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Empowering you to make wise decisions about your own health, by providing you with essential health information about both medical and alternative treatment options. 921997
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Show 1483: Plant Power: Feed Your Gut and Fight Inflammation
When you decide to grab a bite to eat, do you think about how to feed your gut microbes? Most of us don’t. Even if we did, their only means of stating...
Show 1192: How a Scary Fungus Is Threatening the World
You may have heard about antibiotic-resistant bacteria. They can greatly complicate the treatment of infections. But have you ever heard of antifungal...
Show 1482: Are Your Kidneys in Trouble? Two Tests Could Tell You
Our kidneys do an incredible job filtering our blood every hour of every day. Most of us have two kidneys, and each one has about a million microscopi...
Show 1481: Flip-Flops, Fungus and Foot Pain: What Are Your Feet Trying to Tell You?
Millions of people suffer with foot trouble. Some have heel pain when they first get out of bed. Others complain of flat feet or bunions. Athlete’s fo...
Show 1459: Food Is Medicine: Should Your Doctor Be Prescribing Produce?
One of the most basic pillars of health is good nutrition. A range of eating patterns might all be considered balanced diets, but in general people do...
Show 1446: The Science of Strong Bones: Lifestyle, Medication and Movement
Are you concerned about your bone health? Do you worry about osteoporosis? According to the CDC, more than 10 million Americans have low bone density...
Show 1480: The Sleep Reset: How to Fall Asleep and Stay Asleep
Do you have trouble sleeping? An occasional late night or early morning is probably not dangerous, but too many people get too little sleep on a regul...
Show 1479: Must You Shun the Sun to Save Your Skin?
Steve Feldman, MD, in Dermatology clinic, Country Club Commons
Show 1412: Beyond Amyloid: The Science That Could Change the Course of Alzheimer Disease
This week, we look at the new pharmaceuticals that the FDA has approved for treating Alzheimer disease. Although they are effective at removing amyloi...
Show 1478: The Outdoor Prescription for Fighting Dementia, Depression and Heart Disease
Too many of us are spending our days staring at screens. Little screens on our phones, big screens on the television, medium-size screens on our compu...
Show 1477: Answering Your Questions About Vision Problems
Humans have five senses, but for most of us, sight dominates. That’s why vision problems are so distressing. Have you been dealing with difficulties w...
Show 1476: Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Roadmap for Managing Chronic Pain
Pain is an important warning signal, helping you protect your body from damage. That’s why we can view acute pain as an asset. Chronic pain, though, c...
Show 1475: Your Allergy Survival Guide: What Works, What Doesn’t, What’s Risky
You may think of allergies as causing sniffly noses and congestion in the spring or fall. But allergies can go far beyond that. As Dr. Kari Nadeau poi...
Show 1474: Treating the Cause, Not Just the Symptoms, with Functional Medicine
Over the years, we have spoken with scores of healthcare experts about chronic illness. Many of them attribute the problems to inflammation, which is...
Show 1473: How Music Heals: The Neuroscience Behind an Ancient Medicine
What do you conjure up when you think of music? Perhaps you imagine a singer-songwriter telling her story. On the other hand, you might imagine a para...
Show 1428: The Hidden Power of the Unconscious Brain
In this episode, a renowned neurosurgeon shares what he has learned in decades of working to restore ailing brains. His new book covers a vast range o...
Show 1472: Beyond Lyme: Stealth Infections from Flea and Tick Bites
Tick season is well underway in many parts of the country. It seems that a mild winter and a warm spring have brought the nymphs out seeking blood. If...
Show 1471: Broken Bills: Why Americans Pay Twice as Much for Less Care
Americans often boast of having the best health care in the world. It is certainly the most expensive health care. We pay twice as much as people in m...
Show 1470: Why Your Doctor Should Prescribe Exercise to Treat Depression, Cancer & Aging
If you had to name one thing that could contribute to better health throughout the lifespan, what would it be? We think exercise, or at least physical...
Show 1188: The Healing Potential of Psychedelic Drugs-LSD Without Hallucinations??
Many indigenous peoples around the world have developed traditional uses for psychedelic compounds. In Western medicine, these were mostly unknown unt...
Show 1469: Fresh Air & Sunlight: How Some Hospitals Are Rediscovering This Healing Secret
Hospitals can be pretty overwhelming. Sometimes you may feel like you need a map to find your way around the maze, not to mention a trusty guide to ge...
Show 1468: Healing Joints and Nerves: The New Science of Regenerative Therapies
Millions of Americans are in pain. Arthritic joints make exercise difficult, even though moving is one of the best things we can do for joint pain. Pi...
Show 1429: How to Love Your Liver and Protect its Superpowers
This week, Joe and Terry discuss liver health with two specialists. You may not have spent much time thinking about your liver. It is, however, an abs...
Show 1467: Can You Disagree Without Fighting? Building Bridges, Not Battles!
A chance encounter with a stranger on an airplane offers lessons for all of us in how to disagree without fighting. Infectious disease expert Morgan G...
Show 1466: Could Hidden Infections Be Driving Chronic Disease?
Chronic diseases make up the bulk of the problems that modern health care must address. Each condition seems to have its own drivers–cholesterol for h...
Show 1465: Food Fight! Should We Flip the Food Pyramid Upside-Down?
Every five years, the Departments of Agriculture and of Health and Human Services jointly issue guidelines on what we should eat. The most recent Diet...
Show 1464: Can Vaccines Protect the Brain from Dementia?
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, nearly seven million Americans currently suffer from that type of dementia. Experts expect that more will be...
Show 1463: Why We Eat Too Much and What to Do About It
Obesity is a big problem in the US. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases says 2 out of every 5 American adults are obe...
Show 1462: Using Focused Ultrasound Against Parkinson Disease and Tremor
Most medical interventions are either pharmacological–prescribe a drug–or surgical–remove or repair the offending body part. If those approaches are i...
Show 1461: How Patients Are Using Technology to Heal Healthcare
Marschall Runge, MD, PhD
Susannah Fox, author of Rebel Health: A Field Guide to the Patient-Led Revolution in Medical Care
A transcript of...
Show 1363: Defeating Seasonal Affective Disorder
In this episode, we interview the doctor who first identified seasonal affective disorder (back in 1984!) and went on to develop treatments. Even when...
Show 1460: Calming Chronic Inflammation Without Medication
Inflammation is a double-edged sword. When you have a sudden injury or infection, your body responds by calling immune cells to the site of the proble...
Show 1458: Psychotherapy on Your Phone: Can AI Fill the Therapy Gap?
Millions of people are feeling apprehensive these days. The headlines are enough to make almost anyone feel anxious. People who are distressed may hav...
Show 1457: How to Strengthen Your Immune System for Cold and Flu Season
Influenza usually starts in November, and cases increase throughout the winter, not fading until March or so. This year’s flu season is especially sev...
Show 1420: The Cooking Oil Controversy Spotlights Cancer
This week, we dig into the cooking oil controversy. For decades, we’ve heard that we should be using vegetable oils rather than butter, lard or other...
Show 1411: Could Your Kidneys Be Failing You? The Hidden Epidemic Affecting Millions
This week, our guest discusses how to prevent and treat a surprisingly common condition, chronic kidney disease. One in three Americans faces the risk...
Show 1456: Beyond the Label: The Transformative Power of Diagnosis
Do you know someone who has struggled for years to meet deadlines or manage their time? Perhaps you have a smart friend who just never did well in sch...
Show 1455: Common Culprits: How Infections Trigger Chronic Diseases
When doctors talk about infections, they are usually referring to acute situations in which the immune system gets overwhelmed by a virus such as infl...
Show 1454: Stopping Airborne Viruses: Simple Steps to Cleaner Indoor Air
Do you worry about things you can’t see, smell or taste? Most of us don’t. Yet particles we can’t detect with our five senses are often present in the...
Show 1336: How the Antiviral Gut Tackles Pathogens from the Inside Out
This week our guest is gastroenterologist Robynne Chutkan. She explains how keeping our digestive microbiota in good health can help our immune system...