Health - Stress and Worry

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 23, 2013

Interview with Jaimal Yogis, author of the book The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success, Surfing . . . and Love

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Mike Carruthers:
In human evolution fear has played an important role.

Jaimal Yogis:
It was meant to react to a real threat; a tiger, a tree falling - to give us some extra energy in the moment.
 

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…

September 18, 2012

Interview with Dr. Steven Southwick, author of the book Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges

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Mike Carruthers:
Bouncing back from adversity we call it resilience and it seems easier for some than others. So what factors influence how resilient you are?

Dr. Steven Southwick:
Maybe the strongest factor is having the type of social network that really supports you in high stress situations.
 

September 17, 2012

Interview with Dr. Steven Southwick, author of the book Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges

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Mike Carruthers:
Just how resilient a person would you say you are?

Dr. Steven Southwick:
Resilience is the ability to bend but not break and to bounce back from adversity and often to continue to grow.
 

April 2, 2012

Interview with Thomas Sterner, author of the book The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus Into Your Life

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Mike Carruthers:
Chances are that right now your mind is somewhere else.

Thomas Sterner:
It’s usually either on something in the future or something in the past but you’re probably not thinking about what you’re doing right now and what we’re finding is that it’s very unproductive.
 

January 24, 2012

Interview with Dr. David Agus, author of the book The End of Illness

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Mike Carruthers:
Millions of people take vitamins every day to protect their health – but maybe they shouldn’t.

Dr. David Agus:
If you look at the studies of vitamins they cause problems. If a man takes a vitamin E a day for 3 years his rate of prostate cancer is 17% elevated and it lasts for years after stopping the vitamin E.
 

December 26, 2011

Interview with Alex S. Key, author of the book The Third Basic Instinct: How Religion Doesn't Get You (Revised Edition)

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Mike Carruthers:
Every creature on the earth has two basic instincts, survival and reproduction and what makes humans different from other creatures is our third basic instinct.

Alex S. Key:
And I propose that the third basic instinct is innate human curiosity - our desire to stimulate our minds, our desire to learn, the instinct to learn.
 

December 23, 2011

Interview with Daniel Amen, M.D., author of the book Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness

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Mike Carruthers:
It appears that you actually have more control over your brain than you may have thought. For example…

Daniel Amen, M.D.:
How you think (moment-by-moment thoughts) have a huge impact on how your brain works.
 

December 16, 2011

Interview with Mel Pohl, author of the book A Day without Pain

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Mike Carruthers:
A third of the population suffers from chronic pain and we're all bothered by pain at some point. Here's something interesting...

Mel Pohl, M.D.:
Probably twenty percent of chronic pain is related to the injury and the tissue irritation and about eighty percent is related to our attitudes about the pain.