emory.edu/cbct-compassion-training/cbct-courses/index.html
CBCT Research: http://compassion.emory.edu/cbct-compassion-training/research.html
Garth Davis, MD, is the medical director of the Davis Clinic at the Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a Fellow of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. He is also boarded in medical management of obesity. Dr. Davis is the author of two books: Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and The Expert’s Guide to Weight-Loss Surgery. Having spent 17 years in the field of surgical and medical weight management, Dr. Davis is a recognized expert in initial bariatric procedures as well as revisional bariatric surgery, and he is frequently asked to give lectures to both patient and physician audiences.
Dr. Davis starred on the hit TLC show Big Medicine and appeared in recent documentary What The Health.
In this interview Dr. Davis breaks down the science behind the most popular American macronutrient - protein. He explains what protein is and the role it plays in both - health and disease. Dr. Davis elaborates on the differences between animal and plant protein sources, and clears confusion about the popular myths about daily intake requirements and the effect that animal protein has on our bodies.
To learn more about his work please refer to the resources below:
Website: http://proteinaholic.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drgarthdavis/
Consultation requests: https://missionhealth.org/provider-finder/profile/51799
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Proteinaholic-Obsession-Meat-Killing-About/dp/0062279319
David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, FACLM earned his BA degree from Dartmouth College (1984); his MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1988); and his MPH from the Yale University School of Public Health (1993). He completed sequential residency training in Internal Medicine, and Preventive Medicine/Public Health.
He is the founding director (1998) of Yale University’s Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, Immediate Past-President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and Founder/President of the True Health Initiative, a non-profit organization established to promote messages about healthy, sustainable diet and lifestyle in the service of adding years to lives and life to years around the globe.
Katz directed the development of the Overall Nutritional Quality Index® used in the NuVal® nutritional guidance system, the world’s most robustly validated nutrient profiling system. He is the Founder (2016) and CEO of his own start-up company, developing a disruptively innovative approach to dietary intake assessment, and diet coaching- known as Diet Quality Photo Navigation (DQPN; DQPN™, LLC). He serves as Chief Science Officer for FareWell (https://farewell.io/), a digital therapeutic platform devoted to the use of diet and lifestyle for the treatment and reversal of chronic disease.
The recipient of many awards for his contributions to public health, he has received three honorary doctorate degrees. Katz was named one of the nation’s top nutrition experts for 2017-2018 by DietSpotlight.com (https://www.dietspotlight.com/n/david-katz/). Dr. Katz has held faculty positions at the Yale University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, and served as Director of Medical Studies in Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine for nearly a decade. He currently holds an appointment as adjunct professor at the George Washington University School of Medicine.
He holds 5 U.S. patents with other patents pending, and invented the research method known as “evidence mapping.” He has published roughly 200 scientific articles and textbook chapters, and 15 books to date, including multiple editions of leading textbooks in both Preventive Medicine, and nutrition. Prominent as a journalist and commentator addressing matters of health and medicine, Dr. Katz has been quoted in most major magazines and newspapers, and has appeared widely on radio and television- and served as a regular on-air medical contributor for Good Morning America/ABC News for over two years. He has delivered addresses at major universities and conferences throughout the United States and countries around the world on five continents. Widely recognized for his abilities as an orator, Dr. Katz has been hailed by peers as “the poet laureate of health promotion.”
Recognized globally for expertise in nutrition, weight management and the prevention of chronic disease, he has a social media following of roughly 900,000.
He and his wife, Catherine, founder of Cuisinicity.com, live in Connecticut. They have 5 children.
The Truth About Food book:
http://www.truehealthinitiative.org/news/the-truth-about-food/
Sujit Sharma is an Atlanta-based pediatric ER doctor and CEO of Chuice, the innovative JuicySuperSalad redefining convenient snacks. He holds a Bachelor’s in Philosophy from University of Michigan, received his medical degree and pediatric training at Wayne State University/Children's Hospital of Michigan, and served his three-year fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital. He is currently Vice Section Chief at the department of Emergency Medicine, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite, and is on the Board of Directors for Georgia Organics where he’s the moderator for the Food As Medicine committee. When Sharma is not practicing medicine, he’s conducting medical research on respiratory viruses, cooking various worldly dishes, traveling with his wife and two children, and loves (theoretically) putting pen to paper to scribe Op-eds, including for CNN.com.
In this conversation Dr. Sharma talks about striking current statistics of childhood obesity and its relation to food advertising and public policy. He draws a parallel with evolution of policies and behaviors around smoking. Dr. Sharma talks about the importance fiber, explains the difference in the benefits between smoothies, juices and Chuice; talks about the concept of gut health and what defines it.
https://chuice.com
https://chuice.com/blogs/news/how-we-advertise-food-as-bad-as-those-old-cigarette-ads
Born and raised in Oyster Bay, NY Juliet Peters has found great success in an unexpected place. Her career as a chef took her from New York City to London and back before she found her dream job in Atlanta. A job that allows her to teach, inspire, and give back to a community, all through cooking.
Chef Juliet Peters:
"The Westside of Atlanta is considered the most impoverished, dangerous area in the city, plagued with homelessness, joblessness, addiction, and overall lack of opportunity. Through the partnership with The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, The Atlanta Falcons, and support of Levy, I was given the incredible task of creating what is now the Levy Culinary Academy.
Through the Academy, we provide practical culinary training to residents of the neighborhood that gives each student the foundation to be a culinary professional: knife skills, the importance of mise en place, equipment and food identification, and so much more.
Initially, the program was housed at a homeless shelter on the Westside, which allowed me to immerse myself in the culture and community of our students. Due to the success of the program, we were able to relocate to The Georgia Dome, which allows more students to attend the 8-week course, more space and equipment, as well as the support of the Levy Culinary Team.
The success of the program can be attributed to the very intense, practical approach taken in preparing each student for success in the culinary industry. I am especially proud to see some of the individuals we work with join the Levy family, and with the new Falcons Stadium on the horizon, there will be more opportunities than ever.
I am grateful to Levy for allowing me the opportunity and support to run this program, which has proven to change the lives of our graduates and their families. I can’t take credit for the students’ success, as this job training program would not be possible without Levy. My long-term goal is to share this educational model with additional Levy properties to relay the wonderful outcomes that are made possible with the support of a company that cares."
Dr. Jennifer Rooke is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine. She is the founder and Medical Director of the Optimal Health and Wellness Clinic at Morehouse Healthcare.
The Optimal Health and Wellness Clinic is a Lifestyle Medicine Clinic. Dr. Rooke’s professional goal is to expand the scope of clinical preventive medicine to include treatment with evidence-based lifestyle interventions such as plant-based nutrition; stress management, physical activity and sleep management.
Dr. Rooke is board certified in both Preventive Medicine and Occupational and Environmental Medicine. She is a fellow of both the American College of Preventive Medicine and the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
In this interview Dr. Rooke discusses her clinic which uses a patient-centered, integrated approach to medical care that promotes optimal physical and mental health. What does lifestyle medicine appointment look like? What are shared medical appointments? What are the benefits of a plant-based diet and what are easy and effective ways to transition to it? Dr. Rooke answers all of these questions and shares her story of finding plant-based nutrition as an effective tool to combat disease and what motivated her to go into lifestyle medicine. Tune in to learn more!
Joel Kahn, MD, of Detroit, Michigan, is a practicing cardiologist, and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Michigan Medical School. Known as "America’s Healthy Heart Doc", Dr. Kahn has double board certification in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Medicine. He was the first physician in the world to certify in Metabolic Cardiology with A4M/MMI and the University of South Florida.
Dr. Kahn has authored scores of publications in his field including articles, book chapters and monographs. He writes health articles and has five books in publication including Your Whole Heart Solution, Dead Execs Don’t Get Bonuses and The Plant Based Solution. He has regular appearances on Dr. Phil, The Doctors Show, Dr. Oz, Larry King Now, Joe Rogan Experience, and with Bassem Yousef. He has been awarded a Health Hero award from Detroit Crain’s Business. He owns 3 health restaurants in Detroit and Austin, Texas.
This is a conversation about cardiac longevity and evidence-based lifestyle approaches to improving and maintaining our heart health. Dr. Kahn also talks about "arterial age" and cardiac health tests that are on the market today and their effectiveness.
To learn more about Dr. Kahn and his work, please go to https://drjoelkahn.com
Gina Price Lundberg MD FACC is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Emory University and Clinical Director of the Emory Women’s Heart Center. She is a Preventive Cardiologist and has practiced at Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital of Atlanta since 1998. She was invited to join the Emory University faculty in 2012 and led the development of the Emory Women’s Heart program with six locations across the metro Atlanta area.
She attended the Medical College of Georgia and trained in Internal Medicine at Atlanta Medical Center (Georgia Baptist). Her cardiology fellowship was at Rush University in Chicago. She has been in practice in Atlanta since 1994. She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine in 1992 and 2002 and Cardiology in 1995, 2005 and 2014.
She has been interviewed on the subject of Heart Disease in Women on CNN, NPR and frequently in USA Today. She is a National American Heart Association (AHA) Spokesperson. Governor Sonny Perdue appointed Dr. Lundberg to the Advisory Board for the Department of Women’s Health for the State of Georgia in 2007 till 2011. She is a Castle Connelly Atlanta Magazine “Top Doc” for Atlanta and Marietta, Georgia. In 2005, Atlanta Woman Magazine awarded Dr. Lundberg the Top 10 Innovator Award for Medicine. In 2008 Atlanta Woman Magazine named her one of the Top 25 Professional Women to Watch and the only woman in the field of medicine.
Dr. Lundberg has been a Board Member of the American Heart Association for Atlanta from 2001 till 2007 and was on the Southeast Affiliate Board 2006-2007. She also served on the Southeast Affiliate Strategic Health Initiatives Committee to promote Go Red for Women. She has been involved in the Go Red for Women initiative for the metro Atlanta area since its development in 2003. Dr. Lundberg was the Honoree for North Fulton/ Gwinnett County Heart Ball for 2006. In 2009 she was awarded the Women with Heart Award at the Go Red Luncheon for outstanding dedication to the program. She is a Circle of Red founding member and Cor Vitae member for AHA. She served on the American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Committee from 2006 till 2012. In 2017, she was awarded the Exceptional Women in Medicine Award from Castle Connolly.
Dr. Lundberg has two adult children. Dr. Lundberg has lived most of her life in the metro Atlanta area. She enjoys spending time in the north Georgia mountains, snow skiing, travel and reading. She is passionate about better health through Social Media.
She loves teaching medical students, PA and NP students. She also enjoys serving on short term medical mission trips with her church.
In honor of February Heart Health Month, we talk about the number one killer of Americans - heart disease - and the ways to prevent it. Dr. Lundberg covers lifestyle components such as exercise and diet, talks about popular tests and discusses the new cholesterol guidelines released by CDC. Tune in to learn more!
Dr. Salvatore Lacagnina is the System Medical Director of Wellness and Employee Health for Lee Health. In this role, his mission is to motivate, educate and empower people to improve their health and wellness. Dr. Sal, as he likes to be called, is one of Lee Health’s champions responsible for developing a comprehensive health, wellness and preventive care program for more than 19,000 employees and family members.
He is the Medical Director for the LH Employee Health clinics and the Medical Director for the Wellness Centers in Cape Coral and Ft. Myers.
From 1994-2010 he practiced Internal Medicine with the Lee Physician Group and served as its Medical Director until 2010 before taking on his role as System Medical Director of Wellness and Employee Health. His emphasis is on the prevention and reversal of cardio metabolic diseases, diabetes, weight management, cancer risk factor reduction and overall lifestyle medicine.
Dr. Sal earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine and he is Board Certified in Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine and is a Diplomat of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.
Dr. Sal writes a weekly column about health and wellness in The News-Press and a monthly column for the Cape Coral Chamber of Commerce Trends publication. He also speaks publically throughout the community.
In this conversation Dr. Sal speaks in detail about the Lee Health Wellness Wheel, which includes the following 6 pillars of healthy lifestyle:
- Nutrition
- Physical Activity
- Sleep
- Stress Management
- Mental and Behavioral Health
- Purpose Driven Living
Dr. Sal also discusses both the challenges and the benefits of comprehensive wellness programs, the need for culture change, incentives that are effective and the return on investment that goes beyond financial wins.
Brenda Davis, Registered Dietitian, is a leader in her field, and an acclaimed speaker at nutrition, medical and health conferences internationally. She has worked as a research dietitian, public health nutritionist, clinical nutrition specialist, nutrition consultant and academic nutrition instructor. Brenda serves as the lead dietitian in the Diabetes Wellness Project in Majuro, Marshall Islands.
As a prolific health writer, Brenda has co-authored nine vegetarian and vegan nutrition classics with over a million copies in print, in 13 languages: The Kick Diabetes Cookbook, Becoming Vegan: Comprehensive Edition, Becoming Vegan: Express Edition, Becoming Vegan, Becoming Raw, Becoming Vegetarian, The New Becoming Vegetarian, The Raw Food Revolution Diet, Defeating Diabetes and Dairy-free and Delicious. Her most recent works, Becoming Vegan: Comprehensive Edition won the 2014 REAL Best of 2014 Book Award, and Becoming Vegan: Express Edition won the Canada Book Award and was a finalist and received honorable mention in the Foreward Book of the Year Award. She is currently working on a diabetes book and a diabetes cookbook. Both are set to be released in 2018.
Brenda has authored numerous professional and lay articles. She is a past chair of the Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group of the American Dietetic Association. In 2007, she was inducted into the Vegetarian Hall of Fame.
Current scientific studies show that most people with type 2 diabetes can reverse the disease by eating a plant-based diet and making other healthy lifestyle changes.
In this interview Brenda talks about foods that help regulate blood glucose levels and foods that send those levels skyrocketing. In her work, Brenda clarifies why not all carbohydrates promote diabetes, explains how plant-based protein reduces diabetes risk, and illustrates why a whole-foods, plant-based diet is naturally low in fat and sodium. Brenda also talks about her wonderful experience of working in Marshall Islands and shares some of her favorite recipes!
Websites:
http://brendadavisrd.com/
http://becomingvegan.ca/
Brenda's new book is called "The Kick Diabetes Cookbook":
https://www.amazon.com/Kick-Diabetes-Cookbook-Recipes-Defeating/dp/1570673594/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1537388575&sr=8-3&keywords=kick+diabetes+cookbook
Arvinpal Singh, MD is a Medical Director at Emory Bariatric Center and an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Singh is certified by American Board of Obesity Medicine and American Board of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Singh cares for bariatric patients presenting for surgical and nonsurgical weight management, and manages not only their weight, but their obesity related co-morbidities. Dr. Singh lays out a comprehensive map for a whole health approach to weight management, including diet, activity, sleep, stress and support. Dr. Singh acknowledges the complex nature of obesity and many traps within and outside of our control, and talks about scenarios where surgical weight management is an appropriate tool and how to make it successful.
To learn more about Emory Bariatric Center please visit:
https://www.emoryhealthcare.org/centers-programs/bariatric-center/index.html
Lois Ellen Frank, Ph.D. (Kiowa) is a Santa Fe, New Mexico based Native American Chef, a Native foods historian, culinary anthropologist, educator, James Beard Award winning cookbook author, photographer and organic gardener. She is the chef/owner of Red Mesa Cuisine, LLC a Native American catering company specializing in ancestral Native American cuisine with a modern twist. Dr. Frank has spent over 25 years documenting and working with the foods and lifeways of Native Americans in the Southwest and other regions throughout the Americas. This lengthy immersion in Native American communities culminated in her book, Foods of the Southwest Indian Nations, featuring traditional and contemporary recipes, which won her the James Beard Award in the Americana category.
Dr. Frank is a Culinary Ambassador Diplomat with the U.S. State Department and Office of Cultural Affairs, where with Chef Walter Whitewater (Diné), she has traveled to Ukraine (2013), the United Kingdom (2015), and Russia (2016) to teach about the history of Native American foodways, work with food as a form of diplomacy, and educate how the Native American food contribution with foods that we eat every day has changed the Old World.
Dr. Frank works with the Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) on a program entitled The Power to Heal Diabetes:Food For Life in Indian Country using the Ancestral Native American diet for health and wellness in Native Communities throughout the Southwest. She is a consultant with the Cultural Conservancy (TCC) on their Native Foodways program in the San Francisco Bay Area and is also a featured cooking instructor at the Santa Fe School of Cooking where she teaches classes on Native American cuisine. Dr. Frank is an adjunct professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), where she teaches one semester a year about the Indigenous Concepts of Native American Foods.
To learn more about Red Mesa Cuisine, visit http://redmesacuisine.com
Milton Mills, MD practices urgent care medicine in the Washington DC area, and has served previously as Associate Director of Preventive Medicine and as a member of the National Advisory Board, for Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). He has been a major contributor to position papers presented by PCRM to the United States Department of Agriculture regarding Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and has been the lead plaintiff in PCRM’s class action lawsuit that asks for warning labels on milk.
Dr. Mills earned his medical degree at Stanford University School of Medicine, and completed an Internal Medicine residency at Georgetown University Hospital. He has published several research journal articles dealing with racial bias in federal nutrition policy. He frequently donates his time via practicing at free medical clinics, and travels widely, speaking at hospitals, churches and community centers throughout the country. He was featured in the recent attention-getting film “What the Health,” and will also appear in the upcoming film “The Silent Vegan.”
Howard Jacobson, PhD is co-founder and Chief of Behavioral Science at WellStart Health. He is the host of the Plant Yourself Podcast, and contributing author to Whole, by T. Colin Campbell, PhD, and Proteinaholic, by Garth Davis, MD.
At WellStart Health, Howard guides clients to adopt and maintain lifestyle and dietary habits in alignment with their health goals and life values.
Howard has been coaching high performers since 2001. He sits on the advisory board of the International Coach Certification Alliance, and is a certified in Peter Bregman’s QUICC Coaching methodology, BJ Fogg’s Tiny Habits, and Glenn Livingston’s Never Binge Again system. He is a visiting scholar at Duke University’s Institute for Advanced Hindsight.
Howard is also a digital marketing strategist. The author of Google AdWords For Dummies, he has consulted and taught marketing strategy in the US, Europe, and South Africa. He is a columnist for Fast Company and The Huffington Post, and has contributed to Harvard Business Review.
Howard earned his MPH and PhD in Health Studies from Temple University, and his BA from Princeton University.
Howard lives on an ecological farm in rural North Carolina, where he writes, gardens, plays Ultimate Frisbee, runs ultra marathons, and practices Russian Martial Arts.
Howard’s goals include shaking up healthcare, sharing how delicious and joyful a healthy life can be, save the planet, and reintroducing people to their most authentic, bipedal, plant-eating, antifragile, best selves.
And maybe someday not finish last at the Leadville Marathon.
In this conversation Howard shares his own journey of finding plant-based nutrition, weight-loss, and what helped him make it "stick". He reframes motivation, talks about building identity, developing skill and creating habit. Howard touches on new approach to healthcare and talks about WellStart Health. Finally, he shares his experience with practicing Russian Martial Arts and the benefits of getting used to being uncomfortable.
Links: http://plantyourself.com/
http://WellStartHealth.com
Social Media: @askhowie on Twitter and Instagram
@Go_WellStart on Twitter
@go_wellstart on Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/in/howardwellstart/
http://facebook.com/plantyourself
https://www.facebook.com/WellStartHealth/
Dr. James Lah graduated with honors from Duke University in 1984, and subsequently enrolled as a Medical Scientist Program Fellow at Ohio State University, where he earned his MD/PhD in 1992. After an internship in Medicine, Dr. Lah completed his Neurology Residency at Emory from 1992 to 1996. At the end of his clinical training, he was awarded a Clinical Investigator Development Award from the National Institutes of Health and joined the Emory Neurology faculty.
During his career, Dr. Lah has led basic laboratory research efforts, as well as the development of a multidisciplinary team devoted to the care of patients with Alzheimer’s and other degenerative brain diseases. He is currently the Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Neurology at Emory University, where he also serves as Director of Emory’s Cognitive Neurology Program and Clinical Core Leader of the NIH funded Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. In addition, he serves as a member of several key committees for the Emory School of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, and the American Federation for Aging Research. Dr. Lah has received national and international recognition for his leadership in Alzheimer’s research, and in 2009, Emory University appointed Dr. Lah to the Alice and Roy Richards Endowed Chair for Alzheimer’s Disease.
Alzheimers is currently ranked as the 6th leading cause of death in USA and the most common cause of dimentia. What is the difference between Alzheimers and Dementia? What are the causes of these conditions? This is a conversation about the research findings related to Alzheimers, brain health and healthy aging. How much is determined by our genes and how much can we control with the lifestyle? What preventative measures are most effective and what does the science say about treatment potential? Tune in to learn the answers to these questions.
To learn more or participate in Emory Healthy Aging Study, please visit:
https://healthyaging.emory.edu/
Mike Bacha has been the Executive Chef for Emory University Hospital for close to nine years. Prior to Emory, Mike was the opening Chef de Cuisine of Repast restaurant in midtown. The restaurant was named best new restaurant in America by Esquire magazine, top five best new restaurant in Atlanta by Jezebel and best wine driven menu by Wine Enthusiast. Other notable positions include saucier at The Ritz Carlton Buckhead and Chef de Cuisine at Chateau Elan Winery.
Mike have spent the past nine years reforming an institutional kitchen into a kitchen that prides itself on producing in house food from scratch, sourcing local sustainable ingredients, and providing healthier options for patients, guests and staff. His mission as the Executive Chef is to continue to develop Emory's menus to focus even more on the sustainability of food and educate his staff, visitors and patients about the importance of food sourcing and good cooking techniques.
Mike takes us behind the scenes on what cooking for a large hospital looks like. He shares his journey and provides simple tips on adding flavor, local sourcing, and sustainability.
Michael Staufacker is a Director of Health Management in Central HR Administration at Emory University in Atlanta and has served in this role since 2012. He develops, implements, and evaluates health management programs and services for 30,000 university and healthcare employees. He partners with Emory’s benefits department to ensure health plan (48,000 members) and other vendor partners are accountable for health improvement (pharmacy benefit management, case management, disease management, maternity management, behavioral mental health, lifestyle management).
From 1994 until 2012, Michael worked for StayWell Health Management in a variety of roles including Account Management, Call Center Management, and Product Development & Management.
Prior to that, he was the Health Education Director for the American Lung Association of Kentucky from where he was responsible for programs related to the prevention and control of lung disease.
In this conversation Michael and Dr. Bergquist discuss the history and trends of employee wellness programs, the lessons learned and the direction forward. Michael talks about implications and benefits of work-site wellness programs to employees and employers, ways to measure the success, new areas of focus, effective tools, strategy behind incentives, the role of technology, the role of leadership, and much more.
Helpful resources:
https://hero-health.org/
https://www.cdc.gov/workplacehealthpromotion/index.html
Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Pegg Frates, is a physician and certified health and wellness coach. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, as a double major in psychology and biology.
Then, she attended Stanford University Medical School where she chose the specialty of Physiatry. Dr. Frates came back to Boston for her internship in internal medicine at MGH and residency at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in the Harvard Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. There, she served as chief resident and President of the National Resident Physician Committee for the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. During her residency, she performed research on patient and caregiver knowledge and expectations for functional recovery after stroke and published those results in the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Finding there was a lack of understanding of stroke basics in both patients and caregivers post stroke, she co-authored a book to help fill this gap. The book is titled "Life After Stroke: The Guide to Recovering Your Health and Preventing Another Stroke" (2006) Johns Hopkins University Press.
Dr. Frates has trained in many different programs addressing behavior change in order to learn how to empower people to adopt healthy habits, those that prevent stroke and other lifestyle related diseases. This training includes a certification in Motivational Interviewing from UMass, certification in health and wellness coaching, Mind Body Medicine training with Dr. Herb Benson’s group, and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction training with Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn’s group. She has been actively involved with teaching evidence based wellness, healthy habits, stroke prevention as well as lifestyle medicine at the Harvard Medical School, Continuing Medical Education Conferences both nationally and internationally for years.
Dr. Frates founded her own wellness coaching company, Wellness Synergy in order to empower individuals and groups to attain their optimal level of wellness. She has developed 12 Steps to Wellness, which has helped people move from sitting on the couch eating potato chips to walking, tracking their steps with pedometers and enjoying fruits and vegetables. She is currently the Director of Wellness Programming at the Spaulding Stroke Research and Recovery Institute at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate. Dr. Frates is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Frates has worked in the area of lifestyle medicine for almost ten years. She is the Director of Medical Student Education at the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine, the faculty advisor for the Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group at Harvard Medical School and has directed wellness programs at Harvard College. In the fall of 2014, Dr. Frates created a college level course in lifestyle medicine from scratch. Using all her experience in medicine and coaching along with the latest evidence from the medical literature, Dr. Frates crafted the curriculum, wrote weekly case studies, quizzes, and discussion questions and lectured in two hour classes for 14 weeks in the course Psych E 1037 Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine at Harvard Extension School. Teaching is a passion for Dr. Frates.
Dr. Frates talks about shifting the perspective from "expert" approach to what she calls "COACH approach" to wellness and healing - an approach rooted in compassion, openness, appreciation, curiosity and honesty.
To learn more please visit:
Website:
http://wellness-synergy.com
Twitter:
@BethFratesMD
Course Website:
https://www.extension.harvard.edu/academics/courses/introduction-lifestyle-medicine/14505
Mladen Golubić, MD, PhD, joined the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute in 2009 after completing residency training in internal medicine at Huron Hospital in East Cleveland, Ohio. He is currently the Medical Director of the Center for Lifestyle Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute.
Dr. Golubić is a graduate of the University of Zagreb School of Medicine in Croatia. He earned his doctorate at the same university after five years of post-doctoral fellowship at the Max-Planck Institute for Biology (Germany) in the field of immunogenetics. He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine. His specialty interests include lifestyle therapies for cardiovascular disease and lifestyle-related types of cancer.
Dr. Golubić was a project scientist at Cleveland Clinic in the Department of Molecular Biology (1992-1995), and the Neurosurgery and Brain Tumor Institute (1995-2006). He also directed education within the Center for Integrative Medicine (2003-2006).
Dr. Golubić is the author of more than 40 peer-reviewed articles, five book chapters, and numerous articles on Complementary and Alternative Medicine therapies for WebMD, and was a reviewer for several scientific journals. Dr. Golubić modeled yoga exercises in a 1993 video and in a 1995 book for yoga trainers by the American Yoga Association.
As a principal investigator, Dr. Golubić has received grant support from various national organizations, including the National Institutes of Health, for basic science and clinical research for his group’s work on therapeutic modulation of inflammation in patients with malignant brain tumors by dietary and herbal medicine approaches.
This is a conversation about the nature of Lifestyle Medicine, its goals, methods and benefits. We discuss the differences between lifestyle medicine, integrative medicine, functional medicine, explain the meaning of "lifestyle intervention", a concept of "teaching kitchen" and many other methods and technics that has been shown to be powerful and effective vehicles of lifestyle change benefiting long-term health and wellness.
For more information please visit:
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/departments/wellness
Joe Burton is the founder and CEO of Whil, the leading mindfulness training platform helping employees to reduce stress, increase resilience and improve their sleep and performance. He is an entrepreneur in scientific wellbeing, former President of Headspace and spent fifteen years as a global COO in public companies. Joe is an alumnus of Harvard Business School, authorof Creating Mindful Leaders and regular contributor to Forbes, Business Insider and HuPost. He's worked in over 50 countries and travels the world speaking on disruption, resilience, culture, emotional intelligence and mindfulness as a competitive advantage.
Joe shares his personal story and the shift in perspective that motivated him to found Whil. It is a conversation about modern stress levels, the pressing need for emotional resilience and mindfulness training, understanding how our brains works, as well as the resources and simple practices available to manage stress on both individual and corporate level.
Learn more and connect at:
https://www.whil.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joeburton1/
Why is it that when service members are preparing for combat we call it "training", but we call efforts to transition back to living in peaceful environment "seeking help"? What if we reframed this approach... What if it was NOT "seeking help", but "training for peace"?
This week our host Dr. Sharon Bergquist sits down with Shaun Lewis, the Lead Veteran Outreach Coordinator for the Emory Healthcare Veterans program. Shaun is a 17-year Army Veteran, with three years Active Duty and 14, and counting, in the Army Reserve, including two overseas tours, one a combat tour in Iraq planning and conducting route clearance missions.Since 2014 Shaun has worked in Veteran services for education, career development, and healthcare.
Shaun and Dr. Bergquist talk about PTSD, its root cause, some of the surprising facts related to it, and the stigma that is still very present in the day. Shaun shares his personal experience, as well as the stories of some of the veterans he has worked with through Emory Healthcare Veterans Program.
“Healing Invisible Wounds” is the motto an the mission for The Emory Healthcare Veterans Program (EHVP), which is designed to treat conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), military sexual trauma (MST), anxiety, and depression related to past military service. Their highly skilled team of professionals is led by world-renowned Emory clinical psychologist Barbara Rothbaum, PhD, who has been working in the PTSD field since 1986 and pioneered virtual reality exposure (VRE) therapy to help Veterans and service members face their worst memories and move on with their lives. The team consists of specialists in several fields including psychiatry, neurology, neuropsychology and social work.
The Three Cores of EHVP are:
- Psychological and psychiatric care
- Traumatic brain injury and neurological care
- Holistic integrative medicine for wellness
Clinical Service Offered:
- Trauma-focused therapy
- Medication
- Virtual reality exposure
- Cognitive rehabilitation therapy
- Family/relationship management skills
- Wellness Services Offered
- Sleep training
- Stress management skills
- Yoga
- Personal Training and Gym membership
- Nutrition education
- Acupuncture
- Massage
Other Services Offered
- Financial and career counseling
- Recreational activities e.g. Falcon Games, Festivals, Atlanta Botanical Garden, etc.
- GA Aquarium Immersion Program
- Veterans Affairs Liaison
- Veteran Resource guidance
- Opportunities to collaborate with other Veteran service organizations, including Team RWB, The Mission Continues, The Wounded Warrior Project, and others.
To learn more please visit:
Webpage: www.emoryhealthcare.org/veterans
The Emory Difference with Monica Pearson : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63f95_82xdk&index=3&list=PLwu47d4ufBLf-bs0ICRgYgHpci32UdAoG&t=0s
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EmoryVeteransProgram/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EmoryVeterans
AJC article on one of our patients: https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/troubled-vet-reclaims-her-life-with-emory-help/yz1xtqk1WjWiZzXyLztf6M/
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pukREJIDGQ
Spot we got on local news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=actSO5mX5g8&list=PLUgtVJuOxfqnBAkElYgm0VFAQ5N775yCg&t=0s&index=26
Brian E. Hill, MD is a Founder, President and Chief Medical Officer at HIPnation, an innovative healthcare delivery company with the mission to provide high-quality, accessible, affordable, 24-7 primary care services. Dr. Hill is a partner and practicing physician with Urology Specialists of Atlanta, is on the board of the Medical Association of Atlanta and is a delegate to the Medical Association of Georgia annual House of Delegates. He has been selected to the League of Leaders with the Institute of Healthcare Consumerism and service on the IHC editorial advisory board. Dr. Hill is the author of Stop the Noise: A Physician’s Quest to Silence the Politics of Health Care Reform as well as numerous articles on healthcare reform.
To lear more visit: https://hipnation.com
Bruce Friedrich is executive director of The Good Food Institute (GFI), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that promotes innovative alternatives to industrially produced animal products. Bruce has penned opinion pieces for USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. Bruce is a popular speaker on college campuses and has presented repeatedly at most of the nation's top universities, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and MIT. Bruce co-authored two books, contributed chapters to six books, and authored seven law review articles. Bruce graduated magna cum laude from the Georgetown Law and Phi Beta Kappa from Grinnell College. He also holds degrees from Johns Hopkins University and the London School of Economics.
This is a conversation about innovative solutions to animal food alternatives that are emerging on the market today. Producing animal products for mass consumption is extremely inefficient, and is increasingly so with rapidly increasing population on the planet. Bruce talks about the environmental impact of our modern diet, and inefficiencies inherent in it. He talks about his work, and the mission of the Good Food Institute in the area of science and research, food innovation and policy.. He describes the innovative solutions, such as plant-based meat and clean meat, that are rapidly getting support and investment from large food companies.
GFI website & social: http://www.gfi.org
https://www.facebook.com/thegoodfoodinstitute/
https://twitter.com/GoodFoodInst
Some key articles: Nerds Over Cattle: How Food Technology Will Save the World - https://www.wired.com/2016/10/nerds-cattle-food-technology-will-save-world/
The Good Food Institute’s Executive Director Bruce Friedrich takes to Wired to discuss the various problems caused by our current method of producing meat, and how plant-based and clean meat will be able to solve those problems.
“Markets & Food Technology Will Save the World” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liZtyP2tKhA
Bruce Friedrich’s TEDx talk covers the basics of why our current system of producing meat is inefficient and harmful, and how new technologies and markets will be the fix.
Clean Meat: The Clean Energy of Food - https://www.gfi.org/clean-meat-the-clean-energy-of-food
The Good Food Institute’s Executive Director Bruce Friedrich explaining the environmental and public health benefits of this groundbreaking food tech, and why it earns the name “clean meat.”
Will People Eat Clean Meat? - https://www.gfi.org/will-people-eat-clean-meat
A summary of The Good Food Institute’s Executive Director Bruce Friedrich’s presentation at the International Cultured Meat Conference in Maastricht on the question of consumer acceptance.
Transforming the Meat Industry from the Inside Out - https://www.gfi.org/transforming-the-meat-industry-from-the-inside
It has been an open question as to whether the current meat industry would see this coming transformation as an opportunity or a threat. Investments and acquisitions have shown that many meat companies recognize the opportunity presented by these coming changes. Written before Tyson’s investment in Memphis Meats, and PHW Group’s investment in SuperMeat.
Michael C. Hollie, MD is a practicing physician board certified in Asthma, Allergy and Immunology. He received his undergraduate degree from the College of Idaho. Dr. Hollie attended Loma Linda University School of Medicine in Loma Linda, California, and received his medical degree in 1985. Subsequently, he trained in Pediatrics at Loma Linda University Medical Center and T.C. Thompson Children's Hospital, Chattanooga, TN where he was Chief Resident. He completed his asthma, allergy, and immunology training at National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine in Denver, Colorado. He served in the U.S. Air Force in Phoenix, AZ where he was Chief of Allergy and Immunology. He currently practices in the Chattanooga, TN area treating adult and pediatric patients. Dr. Hollie is a member of the teaching faculty at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Chattanooga Unit. He is a member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.
Dr. Hollie is the speaker for "Dinner with the Doctor" (DWTD) an instructional program developed to educate people about how to implement a whole food, plant based (WFPB) approach for treating, preventing and reversing disease. DWTD is a practical, hands-on application of the Forks Over Knives lifestyle. DWTD offers monthly programs consisting of a health presentation along with a tasty WFPB meal served to the attendees. On alternate months, oil free, WFPB food preparation demonstrations allow participants to see first-hand how they can cook healthy meals at home. The program is offered to the community and has multiple locations throughout the Chattanooga, TN area and North Georgia region.
Dr. Hollie was the medical consultant for, and also appears in the documentary Eating You Alive. Eating You Alive features leading medical experts and researchers taking a scientific look at the reasons we’re so sick, who’s responsible for feeding us the wrong information and how we can use simple, whole food, plant based nutrition to take control of our health.
Dr. Hollie and his wife Cindy Ford Hollie, MD have two adult sons and the entire family embraces the WFPB approach to eating and health.
Dr. Hollie talks about how he found whole food plant-based lifestyle and the health improvements he has experienced, that lead him to share it in his work; he talks about starting Dinner with the Doctor program and how it went from a small class in a church to a program that continues to change lives for thousands of people; he shares his experience with working on Eating You Alive documentary, as well as the educational work he does in Romania.
To learn more please visit:
https://www.dinnerwiththedoctor.com
https://www.plantbaseddoctors.org/michael-hollie
https://nutritionstudies.org/dinner-with-the-doctor/
Matt Ruscigno, MPH, RD is a registered dietitian with two nutrition degrees, including graduate training at Loma Linda, one of the only accredited universities promoting plant-based diets. He is the past-Chair of the Vegetarian Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and co-author of No Meat Athlete. Matt lives in Los Angeles where he has taught community college and worked with low-income youth creating after-school cooking and gardening programs. Currently he is the Chief Nutrition Officer for Nutrinic, a healthcare company that uses plant-based diets to reduce risk for chronic diseases.
This is the conversation about the evidence behind and how to follow a plant-based to diet to reduce, prevent and reverse chronic disease. Matt briefly covers ethical and environmental argument for plant-based diet, and goes in detail about the health benefits of this lifestyle. He talks about the barriers in behavioral change, ways to overcome them and the proven health benefits that are inevitable when transitioning to plant-based lifestyle.
To learn more please visit:
Website: https://truelovehealth.com
Nutrinic: https://nutrinic.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/mattruscigno/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattruscigno
Newsletter: https://truelovehealth.us8.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=c2c2ae43a3525bbf72821a12d&id=6fafdcdf69
Dr. Matthew T. McKenna is a Professor in Emory School of Medicine, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine where he has been director of the Division of Preventive Medicine for almost two years. He has extensive experience in public health and preventive medicine. From 1989 – 2000, he worked for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and before joining the Emory faculty he was the Medical Director for the Fulton County (the county where the city of Atlanta is located) Department of Health and Wellness from 2010 to 2015. Dr. McKenna is a graduate of the Emory University School of Medicine, and he completed his residency in Family Medicine and a post-doctoral fellowship in epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh. He was involved in several programs during his career at CDC including Cancer Prevention and Control, Tuberculosis, HIV and his last position at CDC was as the Director of the Office on Smoking and Health. He is Board Certified in Family Medicine and General Preventive Medicine and Public Health.
Though most of his prevention work has involved the demographic and social determinants of health, Dr. McKenna continued to practice primary care throughout his career. In his current position he continues to provide medical services to patients in the Emory Family Medicine clinic, and he is committed to engaging a full spectrum of health care providers in the learning and practice of health care prevention, lifestyle change, and population health. He also continues to serve on the editorial and advisory boards for a variety of public health organizations, and publications, and he works hard to use his bicycle as a primary mode of transportation whenever possible.
This is a conversation about ways to improve public health in communities and a power of each individual to make an impact. It is also a conversation about making changes in our personal lives - simple steps that, when incorporated in every-day life, make a big difference. This includes behaviors, simple principles around food, exercise and stress management.
Linda Wilcoxon Craighead, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at Emory University in Atlanta and has been the Director of their Clinical Psychology Training Program since 2003. Dr. Craighead received her B.A. from Vanderbilt University and her Ph.D. in Psychology from The Pennsylvania State University. Prior to moving to Emory she had been on the faculty at The Pennsylvania State University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and The University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr. Craighead has published extensively in the areas of eating disorders and weight concerns. She developed and evaluated an intervention called Appetite Awareness Training (AAT), described in The Appetite Awareness Workbook: How to listen to your body and overcome binge eating, overeating and preoccupation with food (New Harbinger, 2006). Dr. Craighead has also published a book on AAT for children and their families called Training Your Inner Pup to Eat Well, Lanier Press).
This is a conversation about helping kids and families to develop healthy eating habits, helping kids develop a healthy body image and teaching parents how to talk about food in a healthy way.
To learn more about Dr. Craighead's work please visit:
https://craigheadlab.weebly.com/
http://psychology.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/craighead-linda.html
Dr. Redmond is a Senior Manager in Clinical Evidence at a specialty diagnostic laboratory and also owns runs her own private practice nutrition consulting business, Nutrition Provisions in downtown Atlanta. Dr. Redmond earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Nutrition at the University of Georgia, in Athens. Her dissertation focused on diabetes self-care activities in older adults and the ability of a nutrition and diabetes education program to effect change. Dr. Redmond got her Master of Medical Science in Clinical Nutrition from Emory University with a focus on colorectal cancer in relation to fiber and calcium. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nutrition from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas.
Dr. Redmond has worked in content development, clinical research, public health, as a speaker, and as a nutrition practitioner focusing on those trying to make lifestyle changes. Her clients include those with, and trying to avoid, prediabetes, high blood pressure, GI issues, and mood disorders. Dr. Redmond is the recipient of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 2016 Dietitians in Integrative and Functional Medicine's Excellence in Practice award, is past chair of Dietitians in Integrative and Functional Medicine a dietetic practice group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, was a working group member of the American Dietetic Association Standards of Practice (SOP), and is one of the three developers of the Integrative and Functional Medical Nutrition Therapy (IFMNT) Radial which is the current accepted conceptual model of how to apply integrative and functional nutrition in practice. She is well versed in nutritional, microbiome and environmental toxin testing. Dr. Redmond was one of the researchers of the first clinically available fecal microbiome test and has done extensive research on how diet and lifestyle can impact the microbiome.
This is a conversation about functional and integrative nutrition, various testing options available on the market today, common nutrient deficiencies , and how and when to look for dietitian.
To learn more visit https://www.nutritionprovisions.com/about/
Jonathan K. Crane is the Raymond F. Schinazi Scholar of Bioethics and Jewish Thought at Emory University’s Center for Ethics. He is also an Associate Professor of Medicine, Emory School of Medicine, and an Associate Professor of Religion, Emory College.
Jonathan has recently published a book - "Eating Ethically: Religion and Science for a Better Diet"- available for purchase at https://cup.columbia.edu/book/eating-ethically/9780231173445
He earned a B.A. (summa cum laude) from Wheaton College in Massachusetts, a M.A. in international peace studies from the University of Notre Dame, a M.Phil. in Gandhian thought from Gujarat Vidyapith in India, a M.A. in Hebrew Literature and rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, and a Ph.D. in religion from the University of Toronto. The co-author of Ahimsa: The Way to Peace, co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality, author of Narratives and Jewish Bioethics, editor of Beastly Morality: Animals as Ethical Agents, author of Eating Ethically: Religion and Science for a Better Diet, and editor of Shades: Race with Jewish Ethics (forthcoming), he is the founder and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Jewish Ethics. A past president of the The Society of Jewish Ethics, he frequently speaks and publishes broadly on Judaism, ethics and bioethics, comparative religious ethics, narrative ethics, eating, environmental and animal ethics, among other topics. He was awarded an honorary degree from Wheaton College.
In our modern world, eating can be a conundrum. We have so many choices but often the thought of making one about food is burdensome. Jonathan Crane looks to some conventional wisdom mixed with contemporary perspective to ask some provocative questions about food and our relationship with it. He explores the notions of what it means to eat well, to eat poorly, and everything in between. Yes, humans rely on food for survival and nourishment, but we also grow relationships, community, and reflect our cultural and geographical context through food. Eating Ethically is a compelling look into the complex network of food, religion, science, and culture in a unique way that will leave you with plenty of ‘food for thought.’
To learn more or to connect with Dr. Jonathan Crane please go to https://jonathankcrane.wordpress.com .
Dr. Cassandra Quave is Curator of the Emory University Herbarium and Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Human Health at Emory University, where she leads antibiotic drug discovery research initiatives and teaches undergraduate courses on medicinal plants, food and health. Trained as a medical ethnobotanist, her research is focused on the documentation and biochemical analysis of botanical remedies used in the traditional treatment of infectious and inflammatory skin disease. To date, she has authored more than 60 publications, 2 edited books and 3 patents.
Dr. Quave is the co-founder and CEO/CSO of PhytoTEK LLC, a drug discovery company dedicated to developing solutions from botanicals for the treatment of recalcitrant antibiotic resistant infections. She is also a Past President of the President of the Society for Economic Botany, an international society with the mission of fostering research and education on the past, present, and future uses of plants by people.
Her work has been profiled in the New York Times Magazine, BBC Focus, Brigitte Magazin and National Geographic Channel, and featured on NPR, National Geographic Magazine and several major news outlets including the Washington Post, The Telegraph, CBS News, and NBC News.
This is a conversation about the the true, unique and profound power of plants as medicine, the knowledge that has been passed down through generations, as well as new discoveries, recently verified through studies. Dr. Quave shares her knowledge and experience from years in both - the lab AND the field, tapping into the roots of future medicine.
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Felipe Lobelo, M.D., Ph.D., FAHA, is an Associate Professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health at Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health and Senior Physician Consultant for Population Health Research, Department of Quality and Patient Safety, The Southeast Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Permanente Georgia.
His interests are in chronic disease prevention, implementation science, mHealth and population health and quality improvements leveraging clinical-community linkages. He has authored more than 120 peer-reviewed scientific publications and directs the Exercise is Medicine Global Research and Collaboration Center. Dr. Lobelo has a special interest in global health and health disparities in both non-communicable and infectious diseases.
From 2008 to 2010 he served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer at CDC and was involved in international epidemiological field investigations, having an active role in CDC's H1N1 response; investigating the outbreak abroad and serving as CDC's spokesperson for Hispanic/Latino populations. His work with H1N1 took him to the White House, where he served as the CDC representative in the first-ever Spanish Town Hall Meeting alongside President Obama and around the nation for vaccine campaign outreach events for at-risk populations/minorities. From 2010 to 2014, Dr Lobelo served in various roles as a Medical Epidemiologist at CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention in their Office of the Director and their Diabetes Translation and Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity divisions. In 2012 was selected as Fellow of the American Heart Association and currently Chairs their Physical Activity Committee.
Dr. Lobelo believes in “practicing what you preach” and strongly advocates for doctors to become healthy role models. He enjoys soccer and plays for the US Medical Soccer Team, the US representative in the Annual “World Cup for Doctors”.
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To learn more:
Exercise is Medicine Global Research and Collaboration Center:
https://www.exerciseismedicine.org/support_page.php/global-research-and-collaboration-center0/
Current Exercise studies at Emory:
https://eimconnection.com/
A recent paper on our work in the Circulation Journal:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29618598
Dr. Haack received her MD at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine in 2006, and completed a General Surgery Residency at Emory University School of Medicine from 2006-2011. During her chief residency at Emory University School of Medicine, Dr. Haack was named a Grady Memorial Hospital Healthcare Hero by the Grady Health Foundation and received the David V. Feliciano Teaching Award. Upon completion of her training in June 2011, she joined Emory University.
Her primary clinical location is the Acute and Critical Care Surgery Service of Emory University Hospital. In 2013, she participated in the creation of the content for Emory's patient education app "Come Clean: Stop Surgical Infections Before They Start," which educates patients on wound care and how to reduce their risks for surgical site infections.
Since 2014, Dr. Haack has participated in the Emory Haiti Alliance's Summer trips to Haiti, which offer medical attention and surgery to patients in Haiti's Central Plateau.
Dr. Haack became a certified yoga instructor in 2015 and has been active in studying, teaching and sharing yoga and mindfulness with the community at Emory University Hospital since that time. Through the generosity of the Rollins Foundation, Dr. Haack sponsors free yoga classes for faculty, students and staff every weekday at Emory University Hospital .
In this conversation Dr. Haack shares her personal path to discovering yoga and how she incorporates in in the operating rooms, she talks about the history of yoga, its different styles, and various benefits of incorporating it in your practice.
Dr. Omer Kucuk is a medical oncologist and professor at Emory Universtity with a major interest in nutrition and cancer prevention, Dr. Kucuk mainly treats patients with prostate, bladder and kidney cancer. Dr. Kucuk has conducted the first clinical trial to show the benefits of soy isoflavones and lycopene in prostate cancer treatment.
Nutrition and cancer therapy are Dr. Kucuk's primary research focus. He has published extensively on various nutrients and botanicals alone and in combination with chemotherapy and radiation. Dr. Kucuk has been conducting preclinical and clinical studies with soy isoflavones, lycopene and other nutritional and botanical compounds since 1996. He is investigating the effects of micronutrients and phytochemicals on biomarkers of cell growth, differentiation, metastasis, inflammation, oxidative stress, DNA methylation and gene expression in a variety of cancers. His research also includes clinical studies on the epigenetic effects of botanicals, physical activity and relaxation techniques such as meditation and yoga.
In this conversation Dr. Bergquist and Dr. Kucuk discuss:
- Integrative Medicine, its definition and history
- The role of antioxidants, vitamins and phytonutrients
- Why emphasize whole foods
- Effects of soy on patients with cancer
- Effects of lycopene
- The effects of diet, exercise and stress management on gene expression
- Effects of acupuncture, yoga and meditation
- Survivorship and recovery post-cancer
Overall conclusion is that complementary treatments, like nutrition, exercise and stress management, reduce the risk of cancer, improve the chances of survivorship and response to treament for patients diagnosed with cancer, reduce the likelihood of recurrence of cancer and improve the quality of life long-term.
Dr. Kucuk's selected publications and high impact papers from over 200 peer reviewed papers:
• Zhang S, Wang Y, Chen Z, Kim S, Chi A, Ritenour C, Wang YA, Kucuk O, Wu D. Genistein Enhances The Efficacy of Cabazitaxel Chemotherapy In Human Prostate Cancer Cells. Prostate 73:1681-1689, 2013.
• Wang Y, Zhang S, Iqbal S, Chen Z, Wang YA, Ritenour C, Kucuk O, Wu D. Pomegranate extract inhibits the bone metastatic growth of human prostate cancer. Prostate . 2013 Dec 23. doi: 10.1002/pros.22769
• Sahin K, Orhan C, Tuzcu M, Sahin N, Ali S, Bahcecioglu IH, Guler O, Ozercan IH, Ilhan N, Kucuk O. Lycopene Attenuates Diethylnitrosamine-Induced Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Rats by Modulating Nrf-2/HO-1 and Akt/mTOR Pathways. Nutr Cancer, March 2014. PMID:24660901 (epub ahead of print)
• Souza L, Silva E, Calloway E, Kucuk O, Rossi M, McLemore ML. Genistein Protects Hematopoietic Stem Cells Against GCSF-induced DNA Damage. Cancer Prev Res. March 2014. PMID 24614013 (epublished ahead of print)
• Kucuk O, Sarkar F, Sakr W, Djuric Z, Khachik F, Pollak M, Bertram J, Grignon D,
Banerjee M, Crissman J, Pontes E, Wood DP Jr. Phase II randomized clinical trial of lycopene supplementation before radical prostatectomy. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 10:861-868, 2001.
• Hussain M, Banerjee M, Sarkar FH, Djuric Z, Pollak MN, Doerge D, Fontana J, Chinni S, Davis J, Forman J, Wood DP, and Kucuk O. Soy isoflavones in the treatment of prostate cancer. Nutrition & Cancer 47:111-117, 2003.
Current Research Support
NIH- R21 CA164612-01A1 (PI: Daqing Wu). Omer Kucuk, Co-Investigator (5% effort): “EPLIN as a Molecular Target of Genistein (Soy isoflavone) in Preventing Prostate Cancer Metastasis”. 7/1/2012 – 6/30/2014.
NIH R01 CA129356-0. David Schuster (PI), Omer Kucuk (Co-investigator): 18F-FACBC PET-CT for the Detection and Staging of Recurrent Prostate Carcinoma.
Pending Research Support
Small Business Technology Transfer Research grant (STTR) application NIH (PI): A dietary supplement as adjunct therapy in castration-resistant prostate cancer. (Daqing Wu, MetCure, Metaclipse Therapeutic LLC)
Small Business Research grant (SBIR) application NIH (PI): A dietary supplement as adjunct therapy in castration resistant prostate cancer. (Subcontract to Daqing Wu, MetCure, LLC)
Dominick Thompson is a leader in the vegan community and founder of Crazies and Weirdos®, a successful New York based start-up company that produces hip, sustainable clothing made in New York from recycled and organic materials. He is also the founder of The RUNNING HERD, a sports and fitness brand, dedicated to the working professional, with plans to open training facilities in 2019.
Prior to his current role as a social entrepreneur and activist, he was a healthcare executive responsible for the business development and management of critical relationships with hospital systems and other provider types responsible for delivering services to both small and large communities throughout the eastern region of the United States.
Despite this rigorous schedule, at the core, he is still an activist as well as an athlete. Not just any athlete, but a working athlete whose weekly training schedule includes cycling, swimming, running, calisthenics, boxing, cross-fit, cross-training, weight and power-lifting. He also competes year round in 10-12 endurance races per year, including marathons, triathlons, and ultra-races.
Because of this and his assertive activism, Dominick has received global recognition and has been featured in NPR News, ABC News,Men’s Health Magazine, Men’s Muscle and Fitness Magazine, Esquire, Veg News Magazine,bodybuilding.com, PETA and more. His social media platform is strong and continues to grow while producing some of the most inspiring, impactful content to over 180,000 followers.
Dominick shares his incredibly inspiring story of rough childhood, facing the consequences of his actions, embracing adversity and re-inventing himself as a successful vegan athlete entrepreneur. If you are still concerned about your protein intake on a plant-based diet, one look at Dominick might just put those fears to rest.
To learn more and connect with Dominick follow the links below:
https://www.instagram.com/domzthompson/
https://www.facebook.com/domzthompso
http://www.craziesandweirdos.com
Jennifer Mascaro, PhD is a biological anthropologist with research interests that center on (1) the variation in, and plasticity of, human social cognition, and (2) the biology of interconnectedness. To this end, she uses structural and functional neuroimaging to explore how behavioral, cultural, hormonal, and genetic factors affect prosocial emotions and behaviors, and how these in turn impact health. Her work is ever collaborative and falls at the interface of medicine, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, religion, and social, clinical, and cognitive psychology.
In this conversation we discuss:
- Social cognition;
- Biology of interconnectedness;
- Understanding compassion, its meaning, where it comes from, and how it affects our health on physical and emotional levels;
- Gender differences and social norms around expressing compassion; masculinity and "fierce compassion";
- Compassion and parenting;
- Developing the skills of compassion and emotional intelligence.
To learn more please follow the links below:
https://www.mascarolab.org/
http://www.fpm.emory.edu/
Dr. Joseph Esposito, known as “Dr. Joe” to his colleagues, patients and friends, has been called one of the most dynamic and authoritative international nutritional experts of our time. Dr. Joe, because of his knowledge, expertise, and legendary sense of humor, is a highly sought-after speaker by corporations, educational institutions and international sports events. He is also a nationally recognized radio and television consultant and a pioneer in the field of nutrition, health and longevity. His leading-edge research in the field of food and how it affects all aspects of health and disease has helped thousands of people. Dr. Joe is a resident of Marietta, Georgia. He is the president of Health Plus Wellness Center, a multidisciplinary health care center specializing in prevention health care and life extension.
In this episode, we are welcoming Dr. Joe for another conversation on the topic of Food Sex Connection - what is the connection between nutrition and sex life, and how to prepare a romantic dinner that enhances our love life instead suppressing it?
Topics discussed in this episode:
- How Dr. Esposito got started on his path of Chiropractor and where he finds his passion today
- What is the Food - Sex connection?
- How food effects hormone levels
- How simple sugars, oils, fatty foods, meats, dairy products , and alcohol effect our love life
- How to prepare a “romantic dinner” that enhances your love life instead of suppressing it
- Foods that enhance blood circulation, brain function and consequently improve your love life
- Effects of raw foods and nitrates on body functions
- Changes in sex life that come with age and what we can do to help it
For more information follow the links below:
https://www.drjoeesposito.com
https://www.facebook.com/drjoeesposito/
https://www.instagram.com/drjoeesposito/
https://www.youtube.com/user/DrJoeEsposito (Videos of lectures and radio shows)
https://soundcloud.com/dr-joe-esposito (archived radio shows)
Gabriele C. Miotto, M.D., is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Emory University School of Medicine, and the Associate Program Director of the Emory Aesthetic Center Fellowship program. She is fellowship trained in aesthetic and oculoplastic surgery and certified by the Georgia Composite Medical Board as well as the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery. Dr. Miotto is also certified by the National Board of Medical Examiners.
Working in the field of aesthetic plastic surgery for more than a decade, Dr. Miotto’s greatest achievement is a happy patient. Dr. Miotto brings a woman’s perspective and an international view that is unique to someone that trained in the two largest countries for plastic surgery: Brazil and the USA. She is proud of her focus on excellence and attention to detail to all cosmetic procedures, from breast augmentation and liposculpture, to face, eye and nose surgery. She also excels in facial fillers and nonsurgical facial rejuvenation.
Topics discussed during the interview:
- Understanding patient as a whole and artistic approach to aesthetics
- Self-esteem and self-perception
- Spectrum of cosmetics, self-improvement versus vanity
- Perception and appreciation of beauty
- Internal and external approaches to skin care
- Effect of sugar and gluten on skin health and appearance
- Basic products for healthy skin: importance of sunscreen and how to choose a good one; moisturizers; Retinol and Vitamin C; choosing the right cleanser
- At what age should you start caring for your skin?
- The effect of stress and lack of sleep on skin and overall appearance
- Importance of drinking water
- Men and skin care
For more information about Dr. Miotto and her work follow the links below:
http://www.emoryhealthcare.org/centers-programs/aesthetic-center/index.html
https://www.emoryhealthcare.org/physicians/m/miotto-gabriele-c.html
https://www.realself.com/find/Georgia/Atlanta/Plastic-Surgeon/Gabriele-Miotto
Laurie Marbas, MD, MBA is a board certified family medicine physician and board certified in lifestyle medicine. She utilized a whole foods plant based diet with her patients for the past 6 years in rural Colorado and as the former medical director for Dr. Fuhrman’s Health Oasis in Boca Raton, Florida. There they combined the power of nutrient dense foods and intensive clinical psychological therapy to treat not only food addiction but the chronic diseases plaguing America. Now she is working for Doctor on Demand as telemedicine physician, licensed in 11 states. Telemedicine gives her the flexibility to work with individuals across the country.
She is the host of the How to Health podcast and website, howtohealth.org, that has online self guided classes for individuals who want to transition to a whole foods plant based diet and many resources for parents to help their kids eat healthier too! She also working the managing editor of a new medical journal, The International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention highlighting of plant based research and lifestyle interventions to combat chronic disease plaguing America and the world.
In Colorado, she convinced a large hospital to create a lifestyle medicine program centered around the whole foods plant based diet with resounding success. She also conducted a study of 26 employees at another hospital for one month on a plant based, all fed from the hospital’s kitchen (working with Chef Martin Oswald), each individual had improvement of their health. She has spoken at the the Plantrician Project, Et Cultura, Golden VegFest in Colorado and other venues teaching about the value of the WFPB diet.
She wrote 7 books while in medical school, six of which were in a series called “Visual Mnemonics”, using cartoons to memorize vast amounts of information because she was also a mom as a medical student. She is a USAF veteran having served in the Middle East and South America. She is wife, mom of three grown children, and an avid runner.
In this conversation, Dr. Marbas shares her story of discovering the healing power of plant-based diet through one of her patients' experiences and making it a "norm" for herself, her family and her patients. Since then, Dr. Marbas has witnessed many cases of disease reversal. She talks about her approach to helping patients adopt healthy diet, strategies to get families, including children, to eat more veggies, and tips on how not get give into cravings.
Dr. Marbas is a managing editor for a new medical journal launching in the fall called the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention. The past president of the American College of Cardiology, Dr. Kim Williams, is the Editor in Chief. The website is http://ijdrp.org .
Podcast: How To Health, found on youtube and iTunes, SoundCloud, and stitcher.
https://soundcloud.com/stream
Website: https://www.howtohealth.org
Jenny Bilko, MS, RDN, LD has Master of Science in Nutrition Sciences and Dietetic Internship certification from University of Alabama at Birmingham and works as a Registered Dietitian for Emory’s Paul W. Seavey Comprehensive Internal Medicine Clinic.
She has a passion for healthy eating and shares simple and effective tools for how to make cooking at home easy, affordable and fun!
Some of the topics discussed are:
- Meal planning and preparation
- Reading labels and what to look for
- Convenience shortcuts without shortchanging yourself
- What to keep in your pantry for an easy quick meal?
- Benefits of choosing whole foods
- Why cook your own meals?
- What to look for in food delivery service ?
- How to get started?
For more tips and helpful information follow Jenny on Instagram @jbilko .
Will Bulsiewicz, MD MSCI ("Dr. B") is a graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine. He trained in internal medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and gastroenterology at The University of North Carolina Hospitals. He also earned a Master of Science in Clinical Investigation (MSCI) from Northwestern University and a certificate in nutrition from Cornell University. Dr. Bulsiewicz is board-certified in both internal medicine and gastroenterology.
Dr. B. is a respected clinician and the recipient of numerous awards. At Northwestern, he received the prestigious Rambach Award, was elected into the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society, and was Chief Medical Resident. At UNC, he once again received the highest clinical award given by the program and was Chief Gastroenterology Fellow.
Dr. B also has an accomplished background in research, with more than 20 articles published in peer reviewed scientific journals including repeatedly publishing in the top American gastroenterology journals: Gastroenterology, The American Journal of Gastroenterology, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. He has given more than 40 presentations at national meetings. He also did an epidemiology fellowship at the world renowned UNC - Gillings School of Global Public Health and received a prestigious grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Dr B started his @theguthealthmd Instagram page in 2016 and it has quickly become the Internet’s most trusted source for gut health guidance. He has been featured in numerous national magazines, including Men’s Health, Women's Health and Reader’s Digest, has been profiled by The Post & Courier and Vanderbilt Magazine, and he regularly gives sold out lectures on gut health.
He is in clinical practice at Lowcountry Gastroenterology in Charleston, SC.
Topics discussed in this conversation are:
- what is gut health, most recent research;
- how diet effects microbiome;
- effectiveness of probiotics and prebiotics, who should use them and when;
- importance of fiber, different kinds of fiber;
- effects of antibiotics on gut health.
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Dr. Joseph Esposito, known as “Dr. Joe” to his colleagues, patients and friends, has been called one of the most dynamic and authoritative international nutritional experts of our time. Dr. Joe, because of his knowledge, expertise, and legendary sense of humor, is a highly sought-after speaker by corporations, educational institutions and international sports events. He is also a nationally recognized radio and television consultant and a pioneer in the field of nutrition, health and longevity. His leading-edge research in the field of food and how it affects all aspects of health and disease has helped thousands of people. Dr. Joe is a resident of Marietta, Georgia. He is the president of Health Plus Wellness Center, a multidisciplinary health care center specializing in prevention health care and life extension.
In this episode, Dr. Joe speaks about the whole health approach and 3 things we need for obtaining and maintaining good health: a well-functioning nerve system, well-functioning digestive system and good nutrition.
Dr. Joe describes what he calls "Seven Deadly Sins" - foods you should avoid.
- 7 Deadly Sins:
- Alcohol
- Coffee
- Meat
- Sugar
- Dairy
- Artificial sweeteners
- Soda
Dr. Joe then goes on to describe the foods you can, and should eat, like fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds.
Other topics discussed include:
- Chiropractic care, goals, different types of adjustment, what to look for and what to expect.
- Pain management.
- Soft tissue adjustment.
For more information follow the links below:
https://www.drjoeesposito.com
https://www.facebook.com/drjoeesposito/
https://www.instagram.com/drjoeesposito/
https://www.youtube.com/user/DrJoeEsposito (Videos of lectures and radio shows)
https://soundcloud.com/dr-joe-esposito (archived radio shows)
Wayne B. Jonas, M.D. is a practicing family physician, an expert in integrative health and health care delivery, and a widely published scientific investigator. Dr. Jonas is the Executive Director of Samueli Integrative Health Programs, an effort supported by Henry and Susan Samueli to increase awareness of and access to integrative health. Additionally, Dr. Jonas is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Medical Corps of the United States Army. From 2001-2016, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit medical research organization supporting the scientific investigation of healing processes in the areas of stress, pain and resilience.
Dr. Jonas was the Director of the Office of Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 1995-1999, and prior to that served as the Director of the Medical Research Fellowship at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Dr. Jonas has led and participated in hundreds of research studies beginning with his time as Director of the National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine. While serving as CEO and President of the non-profit research organization Samueli Institute, his work set the bar for evidence-based research in the areas of pain, stress and human performance.
Dr. Jonas’ new book, How Healing Works, was published in January 2018 by Ten Speed Press. His research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, Nature Medicine, the Journal of Family Practice, the Annals of Internal Medicine, and The Lancet. Dr. Jonas received the 2015 Pioneer Award from the Integrative Healthcare Symposium, the 2007 America’s Top Family Doctors Award, the 2003 Pioneer Award from the American Holistic Medical Association, the 2002 Physician Recognition Award of the American Medical Association, and the 2002 Meritorious Activity Prize from the International Society of Life Information Science in Chiba, Japan.
Dr. Wayne Jonas explains how 80 percent of healing occurs organically and how to activate the healing process. Dr. Wayne Jonas lays out a revolutionary new way to approach injury, illness, and wellness; explains the biology of healing and the science behind the discovery that 80 percent of healing can be attributed to the mind-body connection and other naturally occurring processes. Dr. Jonas also details how the healing process works and what we can do to facilitate our own innate ability to heal. His advice will change how we consume health care, enabling us to be more in control of our recovery and lasting wellness.
Helpful links and resources:
"How Healing Works" Book : http://howhealingworks.org
Website: http://drwaynejonas.com
Patient and provider resources: http://drwaynejonas.com/resources/
Facebook and Twitter: @DrWayneJonas
Dr. Prologo is an interventional radiologist whose research has focused on the application of image guided techniques to the delivery of stem cell therapies, the treatment of cancer pain, and for obesity management. He is a nationally recognized expert in ablative therapies and has pioneered several new procedures in the subspecialty – including the cryoablation of nerves.
The topic Dr. David Prologo covers is “Why dieting fails, and how to overcome your body’s resistance?”
Some of the main points discussed include:
- The disconnect between resource available for weight loss and end user;
- Common challenges faced by patients;
- First steps on the path of weight loss;
- Advice for those who are struggling to lose weight;
- Downfalls of a “static” program;
- “The Catching point”;
- Latest research on obesity.
For more information on Dr. Prologo's work, please follow him on:
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCISthTHjqHbrsUTSz8DvTNA
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/jdprologo/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/jdprologo
Or go to his Website - https://www.drprologo.com