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Articles

Genetic Magic
PHO #13
Despite advances in our understanding of how genes actually work, many still cling to the misbegotten idea that genes cause disease.
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Stents
PHO #12
Stents: They’re very popular with cardiologists. And they solve a problem that doesn't exist.
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Heart Attacks
PHO #9
What Causes a Heart Attack: After decades of battling cardiovascular disease, heart attack remain the leading cause of death. Perhaps it's because the conventional explanation of what causes a heart attack is wrong.
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Hypertension All Around
PHO #8
Hypertension All Around: High blood pressure has been turned into a disease with vast amounts of effort and drugs thrown at treating it. But it's a symptom, not a disease.
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C-Reactive Protein
PHO #5
C-Reactive Protein and Heart Health: New research portrays C-reactive protein as a villain, but the research is really about promoting aggressive drug therapy
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Antioxidant Follies
PHO #4
Antioxidant Follies: Why recent research warning that vitamin E might be dangerous is wrong.
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Race-Based Drugs
PHO #4
Race-Based Drugs: Critics miss the point of drug research aimed at African- Americans
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Statins
PHO #2
Statins Uber Alles: There's a bandwagon for using statins. Should you be on it?
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Bad Cholesterol
PHO #1
Bad Cholesterol? Bad Science: Despite the hype, lowering cholesterol does not protect against heart disease
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Shows

Pharmaceutical Cautions
KPFA broadcast date July 20, 2010
Health educator Layna Berman discusses commonly used pharmaceuticals, their effects and dangers including nutrient depletion and suppression of important physiologic pathways. Included will be non-pharmaceutical approaches to depression, insomnia, acne, reflux, and hypertension. Resources: Too Much Medicine, Not Enough Health by Jeffry Fawcett and Layna Berman; Resources on orthomolecular health medicine; resources on mind, mood, and stress; resources on hormones, women’s health, and men’s health; resources on cardiovascular and heart health; resources on homeopathy; and resources on alternative healing
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Love Your Heart
KPFA broadcast date March 2, 2010
Health educator Layna Berman explains the mechanisms behind heart symptoms in women and offers nonpharmaceutical suggestions for both genders on how to protect their hearts. Resources: Resources on cardiovascular and heart health and resources on hormones, women’s health, and men’s health
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Healthy Lungs
KPFA broadcast date January 19, 2010
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett PhD uncover what damages our lungs and what protects and repairs them. Resources: Resources on nutrition, resources on environmental health, resources on heart health, resources on allergies, and resources on exercise.
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The Body as an Ecology
KPFA broadcast date September 1, 2009
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD, authors of Too Much Medicine, Not Enough Health, discuss a core principle in their practice: the body works as an integrated whole. Selected health issues are used as examples including practical application of the principle to support and restore health. Resources: Too Much Medicine, Not Enough Health by Jeffry Fawcett and Layna Berman; Resources from Your Own Health And Fitness listed by topic
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Heart Disease: What’s the Real Cause?
KPFA broadcast date August 4, 2009
Malcolm Kendrick, MD, author of The Great Cholesterol Con, discusses what’s wrong with conventional medicine’s approach to heart disease, what really causes it, and how to avoid it. Resources: The Great Cholesterol Con by Malcolm Kendrick; Essays by Dr. Kendrick; The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics www.thincs.org; resources on cardiovascular and heart health, resources on stress, and resources on nutrition
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Exercise and Disease Prevention
KPFA broadcast date January 6, 2009
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett PhD discuss the role of exercise in preventing disease including specific recommendations on forms of exercise and training regimes. Resources: Resources on exercise and musculoskeletal health; also resources on aging, cancer, heart health, insulin resistance, hormones, and stress
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Doing the Simplest Things First
KPFA broadcast date June 3, 2008
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, Phd discuss simple self care techniques for identifying and caring for developing illness. Resources: Resources on food, nutrition, and diet, resources on hormones, women’s health, and men’s health, resources on environmental health, resources on exercise and resources on mind, mood, and stress
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Hypertension Revisited
KPFA broadcast date April 29, 2008
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss the newest information on the causes of hypertension and its non-pharmaceutical treatment. Resources: “Hypertension All Around” in issue #8 of the Progressive Health Observer; resources on cardiovascular and heart health
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Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment Part 2
KPFA broadcast date June 5, 2007
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss how to avoid common diagnoses and the medical interventions that are typically prescribed Resources: Resources on diabetes, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and obesity; Resources on cardiovascular and heart health; Resources on digestion and gut health; Resources on exercise and musculoskeletal health; Resources on aging;
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Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment Part 1
KPFA broadcast date May 22, 2007
Health integrationist Layna Berman and health educator Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss how to avoid common diagnoses and the medical interventions that are typically prescribed Resources: Should I Be Tested For Cancer? by H. Gilbert Welch; Resources on cancer; Resources on mind, mood, and stress; Resources on diabetes, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and obesity
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Public Health and Toxic Waste
KPFA broadcast date March 27, 2007
David O. Carpenter MD, director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University of Albany, where he is also professor of environmental health and toxicology and former dean of the School of Public Health, discusses where and how people are exposed to environmental stressors and what role of public health institutions in protecting us. Resources: Institute for Health and the Environment www.albany.edu/ihe/; Resources on environmental health, resources on detoxification, resources on diabetes, resources on heart health, resources on chronic illness, and resources on EMF and radiation
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Protect Yourself Against Stress-related Illness
An event presented on March 4, 2007
Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss how stress affects health and illness. Topics include
how stress is at the core of common diagnoses such as diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, and autoimmune diseases;
how your body responds to stress and the cascade of metabolic events that lead to illness;
how to protect yourself from sources of stress;
how to increase your body's resilience in responding to stressors.
Resources: Resources on mind, mood, and stress; Resources on diabetes, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and obesity; Resources on cardiovascular and heart health; Resources on immunity;
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Heart Surgery Dangers
KPFA broadcast date September 12, 2006
Non-invasive cardiologist Howard Wayne, MD discusses the dangers of angioplasty, bypass surgery, and stents to treat heart disease. Resources: Do You Really Need Bypass Surgery? A Second Opinion and How to Protect Your Heart From Your Doctor by Howard Wayne, MD and The Noninvasive Heart Center www.heartprotect.com
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Health News That Didn’t Fit
KPFA broadcast date May 23, 2006
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss important health news and research that was reported wrong or not at all. Resources: Draft Report of the Independent Vitamin Safety Review Panel on the NIH Conference Report; Resources on cardiovascular and heart health; Resources on food and nutrition; Resources on hormones
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Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
KPFA broadcast date April 18, 2006
Health educator Layna Berman discusses nutrient based therapies and new laboratory testing for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Resources: Resources on cardiovascular and heart health
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Statin Proliferation
KPFA broadcast date April 11, 2006
Dr. Duane Graveline, MD cautions against the use of statin drugs. Resources: Statin Drugs: Side Effects and the Misguided War on Cholestrol and Lipitor: Thief of Memory by Duane Graveline, MD and The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics www.thincs.org
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Heart Disease: What Is It Really?
KPFA broadcast date February 28, 2006
Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD and Malcolm Kendrick, MD destroy common myths about heart disease and its cause. Resources: Cholesterol Myths by Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol.htm; Malcolm Kendrick, MD www.redflagsdaily.com
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Risk Factor Medicine
KPFA broadcast date August 30, 2005
Jeffry Fawcett, PhD and health educator Layna Berman discuss how symptoms of metabolic disruption are treated as diseases by conventional medicine wtih pharmaceuticals. They contrast this with protective and preventive self-care that includes nutrient-based strategies. Resources: Resources mentioned on the show.
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Feed Your Genes Right
KPFA broadcast date March 15, 2005
Nutrional journalist Jack Challem discusses his new book about a nutritional approach to turning off disease-causing genes Resources: Feed Your Genes Right by Jack Challem
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Genetics, Folate, and Disease
KPFA broadcast date January 25, 2005
Orthomolecular physician Dr. Richard Kunin, MD discusses how treating genetically based nutrient deficiencies prevents disease. Resources: Orthomolecular Health Medicine Society www.ohmsociety.com; Orthomolecular Medicine News Service www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns
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Uncovering the Year's Health News
KPFA broadcast date December 14, 2004
Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD, editors and publishers of "Progressive Health Observer", examine health news reported in the conventional media and discuss what wasn't covered. Resources: Resources on food, diet, and nutrition, resources on cardiovascular and heart health, and resources on diabetes, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and obesity
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More Cholesterol Myths
KPFA broadcast date October 19, 2004
Physician and researcher Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD, examines credible research on the relationship between cholesterol levels and heart disease, and finds none. Resources: Cholesterol Myths by Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol.htm
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Statins: Memory Destroying Drugs
KPFA broadcast date June 29, 2004
Dr. Duane Graveline, MD, discusses his book "Lipitor, Thief of Memory" about the effect of cholesterol lowering statin drugs on memory Resources: Lipitor: Thief of Memory by Duane Graveline, MD and The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics www.thincs.org
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Heart Disease: Another Perspective
KPFA broadcast date April 27, 2004
Health educator Layna Berman discusses the overlooked causes and nutritional prevention of heart disease. Resources: Resources on cardiovascular and heart health
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Medical Radiation in the Promotion of Cancer and Heart Disease
KPFA broadcast date September 9, 2003
Dr. John Gofman, MD, PhD professor Emeritus, molecular and cell biology University of California, Berkeley, discusses his extensive research correlating cancer and heart disease to radiation exposure from
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Stop Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease
KPFA broadcast date April 29, 2003
Health educator Layna Berman discusses non-pharmaceutical approaches to the prevention and treatment of hypertension.
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Heart Stopper: How a Low Fat Diet Can Kill You
KPFA broadcast date June 18, 2002
Matthew Bayan discusses treatment of small particle LDL and heart disease Resources: Eat Fat, Be Healthy by Matthew Bayan
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Orthomolecular Medicine: Diagnosis and Treatment Strategies (two hour special)
KPFA broadcast date December 18, 2001
Orthomolecular Physican Dr. Richard Kunin MD compares conventional medicine to nutrient based medicine. Resources: Orthomolecular Health Medicine Society www.ohmsociety.com ; Orthomolecular Medicne News Service www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns
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Cholesterol Myths
KPFA broadcast date February 6, 2001
Researcher Dr. Uffe Ravnskov MD, PhD, discusses the fallacies behind the heart-cholesterol theory Resources: Cholesterol Myths by Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol.htm
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Insulin Resistance and Heart Disease
KPFA broadcast date September 5, 2000
Dr. Gerald Reaven MD discusses his discovery of Syndrome X Resources: Syndrome X by Gerald Reaven
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The Heart Stopper Gene: Small Particle LDL
KPFA broadcast date June 20, 2000
Matthew Bayan discusses his experiences with small particle LDL Resources: Eat Fat, Be Healthy by Matthew Bayan
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Obscure Diagnoses - Often missed ailments and their treatments
KPFA broadcast date June 13, 2000
Orthomolecular Physican Dr. Richard Kunin Resources: Orthomolecular Health Medicine Society www.ohmsociety.com ; Orthomolecular Medicne News Service www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns
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The Heart Revolution
KPFA broadcast date October 5, 1999
Kilmer McCulley MD Pathologist and discoverer of the homocysteine-heart disease connection discusses his new book Resources: The Heart Revolution by Kilmer McCulley
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Cardiology and Complementary Medicine
KPFA broadcast date February 16, 1999
Dr. Mehmet Oz, MD Resources: Healing From the Heart by Mehmet Oz
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Nutritional Strategies for Preventing Heart Disease
KPFA broadcast date October 13, 1998
Nutritionist Robert Crayhon Resources: The Carnitine Miracle and Robert Crayhon's Nutrition Made Simple by Robert Crayhon
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Hypertension and Amino Acid therapy
KPFA broadcast date January 13, 1998
Dr. Eric Braverman MD
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Preventing Heart Disease Naturally
KPFA broadcast date September 30, 1997
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist
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How to Protect Your Heart From Your Doctor: Alternatives to Bypass Surgery and Angioplasty
KPFA broadcast date September 16, 1997
Dr. Howard Wayne MD Resources: Do You Really Need Bypass Surgery? A Second Opinion and How to Protect Your Heart From Your Doctor by Howard Wayne, MD and The Noninvasive Heart Center www.heartprotect.com
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