Wed, 30 October 2019
You close your blackout curtains, flip your phone to airplane mode, and crawl into bed with all the best intentions to get 7.5 hours of sleep—and then your monkey mind starts peeling bananas.
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Direct download: 383_-_Nocturnal_Brain_with_Dr_Guy_Leschziner.mp3
Category:Health -- posted at: 12:20pm CET |
Thu, 24 October 2019
I said goodbye to my grandfather when I was 8 years old. He had his first heart attack, and my mom was convinced he didn’t have long to live. Turns out he had many, many years ahead of him. Unfortunately, he was riddled with recurring heart problems, Parkinson’s, and a whole host of medical challenges. He lived a long life, but not a healthy one. His rapid decline shook my family, turned my mother into a health fanatic, and she passed the bug onto me.
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Links & Resources: ABOUT OUR GUEST Physician, writer, and clinical researcher Haider Warraich is the author of the new book, State of the Heart - Exploring the History, Science and Future of Cardiac Disease that we’ll be talking about today. He writes for the New York Times but also contributes to the Guardian, the Atlantic, the LA Times and the Boston Globe. He completed internal medicine and cardiology training at Harvard Medical School and Duke University. Haider has appeared on CNN, Fox, CBS, PBS, and shows like Fresh Air, The Diane Rehm Show, The World, Marketplace and the BBC World Service. Nutritional Tip of the Week:
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Category:Health -- posted at: 3:46pm CET |
Wed, 16 October 2019
Would you survive if you had to grow or forage your own food for an entire year? Would you eat roadkill, wild yam, coconuts, and acorn grubs? Rob Greenfield is finishing up 365 days straight growing and gathering (from the ‘wild’) as his own food. Rob is an adventurer, environmental activist, humanitarian, and a guy on a mission to create a more sustainable and just world.
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Direct download: 381_-_A_Year_Spent_Growing__Foraging_Your_Own_Food_with_Rob_Greenfield.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:30pm CET |
Thu, 10 October 2019
“Inhale fresh, life-giving oxygen… exhale toxic, dead carbon dioxide,” said my yoga teacher. I’ve heard some variation of this hundreds of times in classes. Oxygen is good, carbon dioxide is bad. In with the good, out with the bad. Right? As it turns out, this kindergarten understanding of breathing physiology is wrong. Most of us could really benefit from more CO2 because it opens up your air passageways, relaxes smooth muscle tissues, and allows for greater absorption of oxygen. Lack of CO2 actually leads to a lack of oxygen. Confused yet? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. On this week’s show, we’ll set the record straight and help you understand why slow breathing boosts CO2, and why that’s a good thing. Listen & Learn:
Links & Resources: ABOUT OUR GUEST Dr. Artour Rahkimov has been teaching the Buteyko method and breath retraining to thousands of students for more than 17 years. He was trained by Ludmila Buteyko and Dr. Andrey Novoh-zhilov, MD, the Chief Physician of the Buteyko Clinic in Moscow. Dr. Artour trained numerous breathing practitioners in the US, Germany and Denmark. Nutritional Tip of the Week:
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Direct download: 380_-_CO2_is_Your_Friend_with_Dr._Artour_Rahkimov.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:24am CET |
Wed, 2 October 2019
People often compare the human body to a car, but this is a bad analogy (unless it’s a Tesla) because your body doesn’t contain a combustion engine. You’re electric, my friend, and your nerves are in the driver’s seat. One electrical stimulus makes you anxious, another makes you calm; mostly, you’re an out-of-control cross-fire of signals that kicks you around energetically and emotionally throughout the day. Listen & Learn:
Links & Resources: ABOUT OUR GUEST Deb is a clinician, consultant, lecturer, and coordinator of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium in the Kinsey Institute. Her work is based on the Polyvagal Theory to understand and resolve the impact of trauma, understand the autonomic nervous system, and move into states of protection and connection. She is the author of the book The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy available on Amazon or through her website. Nutritional Tip of the Week:
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Direct download: 379_-_Know_Your_Nerves_-_Polyvagal_Theory_with_Deb_Dana.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:14pm CET |