"As part of her role as Artistic Advisor at Large to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Renée Fleming has spearheaded a collaboration with the National Institutes of Health. The Sound Health initiative, in association with the National Endowment for the Arts, explores and brings attention to [...]
Currently, about 5.8 million people have Alzheimer's disease in the U.S., and two-thirds of these are women. Though these numbers are staggering and continue to grow each year, the good news is this: You can contribute to your brain health by making some simple diet and lifestyle changes, and this [...]
Alzheimer's is a diagnosis which currently affects about 5.8 million people in the U.S. While we’ve long been told that whether or not you end up with this diagnosis in old age is all dependent upon genetics, the most cutting-edge science is beginning to prove otherwise. Whether Alzheimer’s runs in [...]
Dan Buettner, author of "The “Blue Zones Solution,” and CBS News chief medical correspondent, Dr. Jon LaPook, join CBSN to talk about the connection between diet and living well beyond the average lifespan. Dan is an American National Geographic Fellow and New York Times-bestselling author. He is an explorer, educator, [...]
Finally, tonight’s the night. NYT best-selling author and doctor of Oriental Medicine, Dr. Pedram Shojai, teamed up with natural healing expert and renowned filmmaker, Nick Polizzi, to create the docu-series - “Exhausted!” The nine-part, nine-day free screening event covers everything about why exhaustion has become an epidemic in our country. [...]
“Not being there in a loved one’s time of need, not being able to communicate with family members in a natural way, not being able to say goodbye, not participating in normal rituals — all this makes bereavement more difficult and prolonged grief disorder and post-traumatic stress more likely." - [...]
Time Magazine has called it “America’s #1 Killer,” yet few doctors ever talk about it. Over the past 50 years, big companies have unleashed thousands of man-made chemicals into our environment which the human immune system was never designed to deal with! Flame retardants in our furniture, aluminum in our [...]
Low diastolic pressure can arise as a result of medication use, heart failure or other health complications. But, in most people, it is simply a matter of the heart not pumping out enough blood with each stroke; in other words, low cardiac output. And low cardiac output occurs when not [...]
Our doctors are too often quick to discredit the methodology of holistic practitioners without really examining their history. Why? At the end of the day, holistic practitioners, natural healers, and functional medicine professionals have one huge belief in common. Food is medicine. And by that logic, it can also be [...]
Diet-related illnesses are a growing burden on the United States economy, worsening health disparities and impacting national security, according to a white paper published Monday in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Poor nutrition is the leading cause of illnesses in the US, with unhealthy diets killing more than half [...]
