Health - Disease

February 17, 2010

Interview with William Sears, M.D., author of the book Prime-Time Health: A Scientifically Proven Plan for Feeling Young and Living Longer

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Mike Carruthers:
To be healthy you can’t go wrong following mom’s advice.

William Sears, M.D.:
You know (your) mother summed this up years ago when she said, “Eat your fruits and veggies and go outside and play” – that was the key to health at all ages.

February 16, 2010

Interview with William Sears, M.D., author of the book Prime-Time Health: A Scientifically Proven Plan for Feeling Young and Living Longer

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Mike Carruthers:
How healthy you are and how healthy you stay is in large part up to you.

William Sears, M.D.:
I think that many people don’t realize for example, that their bodies make their own internal medicine – that if you do certain things, your body is a walking pharmacy.

Dr. William Sears, author of the book Prime-Time Health…

February 11, 2010

Interview with Dr. John M. Kennedy, author of the book The 15 Minute Heart Cure: The Natural Way to Release Stress and Heal Your Heart in Just Minutes a Day

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Mike Carruthers:
When you get stressed what does that feel like?

Dr. John M. Kennedy:
You might feel a knot in your stomach, I might feel sweaty palms or someone else might feel a racing heart beat. But that’s a cue or invitation to you to stop stress in its tracks.

February 10, 2010

Interview with Dr. John M. Kennedy, author of the book The 15 Minute Heart Cure: The Natural Way to Release Stress and Heal Your Heart in Just Minutes a Day

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Mike Carruthers:
Would you say your life is stressful? If so you should realize that stress is tough on your heart.

Dr. John M. Kennedy:
And as a cardiologist, I’ve seen thousands of examples of how emotional stress directly impacts, and wreaks havoc actually on our cardiovascular health.

January 27, 2010

Interview with Dr. David Servan-Schreiber, author of the book Anticancer: A New Way of Life

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Mike Carruthers:
What if you could prevent cancer? There are no guarantees, of course, but we are discovering more and more about what helps.

Dr. David Servan-Schreiber:
The world health organization has shown that you would reduce the world cancer burden by 40% with only a better diet and a bit more physical activity – just that.

January 25, 2010

Interview with Kelly Traver M.D., author of the book The Program: The Brain-Smart Approach to the Healthiest You: The Life-Changing 12-Week Method

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Mike Carruthers:
If you made a New Year’s resolution a few weeks back you may be finding it difficult to stick with.

Kelly Traver M.D.:
And the reason for that is that your whole body and brain is really based on this homeostasis principle - which is to keep everything the same.
 

Dr. Kelly Traver, author of the book The Program... 

December 17, 2009

Interview with Joel Fuhrman, M.D. author of the book Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss

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Mike Carruthers:
According to life expectancy statistics, we’re living longer than ever before so, you might assume we’re doing something right, but look a little closer.

Joel Fuhrman M.D.:
We’re not living longer than ever before. Cancer rates have climbed. From 1935 to 2005 cancer rates climbed every single year for 70 years straight. 2% of the population had heart attacks a hundred years ago and today it’s 40%.
 

Joel Fuhrman M.D.

December 16, 2009

Interview with Joel Fuhrman, M.D. author of the book Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss

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Mike Carruthers:
You should eat healthy; you’ve heard that advice a million times.

Joel Fuhrman M.D.:
Because everybody’s saying eat more fruits and vegetables, everybody’s saying berries prevent dementia, mushrooms prevent breast cancer. Everybody’s reporting the science that food is our most powerful medicine.
 

Joel Fuhrman M.D.

October 28, 2009

Interview with Dr. Doyle Williams Chief Dental Officer for Delta Dental.

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Mike Carruthers:

In an attempt to stop the spread of cold and flu germs in your house, don’t neglect your toothbrush. Particularly if someone in the house is already sick. For instance…

Dr. Doyle Williams:

If you use a communal tube of toothpaste - you put that toothpaste on and you touch the bristles you put it on so you’ve re-contaminated the whole tube of toothpaste.
 

October 14, 2009

Interview with Dr. Frank Lawlis, author of the book Retraining the Brain: A 45-Day Plan to Conquer Stress and Anxiety

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Mike Carruthers:

Feeling a little stressed out? Try eating some strawberries.

Dr. Frank Lawlis:

Especially if you eat the strawberries with the stems. That package of the leaves and the stems creates an enormous kind of stress relief.