Health - Lifestyle

January 28, 2013

Interview with Margaret Pressler, author of the book Cheat The Clock: How New Science Can Help You Look and Feel Younger

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Mike Carruthers:
What do you have to do to stay young and fight the effects of aging? Well apparently not much.

Margaret Pressler:
I don’t think I spoke to a single aging researcher who didn’t say with some sense of frustration if people only knew how little they have to do to affect major change in the way they’re going to age.
 

January 25, 2013

Interview with Dr. Mimi Guarneri, author of the book The Heart Speaks: A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing

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Mike Carruthers:
The relationship between emotions, stress and heart disease are becoming clearer and clearer.

Mimi Guarneri M.D.:
There have been beautiful studies that have shown and looked at people coming to the emergency room for example, just having had a heart attack. There's a much higher incidence of anger within the proceeding twenty-four hours.
 

January 18, 2013

Interview with Jon Gordon, author of the book The 10-Minute Energy Solution

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Mike Carruthers:
The next time you're stressed out think about this…

November 5, 2012

Interview with Dr. Larry Matson, author of the book Live Young, Think Young, Be Young: . . . At Any Age

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Mike Carruthers:
The idea of getting older worries a lot of people.

Dr. Larry Matson:
We spend way too much time worrying about aging, talking about aging, thinking about aging and reading about aging so our initial premise is to forget aging.
 

September 20, 2012

Interview with Dr. Ross Walker, author of the book 5 Stages of Health

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Mike Carruthers:
In order to live a healthy lifestyle we often think we have to make this big huge decision to change how we live.

Dr. Ross Walker:
What I suggest is that instead of seeing life as making the big decision to be healthy I think we have to make 30ty, 40ty, 50ty small decisions every day.
 

July 20, 2012

Interview with Laura Carstensen PhD, author of the book A Long Bright Future

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Mike Carruthers:
You are so lucky to be alive today because for most of human history life expectancy was about twenty years.

Dr. Laura Carstensen:
It then inched up. By the mid -1800's it was 35 or something. In 1900, life expectancy was 47 in this country and by the time the twentieth century was over it was 77, Today it's 78.
 

June 27, 2012

Interview with Matthew Edlund, M.D., author of the book Healthy Without Health Insurance: Protect Yourself (Volume 1)

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Mike Carruthers:
Even though we are living longer than ever we are not living healthier.

Dr. Matthew Edlund:
And our healthcare system is so functionally based on disease, so focused on sickness that we don’t do the things that actually make us healthy.
 

June 26, 2012

Interview with Matthew Edlund, M.D., author of the book Healthy Without Health Insurance: Protect Yourself (Volume 1)

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Mike Carruthers:
Our collective health is in jeopardy because our healthcare system is in trouble.

Dr. Matthew Edlund:
Healthcare is our titanic; it’s heading for the ice flows while we reupholster the deck chairs. People are going to have to protect themselves by getting as healthy as they can.
 

June 8, 2012

Interview with Dr. Daniel Monti, M.D. author The Great Life Makeover: Weight, Mood, and Sex

www.greatlifemakeover.com

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Mike Carruthers:
You've probably heard that having excess body fat around your middle is a risk factor for heart disease. But what you may not know is...

Dr. Daniel Monti:
That fat around the middle secretes an enzyme called aromatase. That aromatase converts a man's precious little testosterone in the middle years into estrogen - causing some of those feminizing effects that men sometimes complain of.

June 1, 2012

Interview with John S. Friedman, author of Out of the Blue: A History of Lightning: Science, Superstition, and Amazing Stories of Survival

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Mike Carruthers:
Your chances of being struck by lightning this year are one in seven hundred and fifty thousand.

John S. Friedman:
Height is very important; if you're the highest object in an area it's likely that you're going to be struck. 
 

John S. Friedman