Something You Should Know about Lifestyle

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.
 

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.
 

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 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.