On HealthWatch for December 3, 2007, host Dr. David Naimon interviews Dr. Murray Grossan, the author of "The Sinus Cure: 7 Simple Steps To Relieve Sinusitis And Other Ear, Nose and Throat Conditions."
Host Dr. David Naimon interviews Udo Erasmus, the author of Fats that Heal, Fats that Kill. He'll discuss optimal nutrition, in contrast to the government's flawed nutritional standards
Dr. David Naimon interviews Dr. Lise Alschuler, author of "Alternative Medicine's Definitive Guide to Cancer: An Integrated Approace To Prevention, Treatment and Healing". They discuss cancer causes, prevention, and therapies to prevent side effects from treatments.
Dr. David Naimon interviews his guest, Dr. Michael F. Roizen, New York Times best selling author. Dr. Roizen co-authored the books "You: The Owner's Manual" and "You: On A Diet". He is the co-founder of the web site http://www.realage.com/ and Professor and Chair of the Divisions of Anesthesia, Critical Care Medicine and Pain Management at The Cleveland Clinic.
Today, Dr. Michael F. Roizen discusses his new book "You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual For Extending Your Warranty". Learn how and why we age, and steps you can take to slow down the process.
Ellen Goldsmith, Acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist, is co-owner of Pearl Natural Health (http://www.pearlnaturalhealth.com/). Ellen joins Dr. David Naimon in a discussion on Chinese Diet Therapy, and how to boost your immune system in winter and spring by eating warming, winter foods.
Dr. David Naimon speaks with Dr. Richard Blau, Founder and Director of the Arthritis Institute of Long Island (www.arthritisinstitute.com/) about his book "Too Young to Feel Old: The Arthritis Doctor's 28-Day Formula for Pain-Free Living" from Da Capo Press.
Host Dr. David Naimon interviews #1 New York Times Bestselling author, Dr. Dean Ornish about his new book "The Spectrum: A scientifically proven program to feel better, live longer, lose weight and gain health." (www.ornishspectrum.com)
Today's guests are Graham Haramein, Co-chair of the Diversity and Quality Team and Manager of HIV Care Services at the Multnomah County Health Department, and Shad Alexander, a therapist at the Quest Center for Integrative Health (www.projectquest.org).
Dr. David Naimon hosts a round table discussion on Health Disparities in Minority Populations with a special focus on issues concerning the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender community.
Don't miss the LGBTQ Meaningful Care Conference (LGBTQMeaningfulCare.org) coming up in April.
Host Dr. David Naimon talks with journalist Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. Pollan's advice to "Eat food, not much, and mostly plants" is not quite as easy as it sounds, since most of what you find at today's grocer's is not really food, but edible food-like substances. Find out how to tell the difference between real food and the modern industrial products mislabeled as food, and why you should make the distinction.
Dr. David Naimon hosts. His guest is is veteran medical journalist Joan Liebmann-Smith, the author of Body Signs: From Warnings Signs to False Alarms. How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective. (Random House)
Dr. David Naimon (DrNaimon.com) interviews Melody Petersen, (New York Times) the author of Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs.
Dr. David Naimon (DrNaimon.com) interviews Dr. Stuart Searle about diabetes. He is the co-author of The 30-day Diabetes Miracle, (DiabetesMiracle.org) a complete program to stop diabetes, restore health and build natural vitality.
Dr. David Naimon (DrNaimon.com) speaks with Julie Matthews (HealthfulLiving.org), author of Nourishing Hope: Nutrition Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorders. (NourishingHope.com) They look at how diet can help autism and provide a holistic guide to implementation.
Dr. David Naimon (DrNaimon.com) speaks with Taras Grescoe (TerasGrescoe.com), author of Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood.
Host Dr. David Naimon (DrNaimon.com) talks with Gary Null (GaryNull.com), author of many books, including The Food Mood Connection (Seven Stories Press), Nutritional and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Well-being.
Host Dr. David Naimon (DrNaimon.com) invites guest Dr. Daphne Miller (DrDaphne.com) in to discuss her latest offering The Jungle Effect (Harper Collins). Find out what the healthiest diets from cultures around the world can do to help YOU live a happier, healthier life right here in our modern (but decadent) Western world.
Dr. David Naimon (DrNaimon.com) interviews Dr. Jennifer Wider (DrWider.com), author of "The New Mom's Survival Guide: How To Reclaim Your Body, Your Health, Your Sanity and Your Sex Life After Having a Baby", (Random House)
Dr. David Naimon (DrNaimon.com) interviews Jill Simons, certified colonic hydrotherapist at All's Well that End's Well in NE Portland. Find out about the health benefits of colonics.
Today, Host Dr. David Naimon and Holistic Health proponent Dr. Jonathan Robison discusses his new paradigm for helping people with eating and weight-related concerns, called Health at Every Size.
HIV in Portland African and African-American Communities
Host Dr. David Naimon talks with Catherine Azouyangui, case manager of the Minority AIDS Initiative. She will talk about the challenges and barriers towards getting medical care to Portland's HIV positive African and African-American communities.
Dr. David Naimon interviews Marion Nestle, author of of Food Politics and What to Eat, uncovers unexpected connections among the food supplies for pets, for farm animals and ultimately for humans, identifying huge gaps in the global oversight of food safety. Marion Nestle discusses her new book, Pet Food Politics: the Chihuahua in the Coal Mine.
Dr. David Naimon conducts an interview with Dr. Iris Bell, board-certified psychiatrist, alternative medicine researcher, award-winning author and university professor. She will discuss her new book "Getting Whole, Getting Well: Healing Holistically From Chronic Illness." Instead of offering an encyclopedia of different therapies, Getting Whole, Getting Well helps you create a personalized holistic healing plan that works.
Today, Host Dr. David Naimon interviews Susan Allport, the author of "The Queen of Fats: Why Omega-3s Were Removed From the Western Diet and What We Can Do to Replace Them."
Michael Pollan calls this book a "fascinating nutritional detective story."
Host Dr. David Naimon interviews Dr. James S. Gordon about his book "Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression" Heralded by holistic doctors from Andrew Weil to Dean Ornish to Christine Northrup, Unstuck is a practical guide to healing depression without the use of anti-depressants by a world-renowned Harvard-trained psychiatrist.
Dr. David Naimon hosts an Interview with Charles Barber about his book "Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation." Barber explores the ways pharmaceutical companies exert pressure on Americans to medicate themselves, how America has come to account for 66% of the global consumption of antidepressants, and how without an industry to promote them, non-pharmaceutical approaches that have the potential to help millions, are tragically overlooked.
Large drug companies use various means to create an artificial need for their expensive (and highly profitable) products, then rush in to fill the orders. Drug marketers intentionally blur the distinction between everyday problems and what used to be considered serious mental illness in such a way that people under the daily stress of modern life can be easily persuaded that a quick fix for stress lies in a pill bottle. Direct-to-Consumer advertising plays a large role, as well as the time and expense related to non-drug therapeutic options, in convincing consumers to request medication in cases that just 10 years ago would have considered drugs to be inappropriate treatments.
Host Dr. David Naimon interviews local naturopathic physician and acupuncturist, Dr. Gary Weiner, (Co-founder of Pearl Natural Health), about adrenal burnout, its causes, its symptoms, and natural approaches to reverse it.
Dr. David Naimon interviews Dr. Barry Popkin, professor of global nutrition and author of "The World is Fat," about the role played by globalization, modern technology, media and advertising and government in fattening in the population. Learn the 4 post-WWII trends that have contributed to this phenomenon and the solutions that Dr.
Dr. David Naimon, interviews physician-chef, Dr. John La Puma, about how to use your kitchen as a medicine cabinet. Learn what to eat to treat different conditions and how to make it taste great. Dr. La Puma's book "Chef MD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine" is a food lover's road map to losing weight, preventing disease and getting healthy again.
Learn about medical errors, and what you can do to protect yourself. An interview with Jim Dameron, the administrator of the Oregon Patient Safety Commission, and Joyce de Monnin, the chair of the commission and a leader on economic security and health care quality for AARP Oregon.
Host Dr. David Naimon interviews Yogi Amrit Desai, one of the earliest pioneers of Yoga in the Western world. Yogi Desai has been an internationally recognized authority on yoga and holistic living for over 40 years and is coming to Portland to lead a seminar in Amrit Yoga.
An interview with Joy Loverde, a leading consultant in adult caregiving, and the author of The Complete Eldercare Planner: Where to Start, Which Questions to Ask and How to Find Help.
Early Assessment and Support Alliance, a program that provides early intervention for teenagers and young adults experiencing psychosis for the first time.
Dr. Naimon talks with Accupuncturist and expert on Chinese MedicineEllen Goldsmith from the Pearl Natural Health Clinicabout staying healthy this fall and winter by following the precepts of Chinese Diet Therapy and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Your diet and activity level controls your sense of harmony with the world, and, by extension, your health. Find out how.
Today, Dr. Naimon interviews Richard Wrangham, author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, and professor of biological anthropology at Harvard University, discusses how our shift from raw to cooked foods was the key factor in human evolution.
Today's guests are Kyle Bell McAvoy, NP, and Candace Burch, MA, from Menopausibilities, a Women's Health Work Center that centers on helping women in midlife pause and consider the possibilities for reinvention, rediscovery, and renewal by restoring hormonal health and balance in their lives.
A holistic approach to weight loss. A discussion with local naturopathic physician, Dr. Jennifer Tufenkian, from the Bambú Clinic, (503-274-9360) about the importance of an individualized, holistic, mind-body approach to achieving your optimal weight.
A holistic approach to depression. How well do pharmaceuticals really work for mild to moderate depression? Not much better than placebo. Dr. Kim Hapke, a local naturopathic physician, and professor of psychology at the National College of Natural Medicine, discusses the long-term benefits of approaching depression, not simply from the perspective of neurotransmitter deficiency, but from a holistic individualized perspective.
An interview with Dr. Randall Neustaedter, author of "The Holistic Baby Guide: Alternative Care for Common Health Problems." Learn holistic solutions for colic and other worrisome digestive disorders, for healing eczema, cradle cap, and diaper rash, for treating colds, fevers and ear infections and for strengthening your baby's immune system.
An interview with Ethan Watters, author of "Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche." Not only is America exporting Mc Donald's, strip malls and the latest movie blockbuster, according to Watters we are also exporting Western ideas about mental illness. Learn why Watters says: "We should worry about the loss of diversity in the world's differing conceptions for mental illness in the same way we worry about the loss of biodiversity in nature."
All of us have cancer cells in our bodies. Dr. David Servan-Schreiber discusses why not all of us will develop cancer. Learn how to develop a science-based anticancer diet and lifestyle, how stress relates to cancer, why cellphones might be considered the new cigarette 20 years from now, and how to find the perfect blend of traditional and alternative health care.
Bestselling novelist, Jonathan Safran Foer, discusses his first book of nonfiction, Eating Animals. Learn why eating eggs is crueler than eating beef, how eating meat contributes to global warming far more than driving your car, how Safran Foer differs with Michael Pollan regarding meat-eating and "table fellowship," and much more.
Dr. Daniel Amen, neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and brain imaging expert, discusses the latest research on how the key to a healthier body is a healthy brain.D r. Amen's latest book is "Change Your Brain, Change Your Body."
Rebecca Wood discusses The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia, an A to Z of selection, preparation, and storage for more than 1000 common and uncommon fruits, vegetables, grains and herbs.
Dr. Barbara MacDonald, author of The Breast Cancer Companion, discusses why integrative healthcare, naturopathic and conventional medicine together, is so important for the treatment of breast cancer. She discusses the benefits and challenges in using herbs and nutritional supplements along with chemotherapy and radiation, strategies to prevent a recurrence, and the philosophy of holistic cancer care.
Botanist, nature photographer, writer, and founder of Wild Food Adventures, John Kallas discusses his new book Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate. Learn how to identify, harvest and prepare nutritious and delicious wild greens within walking distance of your kitchen.
An interview with Jill Simons, a certified colon hydrotherapist, who works at All’s Well that End’s Well in Northeast Portland. She discusses the health benefits of colonics and their role in detoxification.
Local naturopathic physician and acupuncturist Dr. Gary Weiner discusses the underdiagnosed common condition of adrenal fatigue. Learn what it is, what causes it, and how you can improve your energy and mood through addressing the adrenal glands, which are located on top of your kidneys.
Host David Naimon speaks with Nicole Krauss about her newest novel, The Great House, which tells a story haunted by questions: What do we pass on to our children and how do they absorb our dreams and losses? How do we respond to disappearance, destruction, and change?
"The Great House" was a finalist for the National Book Award for fiction this year.
An interview with Dr. Susan Love about the 5th edition of her book "Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book." Originally a surgeon, and now a specialist in breast problems, Dr. Love teaches at Harvard Medical School and her book is considered the bible of breast-care books.
Local naturopath and acupuncturist, Dr. Gary Weiner, of Pearl Natural Health, discusses how to achieve sustainable, long-lasting weight loss in a healthy fashion.
A botanist, medical biochemist, and self-defined "renegade scientist," Diana Beresford-Kroeger brings together ethnobotany, horticulture, spirituality and alternative medicine to discuss how forests affect our health individually, collectively, ecologically and globally. Her books include The Global Forest and Arboretum Borealis: A Lifeline of the Planet.
Biologist, author and mother, Sandra Steingraber discusses her new book Raising Elijah. Steingraber demonstrates how the intimate world of parenting connects to the public world of policy-making and how the ongoing environmental crisis is fundamentally a crisis of family life.
Marcelle Pick, author, nurse practitioner and medical advisor to Healthy Living Magazine discusses her new book Are You Tired and Wired? She explores why people are suffering through the day irritable, forgetful, depressed, craving sweets, exhausted and yet unable to sleep well at night. Learn the underlying causes of being tired and wired and how to break the cycle.
Can't afford health insurance? Do you wish there was a way to receive healthcare at fair prices without insurance companies as the middleman? Today we talk with two people, Tony McCormick and Christopher Pierce, who are actively involved in the creation of a Patient-Physician Cooperative here in Portland.
Back by popular demand! Dr. Mark Bricca, local naturopathic physician and acupuncturist, returns to Healthwatch to continue his talk about naturopathic approaches to common prostate conditions.
Could our avoidance of sun-exposure to prevent skin cancer be putting us at risk for various other conditions, from chronic pain and more frequent colds and flus, to bone disease and cancer? Dr. Michael F. Holick, Professor of Medicine and Director of the General Research Unit at Boston University Medical Center, discusses his book "The Vitamin D Solution."
Host David Naimon talks with Dr. Steven Nissen, chairman of the department of cardiovascular medicine at Cleveland Clinic about his book Heart 411: The Only Guide to Heart Health You'll Ever Need. Learn which tests you need, how emotions affect your heart and the facts and fictions about heart-healthy eating.
Host Dr. David Naimon talks with Rosemary Gladstar about her new book,Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide: 33 Healing Herbs to Know, Grow, and Use. Gladstar is a renowned herbal teacher and practitioner with more than 35 years of experience with herbs. She is the director of the International Herb Symposium and the annual Women's Herbal Conference, cofounder of the Traditional Medicinal Tea Company, and founding president of the nonprofit United Plant Savers.
About 74.5 million people in the United States age 20 and older have high blood pressure, which amounts to one in three adults, and it’s often said that in 90-95% percent of the cases, the cause is not known. Since the death rate is so high with this condition, we’ve got a bit of a murder mystery on our hands.
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Food Intolerances: How to identify them, and why you should.
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Building Bone Vitality: A Simple, Sensible, Scientific Approach to Preventing Osteoporosis
The End of Overeating
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