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Living Like an Immortal
Health educator Layna Berman contests the major myth of aging: that degeneration is inevitable. And she offers suggestions for healthy longevity from the inside out. Resources: Too Much Medicine, Not Enough Health by Jeffry Fawcett and Layna Berman; Resources on aging, resources on food, diet, and nutrition, resources on exercise and musculoskeletal health, resources on environmental health, resources on hormones, women’s health, and men’s health, and resources on mind, mood, and stress.

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Living Like an Immortal
KPFA broadcast date February 2, 2010
Health educator Layna Berman contests the major myth of aging: that degeneration is inevitable. And she offers suggestions for healthy longevity from the inside out. Resources: Too Much Medicine, Not Enough Health by Jeffry Fawcett and Layna Berman; Resources on aging, resources on food, diet, and nutrition, resources on exercise and musculoskeletal health, resources on environmental health, resources on hormones, women’s health, and men’s health, and resources on mind, mood, and stress.

International Threats to Supplement Freedom
KPFA broadcast date January 26, 2010
Robert Verkerk, PhD of the Alliance for Natural Health, discusses international regulations that could restrict access to nutritional supplements and other natural health products. Resources: Alliance for Natural Health www.anhcampaign.org; Resources on nutrition, resources on orthomolecular medicine, resources on health politics, and resources on alternative healing.

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.

Fetal Programming
KPFA broadcast date January 12, 2010
Dan Agin, PhD, Emeritus Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago and author of More than Genes discusses how our increasingly toxic world affects children and their potential even before they’re born. Resources: More Than Genes by Dan Agin; Dan Agin’s blog on the Huffington Post; Resources on environmental health and on children’s health

Not-So-Smart Grid
KPFA broadcast date January 5, 2010
Science journalist Blake Levitt and electrical engineer Michael Neuert discuss the potential risks of the Smart Grid, the wireless electric utility metering and monitoring network imposed on us without our consent. Resources: TURN (The Utility Reform Network) article and petition; EMF Safety Network petition; Blake Levitt's website blakelevitt.com; Neuert Electromagnetic Services www.emfcenter.com; Resources on radiation and resources on environmental health

Gut Health
KPFA broadcast date December 29, 2009
Health educator Layna Berman discusses causes of digestive imbalance and non-invasive, non-pharmaceutical care. Resources: Digestive Wellness; Resources on digestion and gut health

Internalizing Self Care
KPFA broadcast date December 22, 2009
Health educator Layna Berman discusses what it takes for people to care for themselves. An exploration of how stress, dietary choices, nutrient density, and exercise can be navigated so that healthy choices come from within. Resources: Resources on mind, mood, and stress, resources on food, nutrition, and diet, and resources on exercise

Megavitamin Therapy
KPFA broadcast date December 15, 2009
Richard Kunin, MD, president of the Orthomolecular Health Medicine Society, discusses the latest orthomolecular science and the use of nutrients in treating illness and promoting health. Resources: Orthomolecular Health Medicine Society www.ohmsociety.com; Orthomolecular Medicine News Service www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns; Resources on orthomolecular medicine and resources on food, diet, and nutrition

Love Your Heart
KPFA broadcast date December 8, 2009
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

Malleable Mind
KPFA broadcast date December 1, 2009
Philippe Goldin, PhD, Head of Clinically Applied Affective Neuroscience Group, Stanford University discusses what research on the brain shows us about individual responses to specific therapies. Included is a discussion of how we change and the healing influences of meditation-, cognitive-, and emotion-focused therapies. Resources: Clinically Applied Affective Neuroscience (CAAN) caan.stanford.edu; resources on mind, mood, and stress and resources on children’s health

Food Safety
KPFA broadcast date November 24, 2009
James Turner, consumer protection attorney and chairman of the board Citizen's For Health, discusses the hidden dangers in pending food safety legislation that would impose fees and regulations on organic farmers and possibly restrict access to supplements and herbs. Resources: Citizens for Health www.citizens.org; resources on food, diet, and nutrition, on nutrients for prevention and treatment, and on health politics, advocacy, prevention, and social health

Boosting Immunity
KPFA broadcast date November 17, 2009
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD, authors of Too Much Medicine Not Enough Health, explore the mechanisms involved in improving healthy immunity. Included are recommendations for lifestyle and nutrient strategies. Resources: Resources on immunity, infections, and allergies, resources on digestion and gut health, resources on food, diet, and nutrition, resources on mind, mood, and stress, and resources on exercise

Health Care Elsewhere
KPFA broadcast date November 10, 2009
Journalist TR Reid, author of The Healing of America, discusses his experience with health care systems outside the US and what this tells us about reform of America’s health care system. Resources: The Healing of America by TR Reid; Resources on health politics, advocacy, prevention, and social health

Pharmaceutical Cautions
KPFA broadcast date November 3, 2009
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

Wireless Technology Health News
KPFA broadcast date October 27, 2009
Environmental consultant Cindy Sage discusses the latest research on wireless technology's health risks: a critique of WHO’s Interphone study, a careful look at the Environmental Working Group’s report on cell phones, the answers that should have been given at the Senate hearings, and more. Resources: What to Tell Your Employer about Cell Phones and PDAs in the Workplace; Plain Talk About Cell Phone Safety; Bioinitiative Report www.bioinitiative.org; CLOUT (Coalition for Local Oversight of Utility Technologies) cloutnow.org; Resources on radiation

Swine Flu
KPFA broadcast date October 13, 2009
Barbara Loe Fisher, president of the National Vaccine Information Center, discusses the risks of swine flu vaccination and the other aspects of the conventional strategy for flu prevention. Resources: National Vaccine Information Center www.nvic.org; Resources on immunity

Menopause
KPFA broadcast date October 6, 2009
Health educator Layna Berman describes a different view of menopause: not as a diagnosis, but as hormone balance and an opportunity for healthy balance. Resources: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause by John Lee; Resources on hormones and women's health

The Vegetarian Myth
KPFA broadcast date September 29, 2009
Environmental activist Lierre Keith, 20-year vegan and author of The Vegetarian Myth discusses the many ways in which people have been led astray by ideas about vegetarianism as Lierre discovered through her own experience and research. Resources: The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith; Resources on food, nutrition, and diet, resources on environmental health and resources on politics

Imagery: Treating People, Not Disease
KPFA broadcast date September 22, 2009
Martin L. Rossman, MD, physician and acupuncturist, discusses the use of guided imagery as a tool for self healing. Included is information from his book Guided Imagery for Self-Healing. Resources: The Healing Mind www.thehealingmind.org; Guided Imagery for Self-Healing by Martin Rossman; Resources on mind, mood, and stress and resources on alternative healing

Cooking Your Life
KPFA broadcast date September 15, 2009
An interview with Edward Espe Brown, Soto Zen teacher, cook, author of Tassajara Cooking, The Tassajara Bread Book, and several other books, and also featured in the film How to Cook Your Life. He discusses how the simple, nourishing details of our lives can be used to awaken the cultivation of compassion and joy. Resources: The Peaceful Sea Sangha www.peacefulseasangha.com; Resources on food, nutrition, and diet and resources on mind, mood, and stress

How Cooking Made Us Human
KPFA broadcast date September 8, 2009
Richard Wrangham, the Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University and Curator of Primate Behavioral Biology at the Peabody Museum, discusses his newest book Catching Fire. Resources: Catching Fire by Richard Wrangham; Primate Behavioral Ecology Research Group Richard W. Wrangham’s Lab Resources on food, nutrition, and diet

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

Testosterone
KPFA broadcast date August 25, 2009
Health educator Layna Berman discusses the health-preserving use of testosterone therapy in both genders and reviews the research on its role in prostate cancer protection. Resources: Resources on hormones, women’s health, and men’s health, Hormone Balance for Men by John Lee, The Testosterone Revolution by Malcolm Carruthers, Maximize Your Vitality and Potency by Jonathan Wright, The Testosterone Syndrome by Eugene Shippen, and Testosterone for Life by Abraham Morgentaler

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

Health Effects of Radiation from All Sources
KPFA broadcast date July 28, 2009
Ernest Sternglass, PhD, physicist and anti-nuclear activist since the 1950s, discusses what we know about the dangerous effects of radiation from all sources . Resources: Radiation and Public Health Project www.radiation.org; Resources on radiation

What the World Eats
KPFA broadcast date July 21, 2009
Photographer Peter Menzel and journalist Faith D’Aluisio discuss their book Hungry Planet ...“a photographic study of families from around the world, revealing what people eat during the course of one week.” Resources: Hungry Planet by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio; Resources on food, nutrition, and diet and resources on politics

Mercury Politics
KPFA broadcast date July 14, 2009
Jane Hightower, MD, author of Diagnosis Mercury: Money, Politics, and Poison, discusses her discovery that her Marin County, California patients who ate lots of sushi and tuna had astronomical mercury levels. Resources: Diagnosis Mercury by Jane Hightower; resources on environmental health and resources on detoxification

Megavitamin Therapeutics
KPFA broadcast date June 30, 2009
Andrew Saul, PhD, author with Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD of Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone, discusses orthomolecular health medicine, nutrient-based self-care, and the work of the late Abram Hoffer. Resources: Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone by Abram Hoffer and Andrew Saul; Doctor Yourself www.doctoryourself.com; Orthomolecular Medicine News Service www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns; resources on orthomolecular medicine and resources on food, nutrition, and diet

Another Thyroid Show
KPFA broadcast date June 23, 2009
Health educator Layna Berman uncovers the etiology, diagnosis, and treatment of thyroid disorders with particular attention to what causes these disorders to be ignored and undertreated. Resources: Resources on hormones

Expanding the Detection of Food Allergies to Raw and Cooked Foods
KPFA broadcast date June 16, 2009
Microbiologist and immunologist Aristo Vojdani, PhD reviews his newest research that expands testing for food allergies and distinguishes between raw, cooked, and processed foods. Resources: Aristo Vojdani, PhD Detection of IgE, IgG, IgA and IgM antibodies against raw and processed food antigens; Resources on food and resources on immunity

Alternatives to Wireless Broadband
KPFA broadcast date June 9, 2009
Activists Doug Loranger and Sally Hampton discuss the substantial problems with wireless broadband and explain safer, more effective options. They also discuss the worldwide citizen activism against the proliferation of wireless technologies. Resources: CLOUT (Coalition for Local Oversight of Utility Technologies) cloutnow.org; TeleTruth (Alliance for Customers’ Telecommunications & Broadband Rights) teletruth.org; Resources on wireless technology and resources on health politics

Horse Therapy
KPFA broadcast date June 2, 2009
Physical therapist Fran Judd discusses her work utilizing Hippotherapy ("treatment with the help of the horse") to benefit patients with a variety of neurological and orthopedic conditions, including Parkinson's disease, cerebral palsy, autism, developmental delays, and back pain. Resources: Renaissance Health and Learning Center www.rhlc.net; Resources on children’s health and resources on mind and mood

Food
KPFA broadcast date May 19, 2009
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss pre-agricultural diet and its health benefits, cooking whole foods, and food politics. Resources: Too Much Medicine, Not Enough Health by Jeffry Fawcett and Layna Berman; Health and the Rise of Civilization by Mark Nathan Cohen; resources on food, nutrition, and diet

Raising Food Ecologically All Year
KPFA broadcast date May 12, 2009
Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia’s Garden, and Elliot Coleman, author of The Winter Harvest Handbook, discuss gardening and farming by nature’s rules. Resources: Gaia’s Garden by Toby Hemenway and his website www.patternliteracy.com, The Winter Harvest Handbook by Elliot Coleman and his website www.fourseasonfarm.com; resources on food, nutrition, and diet and resources on environmental health

Breast Cancer and Early Puberty
KPFA broadcast date May 5, 2009
Nancy Evans, health science consultant to the Breast Cancer Fund, discusses the environmental causes of breast cancer and the early onset of puberty. Resources: Breast Cancer Fund www.breastcancerfund.org; Resources on cancer, resources on women’s health, resources on children’s health, and resources on environmental health

Blood Sugar
KPFA broadcast date April 28, 2009
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD uncover the actual causes for metabolic disruptions that result in a diagnosis of diabetes and offer suggests for rebalance beyond drugs. Resources: Resources on diabetes; Essays by Malcolm Kendrick, MD A Sugary Tale and Berardinelli-Seip - Explain That and Type II Diabetes isn’t a Disease.

Fats
KPFA broadcast date April 21, 2009
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD explore the science of dietary fats: why they're essential to health, how they're metabolized, what constitutes a healthy ratio, and how good fats can “go bad.” Resources: “Fat and Death” in issue #7 of the Progressive Health Observer; “Healthy Mitochondria” in issue #9 of the Progressive Health Observer; resources on food, diet, and nutrition

Reducing EMF in Your Home
KPFA broadcast date April 7, 2009
Environmental consultant Michael R. Neuert, MA, BSME, discusses common EMF exposures in the home, their effects, and how to reduce and eliminate them. Resources: Neuert Electromagnetic Services www.emfcenter.com; Resources on radiation and resources on environmental health

Designing a Sane Individual Diet Plan
KPFA broadcast date March 31, 2009
Health educator Layna Berman discusses how individuals can design their own health diet plan. Resources: Resources on food, diet, and nutrition

Childhood Brain Injuries
KPFA broadcast date March 24, 2009
A discussion with Richard Kunin, MD, about the causes of neurological brain injuries such as Autism, Tourette's, and ADHD, and their etiology, prevention and treatment. Resources: Richard Kunin, MD www.drinkyourminerals.com; resources on children’s health, resources on mind and mood, and resources on orthomolecular medicine

Regulating Wireless Radiation
KPFA broadcast date March 17, 2009
Environmental consultant Cindy Sage of Sage EMF Design, lead author with David Carpenter of the Bioinitiative Report, discusses how Europe is responding to the current science about the dangers associated with microwave, wireless, and cellphone radiation. Resources: Bioinitiative Report www.bioinitiative.org; Collaborative on Health and the Environment EMF Working Group www.healthandenvironment.org/working_groups/emf; Resources on radiation and resources on health politics

Foul Fragrance
KPFA broadcast date March 3, 2009
Researcher Anne C. Steinemann, PhD, from the University of Washington, discusses the stew of hazardous materials in products scented by artificial fragrance. Resources: Anne C. Steinemann, PhD faculty page containing articles on fragance; California Environmental Health Network fragrance information; resources on environmental health and on detoxification

Vitamin Supplementation, Part 2
KPFA broadcast date February 24, 2009
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD continue their discussion of nutrient supplementation, including nutrient requirements and special attention to antioxidants. Resources: Resources on food, diet, and nutrition and resources on orthomolecular medicine; Orthomolecular Health Medicine Society www.ohmsociety.com; Orthomolecular Medicine News Service www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/; Linus Pauling Institute lpi.oregonstate.edu; Clinical Pearls www.clinicalpearls.com

Vitamin Supplementation, Part 1
KPFA broadcast date February 17, 2009
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD counter the conventional media reports on the use of nutrient supplementation with a review of well designed research. Resources: Resources on food, diet, and nutrition and resources on orthomolecular medicine; Orthomolecular Health Medicine Society www.ohmsociety.com; Orthomolecular Medicine News Service www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/; Linus Pauling Institute lpi.oregonstate.edu; Clinical Pearls www.clinicalpearls.com

Raising a Happy Toddler
KPFA broadcast date February 10, 2009
Pediatrician and author Dr. Harvey Karp teaches parents to communicate with toddlers and infants by understanding how they express themselves. His programs are targeted to stop child abuse. Resources: The Happiest Baby on the Block and The Happiest Toddler on the Block by Harvey Karp; The Happiest Baby website www.thehappiestbaby.com; Resources on children’s health

Fresh Food From Small Spaces
KPFA broadcast date February 3, 2009
Author RJ Ruppenthal, an attorney and college professor, discusses urban gardening. Resources: Fresh Food From Small Spaces: The Square-Inch Gardener’s Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting by RJ Ruppenthal; resources on food, diet, and nutrition

Health Care Change
KPFA broadcast date January 20, 2009
James Turner, Chair of the Board of Director of Citizen's For Health, what really needs to change in health care. Resources: Citizens for Health www.citizens.org; resources on health politics, advocacy, prevention, and social health, resources on alternative healing, resources on homeopathy, and resources on nutrients for prevention and treatment

Medical Decision Making
KPFA broadcast date January 13, 2009
Oleg Reznik, MD, author of The Secrets of Medical Decision Making discusses how to avoid becoming a victim of the health care machine. Resources: Oleg Reznik, MD website www.olegreznikmd.com; The Secrets of Medical Decision Making: How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of the Health Care Machine by Oleg Reznik; Resources on alternative healing, resources on health politics, resources on aging, resources on cancer, resources on children’s health, resources on heart health, resources on chronic illness, and resources on hormones

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

Dependencies: Solutions
KPFA broadcast date December 30, 2008
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD the attachments that create health risks from food to drugs, how to start the change process, and how to support the body in making changes. Resources: Resources on addiction and detoxification, mind, mood, and stress, The Natural Medicine Guide to Addiction by Stephanie Marohn, End Your Addiction Now by Charles Gant,, and Changing for Good by James Prochaska

Shielding EMFs
KPFA broadcast date December 23, 2008
Emil DeToffol from Less EMF Inc. offers scientific suggestions for electromagnetic field shielding in the home and office, when you can't control the exposure from the source. Resources: Less EMF, Inc. www.lessemf.com/; Resources on radiation and resources on environmental health

Electronics Recycling Scam
KPFA broadcast date December 16, 2008
Sarah Westervelt, e-Waste Project Coordinator for the Basel Action Network, uncovers the ugly truth about the alleged recycling of consumer electronics and cell phones. Resources: Basel Action Network website www.ban.org; Resources on environmental health

Hormone Replacement: How, Who, and When
KPFA broadcast date December 9, 2008
Health educator Layna Berman discusses the safe use of bio-identical hormones in both genders, including a discussion of research, testing, ratios, and delivery systems. Resources: Resources on hormones, resources on aging, and resources on cancer

Noise Pollution and Health
KPFA broadcast date November 25, 2008
Retired research physician and anti-noise activist Dr. Louis Hagler discusses his groundbreaking article about the health effects of noise pollution. Resources: Noise Pollution: A Modern Plague by Lisa Goines, RN and Louis Hagler, MD; Noise Off www.noiseoff.org; Noise Pollution Clearinghouse www.nonoise.org; Noise Free America www.noisefree.org; League for the Hard of Hearing www.lhh.org/noise; Resources on environmental health and resources on children’s health

Hormone Intersect
KPFA broadcast date November 11, 2008
Health educator Layna Berman discusses the inter-relationship between sex hormones, thyroid, and stress hormones. Resources: Resources on hormones

Real Food Saves Money
KPFA broadcast date November 4, 2008
Food journalist Sally Fallon, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, discusses eating and preparing whole, unprocessed food and how it saves money at the cash register and reduces health care costs. Resources: Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig; Weston A. Price Foundation www.westonaprice.org; Resources on food, nutrition, and diet and resources on children’s health

Secondhand Cell Phone Radiation
KPFA broadcast date October 28, 2008
Environmental consultant Cindy Sage, lead author with David Carpenter of the Bioinitiative Report, discusses recent developments in the science of health effects from wireless technologies, including findings of health effects from proximity to cell phone users. Resources: Bioinitiative Report www.bioinitiative.org; Resources on radiation

Real Prevention
KPFA broadcast date October 21, 2008
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD, discuss the false political promise of health care reform based on preventive medicine in contrast to real prevention and health promotion based on informed individual and collective action. Resources: Resources on health politics, advocacy, prevention, and social health, resources on alternative healing, and any of the other resources from our show.

Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, and Soy
KPFA broadcast date September 30, 2008
Journalist Kaayla Daniel, PhD discusses why using soy as a therapy for cancers involving reproductive hormones is contraindicated. Resources: The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food by Kaalya Daniel; Weston A. Price Foundation Soy Alert!; and Soy Free Solutions www.soyfreesolutions.com; resources on cancer and on nutrition.

The Essence of Healing: Discovering Bach Flower Remedies
KPFA broadcast date September 23, 2008
Vinton McCabe, author of The Healing Bouquet, discusses the principles and practices for health and healing using Bach flower essences. Resources: The Healing Bouquet by Vinton McCabe; resources on homeopathy and on alternative healing

Toxic Assault
KPFA broadcast date September 16, 2008
Investigative journalists Philip and Alice Shabecoff, authors of Poisoned Profits, discuss the health effects of the first generation to grow up constantly exposed to industrial toxins. Resources: Poisoned Profits by Philip and Alice Shabecof; Poisoned Profits website www.poisonedprofits.com; resources on environmental health and on detoxification

Safe Cell Tower Siting
KPFA broadcast date August 26, 2008
Journalist and environmental analyst B. Blake Levitt, author of Electromagnetic Fields and contributing editor of Cell Towers, discusses the wide range of risks associated with siting cell phone towers and strategies for siting them safely Resources: B. Blake Levitt’s website www.blakelevitt.com, Cell Towers and Electromagnetic Fields by B. Blake Levitt; resources on radiation

Traveling with Homeopathy
KPFA broadcast date August 19, 2008
Homeopath Judith Reichenberg ND, MSW discusses homeopathic remedies that protect travelers, treat illnesses, and provide first aid. Resources: Healthy Homeopathy www.healthyhomeopathy.com; resources on homeopathy

Skin Protection and Health
KPFA broadcast date August 5, 2008
Skin specialist and author Marie-Véronique Nadeau discusses how to protect the skin without the use of dangerous chemicals, including the probable problems with the use of nanotechnology in skin products. Resources: The Yoga Facelift by Marie-Véronique Nadea; Marie Véronique Skin Therapy www.marieveronique.net website; Resources on cancer, resources on skin health, and resources on aging.

Depression: Under-Examined Imbalances
KPFA broadcast date July 29, 2008
Health educator Layna Berman explores overlooked imbalances that trigger depression and discusses strategies for treatment without drugs. Resources: Resources on mind, mood, and stress, resources on hormones, resources on allergies, and resources on the hunter-gatherer diet; The Anti-Depressant Fact Book by Peter Breggin; Calm Energy by Robert Thayer; The End of Stress as We Know It by Bruce McEwen; Comfortably Numb by Charles Barber

Recovery without Pharmaceuticals
KPFA broadcast date July 15, 2008
Charles Barber, recovery counselor and author of Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation, advocates for patient centered therapies rather than drugs in treating psychiatric symptoms and addiction. Resources: Comfortably Numb by Charles Barber; Motivational Interviewing motivationalinterviewing.org; resources on mind, mood, and stress and resources on addiction

Estrogen
KPFA broadcast date July 8, 2008
David Zava, PhD, co-author of What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer, joins Layna Berman for a discussion about native estrogens, what the research reveals about them, how they work in the body, what balances their effects, and the maintenance of healthy levels. Resources: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer by John Lee, MD and David Zava, PhD; ZRT Laboratory www.zrtlab.com; resources on hormones and resources on cancer

Women’s Rights and a Healthy Planet
KPFA broadcast date July 1, 2008
Robert Engelman, author of More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want, discusses how support for women’s reproductive rights is the best strategy for achieving a sustainable population. Resources: More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want by Robert Engelman and the book’s website morethebook.org; World Watch Institute www.worldwatch.org; Health and the Rise of Civilization by Mark Nathan Cohen; resources on women’s health and resources on health politics

Weight
KPFA broadcast date June 24, 2008
Health educator Layna Berman examines weight loss including when it's healthy and when it's not, food addiction, allergies, carbohydrate sensitivity, hormones, and exercise. Resources: Resources on food and diet, hormones, exercise, and diabetes, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and obesity.

Why the US is Importing Toxic Products
KPFA broadcast date June 17, 2008
Mark Schapiro, author of Exposed, discusses how new laws protecting Europeans and no protections for Americans is causing toxic products to be dumped on the U.S. market. Resources: Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power by Mark Schapiro; Center for Investigative Reporting centerforinvestigativereporting.org/; resources on environmental health and on health politics

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

Equilibrium and Proprioception
KPFA broadcast date May 27, 2008
Author Scott McCredie, author of Balance: In Search of the Lost Sense, discusses how we maintain balance and proprioception, the three-dimensional sense of our body’s position Resources: Balance: In Search of the Lost Sense by Scott McCredie; resources on exercise and musculoskeletal health and resources on aging

Cultivating Live Cultures for Healthy Gut and Immune Function
KPFA broadcast date May 20, 2008
Sandor Katz, author of Wild Fermentation, discusses home cultivation of fermented foods with live cultures including the health benefits Resources: Wild Fermentation by Sandor Katz available on the website wildfermentation.com/; resources on food, diet, and nutrition

Shopping Our Way to Safety
KPFA broadcast date May 13, 2008
Sociologist Andrew Szasz, PhD, author of Shopping our Way to Safety discusses the accelerating trend toward reducing risk individually by purchasing products and why such solutions are ultimately not effective. Resources: Shopping Our Way to Safety by Andrew Szasz; resources on health politics, advocacy, prevention, and social health, the documentary Unnatural Causes www.unnaturalcauses.org

From Radio Frequency to Bug Spray
KPFA broadcast date May 6, 2008
Protecting citizen health from corporate power. An interview with film makers Mary Beth Branagan and James Heddle from EON Ecological Options Network. Resources: Ecological Options Networ www.eon3.net; resources on environmental health, resources on radiation, and resources on health politics and advocacy

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

Longevity and Socio-Economic Stress
KPFA broadcast date April 15, 2008
Tony Iton, MD, MPH, Alameda County Public Health Department Director and Health Officer discusses the lessons of the California Newsreel documentary and PBS series Unnatural Causes. Resources: Unnatural Causes www.unnaturalcauses.org; Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative www.barhii.org; resources on health politics, advocacy, prevention, and social health and resources on stress

Hypersensitivity
KPFA broadcast date April 1, 2008
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss hypersensitivity both to chemicals and electromagnetic fields. The hour includes a review of the science and practical solutions for identifying the source of symptoms and prudent mitigation. Resources: Scientific articles discussed on the show; resources on allergies, resources on environmental health, resources on EMF, resources on chronic illness, and The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron

Pesticides in Your Food
KPFA broadcast date March 25, 2008
Organic farmer Will Allen, PhD, author of The War on Bugs discusses the hidden history of how the use of chemicals in food production has been a triumph of manipulation and a failure of science. Resources: The War on Bugs by Will Allen; The War on Bugs websitewww.thewaronbugsbook.com; Organic Consumers Association www.organicconsumers.org; resources on food and on environmental health

Allergy Alternatives
KPFA broadcast date March 18, 2008
Health educator Layna Berman discusses allergies, their origins, and treatment options using diet, nutrients, herbs, and homeopathy. Resources: Resources on allergies and immunity

Aerial Spraying and Detoxification
KPFA broadcast date February 26, 2008
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss the risks posed by aerial spraying against the light brown apple moth and other agricultural pests along with detoxication methods for protection against these exposures Resources: Stop the Spraying www.stopthespray.org; resources on environmental health and on detoxification

Should You Be Tested For Cancer?
KPFA broadcast date February 19, 2008
Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH, Dartmouth Medical School, co-director of the VA Outcomes Group at the Department of Veterans Affairs, discusses why cancer tests are risky. Resources: Should I Be Tested For Cancer? by H. Gilbert Welch; resources on cancer

Growing Food
KPFA broadcast date February 12, 2008
Wendy Johnson, author of Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate. Buddhist meditation teacher, and organic gardening mentor, discusses gardening practices that cultivate healthful food, the gardener, and the consumer.. Resources: Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate website www.gardeningatthedragonsgate.com; resources on food and on mind and mood.

Eating Sustainably
KPFA broadcast date February 5, 2008
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss sustainable food choices from the perspective of ecologically and socially sustainable practices in production, distribution, and impact on individual health. Resources: Resources on nutrition and on environmental health; Sustainable Health Institute www.sustainablehealthinstitute.org

Sustainable Health
KPFA broadcast date January 29, 2008
Jeffry Fawcett, PhD, founder and president of the Sustainable Health Institute, discusses sustainable health practices that enable people and their communities to thrive through the art of self care. Resources: Sustainable Health Institute www.sustainablehealthinstitute.org

Supplement Access: An Update on Proposed Regulation
KPFA broadcast date January 22, 2008
Attorney James Turner of Swankin and Turner and Citizen's For Health discusses our access to and freedom of choice in healthcare products, foods, and supplements. Resources: Citizens for Health www.citizens.org; resources on nutrition and on nutrients for prevention and treatment

Autism and ADHD: Nutrient Therapies
KPFA broadcast date January 15, 2008
Julie Matthews, CNC and author of Nourishing Hope discusses nutrient approaches for treatment of autism and ADHD. Resources: Nourishing Hope by Julie Matthews; Resources on nutrition, children, chronic illness, and mind, mood, and stress

Stress Related Illness
KPFA broadcast date December 25, 2007
Health Educator Layna Berman covers principles for the avoidance and healing of stress related illness. Resources: Resources on mind, mood, and stress, resources on environmental health, and resources on hormones

Nutrient Basics
KPFA broadcast date December 18, 2007
Orthomolecular physician Richard Kunin, MD discusses what's needed for basic nutrient supplementation and the actions of individual nutrients. Resources: Orthomolecular Health Medicine Society www.ohmsociety.com ; Orthomolecular Medicne News Service www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns, resources on food, diet, and nutrition, and resources on orthomolecular medicine

Addiction Free Eating
KPFA broadcast date December 11, 2007
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss the interaction between food sensitivities/addictions and substance abuse. Resources: Resources on mind, mood, and stress and resources on food, diet, and nutrition

WiMax: The Next Wireless Exposure
KPFA broadcast date December 4, 2007
Libby Kelley, Executive Director of the International Commission for Electromagnetic Safety and founder of Council on Wireless Technology Impacts, discusses this latest wireless technology, its risks, and an upcoming meeting of activists and scientists concerned about its spread. Includes extended discussion on self-care not available on the broadcast version. Resources: Council on Wireless Technology Impacts (CWTI) www.energyfields.org, International Commission for Electromagnetic Safety (ICEMS) www.icems.eu, resources on raditation

Bioinitiative: Standards for Electrosmog
KPFA broadcast date November 27, 2007
Cindy Sage and David O. Carpenter, MD discuss the Bioinitiative Report that proposes better standards for exposure to electromagnetic fields based on the work of leading scientists. Includes extended discussion on self-care not available on the broadcast version. Resources: Bioinitiative Report www.bioinitiative.org; Resources on radiation

Stress, Grace, and The Inner Predator
KPFA broadcast date November 20, 2007
Leslie Acoca, MFT, Director National Girls Health Screen Project, describes her journey to reconcile with her brother's murderer, a process that taught her how people face down their own inner and outer predators in order to heal from trauma. Includes extended discussion on self-care not available on the broadcast version. Resources: Leslie Acoca, MFT blckswans@aol.comResources on mind, mood, and stress

Better Than Botox: Facial Exercises and Therapy
KPFA broadcast date October 30, 2007
Researcher Marie-Véronique Nadeau, author of The Yoga Facelift, discusses natural skin care, including exercises that naturally lift the face, downsides of medical interventions, and nutritional support to maintain youthful skin. Resources: The Yoga Facelift website; The Yoga Facelift by Marie-Véronique Nadea; Resources on healthy teeth, eye, skin, and other body parts; Resources on aging

Untreatable Chronic Illness: A Breakthrough
KPFA broadcast date October 23, 2007
Professor of biochemistry and medical science Martin Pall, PhD, author of Explaining Unexplained Illness, discusses his discoveries for chronic illnesses formerly considered untreatable, including a discussion of effective nutrient therapies. Resources: Martin Pall, PhD Washington State University research page; Explaining Unexplained Illnesses by Martin Pall; Resources on chronic illness; Resources on environmental health

Bone Health
KPFA broadcast date October 9, 2007
Health educator Layna Berman discusses non-pharmaceutical solutions to preserving and building bone mass for both genders including vitamins D and K. Resources: Healthy Bones from Progressive Health Observer #4 and Young Bones and Milk from Progressive Health Observer #7

Self-Healing for Your Eyes
KPFA broadcast date September 11, 2007
Meir Schneider, PhD, LMT explains his unique approach to healing and vision restoration. Resources: The School for Self-Healing www.self-healing.org; Movement for Self-Healing and The Natural Vision Improvement Kit by Meir Schneider

Healing the Mind
KPFA broadcast date September 4, 2007
Journalist Sharon Begley, author of Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain discusses the science confirming the Buddhist belief in neuroplasticity. Resources: Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves by Sharon Begley; Resources on mind, mood, and stress

Does Green Mean Non-toxic?
KPFA broadcast date August 28, 2007
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss toxic risks in “green” products and describe how to avoid exposures and boost detoxification pathways. Resources: Resources on environmental health and on detoxification; Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough and Michael Baumgart; Environmental Working Group www.ewg.org; Our Stolen Future www.ourstolenfuture.org; Microwave News www.microwavenews.com; Electromagnetic Fields: A Consumer's Guide to the Issues and How to Protect Ourselves by B. Blake Levitt; Healthy Car www.healthycar.org; Toxic at Any Speed by the Ecology Center www.ecocenter.org; A Small Dose of Toxicology www.asmalldoseof.org

Drinking Water
KPFA broadcast date August 14, 2007
Colin Ingram discusses how to eliminate toxins from your water. Resources: The Drinking Water Book by Colin Ingram

Clara Felix: A Memorial
KPFA broadcast date July 31, 2007
Joined by Elliot Wagner, LAc, Clara Felix's son, health educator Layna Berman discusses the life and work of nutrition expert Clara Felix. Resources: Resources on food, nutrition, and diet.

Resistance to Citywide WiFi
KPFA broadcast date July 24, 2007
Doug Loranger, from San Francisco Neighborhood Antenna Free Union, discusses how citizens are mobilizing against exposure to citywide wireless Internet access. Resources: San Francisco Neighborhood Antenna Free Union www.antennafreeunion.org; Resources on radiation

Cancer Screening
KPFA broadcast date July 10, 2007
A discussion of cancer screening with Samuel Bogoch, MD, PhD, developer of the anti-malignin antibody test, a new, non-invasive screening method for the presence of cancer and its progression. Resources: Oncolab www.oncolabinc.com; Resources on cancer

A Unique Approach to Addictions
KPFA broadcast date June 19, 2007
Patt Denning, PhD discusses Harm Reduction Therapy from her book Over the Influence, an approach based on the belief that people have a complex relationship with drugs and alcohol and that addiction needs to be addressed simultaneously with social, psychological and emotional issues. Resources: The Harm Reduction Therapy Center www.harmreductiontherapy.org; Over the Influence: The Harm Reduction Guide for Managing Drugs and Alcohol by Patt Denning, Jeannie Little, and Adina Glickman; resources on addiction

Furniture Toxins
KPFA broadcast date June 12, 2007
Health educator Layna Berman is joined by Mike Lavin from European Sleepworks to discuss the hidden toxins in furniture, fabrics, and bedding, and also discuss healthier alternatives. Resources: European Sleepworks www.sleepworks.com;Resources on environmental health

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;

Menstrual Suppression Cautions
KPFA broadcast date May 29, 2007
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss the dangers of blocking women's periods with synthetic hormones with David Zava, PhD. Resources: Resources on hormones and women's health; What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer by John Lee, MD and David Zava, PhD; ZRT Laboratory www.zrtlab.com

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

Antidepressants: Bad Medicine
KPFA broadcast date May 15, 2007
Peter Breggin, MD, whose long career has been spent fighting the pharmaceutical industry in the courts over the dangers of psychiatric medications, discusses the risks of antidepressants. Resources: The Anti-Depressant Fact Book and Your Drug May Be Your Problem by Peter Breggin www.breggin.com

Treatment Alternatives
KPFA broadcast date May 8, 2007
Janet Zand, ND, OMD, LAc, co-author of Smart Medicine for Healthier Living discusses alternative treatment therapies for a wide variety of conditions both acute and chronic, including herbal, homeopathic and nutrient. Resources: Smart Medicine for Healthier Living by Janet Zand, Allan Spreen, and James LaValle, and Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child by Janet Zand, Rachel Walton, and Bob Rountree

Controlling Pests Without Toxins
KPFA broadcast date May 1, 2007
Arthur Slater, entomologist and retired pest control director at UC Berkeley, discusses how to control residential pests without the use of toxins. Resources: Resources on environmental health

Explaining Unexplained Illnesses
KPFA broadcast date April 24, 2007
Martin Pall, PhD discusses his upcoming book which offers a new model for how people with chronic fatigue, multiple chemical sensitivities, gulf war syndrome and fibromyalgia become sick. Resources: Martin Pall, PhD Washington State University research page; Explaining Unexplained Illnesses: Disease Paradigm for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Fibomyalgia, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Gulf War Syndrome, and Others by Martin Pall

High EMF Risk from Personal Organizers
KPFA broadcast date April 3, 2007
Environmental consultant Cindy Sage discusses the latest research on wireless technology's possible risks to humans and the environment. PDA exposures from blackberry and treo units, among others, create exceptionally high exposures when worn on or very near the body. She will discuss these exposures, their possible health consequences, and ways to reduce exposure. Resources: Sage Associates www.sageassociates.net; Resources on environmental health and resources on radiation: wireless, EMR, RFR, and ionizing radiation

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

HPV Vaccine Risks
KPFA broadcast date March 20, 2007
Barbara Loe Fisher, president of the National Vaccine Information Center, discusses the risks from the campaign to mass vaccinate with the new HPV vaccine. Resources: National Vaccine Information Center www.nvic.org; A Shot in the Dark by Harris Coulter and Barbara Fisher and A Consumer’s Guide to Childhood Vaccines by Barbara Fisher; Resources on immunity, resources on cancer, and resources on children's health

Girls at Risk
KPFA broadcast date March 13, 2007
Leslie Acoca, MA, MFT, director of In Our Daughters’ Hands, discusses the health of incarcerated girls. Resources: In Our Daughters’ Hands: (415) 888-2211 and blckswans@aol.com

Detoxification
KPFA broadcast date March 6, 2007
Health educator Layna Berman discusses the body's natural detoxification pathways and how to boost them using nutrients. Resources: Resources on detoxification and addiction and on environmental health

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;

Cesarean Epidemic
KPFA broadcast date February 27, 2007
Midwife Constance Miles, RN discusses the dangerous trend toward using cesarean surgery instead of natural childbirth. Resources: Women’s Ways www.womensways.org; North American Registry of Midwives www.narm.org; Citizens for Midwifery cfmidwifery.org; Midwives Alliance of North America www.mana.org; California Association of Midwives www.californiamidwives.org; International Cesarean Awareness Network www.ican-online.org; Association of Pre- and Perinatal Psychology www.birthpsychology.com/apppah/; National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers www.nocirc.org; The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth and Obstetric Myths versus Research Realities by Henci Goer; Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin

Fluoride Dangers
KPFA broadcast date February 13, 2007
Chemist Paul Connett, PhD, from Fluoride Action Network discusses the dangers of fluoride and the history of its introduction. Resources: Fluoride Deception by Christopher Bryson and the Fluoride Action Network www.fluoridealert.org

Food and Mood
KPFA broadcast date February 6, 2007
Journalist Jack Challem discusses how food affects mood, including neuronutrients and anger, anxiety, depression, and addiction Resources: The Food-Mood Solution by Jack Challem; Resources on food, nutrition, and diet; Resources on mind, mood, and stress.

Homeopathy for Pets
KPFA broadcast date January 30, 2007
Dr. Don Hamilton, DVM discusses his book about homeopathic theory and the care and treatment of cats and dogs. Resources: Homeopathic Care for Cats and Dogs by Donald Hamilton

Health Risks from Nonionizing Radiation
KPFA broadcast date January 16, 2007
Researcher Henry Lai, PhD of the University of Washington discusses the latest research on the health risks from wireless technologies. Resources: Resources on radiation

Loss: Healing Through Transition
KPFA broadcast date January 2, 2007
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett PhD discuss the role of grief in making health care decisions during transitions. Resources: The Feeling of What Happens by Antonio Damasio; Changing for Good by James Prochaska; The Alchemy of Illness by Kat Duff

Hidden Stressors: Avoiding a Diagnosis
KPFA broadcast date December 26, 2006
Health educator Layna Berman discusses the less obvious stressors that lead to a diagnosis like diabetes and cardiovascular disease, including how to avoid and treat symptoms without pharmaceuticals. Resources: Resources on stress, diabetes, and cardiovascular health.

Noninvasive Cancer Treatment Advances
KPFA broadcast date December 19, 2006
Cancer specialist Stanislaw Burzynski MD, PhD discusses his highly effective noninvasive cancer treatment. Resources: The Burzynski Clinic www.burzynskiclinic.com.

Eating Seasonally and Locally
KPFA broadcast date November 21, 2006
Chef Jessica Prentice discusses the principles of sustainable eating. Resources: Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection by Jessica Prentice and Wise Food Ways www.wisefoodways.com

Healthy Home Inspection
KPFA broadcast date October 10, 2006
Environmental economist and health educator Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discusses how to identify and control exposures to pollutants, toxins, allergens, molds, and nonionizing radiation in the home and office. Resources: Resource on environmental health

Neurofeedback
KPFA broadcast date September 26, 2006
Julian Isaacs, PhD discusses normalizing the brain with neurofeedback. Resources: EEG Spectrum International www.eegspectrum.com; International Society for Neurofeedback and Research www.isnr.org; Applied Neuroscience www.appliedneuroscience.com; Futurehealth www.futurehealth.org; Emotional Freedom Technique www.emofree.com

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

Single Payer Health Insurance
KPFA broadcast date September 5, 2006
Bree Johnston, MD physician-spokesperson from the group Physicians for a National Health Program will discuss the new California single payer health insurance system, new statistics on the uninsured released by the US Census Bureau, the ongoing health care crisis in the US, specific effects on local areas, and options for health care reform. Resources: Physicians for a National Health Policy www.pnhp.org ; Health Care for All www.healthcareforall.org ; OneCareNow www.onecarenow.org

Body Pain
KPFA broadcast date August 29, 2006
Health educator Layna Berman discusses underconsidered reasons for bodywide pain including unresolved infections, hormone imbalances, allergies, and postural problems and offers exercise, oral, and topical nutrient remedies. Resources: Resources on orthomolecular medicine; Resources on exercise; Resources on hormones; Resources on immunity

Back and Joint Therapy: Supporting the Whole Person
KPFA broadcast date August 15, 2006
Thomas Dorman, MD discusses Prolotherapy and its place in supporting the whole person in treating back and joint conditions. Resources: Thomas Dorman, MD, Fact, Fiction, and Fraud in Modern Medicine www.dormanpub.com

Turning Healthy People Into Patients
KPFA broadcast date August 8, 2006
Medical writer Roy Moynihan discusses how medical institutions have invented diseases under the guise of prevention. Resources: Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients by Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels

Digestive Wellness for Children
KPFA broadcast date July 25, 2006
Nutritionist Elizabeth Lipski, PhD discusses her new book Digestive Wellness for Children about preventing and healing digestive disorders in children. Resources: Digestive Wellness and Digestive Wellness for Children by Elizabeth Lipski, PhD www.innovativehealing.com

Dietary Fat is Good for You
KPFA broadcast date July 19, 2006
Sally Fallon, executive director of the Weston A. Price Foundation discusses the science of dietary fat. Resources: Eat Fat, Lose Fat by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig, Know Your Fats by Mary Enig, Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig, and Weston A. Price Foundation www.westonaprice.org

EMF Health News
KPFA broadcast date July 11, 2006
Louis Slesin, publisher of Microwave News, discusses current developments in industry and science concerning the health effects of non-ionizing radiation. Resources: Microwave News www.microwavenews.com

Poisoned Progress
KPFA broadcast date June 27, 2006
Randall Fitzgerald discusses his book The Hundred-Year Lie about modern life increasing toxic body burden. The show includes how to identify exposures and detoxification support. Resources: The Hundred-Year Lie by Randall Fitzgerald http://www.hundredyearlie.com

Protecting Access to Natural Products
KPFA broadcast date June 20, 2006
Robert Verkerk, PhD of the Alliance for Natural Health discusses the campaign in Europe to prevent European Union regulations from restricting access to supplements, herbs, and other natural health products. Resources: Alliance for Natural Health http://www.alliance-natural-health.org

Dirty Electricity and EMF Health Dangers
KPFA broadcast date May 30, 2006
Magda Havas, BSc, PhD, Associate Professor of Environmental and Resource Studies, Trent University, Ontario, Canada discusses low dose radiation health effects. Resources: Publications by Dr. Havas www.electricalpollution.com and www.stop-emf.ca; Graham Stetzer filters www.stetzerelectric.com and www.getpurepower.ca; Resources on radiation

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

Non-Toxic Home
KPFA broadcast date May 16, 2006
Architect Carol Venolia and Susan Bahl from Natural Home Design Center discuss creating a non-toxic home and office. Resources: Natural Home Design Center website; Natural Remodeling for the Not-So-Green House: How to Bring Your House into Harmony With Nature by Carol Venolia and Kelly Lerner www.naturalremodeling.com

Cancer Treatment Alternatives
KPFA broadcast date May 9, 2006
Tanya Harter Pierce, MA, MFCC discusses the wide variety of successful alternatives to conventional cancer treatments. Resources: Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments that Work by Tanya Harter Pierce www.outsmartyourcancer.com; OncoLab; Resources on cancer

The Science of RFR Health Risks
KPFA broadcast date April 25, 2006
Olle Johansson, MD associate professor in the Experimental Dermatology Unit, Department of Neuoscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden discusses new research about the dangers of exposure to radio frequency radiation from cell phones and wireless technologies. Resources: Resources on radiation

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

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

DCIS Isn’t Cancer
KPFA broadcast date April 4, 2006
A discussion of the diagnosis and treatment of breast conditions such as ductile carcinoma in situ. Resources: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer by John Lee and David Zava

Lyme: Why, Whether, & What to Do
KPFA broadcast date March 28, 2006
A discussion of the newest testing and non pharmaceutical treatments for Lyme Diseases. Guests are Cindy Quattro, PA, LAc and Nick Harris, PhD from IGeneX Labs. Resources: IGeneX Lab www.igenex.com; California Lyme Disease Association www.calda.intranets.com; Lyme Disease Network www.lymenet.org; Lyme Disease Association www.lymediseaseassociation.org; International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society www.ilads.org; Health Freedom Solutions www.healthfreedomsolutions.com

Where You're Exposed and What to Do: EMF and RFR
KPFA broadcast date March 14, 2006
Environmental consultant Cindy Sage and medical journalist B. Blake Levitt offer practical alternatives and protection from electrosmog exposure. Resources: Electromagnetic Fields: A Consumer's Guide to the Issues and How to Protect Ourselves by B. Blake Levitt; Blake Levitt's website blakelevitt.com; Sage Associates www.sageassociates.net

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

Smoking: The Truth
KPFA broadcast date February 21, 2006
Stan Glantz, MD professor of medicine at UC San Francisco and an anti-tobacco activist unpacks the science behind smoking's dangers and overweight's relative safety. Resources: UCSF Tobacco Control Program cc.ucsf.edu/research/tobacco.html; Tobacco Control Archives library.ucsf.edu/tobacco; Smoke Free Movies smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/; "Nicotine Addiction" Progressive Health Observer #4

Wireless Public Health Crisis
KPFA broadcast date February 7, 2006
Medical journalist Blake Levitt, activist Jan Newton, president of the EMR Policy Institute, and activist Doug Loranger, maker of the film Bad Reception: The Wireless Revolution in San Francisco, discuss the very disturbing science showing wireless technology's dangers and how the public can protect itself. Resources: Electromagnetic Fields: A Consumer's Guide to the Issues and How to Protect Ourselves by B. Blake Levitt; Blake Levitt's website blakelevitt.com; EMR Policy Institute; www.emrpolicy.org; Bad Reception: The Wireless Revolution in San Francisco a film by Doug Loranger, DVD availble at the Free Speech Network; San Francisco Neighborhood Antenna-Free Union www.antennafreeunion.org

Thyroid Handshake
KPFA broadcast date January 24, 2006
Biochemist David Zava, PhD discusses the relationship between thyroid, adrenal, and sex hormones, and how balance in one affects the others. Resources: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer by John Lee and David Zava and ZRT Laboratory www.zrtlab.com

Flu Part Two: Homeopathy and Herbal Medicine
KPFA broadcast date January 17, 2006
Dana Ullman, MPH and Andrew Gaeddert discuss homeopathic and herbal alternatives for protection from and treatment of the flu in the context of the potential pandemic of avian flu. Resources: Everybody's Guide to Homeopathic Medicines: Safe and Effective Remedies for You and Your Family by Stephen Cummings and Dana Ullman, Homeopathic Educational Services www.homeopathic.com and Healing Immune Disorders: Natural Defense-Building Solutions by Andrew Gaeddert, Health Concerns www.healthconcerns.com

Oppression and Healing
KPFA broadcast date December 13, 2005
A discussion of how people of color and political progressives can counter the damaging health effects of social stress and the threat of violence. Layna Berman will be joined by long time African-American activist and radio producer Lewis Sawyer and Ana-Marie Jones, disaster preparedness expert and executive director of CARD (Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters). Resources: Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters (CARD) www.firstvictims.org; The End of Stress as We Know It by Bruce McEwen; Resources on stress

Electrosmog
KPFA broadcast date November 29, 2005
Researcher Olle Johansson, MD, associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, discusses long term studies showing the adverse health effects of exposure to radio frequency radiation from wireless technologies. Activist Doug Loranger discusses his film Bad Reception: The Wireless Revolution in San Francisco and community activism against citywide wireless broadband Internet access. Resources: EMFacts Consultancy (Australia) www.emfacts.com; ; Bad Reception: The Wireless Revolution in San Francisco a film by Doug Loranger, DVD availble at the Free Speech Network; San Francisco Neighborhood Antenna-Free Union www.antennafreeunion.org

Nutrient Protection: Aging and Cancer
KPFA broadcast date November 22, 2005
Highly awarded for his research, Bruce Ames, PhD is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley and Senior Scientist at the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute. He joins the program for a discussion of how nutrients protect us from aging and cancer. Resources: Bruce Ames website www.bruceames.org

Avian Flu: What to Do
KPFA broadcast date November 15, 2005
Ana-Marie Jones, disaster preparedness expert and executive director of CARD (Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters) and Daniel P. Perales, DrPH, MPH, San Jose State University Department of Health Science discuss community activism and preparedness in the face of avian flu. Resources: Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters (CARD) www.firstvictims.org and Daniel Perales, DrPH dperales@sjsu.edu

Reproductive Choice
KPFA broadcast date November 1, 2005
Health educator Layna Berman discusses recent attacks on reproductive freedom of teens and reviews birth control options during the first half-hour, then reviews the work of physician John Lee, MD on hormone balance. Resources: Planned Parenthood Golden Gate www.ppgg.org; Managing Contraception www.managingcontraception.com; and What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer by John Lee and David Zava and What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause by John Lee

Genetically Altered Food
KPFA broadcast date October 25, 2005
Deborah Koons Garcia, director, writer, and producer of The Future of Food, discusses the market forces behind GMO and how communities can organize successful opposition. Resources: www.thefutureoffood.com

Holistic Pediatrics
KPFA broadcast date October 18, 2005
Physician Randall Neustaedter, OMD discusseshow to build healthy immunity in children without the use of invasive pharmaceuticals Resources: The Vaccine Guide and Child Health Guide by Randall Neustaedter, OMD and the website www.cure-guide.com

Big Pharma Deception
KPFA broadcast date October 11, 2005
Physician John Abramson, MD discusses how Big Pharma has degraded health and medicine. This is a pledge drive show. Resources: Overdosed America by John Abramson, MD

The Obesity Epidemic: Science, Morality, and Ideology
KPFA broadcast date September 27, 2005
Michael Gard, senior lecturer in health studies at Charles Sturt University, Australia critiques the science and social stigma of the alleged obesity epidemic. Resources: The Obesity Epidemic by Michael Gard and Jan Wright

Buying Organic
KPFA broadcast date September 20, 2005
Organics specialist and farmer Luddene Perry and writer Dan Schultz discuss how to find and evaluate organic products, including analysis of organic standards and product categories. Resources: A Field Guide to Buying Organic by Luddene Perry and Dan Schultz and its website at www.afieldguidetobuyingorganic.com

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.

Vaccine Risks
KPFA broadcast date August 23, 2005
Randall Neustaedter, OMD discusses vaccination safety and efficacy. Resources: The Vaccine Guide and Child Health Guide by Randall Neustaedter, OMD and the website www.cure-guide.com

Public Health Risk from Depleted Uranium
KPFA broadcast date July 26, 2005
Leuren Moret, expert witness at the International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan, and physicist Ernest J. Sternglass, PhD discuss the public health risks to soldiers and civilians from depleted uranium drift. Resources: Beyond Treason www.beyondtreason.com

Smart Exposures: Understanding Risks from EMF & RFR
KPFA broadcast date July 19, 2005
Cindy Sage of Sage Associates, environmental consultants and public policy researchers, discusses the research and encourages prudence regarding exposure to radiation from cell phones and electromagnetic fields Resources: Sage Associates www.sageassociates.net

Navigating Anger and Fear
KPFA broadcast date July 12, 2005
Harriet Lerner, PhD discusses how to respond to old emotions in new ways. Resources: The Dance of Anger and The Dance of Fear by Harriet Lerner

Preserving the Gut by Boosting Methylation
KPFA broadcast date July 5, 2005
Orthomolecular physician and researcher Richard Kunin, MD discusses the role of methylation in preserving the health of the gastrointestinal system Resources: Orthomolecular Health Medicine Society www.ohmsociety.com ; Orthomolecular Medicne News Service www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns

The Dark Side of Soy
KPFA broadcast date June 28, 2005
Nutritionist Kaayla Daniel, PhD, CCN discusses her book The Whole Soy Story which exposes the potential health damaging effects of soy foods and supplements. Resources: The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food by Kaayla Daniel; Weston A. Price Foundation Soy Alert!; and Soy Free Solutions www.soyfreesolutions.com

Hormone Fact & Fiction
KPFA broadcast date June 14, 2005
Biochemist David Zava, PhD of ZRT Labs separates the science from mythology about hormone balance in both genders Resources: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer by John Lee and David Zava and ZRT Laboratory www.zrtlab.com

The Biology of Belief
KPFA broadcast date May 24, 2005
Bruce Lipton, PhD, cell biologist, discusses the cellular basis of the mind/body connection. This is a fund drive show. Resources: The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton www.brucelipton.com

Safe Hormone Science for Both Genders
KPFA broadcast date May 17, 2005
Biochemist David Zava, PhD offers myth-exploding information on how and when to use bioidentical hormones. This is a fund drive show. Resources: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer by John Lee and ZRT Laboratory www.zrtlab.com

Smart Medicine for Your Eyes
KPFA broadcast date May 10, 2005
Jeffery Anshel, OD discusses non-pharmaceutical approaches to eye protection and care, including nutrients, herbs, and homeopathy. Resources: Smart Medicine for Your Eyes by Jeffery Anshel, DO www.cvconsulting.com

Challenging the Convention on Heart Disease and Diabetes
KPFA broadcast date April 26, 2005
An interview with Malcolm Kendrick, MD, who works as a doctor in the north of England and writes extensively on heart disease, obesity, and diabetes, arguing that the anti-fat, pro-carbohydrate conventional wisdom has promoted all three. Resources: Red Flags www.redflagsdaily.com and resources cardiovascular and heart health and resources on diabetes.

Protecting Yourself from the Health Care System
KPFA broadcast date April 5, 2005
Health educator Layna Berman and health strategies advisor Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss protecting yourself and your wishes in a health care environment. Resources: Resources on politics, advocacy, prevention, and social health

Community Health Strategies
KPFA broadcast date March 29, 2005
Leslie Mikkelsen, MPH, Managing Director of The Prevention Institute, founded to address complex health and social issues, one person at a time, creating comprehensive strategies that change the conditions that impact community health, including violence prevention, traffic safety, health disparities, nutrition and physical activity, and youth development. Resources: The Prevention Institute www.preventioninstitute.org

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

Diabetes Prevention and Natural Treatment Update
KPFA broadcast date March 8, 2005
Health educator Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD of the "Progressive Health Observer" go over the latest research on prevention and natural treatment of diabetes. Resources: Resources on diabetes

Indoor Air Pollution
KPFA broadcast date March 1, 2005
Put a well person in a sick building and you get a sick person! Health educator Layna Berman discusses how to protect yourself at home and at work. Resources: Resources on environmental health

Healing the Gut Without Drugs
KPFA broadcast date February 22, 2005
Nutritionist Elizabeth Lipski, PhD, discusses the third edition of her book Resources: Digestive Wellness and Digestive Wellness for Children by Elizabeth Lipski, PhD www.innovativehealing.com

Choosing Cancer Therapies
KPFA broadcast date February 15, 2005
Cancer journalist Ralph W. Moss, PhD discusses choosing a cancer therapy. Resources: Ralph Moss's website www.ralphmoss.com

The Good Body
KPFA broadcast date February 8, 2005
Playwright Eve Ensler discusses women's body image. Resources: The Good Body and The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler and the VDay website www.vday.org

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

Reducing Violent Behavior and Depression with Nutrients
KPFA broadcast date January 11, 2005
Dr. William Walsh from the Pfeiffer Treatment Center. discusses testing and nutrient treatment for psychiatric symptoms. Resources: Pfeiffer Treatment Center www.hriptc.org

Finding Balance in an Unbalanced World: Zen Koans
KPFA broadcast date December 21, 2004
Zen teacher and psychologist John Tarrant, PhD discusses his new book about the use of Zen koans as a tool for change.. Resources: Bring Me the Rhinoceros by John Tarrant, PhD and Pacific Zen Institute www.pacificzen.org

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

Critical Condition
KPFA broadcast date December 7, 2004
Investigative journalists James Steele and Donald Barlett discuss their new book about how the big bussiness of health care in America has degraded the practice of medicine. Resources: Critical Condition by James Steele and Donald Barlett

The Truth About the Drug Companies
KPFA broadcast date November 30, 2004
Dr. Marcia Angell, physician and former editor-in-chief of the "New England Journal of Medicine", discusses her book about how pharmaceutical companies deceive consumers. Resources: The Truth About the Drug Companies by Marcia Angell

Holiday Hormone Health
KPFA broadcast date November 16, 2004
Health educator Layna Berman discusses maintenance of healthy hormone balance under the stress of holidays and winter. Resources: Resources on hormones

When Things Don't Go Our Way: Zen and Helplessness
KPFA broadcast date November 9, 2004
Zen teacher Michael Wenger from San Francisco Zen Center discusses strategies for staying engaged without being attached. Resources: San Francisco Zen Center www.sfzc.org

Homeopathy at Home
KPFA broadcast date October 26, 2004
Dana Ullman, homeopathic educator, and director of the Homeopathic Educational Services, discusses his book Resources: Everybody's Guide to Homeopathic Medicines: Safe and Effective Remedies for You and Your Family by Stephen Cummings and Dana Ullman and Homeopathic Educational Services www.homeopathic.com

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

Atkins Diabetes Revolution
KPFA broadcast date October 12, 2004
Jacqueline Eberstein, RN, Director of Nutrition Information at Atkins Health and Medical Information Services discusses how the Atkins nutritional approach works to prevent and treat diabetes based on her 30 years of working with Robert Atkins, MD at his Atkins Nutritional Approach for Complementary Medicine. Resources: Atkins Diabetes Revolution by Robert Atkins, Mary Vernon, and Jacqueline Eberstein and Atkins Nutritional Approach for Complementary Medicine www.atkins.com

Your Body's Many Cries for Water
KPFA broadcast date October 5, 2004
Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, MD discusses how water regulation and rehydration prevents and cures illness. Resources: Your Body's Many Cries for Water by Fereydoon Batmanghelidj

Treating HIV with Homeopathic Human Growth Hormone
KPFA broadcast date September 28, 2004
Biochemist Dr. Barbara Brewitt discusses new studies using her homeopathic human growth hormone products on adult and pediatric HIV-infected patients. Resources: Biomedd Comm, Inc. www.biomedcomm.com

Healing the Whole Addict
KPFA broadcast date September 21, 2004
Medical journalist Stephanie Marohn discusses where traditional addiction treatments fall short. Resources: The Natural Medicine Guide to Addiction by Stephanie Marohn www.stephaniemarohn.com

Recovering from Injury
KPFA broadcast date September 14, 2004
Health educator Layna Berman discusses what to do after a physical injury to support healing. Resources: Resources on exercise and musculoskeletal health

Toxic Cosmetics
KPFA broadcast date August 17, 2004
Sonya Lunder of the Environmental Working Groups discusses how personal care products contribute to your toxic body burden. Resources: The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics www.safecosmetics.org

Talking About Death
KPFA broadcast date August 3, 2004
Virginia Morris discusses how to prepare for the end of life. Resources: by Virginia Morris

Hormone Balance and Chronic Illness
KPFA broadcast date July 20, 2004
Dr. David Zava, endocrinological biochemist discusses how hormone imbalances affect chronic illness. Resources: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer by John Lee, MD and David Zava, PhD; ZRT Laboratory www.zrtlab.com; resources on hormones

Inflammation and Chronic Illness
KPFA broadcast date July 13, 2004
Journalist Jack Challem discusses his book about the root cause of chronic illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes, and arthritis. Resources: The Inflammation Syndrome by Jack Challem

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

Caring for Aging Parents
KPFA broadcast date June 22, 2004
Virginia Morris discusses her complete guide on how adult children can help their parents. Resources: How to Care for Aging Parents and most recently by Virginia Morris

When Food Is Love
KPFA broadcast date June 15, 2004
Geneen Roth discusses conquering emotional eating. Resources: The Craggy Hole In My Heart And The Cat Who Filled It Geneen Roth www.geneenroth.com

Passing For Thin
KPFA broadcast date June 8, 2004
Frances Kuffel, literary agent discusses her book about losing weight, self-image, and overcoming food addictions. Resources: Passing for Thin: Losing Half My Weight and Finding Myself by Frances Kuffel www.franceskuffel.net

Depressing News About Anti-Depressants
KPFA broadcast date May 25, 2004
Dr. Peter Breggin, MD discusses why anti-depressants should not be used, especially on children. Resources: The Anti-Depressant Fact Book and Your Drug May Be Your Problem by Peter Breggin www.breggin.com

Ecological Medicine Update
KPFA broadcast date May 11, 2004
Kenny Ausubel, founder of the Bioneers Conference, discusses his newest book: a collection from the proceedings from a conference on a new movement in health care. Resources: Ecological Medicine edited by Kenny Ausubel and the Bioneers Conference www.bioneers.org

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

Gut Health and Chronic Illness
KPFA broadcast date April 6, 2004
Dr. Elizabeth Lipski, PhD,discusses the relationship between the gut and chronic illness. Resources: Digestive Wellness and Digestive Wellness for Children by Elizabeth Lipski, PhD www.innovativehealing.com

Codex Threatens Access to Supplements
KPFA broadcast date March 30, 2004
John Hammel of International Advocates for Health Freedom and Dr. Robert Verkerk, PhD, executive director of Alliance for Natural Health (UK) discuss threats to our access to supplements. Resources: International Advocates for Health Freedom www.iahf.com and Alliance for Natural Health (UK) www.alliance-natural-health.org

Health and Economic Status
KPFA broadcast date March 16, 2004
Bruce McEwen PhD from Rockefeller University and Nancy E. Adler PhD from the MacArthur Network for Socioeconomic Health and the Department of Psychiatry at UCSF, discuss the effect of socioeconomic status on health. Resources: Socioeconomic Status and Health in Industrial Nations: Social, Psychological, and Biological Pathways edited by Bruce McEwen and Nancy Adler www.macses.ucsf.edu and The End of Stress as We Know It by Bruce McEwen

The Hunter-Gatherer Diet
KPFA broadcast date March 2, 2004
Health educator Layna Berman discusses the health promoting properties of eating according to Paleolithic dietary principles: low in allergens and rich in nutrients. Resources: Resources on food, diet, and nutrition

Fake Foods
KPFA broadcast date February 24, 2004
Sally Fallon, health journalist and president of the Weston A. Price Foundation discusses the dangers of processed foods. Resources: Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon and Weston A. Price Foundation www.westonaprice.org

Protecting Your Health While Flying
KPFA broadcast date February 17, 2004
Diana Fairechild discusses her book Resources: Jet Smarter by Diana Fairechild www.flyana.com

End Addictions With Nutrient Therapy
KPFA broadcast date February 10, 2004
Physician and researcher Dr. Charles Gant, MD, PhD discusses nutrient-based treatment of addiction Resources: End Your Addiction Now by Charles Gant

The Hormonal Consequences of Starch and Stress
KPFA broadcast date February 3, 2004
Health educator Layna Berman reviews the hormonal effects of stress and of self-medication using comfort foods, and offers healthy alternatives. Resources: Resources on hormones and resources on food, diet, and nutrition

Hysterectomy: Protection From and Treatment For
KPFA broadcast date January 27, 2004
Elizabeth Plourde, discusses the hormonal and health consequences of hysterectomy and ovary removal, how women who have had these surgeries can protect themselves, and offers advice to those facing a decision whether to undergo the procedure. Resources: Hysterectomy and Ovary Removal by Elizabeth Plourde www.NewVoice.net

Understanding Stress
KPFA broadcast date January 20, 2004
Researcher Bruce McEwen discusses the biology and social causes of stress. Resources: The End of Stress as We Know It by Bruce McEwen

Dietary Fats: Myths and Science
KPFA broadcast date January 13, 2004
Lipid researcher Dr. Mary Enig, PhD, discusses common misinformation about the science of dietary fats. Resources: Know Your Fats by Mary Enig, Eat Fat, Lose Fat by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig, Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig, and Weston A. Price Foundation www.westonaprice.org

Energy Healing
KPFA broadcast date January 6, 2004
Greg Schelkun offers guidelines for working with an energy healing practitioner.

Essential Oils: Botanical Healing
KPFA broadcast date December 16, 2003
Valerie Gennari Cooksley, RN discusses therapeutic applications of essential oils. Resources: Healing Home Spa by Valerie Gennari Cooksley www.floramedica.com

Lyme: Is It What's Making Everyone Sick?
KPFA broadcast date December 9, 2003
Accupuncturist and environmental consultant David Bierman discusses the Lyme disease epidemic. Resources: Health Freedom Solutions www.healthfreedomsolutions.com

Pills, Profits and Protest: Voices of Global Aids
KPFA broadcast date November 25, 2003
Christine d'Adesky, journalist and producer/director, discusses her documentary film on Global AIDS Resources: Pills, Profits and Protest: Voices of Global Aids a documentary by the Action-Life Collective (www.pillsprofitsprotest.org

Exercise How-To
KPFA broadcast date November 18, 2003
Health educator Layna Berman offers easy exercise guidelines. Resources: Resources on exercise

Health, the Built Environment, Obesity, and Exercise
KPFA broadcast date November 11, 2003
Health educator Layna Berman extemporaneously discusses health and the built environment, and obesity and exercise. Resources: Resources on environmental health, obesity, and exercise

A Memorial to Dr. John Lee, MD
KPFA broadcast date November 4, 2003
A memorial to Dr. John Lee, MD who wrote books and educated physicians and individuals about the importance of natural progesterone and other bio-identical hormones, with excerpts from shows with Dr. Lee and comments by his wife Pat Lee. Resources: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer by John Lee and David Zava and What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause by John Lee

Inside the Obesity Epidemic
KPFA broadcast date October 28, 2003
Ellen Ruppel Shell, science writer and co-director of the Knight Center for Science in Journalism at Boston University, discusses her book "The Hungry Gene: The Science of Fat and the Future of Thin". Resources: The Hungry Gene: The Science of Fat and the Future of Thin by Ellen Ruppel Shell

An Era of Ecodemics
KPFA broadcast date October 21, 2003
An interview with Mark Jerome Walters discusses his book about killers and their environmental causes. This is a pledge drive show. Resources: Six Modern Plagues by Mark Jerome Walters

The Cost Of Pharmaceuticals
KPFA broadcast date October 14, 2003
Journalist Katherine Greider exposes the price manipulations of the pharmaceutical industry. This is a pledge drive show. Resources: The Big Fix by Katherine Greider

Health Decisions for Diabetes and Other Effects of Metabolic Syndrome
KPFA broadcast date October 7, 2003
Dr. Jeffry Fawcett, PhD, health decision consultant, educates listeners about risks and prevention strategies for diabetes and other critical diagnoses Resources: Resources on diabetes

Insomnia
KPFA broadcast date September 23, 2003
Health educator Layna Berman discusses causes of and solutions for insomnia.

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

Making Health Decisions
KPFA broadcast date August 19, 2003
Health decision consultant Dr. Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discusses how to make health and medical decisions

Fibromyalgia
KPFA broadcast date August 12, 2003
Dr. Peter Madill, MD, discusses the treatment of fibromyalgia

The Mood Cure
KPFA broadcast date July 29, 2003
Julia Ross discusses her newest book about improving your outlook without pharmaceuticals. Resources: The Mood Cure by Julia Ross

Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain
KPFA broadcast date July 22, 2003
Neurologist Dr. Antonio Damasio, PhD, discusses his newest book about the role of emotions in human survival and culture. Resources: Looking for Spinoza, The Feeling of What Happens, and Descartes’ Error by Antonio Damasio; resources on mind and mood

Safe, Nutritious Food
KPFA broadcast date July 15, 2003
Sally Fallon, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, returns to discuss nutrient density, food safety, and safe food sources. Resources: Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon and Weston A. Price Foundation www.westonaprice.org

Becoming a Dream Expert
KPFA broadcast date July 8, 2003
Dr. Gayle Delaney, PhD discusses dream analysis. Resources: Living Your Dreams by Gayle Delaney

Nutrient Therapy for Psychiatric Symptoms
KPFA broadcast date July 1, 2003
Dr. William J. Walsh, PhD, chief science and biomedical researcher at the Health Research Institute-Pfeiffer Treatment Center discusses psychiatric treatment using nutrition.

Specific Micronutrient Supplementation
KPFA broadcast date June 17, 2003
Health educator Layna Berman reviews the use of nutrient supplementation for the treatment and prevention of specific illnesses.

Micronutrients for Health
KPFA broadcast date June 10, 2003
Health educator Layna Berman reviews the use of nutrient supplementation for optimal health. Resources: Resources on food, nutrition, and diet

Hormones in the News
KPFA broadcast date June 3, 2003
Physician Dr. John Lee, MD and biochemist Dr. David Zava, PhD discuss recent reports on the effects of synthetic hormones and how these differ from bio-identical hormones. Resources: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer by John Lee and David Zava and What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause by John Lee and ZRT Laboratory www.zrtlab.com

Vitamin C, Infectious Disease, and Toxins
KPFA broadcast date May 27, 2003
Dr. Thomas Levy, MD, JD, discusses his book curing infections and detoxification with vitamin C Resources: Curing the Incurable: Vitamin C, Infectious Disease, and Toxins by Thomas Levy

Atkins for Life
KPFA broadcast date May 20, 2003
A memorial to Dr. Robert Atkins, an interview with Colette Heimowitz, director of education and research for the Atkins Health and Medical Information Services discusses Dr. Atkins's last book Resources: Atkins for Life by Robert Atkins

Safe Food
KPFA broadcast date May 13, 2003
Dr. Marion Nestle, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University, discusses her latest book Resources: Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism and Food Politics by Marion Nestle

The Effect of Lead and Mercury Exposure
KPFA broadcast date May 6, 2003
Dr. Richard Canfield of Cornell discusses his research indicating that there might be no safe level of lead exposure; and Dr. Phillipe Grandjean of Harvard and the University of Southern Denmark discusses his research on methyl mercury exposure from fish and other sources.

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.

Autism: A Natural Approach
KPFA broadcast date April 22, 2003
Journalist Stephanie Marohn discusses her book, a compilation of natural approaches for treating autism. Resources: The Natural Medicine Guide to Autism by Stephanie Marohn

The Safe Use of Bio-Identical Hormones
KPFA broadcast date April 15, 2003
Health educator Layna Berman discusses the use of bio-identical sex hormones to counter news reports that discourage the use of HRT

Dietary Fat is in the News
KPFA broadcast date April 8, 2003
Researcher Dr. Mary Enig, PhD the growing acceptance of fats in our diet Resources: Know Your Fats by Mary Enig, Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig, and Weston A. Price Foundation www.westonaprice.org

Shocked and Awed: Survival Support
KPFA broadcast date March 25, 2003
Health educator Layna Berman discusses survival support for those affected by the war on Iraq; listeners call in

Understanding Marijuana
KPFA broadcast date March 11, 2003
Dr. Mitch Earleywine, PhD, Associate Professor of Clinical Science and Directory of Clinical Training in Psychology at UCLA discusses his research on marijuana Resources: Understanding Marijuana: A New Look at the Scientific Evidence by Mitch Earleywine

Testing and Treating Allergies
KPFA broadcast date February 25, 2003
Physician and researcher Dr. Vincent Marinkovich, MD of Immune Tech discusses his new at-home allergy testing kits

End Your Addiction Now
KPFA broadcast date February 18, 2003
Physician and researcher Dr. Charles Gant, MD, PhD discusses nutrient-based treatment of addiction Resources: End Your Addiction Now by Charles Gant

Feeling-based Therapy in the Prevention of Stress-related Illness
KPFA broadcast date February 11, 2003
Psychotherapists Miriam Redstone and David Dillman discuss the role of therapy in decreasing stress related illness.

Turning Suffering Inside Out
KPFA broadcast date February 4, 2003
Darlene Cohen, MA, pain specialist, body worker, and Zen teacher discusses her book Resources: Turning Suffering Inside Out: A Zen Approach to Living with Physical and Emotional Pain by Darlene Cohen

Stress and Illness
KPFA broadcast date January 28, 2003
Dr. Peter Madill, MD, discusses the development, prevention, and treatment of stress induced illness

Reducing Fight or Flight
KPFA broadcast date January 21, 2003
Health educator Layna Berman discusses stress, illness, and the nervous system

Destructive Emotions
KPFA broadcast date January 14, 2003
Dr. Daniel Goleman, journalist discusses his new book written from dialogues with Tibet's Dalai Lama Resources: Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

Homeopathic Insulin and Recombinant Human Growth Hormone
KPFA broadcast date January 7, 2003
Dr. Barbara Brewitt, M.Div., PhD, CEO and Chief Scientific Officer of Biomed Comm Inc discusses the therapeutic use of homeopathic insulin and recombinant human growth hormone

Far Infra Red Saunas for Detoxification and Health
KPFA broadcast date December 17, 2002
Dr. Lawrence Wilson, MD, discusses the use and construction of far infra red saunas for detoxification and health promotion

Safe Dentistry
KPFA broadcast date December 10, 2002
Leo Cashman, president of DAMS Inc., discusses his organizations promotion of safe dental practices

Thyroid Syndromes
KPFA broadcast date December 3, 2002
Health educator Layna Berman discusses thyroid disorders and thyroid health

Hormone Deception
KPFA broadcast date November 12, 2002
D. Lindsey Berkson, consulting scholar, discusses how everyday foods and products are endangering our health Resources: Hormone Deception by D. Lindsey Berkson

Healing Trauma with Dual Brain Psychology
KPFA broadcast date November 5, 2002
Dr. Fredric Schiffer, MD, psychiatrist discusses new research that supports the effectiveness of using dual brain psychology for healing past trauma Resources: Of Two Minds: The Revolutionary Science of Dual-Brain Psychology by Fredric Schiffer

Thwarting the Flu
KPFA broadcast date October 29, 2002
Health Educator Layna Berman discusses prevention of illness during the flu season

Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture
KPFA broadcast date October 22, 2002
Monica Moore, co-director of Pesticide Action Network and Dave Henson, director of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center discuss corrective measure for our farm crisis

Hysterectomy and Ovary Removal: How to Protect Yourself
KPFA broadcast date October 15, 2002
Elizabeth Plourde discusses how women can protect themselves from these commonly ordered surgeries and what to do for your health if you've already had them Resources: Hysterectomy and Ovary Removal by Elizabeth Plourde www.NewVoice.net

The Principles of Homeopathy
KPFA broadcast date September 17, 2002
Laura Josephson, CCH, RSHom, discusses how homeopathic remedies work Resources: A Homeopathic Handbook of Natural Remedies by Laura Josephson

Human Growth Hormone
KPFA broadcast date September 10, 2002
Physician Dr. Jay Mead, MD, discusses supplementation with human growth hormone

The Science of Weight Training
KPFA broadcast date September 3, 2002
Health educator Layna Berman discusses the science behind weight resistance training

Social Perspectives in Epidemiology
KPFA broadcast date August 27, 2002
Epidemiologist Steve Wing, PhD and professor of epidemiology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill discusses the impact of socioeconomic status on disease development

Animal Self-Medication
KPFA broadcast date August 20, 2002
Researcher Dr. Cindy Engel, PhD, discusses how wild animals medicate themselves Resources: Wild Health by Cindy Engel

Flawed Research: HRT
KPFA broadcast date August 13, 2002
Physicians Dr. John Lee and Dr. George Gillson, and biochemist Dr. David Zava discuss the flaws in the Women's Health Initiative Study about hormone replacement therapy (HRT) Resources: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer by John Lee and David Zava and What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause by John Lee and ZRT Laboratory www.zrtlab.com

Low Carb for Life
KPFA broadcast date July 30, 2002
Robert Atkins discusses his low carb diet, recently vindicated in the press

Insulin Potentiation Cancer Therapy
KPFA broadcast date July 23, 2002
Dr. Steven Ayre discusses combining insulin potentiation therapy with chemotherapy, which results in a treatment without side effects

Diabetes: Non-Pharmaceutical Treatments and Prevention
KPFA broadcast date July 16, 2002
Health Educator Layna Berman discusses preventing and treating type 2 diabetes without pharmaceuticals

Detoxifying Metals
KPFA broadcast date July 9, 2002
Dr. Eric Gordon, MD discusses recovery from mercury and other metal toxicity

Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution
KPFA broadcast date July 2, 2002
Dr. Robert Atkins discusses low carbohydrate nutrition

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

Life Without Bread
KPFA broadcast date June 11, 2002
Dr. Chris Allan, biochemist discusses a starch-free diet Resources: Life Without Bread by Wolfgang Lutz and Chris Allan

Hormones and Stress
KPFA broadcast date May 28, 2002
Health educator Layna Berman discusses what happens to the endocrine system under chronic stress and how to protect yourself

The Testosterone Revolution
KPFA broadcast date May 21, 2002
Dr. Malcolm Carruthers, MD, British physician and researcher discusses his book on testosterone supplementation Resources: The Testosterone Revolution by Malcolm Carruthers

The Wrinkle Cure
KPFA broadcast date May 14, 2002
Dr. Nicholas Perricone, MD discusses his book on natural alternatives for anti-aging Resources: The Wrinkle Cure by Nicholas Perricone

Natural Health After Birth
KPFA broadcast date May 7, 2002
Avia Jill Romm, midwife and journalist, discusses her complete guide to postpartum wellness

Non-Toxic Approaches to Residential Pests
KPFA broadcast date April 30, 2002
Arthur Slater, entomologist and integrated pest management expert from UC Berkeley, discusses non-toxic, alternative approaches to residential pest management

Dual-Brain Psychology: An Update
KPFA broadcast date April 23, 2002
Psychiatrist Fredric Schiffer, MD, discusses the latest research in dual-brain psychology Resources: Of Two Minds: The Revolutionary Science of Dual-Brain Psychology by Fredric Schiffer

Childhood Autism: A Nutritional Approach
KPFA broadcast date April 16, 2002
Bernard Rimland, PhD, a research psychologist and founcer of the Autism Research Institute discusses the biological foundation for neurological disorders Resources: Autism Research Institute www.autismwebsite.com/ari/

The Testosterone Syndrome
KPFA broadcast date April 2, 2002
Dr. Eugene Shippen discusses his book about the use of supplemental testosterone to treat a variety of ailments Resources: The Testosterone Syndrome by Eugene Shippen

Ecological Medicine
KPFA broadcast date March 26, 2002
Kenny Ausubel, founder of the Bioneers Conference discusses the future of healing using ecological medicine Resources: Ecological Medicine edited by Kenny Ausubel and the Bioneers Conference www.bioneers.org

The Politics of Cancer Revisited
KPFA broadcast date March 19, 2002
Dr. Samuel Epstein discusses the cancer establishment Resources: Cancer-Gate, The Politics of Cancer Revisited, and The Politics of Cancer by Samuel Epstein and the Cancer Prevention Coalition www.preventcancer.com/

Advocating for Yourself in a Health Care Environment
KPFA broadcast date March 12, 2002
Health educator Layna Berman discusses strategies for advocating for your wishes and protecting yourself and loved ones in a medical setting with Elizabeth Sawyer, 32-year Zen Buddhist practitioner, parent of Wolf-Hirschorn Syndrome child

Preventing Sickle Cell and Cancer with Native Diet
KPFA broadcast date March 5, 2002
West African researcher Dr. Oji Agbai, ND, PhD discusses how substances from traditional diets prevent and control sickle cell anemia and cancer. Resources: Sickle Cell Anemia: A Solution At Last by Oji Agbai

How Can I Get Through to You?
KPFA broadcast date February 26, 2002
Therapist Terrence Real discusses his book on reconnecting men and women Resources: How Can I Get Through to You? by Terrence Real

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer
KPFA broadcast date February 19, 2002
Physician Dr. John Lee, MD and biochemist Dr. David Zava, PhD discuss their new book on why conventional treatments don't work Resources: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer by John Lee and David Zava and What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause by John Lee and ZRT Laboratory www.zrtlab.com

The Paleo Diet
KPFA broadcast date February 5, 2002
Dr. Loren Cordain, discusses his book on the Paleolithic diet and exercise and implications for modern humans Resources: The Paleo Diet by Loren Cordain

How Food and Exercise Regulate Mood
KPFA broadcast date January 29, 2002
Professor of Psychology Dr. Robert Thayer discusses research on the relationship between food, physical activity, and mood Resources: Calm Energy by Robert Thayer; resources on food, on exercise, and on mind and mood

Exercise: an Integrative Perspective
KPFA broadcast date January 22, 2002
Health Educator Layna Berman reviews disease protection and nutrient requirements

Vitamin D: How Much? An Update
KPFA broadcast date January 15, 2002
Researcher Dr. Reinhold Vieth from the University of Toronto and Mt. Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada

Vaccinations
KPFA broadcast date January 8, 2002
Herbalist and midwife Avia Jill Romm discusses how parents can make invformed decisions about vaccination Resources: Vaccinations: a Thoughtful Parent's Guide by Avia Jill Romm

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

Adrenal Fatigue
KPFA broadcast date December 11, 2001
Dr. James Wilson, ND, DC, PhD discusses diagnosis and healing of adrenal fatigue Resources: Adrenal Fatigue by James Wilson

Sleep
KPFA broadcast date December 4, 2001
Pioneer sleep researcher, Dr. William Dement, MD, PhD Resources: The Promise of Sleep by William Dement

Surviving the Holidays
KPFA broadcast date November 27, 2001
Health integrationist Layna Berman discusses trategies for preserving immunity, and for avoiding weight gain and burnout

Lyme Disease
KPFA broadcast date November 20, 2001
Dr. Rafael Stricker MD

Hormones and Cancer
KPFA broadcast date November 13, 2001
Dr. David Zava, PhD, Director of ZRT Labs. Resources: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer by John Lee and David Zava and ZRT Laboratory www.zrtlab.com

Treating Crohn's with Antibiotics
KPFA broadcast date November 6, 2001
Dr. Ira Shafran, MD.

Healing: Bridging Body and Mind
KPFA broadcast date October 30, 2001
Health Integrationist Layna Berman

Releasing the Tiger
KPFA broadcast date October 23, 2001
Psychologist Dr. Peter Levine PhD discusses healing trauma through the body. Resources: Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine

Kitchen Table Wisdom
KPFA broadcast date October 16, 2001
Dr. Rachel Remen, MD Resources: Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather's Blessings by Rachel Remen

Autoimmunity and Disease
KPFA broadcast date October 2, 2001
Researcher Dr. Garth Nicholson

The Biological Consequences of Stress
KPFA broadcast date September 25, 2001
Stanford Professor and neurobiologist Dr. Robert Sapolsky Resources: Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers and The Trouble With Testosterone by Robert Sapolsky

Strategies for Stress
KPFA broadcast date September 18, 2001
Health Educator Layna Berman discusses health preservation during stress

Exercise: How it Works
KPFA broadcast date August 7, 2001
Health Integrationist Layna Berman discusses exercise and health

Treating MS with Transdermal Histimine and Supplements
KPFA broadcast date July 24, 2001
Researcher Dr. George Gillson, MD, PhD discusses new treatments for multiple sclerosis

Preventing Arthritis
KPFA broadcast date July 17, 2001
Science writer Martin Zucker discusses nonpharmaceutical arthritis prevention Resources: Preventing Arthritis by Ronald Lawrence and Martin Zucker

Dietary Fat Update
KPFA broadcast date July 10, 2001
Lipid researcher Mary Enig, PhD discusses the latest on dietary fats Resources: Know Your Fats by Mary Enig, Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig, and Weston A. Price Foundation www.westonaprice.org

I Only Say This Because I Love You
KPFA broadcast date July 3, 2001
Psychologist Deborah Tannen discusses her book on communication in families Resources: I Only Say This Because I Love You by Deborah Tannen

Empty Calories
KPFA broadcast date June 26, 2001
Health Educator Layna Berman discusses nutrient density

What You Need to Know About Pharmaceuticals
KPFA broadcast date June 19, 2001
Pharmacist Dr. George Curtis, PhD discusses pharmacology

Addiction-Free Naturally
KPFA broadcast date June 12, 2001
Herbalist Brigitte Mars discusses her book about the treatment of addiction using non-invasive, natural therapies Resources: Addiction-Free Naturally by Brigitte Mars

The Omega 3 Connection
KPFA broadcast date June 5, 2001
Dr. Andrew Stoll MD discusses his book about the use of omega 3 fatty acids to treat psychiatric symptoms Resources: The Omega 3 Connection by Andrew Stoll

Nourishing Traditions and Food Preparation
KPFA broadcast date May 22, 2001
Sally Fallon, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, discusses healthy food prep Resources: Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon and Weston A. Price Foundation www.westonaprice.org

Trust Us, We're Experts
KPFA broadcast date May 15, 2001
Journalist John Stauber exposes the spin doctors of industrialized science in his book Resources: Trust Us, We're Experts by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber

Why is Cancer Killing Our Pets?
KPFA broadcast date April 24, 2001
Deborah Straw examines treaments and protection Resources: Why is Cancer Killing Our Pets? by Deborah Straw

The Dangers of Hormone Overdose
KPFA broadcast date April 17, 2001
Layna Berman, Health Integrationist

Medical Marijuana
KPFA broadcast date April 10, 2001
Chris Conrad discusses the medicinal uses of marijuana Resources: Hemp for Health by Chris Conrad

Exercising Beyond Constraints
KPFA broadcast date April 3, 2001
Layna Berman, Health Educator discusses resolving the impediments to regular exercise

Codex and the Threat to Our Access to Vitamins and Supplements
KPFA broadcast date March 27, 2001
John Hammell from International Advocates for Health Freedom

Alternative Cancer Update
KPFA broadcast date March 13, 2001
Kenny Ausubel, founder of the Bioneers Conference, discusses alternative cancer treatment and prevention Resources: When Healing Becomes a Crime by Kenny Ausubel and the Bioneers Conference www.bioneers.org

A General Theory of Love
KPFA broadcast date March 6, 2001
Dr. Thomas Lewis MD discusses the physiology of love and how it heals us

Health Support While Healing Trauma
KPFA broadcast date February 20, 2001
Layna Berman, Health Integrationist

Healing Stress Through the Body
KPFA broadcast date February 13, 2001
Dr. Peter Levine PhD Resources: Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine

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

Hepatitis C & Naturopathic Treatment
KPFA broadcast date January 30, 2001
Chemist and Naturopathic Physican Dr. Davis Lamson From the Tahoma Clinic

Food Allergy, Addiction and Eating Disorders
KPFA broadcast date January 23, 2001
Health Integrationist Layna Berman discusses causes, treatment and diagnosis

The Antibiotic Alternative
KPFA broadcast date January 9, 2001
Biochemist Cindy Jones PhD discusses prevention and treatment of infection, including vaccination cautions

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
KPFA broadcast date December 19, 2000
Science writer, Janine Benyus Resources: Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine Benyus

How to Care for Aging Parents
KPFA broadcast date December 12, 2000
Virginia Morris discusses her complete guide Resources: How to Care for Aging Parents by Virginia Morris

Reinventing Medicine
KPFA broadcast date December 5, 2000
Physican Dr. Larry Dossey discusses a future of medicine which includes non-local or "big mind" spirit. Resources: Reinventing Medicine by Larry Dossey

Vitamin D: Toxic or Bone Saver?
KPFA broadcast date November 28, 2000
Dr. Reinhold Vieth PhD discusses his research about safe limits for preventing vitamin D deficiency bone loss

Alternative Treatments for Prostate Cancer
KPFA broadcast date November 21, 2000
Dr. Nicolas Gonzalez discusses non-invasive options for the treatment of prostate cancer

Men's Health
KPFA broadcast date November 14, 2000
Health Integrationist Layna Berman discusses health problems of men including dietary, hormonal and lifestyle solutions

Natural Healing For Mental Disorders
KPFA broadcast date November 7, 2000
Dr. Eva Edelman N.D. Resources: Natural Healing For Schizophrenia by Eva Edelman; Resources on mind, mood, and stress

Hormone Replacement Update
KPFA broadcast date October 31, 2000
Health Integrationist, Layna Berman

The Multi-orgasmic Couple: The Art of Taoist Sexuality
KPFA broadcast date October 24, 2000
Doug Abrams and his wife Rachel Carlton Abrams MD discuss their new book - Two hour pledge special Resources: The Multi-orgasmic Couple: The Art of Taoist Sexuality by Doug Abrams and Rachel Carlton Abrams

The Attack on and the Return of Alternative Cancer Therapies
KPFA broadcast date October 17, 2000
Kenny Ausubel, founder of the Bioneers Conference, discusses the alternative cancer treatment of Dr. Harry Hoxsey Resources: When Healing Becomes a Crime by Kenny Ausubel and the Bioneers Conference www.bioneers.org

Memorial to the work of nutrient researcher Dr. Brian Leibovitz Phd
KPFA broadcast date October 10, 2000
Ed Fry Consumer Advocate in the vitamin industry

Insulin Resistance, Women, and Strength
KPFA broadcast date September 19, 2000
Layna Berman, Health Integrationist reviews practical solutions

The Frailty Myth: Women Approaching Physical Equality
KPFA broadcast date September 12, 2000
Colette Dowling Resources: The Frailty Myth: Women Approaching Physical Equality by Colette Dowling

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

Cell Phones & Cordless Technology: Are They a Danger to Our Children?
KPFA broadcast date August 29, 2000
Environmental consultant Cindy Sage of Sage EMF Design discusses the dangers of cell and cordless phones as well as other sources of EMF radiation

Crazy Makers
KPFA broadcast date August 22, 2000
Nutritionist Carol Simontacchi Resources: Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children by Carol Simontacchi

Evironmental Illness and Multiple Chemical Sensitivities
KPFA broadcast date August 15, 2000
Health Integrationist Layna Berman

Healing Magnets
KPFA broadcast date August 8, 2000
Medical Consultant Sherry Kahn

More Nourishing Traditions
KPFA broadcast date July 18, 2000
Sally Fallon discusses safe food preparation and choice Resources: Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon and Weston A. Price Foundation www.westonaprice.org

Nutritive Cancer Therapy
KPFA broadcast date July 11, 2000
Dr. Nicolas Gonzalez

Exercise Prescriptions
KPFA broadcast date July 4, 2000
Health Integrationist Layna Berman

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

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

Talking to Your Children About Nutrition
KPFA broadcast date June 6, 2000
Layna Berman, Health Integrationist

Natural Treatments For the Eyes
KPFA broadcast date May 30, 2000
Dr. Jeffery Anshel, OD discusses his book Resources: Smart Medicine for Your Eyes by Jeffery Anshel, DO www.cvconsulting.com

The Truth About Dietary Fats
KPFA broadcast date May 23, 2000
Dr. Mary Enig PhD, lipid researcher discusses her book Resources: Know Your Fats by Mary Enig, Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig, and Weston A. Price Foundation www.westonaprice.org

Natural Nutrition For Children
KPFA broadcast date May 16, 2000
Dr. Abram Hoffer MD PhD discusses his nutrient-based approach to learning and behavior disorders in children Resources: Dr Hoffer's ABCs of Natural Nutrition for Children by Abram Hoffer

Non-Toxic Gardening
KPFA broadcast date May 9, 2000
Ralph Zingaro, Bioscape

What Do We Know Now? Reviewing New Information on Nutrients As Treatments
KPFA broadcast date May 2, 2000
Layna Berman, Health Integrationist

Nutritional Effects on Behavior in Schools and Prisons
KPFA broadcast date April 25, 2000
Sociologist Stephen Schoenthaler, PhD discusses his long study showing a decrease in violent behavior and increase of IQ with the elimination of junk foods and the addition of a daily multi vitamin.

Diabetes Treatment Options
KPFA broadcast date April 18, 2000
Dr. Richard Bernstein MD Resources: Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution by Richard Bernstein

Reviewing Current Attacks on Antioxidants and Herbs
KPFA broadcast date April 11, 2000
Brian Leibovitz PhD Editor-in-Chief of "The Journal of Optimal Nutrition"

Breast and Prostate Cancer Risks
KPFA broadcast date March 28, 2000
Physican John Lee, MD, and David Zava PhD, biochemist and breast cancer researcher discuss cancer risks for women and men posed by the use of drugs used to block sex hormones. Resources: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer by John Lee and David Zava and What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause by John Lee and ZRT Laboratory www.zrtlab.com

Multi-orgasmic Man
KPFA broadcast date March 21, 2000
Douglas Abrams discusses maintaining sexual exbuberance through middle age. Resources: The Multi-orgasmic Man by Doug Abrams

Medical Aromatherapy : Using Essential Oils to Treat Pathology
KPFA broadcast date March 14, 2000
Julia Fischer, Medical Aromatherapist Resources: Medical Aromatherapy and Advanced Aromatherapy by Dr. Kurt Schnaubelt; resources on alternative healing

Aspartame Illness
KPFA broadcast date March 7, 2000
Internist Dr. H.J. Roberts discusses the potential ill effects of aspartame (NutraSweet®) Resources: Aspartame: Is it Safe? by HJ Roberts

Compounded Natural Hormone Therapy
KPFA broadcast date February 29, 2000
Layna Berman, health integrationist

Soy: Panacea or Poison?
KPFA broadcast date February 15, 2000
Mike Fitzpatrick PhD Environmental chemist discusses the dangers of the overconsumption of soyfoods

Digestive Wellness
KPFA broadcast date February 8, 2000
Nutritionist Elizabeth Lipski, MS, CNN discusses gut health Resources: Digestive Wellness and Digestive Wellness for Children by Elizabeth Lipski, PhD www.innovativehealing.com

Drugs and Mental Health
KPFA broadcast date February 1, 2000
Elliot Valenstein PhD argues against the use of psychiatric medications Resources: Blaming the Brain by Elliot Valenstein

Weight Resistance Training As Bodywork
KPFA broadcast date January 25, 2000
Layna Berman, Health Integrationist

Safe Seafood
KPFA broadcast date January 18, 2000
Dr. Steven Webster, Senior Marine Biologist at the Monterery Aquarium discusses safe and sustainable seafood options

Dual Brain Pychology Update
KPFA broadcast date January 11, 2000
Dr. Fredric Schiffer MD discusses dual-brain psychology Resources: Of Two Minds: The Revolutionary Science of Dual-Brain Psychology by Fredric Schiffer

The Best Nutrition Stories of 99
KPFA broadcast date January 4, 2000
Clara Felix Resources: The Felix Letter: A Commentary on Nutrition smartlifeforum.org/thefelixletter.htm

Reviewing Health Literature
KPFA broadcast date December 28, 1999
Layna Berman, Health Integrationist

Multiple Intelligence for the 21st Century
KPFA broadcast date December 21, 1999
Howard Gardner PhD discusses research on multiple intelligences Resources: Intelligence Reframed by Howard Gardner

Preparing Your Body For and Recovering From Pregnancy
KPFA broadcast date December 14, 1999
Trainer, Dancer, Helene Byrne, ACE

Preventing and Treating Prenatal and Infant Trauma
KPFA broadcast date December 7, 1999
Dr.William Emerson, PhD, pychologist - Emerson Training Seminars

Strategies for a Healthy Winter Season
KPFA broadcast date November 30, 1999
Layna Berman, Health Integrationist

Natural Healing for Schizophrenia
KPFA broadcast date November 23, 1999
Health Educator and Journalist Eva Edelman discusses a nutritional and orthomolecular approach Resources: Natural Healing For Schizophrenia by Eva Edelman; Resources on mind, mood, and stress

Native African Diet Prevents the Presentation of Sickle Cell Anemia
KPFA broadcast date November 16, 1999
West African researcher Dr. Oji Agbai, ND, PhD discusses how substances from traditional diets prevent and control sickle cell anemia and cancer. Resources: Sickle Cell Anemia: A Solution At Last by Oji Agbai

Paleolithic Nutrition Research
KPFA broadcast date November 9, 1999
Layna Berman, Health Integrationist

Are Cell Phones Safe?
KPFA broadcast date November 2, 1999
Environmental consultant Cindy Sage of Sage EMF Design discusses the dangers of cell and cordless phones as well as other sources of EMF radiation

Talking to Your Kids About Healthy Eating Choices
KPFA broadcast date October 26, 1999
Layna Berman, Health Integrationist

Individualizing Your Nutrient Program
KPFA broadcast date October 19, 1999
Dr. Richard Kunin, MD Founder: The Society of Orthomolecular Medicine Resources: Orthomolecular Health Medicine Society www.ohmsociety.com ; Orthomolecular Medicne News Service www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns

Balancing Hormones Throughout Life
KPFA broadcast date October 12, 1999
Physican Dr. John Lee and researcher Dr. David Zava PhD Resources: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer by John Lee and David Zava and What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause by John Lee and ZRT Laboratory www.zrtlab.com

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

Nutritional Supplements For the Rest of Us (who just want to stay healthy)
KPFA broadcast date September 28, 1999
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

Antineoplastin: Brain Cancer Breakthrough
KPFA broadcast date September 21, 1999
Stanislaw Burzynski MD, PhD

Orthomolecular Medicine: Treating with Targeted Nutrient Therapies
KPFA broadcast date September 14, 1999
Richard Kunin MD (S.F. Physican) Resources: Orthomolecular Health Medicine Society www.ohmsociety.com ; Orthomolecular Medicne News Service www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns

Nutritional Therapy for Health Problems
KPFA broadcast date September 7, 1999
Robert Crayhon, M.A., Nutritionist Resources: Robert Crayhon's Nutrition Made Simple by Robert Crayhon

Nutritional and Hormonal Strategies for Handling Stress
KPFA broadcast date August 31, 1999
Layna Berman, health integration specialist

Your Drug May Be Your Problem
KPFA broadcast date August 24, 1999
Peter Breggin MD, Psychiatrist discusses the dangers of psychiatric medications Resources: The Anti-Depressant Fact Book and Your Drug May Be Your Problem by Peter Breggin www.breggin.com

The Dance of Anger
KPFA broadcast date August 17, 1999
Harriet Lerner, PhD Resources: The Dance of Anger and The Dance of Fear by Harriet Lerner

Coping with Appropriate Paranoia
KPFA broadcast date August 10, 1999
Psychiatrist Fredric Schiffer, MD, discusses paranoia and dual-brain psychology Resources: Of Two Minds: The Revolutionary Science of Dual-Brain Psychology by Fredric Schiffer

Nourishing Traditions Update
KPFA broadcast date July 13, 1999
Sally Fallon, nutrition writer shares safe preparation of traditional foods Resources: Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon and Weston A. Price Foundation www.westonaprice.org

Weight Training as Body Work
KPFA broadcast date July 6, 1999
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

Insulin Resistance and Aging
KPFA broadcast date June 29, 1999
Diana Schwarzbein MD Endrocronolgist Resources: The Schwarzbein Principle by Diana Schwarzbein

Health Insurance Update
KPFA broadcast date June 15, 1999
Gregory MacDonald, Private Insurance Broker

Dual Brain Psychology
KPFA broadcast date June 8, 1999
Psychiatrist Fredric Schiffer, MD, discusses dual-brain psychology Resources: Of Two Minds: The Revolutionary Science of Dual-Brain Psychology by Fredric Schiffer

No It’s Not Hot in Here
KPFA broadcast date June 1, 1999
Dick Roth's guide for husbands of menopausal women Resources: No It's Not Hot in Here by Dick Roth

Male Vitality and Potency
KPFA broadcast date May 25, 1999
Holistic physican, Dr. Jonathan Wright discusses his new book about natural remedies Resources: Maximize Your Vitality and Potency by Jonathan Wright

Healing Addiction and Eating Disorders with The Diet Cure
KPFA broadcast date May 18, 1999
Julia Ross MA, nutritional psychologist discusses her new book Resources: The Diet Cure by Julia Ross

The Dangers of Under-resting and Overtraining: Exercise Prudence
KPFA broadcast date May 11, 1999
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

Healing HIV
KPFA broadcast date May 4, 1999
Dr. Jon Kaiser, a physican with an integrated approach discusses his new book. Resources: Healing HIV by Jon Kaiser; resources on immunity and on chronic illness

The Promise of Sleep
KPFA broadcast date April 27, 1999
Dr. William Dement, MD, PhD - pioneer in sleep medicine discusses his book Resources: The Promise of Sleep by William Dement

Role of Mycoplasmal Infections in Chronic Illness
KPFA broadcast date April 20, 1999
Prof. Garth Nicolson, PhD

Childhood Autism
KPFA broadcast date April 6, 1999
Bernard Rimland, PhD, research psychologist and founder of the Autism Research Institute Resources: Autism Research Institute www.autismwebsite.com/ari/

The Hormonal Consequences of a High Starch Diet
KPFA broadcast date March 30, 1999
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

Sustainable Food Production
KPFA broadcast date March 23, 1999
Peter Rossett, PhD Direc. Food First and Fredrick Kirschenmann PhD, from Farm Verified Organic Resources: World Hunger: 12 Myths by Frances Moore Lappe, Joseph Collins, and Peter Rossett

Genetically Engineered Foods: are they safe?
KPFA broadcast date March 16, 1999
Laura Ticciati executive director of Mothers for Natural Law educating and lobbying for labeling

Soy Health Risks
KPFA broadcast date March 9, 1999
Michael Fitzpatrick PhD, environmental chemist

Paleolithic Diet How-to
KPFA broadcast date March 2, 1999
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist discusses recipes and guidelines for pre-agrarian low carb, high protein diet

Cancer and Nutrition
KPFA broadcast date February 23, 1999
Robert Crayhon M.S. Resources: The Carnitine Miracle and Robert Crayhon's Nutrition Made Simple by Robert Crayhon

Cardiology and Complementary Medicine
KPFA broadcast date February 16, 1999
Dr. Mehmet Oz, MD Resources: Healing From the Heart by Mehmet Oz

Meditation as a Treatment for Pain and Stress Disorders
KPFA broadcast date February 9, 1999
Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD Resources: Wherever You Go There You Are and Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Treatment of Accelerated Aging and Diabetes with Protein and Fat
KPFA broadcast date February 2, 1999
Dr. Ron Rosedale, M.D

Depression: A Non-pharmaceutical Approach
KPFA broadcast date January 19, 1999
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

Omega 3 Fatty Acids for Mental and Physical Health
KPFA broadcast date January 12, 1999
Clara Felix Resources: The Felix Letter: A Commentary on Nutrition smartlifeforum.org/thefelixletter.htm

Meditation Made Easy
KPFA broadcast date January 5, 1999
Meditation Trainer Lorin Roche, PhD Resources: Meditation Made Easy by Lorin Roche

Weight Resistance Training Programs
KPFA broadcast date December 29, 1998
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

Homeopathic Human Growth Hormone
KPFA broadcast date December 22, 1998
Dr. Barbara Brewitt PhD and Bart Thompson discuss a new homeopathic form of HGH and IGF1 (This is intended as a discussion not an endorsement of a product)

The Sacred Depths of Nature
KPFA broadcast date December 15, 1998
Ursula Goodenough, Professor of biology at Washington University discusses her new book about the spiritual meaning found in science Resources: The Sacred Depths of Nature by Ursula Goodenough

The Hazards of Cell Phones and EMFs
KPFA broadcast date December 8, 1998
Environmental consultant Cindy Sage of Sage EMF Design discusses the dangers of cell and cordless phones as well as other sources of EMF radiation

Facts about Fats
KPFA broadcast date November 17, 1998
Mary Enig PhD, lipid researcher Resources: Know Your Fats by Mary Enig, Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig, and Weston A. Price Foundation www.westonaprice.org

Marijuana as Medicine
KPFA broadcast date November 10, 1998
Bill Zimmerman PhD Resources: Is Marijuana the Right Medicine For You? by Bill Zimmerman, Nancy Crumpacker, and Rick Bayer

The Pharmaceutical-ization of Vitamin Supplements
KPFA broadcast date November 3, 1998
Edward Fry, Consumer Advocate

Hormonal Consequences of High Starch, High Sugar Diets
KPFA broadcast date October 27, 1998
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

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

Protecting Consumer Access to Natural Products
KPFA broadcast date October 6, 1998
Susan Haeger, President of Citizens for Health

Examining Health Myths
KPFA broadcast date September 29, 1998
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

Homeopathic Remedies
KPFA broadcast date September 22, 1998
Dr. Corey Weinstein, MD Resources: Healing Homeopathic Remedies by Corey Weinstein

Chiropractic and Soft Tissue Management
KPFA broadcast date September 15, 1998
Dr. Mark Thompson DC, CSCS Certified Active Release Technique

Auto-Immunity and Lupus
KPFA broadcast date September 8, 1998
Robert Lahita, MD and Henry Scammell Resources: Lupus: Everything You Need To Know by Robert Lahita and The New Arthritis Breakthrough and Scleroderma by Henry Scammell

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
KPFA broadcast date September 1, 1998
Dr. Ian Osborn, MD Resources: Tormenting Thoughts And Secret Rituals by Ian Osborn

Health Insurance How-To
KPFA broadcast date August 25, 1998
Gregory Macdonald, Insurance Investigator/Broker

Exercise as Medicine
KPFA broadcast date August 18, 1998
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

Integrated Medicine
KPFA broadcast date August 4, 1998
Dr. Leo Galland, MD Resources: Power Healing by Leo Galland

Exercise: How Much?
KPFA broadcast date July 28, 1998
Layna Berman Health Integration Specialist

Improving our Relationship with Death
KPFA broadcast date July 24, 1998
Sukie Miller, PhD, psychotherapist Resources: After Death by Sukie Miller

The Hidden Dangers of Residential Pesticides
KPFA broadcast date July 14, 1998
Entomologist, Arthur Slater MS, Instructor Structural Pest Control U.C. Berkeley and Justin Ruben, Pesticide Watch

High Protein and Super Nutrients
KPFA broadcast date July 7, 1998
Robert Crayhon MS Resources: The Carnitine Miracle and Robert Crayhon's Nutrition Made Simple by Robert Crayhon

AIDS Research Update
KPFA broadcast date June 30, 1998
Candace Pert PhD Resources: Molecules of Emotion by Candace Pert

Breast Cancer and Hormones
KPFA broadcast date June 23, 1998
Dr. David Zava, Research Biochemist Resources: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer by John Lee and David Zava and ZRT Laboratory www.zrtlab.com

Becoming One With Nature
KPFA broadcast date June 9, 1998
Tai Chi and Quigong Martin Lee PhD

Training From the Inside Out: Securing the Trunk
KPFA broadcast date May 26, 1998
Layna Berman Health Integration Specialist

Creative Healing Tapping into Your Hidden Creativity
KPFA broadcast date May 19, 1998
Dr. Michael Samuels, MD

Before the Change: Taking Charge of Your Perimenopause
KPFA broadcast date May 12, 1998
Ann Louise Gittleman, MS, CNS Resources: Before the Change: Taking Charge of Your Perimenopause by Ann Louise Gittleman

Natural Dental Remedies
KPFA broadcast date May 5, 1998
Dr. Flora Parsa Stay DDS Resources: The Complete Book of Dental Remedies by Flora Parsa Stay

Living with Chronic Illness
KPFA broadcast date April 28, 1998
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

Ovarian Cancer
KPFA broadcast date April 21, 1998
Maureen Redl, MFCC and Dr. David Minor Director of Oncology, California Pacific

Alzheimer's Disease: Frequently Asked Questions
KPFA broadcast date April 14, 1998
Frena Gray-Davidson Resources: Alzheimer's Disease: Frequently Asked Questions by Frena Gray-Davidson

The Repetitive Strain Injury Recovery Book
KPFA broadcast date April 7, 1998
Deborah Quilter Resources: The Repetitive Strain Injury Recovery Book by Deborah Quilter

De-mystifying Thyroid Disorders
KPFA broadcast date March 31, 1998
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

Should You Leave? Intimacy and autonomy
KPFA broadcast date March 24, 1998
Psychologist Dr. Peter Kramer Resources: Should You Leave? Intimacy and Autonomy by Peter Kramer

Eating Disorders Allergy/Addiction
KPFA broadcast date March 17, 1998
Julia Ross MFCC, director Recovery Systems

Environmentally Healthy Home
KPFA broadcast date March 10, 1998
David Kibbey, Natural Building Consultant

Potatoes not Prozac Overcoming sugar addiction
KPFA broadcast date March 3, 1998
Kathleen DesMaisons, PhD Resources: Potatoes Not Prozac: Overcoming Sugar Addiction by Kathleen DesMaisons

Overcoming Obstacles to Getting and Staying Lean
KPFA broadcast date February 24, 1998
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

Seasonal Affective Disorder
KPFA broadcast date February 17, 1998
Celeste Peters Resources: Don't Be SAD by Celeste Peters

Achieving Emotional Literacy
KPFA broadcast date February 10, 1998
Psychologist Claude Steiner, PhD Resources: Emotional Literacy by Claude Steiner

The Biology of the Human Predicament
KPFA broadcast date February 3, 1998
Robert Sapolsky PhD Stanford Prof., MacArthur Grant Receipt. Resources: Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers and The Trouble With Testosterone by Robert Sapolsky

The Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel
KPFA broadcast date January 27, 1998
Candace Pert PhD

Dispelling Myths about Weight Resistance Training
KPFA broadcast date January 20, 1998
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

Hypertension and Amino Acid therapy
KPFA broadcast date January 13, 1998
Dr. Eric Braverman MD

You're Not Old Until You're Ninety... Best to be Prepared However
KPFA broadcast date January 6, 1998
Rebecca Latimer, age 92 Resources: You're Not Old Until You're Ninety by Rebecca Latimer

Food Allergies
KPFA broadcast date December 30, 1997
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

The Biology of Stress
KPFA broadcast date December 16, 1997
Robert Sapolsky PhD Resources: Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers and The Trouble With Testosterone by Robert Sapolsky

Third Opinion: Alternative Therapy Directory
KPFA broadcast date December 9, 1997
John M. Fink Resources: Third Opinion: Alternative Therapy Directory by John M. Fink

Eating and Exercise Strategies for the Holidays
KPFA broadcast date November 25, 1997
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

Dealing with Depression Naturally
KPFA broadcast date November 18, 1997
Syd Baumel Resources: Dealing with Depression Naturally by Syd Baumel

Natural Hormone Replacement
KPFA broadcast date November 11, 1997
Dr. Jonathan Wright MD

Inner Voice and Intuition in Healing
KPFA broadcast date November 4, 1997
Myrtle Heery PhD

Environmental Illness and Multiple Chemical Sensitivities
KPFA broadcast date October 28, 1997
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

Thyroid Health
KPFA broadcast date October 21, 1997
Dr. Stephen Langer MD Resources: Solved: the Riddle of Illness by Stephen Langer

Be Careful What You Pray For
KPFA broadcast date October 14, 1997
Dr. Larry Dossey MD Resources: Be Careful What You Pray For...You Just Might Get It by Larry Dossey

Detoxification and Healing
KPFA broadcast date October 7, 1997
Dr. Sydney Baker MD

Preventing Heart Disease Naturally
KPFA broadcast date September 30, 1997
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

Healing Arthritis the Natural Way
KPFA broadcast date September 23, 1997
Luke Bucci PhD, CNS, CCN

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

Why Women Fall Apart and How They can Recreate Their Lives
KPFA broadcast date September 9, 1997
Martha Beck PhD, psychologist Resources: Breaking Point by Martha Beck

Nourishing Traditions
KPFA broadcast date September 2, 1997
Sally Fallon and Dr. Mary Enig discuss their book Resources: Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon, Know Your Fats by Mary Enig, and Weston A. Price Foundation www.westonaprice.org

Health Strategies for the Highly Sensitive
KPFA broadcast date August 26, 1997
Health Educator Layna Berman

Innocent Casualties of the FDA
KPFA broadcast date August 12, 1997
Elaine Feuer discusses her book Resources: Innocent Casualties: The FDA's War Against Humanity by Elaine Feuer

Botanical Medicine
KPFA broadcast date August 5, 1997
Herbalist Dan Kenner discusses his book Resources: Botanical Medicine: A European Professional Perspective by Dan Kenner

Surviving the Toxic Crisis
KPFA broadcast date July 22, 1997
Health Educator Layna Berman

Male Depression
KPFA broadcast date July 15, 1997
Psychologist Terrence Real discusses overt and covert depression in men Resources: I Don't Want To Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression by Terrence Real; Resources on mind, mood, and stress

Natural Skin Care
KPFA broadcast date July 1, 1997
Joni Loughran discusses skin care Resources: Joni Loughran's Natural Skin Care by Joni Loughran

Exercise: Getting Started, Starting Over
KPFA broadcast date June 20, 1997
Health Educator Layna Berman, with an editorial by research biochemist Dr. David Zava Resources: Resources on exercise; What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer by John Lee and David Zava and ZRT Laboratory www.zrtlab.com

The Life of the Skin
KPFA broadcast date June 17, 1997
Dr. Arthur Balin and Dr. Lorreta Pratt Balin discuss their book Resources: The Life of the Skin by Arthur Balin and Lorreta Pratt Balin

Safe Drinking Water
KPFA broadcast date June 10, 1997
Colin Ingram discusses safe drinking water. Resources: The Drinking Water Book by Colin Ingram

Seven Weeks to Sobriety
KPFA broadcast date June 3, 1997
Dr. Joan Mathews Larson discusses her book Resources: Seven Weeks to Sobriety by Joan Mathews Larson

The Ketogenic Diet
KPFA broadcast date May 27, 1997
Health Educator Layna Berman

Dr. Susan Love's Hormone Book
KPFA broadcast date May 13, 1997
Dr. Susan Love discusses her book Resources: Dr. Susan Love's Hormone Book by Susan Love

Nutrition Update
KPFA broadcast date May 6, 1997
Nutritionist Clara Felix discusses the latest research in nutrition. Resources: The Felix Letter: A Commentary on Nutrition smartlifeforum.org/thefelixletter.htm

The Challenges of Middle Age
KPFA broadcast date April 22, 1997
Health Educator Layna Berman

Dr. Burzynski and the FDA
KPFA broadcast date April 15, 1997
Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski MD, PhD discusses his battles with the cancer establishment

Chronic Illness and Gut Health
KPFA broadcast date April 8, 1997
Nutritionist Dr. Elizabeth Lipski discusses digestive wellness Resources: Digestive Wellness and Digestive Wellness for Children by Elizabeth Lipski, PhD www.innovativehealing.com

Hormones and the Heart
KPFA broadcast date April 1, 1997
Physician Dr. John Lee, MD Resources: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer by John Lee and David Zava and What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause by John Lee

Health Integration
KPFA broadcast date March 25, 1997
Health Educator Layna Berman

Worst Pills, Questionable Doctors
KPFA broadcast date March 17, 1997
Dr. Sidney Wolfe, MD, Resources: Worst Pills, Best Pills and Questionable Doctors Discipline by the State and Federal Governments by Sidney Wolfe

Exposing Myths About Weight Resistance Training
KPFA broadcast date March 4, 1997
Health Educator Layna Berman

Awakenings
KPFA broadcast date February 25, 1997
Neurologist Oliver Sacks, MD Resources: Awakenings by Oliver Sacks

Nutrition and the Endrocrine System
KPFA broadcast date February 11, 1997
Ray Peat PhD

Who's in the Zone?
KPFA broadcast date February 4, 1997
Barry Sears PhD Versus Robert Crayhon MS, Nutritionist Resources: The Carnitine Miracle and Robert Crayhon's Nutrition Made Simple by Robert Crayhon and Enter the Zone by Barry Sears

Sorting Nutrition
KPFA broadcast date January 21, 1997
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

Brain Health Update
KPFA broadcast date January 7, 1997
Dr. Parris Kidd PhD

Exercise and Transformation
KPFA broadcast date December 31, 1996
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

Chronic Fatigue
KPFA broadcast date December 17, 1996
William Collinge MPH, PhD and Dr. Paul Chaney MD, PhD Resources: Recovering From Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by William Collinge and Paul Chaney

Liver Health Supplements and De-mystifying EFAs
KPFA broadcast date December 10, 1996
Dr. Parris Kidd Biochemist

The Highly Sensitive Person
KPFA broadcast date December 3, 1996
PsychologistDr. Elaine Aron Resources: The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron

Protecting Joints During Exercise
KPFA broadcast date November 29, 1996
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

Digestive Health
KPFA broadcast date November 19, 1996
Nutritionist Liz Lipski, MS, CCN Resources: Digestive Wellness and Digestive Wellness for Children by Elizabeth Lipski, PhD www.innovativehealing.com

Thyroid/Progesterone and Diet
KPFA broadcast date November 12, 1996
Raymond Peat PhD Biologist, Researcher

Surviving Breast Cancer
KPFA broadcast date November 5, 1996
Laura Evers, Breast Cancer Survivior and Mountain Climber Resources: The Climb of My Life by Laura Evers

Nutrition for Chronic Illness
KPFA broadcast date October 15, 1996
Robert Crayhon MS, nutritionist Resources: Robert Crayhon's Nutrition Made Simple by Robert Crayhon

Supplements for Inflammation
KPFA broadcast date October 1, 1996
Luke Bucci PhD Resources: Pain Free by Luke Bucci

The Art of Self-Care
KPFA broadcast date September 24, 1996
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause
KPFA broadcast date September 17, 1996
Physician Dr. John Lee, MD Resources: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer by John Lee and David Zava and What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause by John Lee

Alternative Cancer Treatments
KPFA broadcast date September 10, 1996
Michael Lerner PhD, president and founder of Commonweal Resources: Choices in Healing by Michael Lerner

Restorative Yoga
KPFA broadcast date August 27, 1996
Judith Lasater PT Resources: Relax and Renew by Judith Lasater

Panic Free
KPFA broadcast date August 13, 1996
Lynne Freeman PhD Resources: Panic Free by Lynne Freeman

Learning from Illness
KPFA broadcast date August 6, 1996
Kat Duff discusses her book Resources: The Alchemy of Illness by Kat Duff

Training With a Chronic Illness
KPFA broadcast date July 30, 1996
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

Prayer is Good Medicine
KPFA broadcast date July 23, 1996
Larry Dossey, MD Resources: Prayer is Good Medicine by Larry Dossey

Surviving Prostate Cancer
KPFA broadcast date July 16, 1996
Michael Korda Resources: Man to Man by Michael Korda

The Complete Book of Dental Remedies
KPFA broadcast date July 9, 1996
Flora Parsa Stay DDS Resources: The Complete Book of Dental Remedies by Flora Parsa Stay

The Psychology of Exercise
KPFA broadcast date July 2, 1996
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

Sleep Thieves
KPFA broadcast date June 25, 1996
Stanley Coren PhD Resources: Sleep Thieves by Stanley Coren

Care for Aging Parents
KPFA broadcast date June 18, 1996
Journalist Virginia Morris Resources: How to Care for Aging Parents by Virginia Morris

Self Protection/Self Defense
KPFA broadcast date June 11, 1996
Johnnie Burrell, The Self Protection Initiative

It’s Not all in Your Head
KPFA broadcast date May 21, 1996
Susan Swedo, MD and Henrietta Leonard, MD Resources: It's Not All in Your Head by Susan Swedo and Henrietta Leonard

The Dangers of Under-resting Over-training
KPFA broadcast date April 30, 1996
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

Mind/Body/Spirit Approaches to Cancer Treatment
KPFA broadcast date April 16, 1996
Dr. Carl Simonton, MD Cancer Specialist Resources: The Healing Journey by Carl Simonton

Late Breaking Nutrition News
KPFA broadcast date April 9, 1996
Robert Crayhon, M.S. Nutritionist Resources: Robert Crayhon's Nutrition Made Simple by Robert Crayhon

The Art of Weight Training
KPFA broadcast date April 2, 1996
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

Between Heaven and Earth: Chinese Medicine
KPFA broadcast date March 19, 1996
Harriet Benfield, Accupuncturist Resources: Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine by Harriet Benfield

Zen And Psychotherapy
KPFA broadcast date March 12, 1996
Steven Weintraub, Psychologist and Zen Buddhist

Exercise Options: Keeping it Simple
KPFA broadcast date February 27, 1996
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

Headache Free
KPFA broadcast date February 20, 1996
Dr. Roger Cady MD, Headache Specialist Resources: Headache Free by Roger Cady

The Good Marriage
KPFA broadcast date February 13, 1996
Judith Wallerstein, Clinical Psychologist Resources: The Good Marriage by Judith Wallerstein

Zone Diet
KPFA broadcast date February 7, 1996
Dr. Barry Sears PhD Resources: Enter the Zone by Barry Sears

Exercise and Every Day Life
KPFA broadcast date January 23, 1996
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

The Dark Side of Love: The Positive Role of Our Negative Feelings
KPFA broadcast date January 16, 1996
Jane Goldberg PhD Resources: The Dark Side of Love by Jane Goldberg

The History of Diet
KPFA broadcast date January 9, 1996
Mark Nathan Cohen, Professor of Anthropology Resources: Health and the Rise of Civilization by Mark Nathan Cohen

A New Approach to Change: Natural Progesterone
KPFA broadcast date January 2, 1996
Physician Dr. John Lee, MD Resources: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer by John Lee and David Zava and What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause by John Lee

Different Approaches to Homeopathy
KPFA broadcast date December 19, 1995
Nicola Henriques, LicLCCH, MHMA, BRCP and Dana Ullman, MPH Resources: Everybody's Guide to Homeopathic Medicines: Safe and Effective Remedies for You and Your Family by Stephen Cummings and Dana Ullman and Homeopathic Educational Services www.homeopathic.com

A Balanced Approach to Improved Brain Function
KPFA broadcast date December 5, 1995
Parris Kidd PhD, Biochemist, Researcher in Product Development

Radiation Exposure: Are You at Risk?
KPFA broadcast date November 21, 1995
John Gofman MD, PhD, Nuclear Physical Chemistry, Prof of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC

Halloween: When Healthy People Hear Voices
KPFA broadcast date October 31, 1995
Myrtle Heery PhD

Exercises I'd Never Do!
KPFA broadcast date October 24, 1995
Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

The Dangers of High Carb Diets for Women
KPFA broadcast date October 17, 1995
Ann Louise Gittleman, nutritionist and former director at Pritikin Longevity Center Resources: Super Nutrition for Women by Ann Louise Gittleman

Magic and the Voice of the Body
KPFA broadcast date October 10, 1995
Deepak Chopra, MD

Native American Herbal Medicine
KPFA broadcast date September 26, 1995
Karyn Sanders, Clinical Herbologist

HIV Diet and Exercise
KPFA broadcast date September 19, 1995
Dr. Mark Thompson DC, DDSP, CSCS and Lisa McMillian, RD

Your Diet Makes Me Sick! The Individual Nature of Nutritional Needs
KPFA broadcast date September 12, 1995
Robert Crayhon MS, Nutritionist Resources: Robert Crayhon's Nutrition Made Simple by Robert Crayhon

Creating a Non-toxic Home and Office
KPFA broadcast date August 29, 1995
David Kibbey, Nat. Building Ntwrk and David Bierman, Accupuncturist

Arthritis: Everyday Life as a Healing
KPFA broadcast date August 15, 1995
Darlene Cohen, MA Resources: Arthritis: Stop Suffering, Start Moving by Darlene Cohen

Exposing Supplement Myths
KPFA broadcast date August 8, 1995
Ed Fry, Consumer Advocate

Examining Environmental Illness
KPFA broadcast date July 18, 1995
Richard Shames M.D. and Debra Dadd-Redalia,