The Whole Health Cure

Latest Episodes:

"Innovative Healthcare Delivery Models: Separating Healthcare from Health Insurance" with Brian E. Hill, MD Nov 01, 2018

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Brian E. Hill, MD is a Founder, President and Chief Medical Officer at HIPnation, an innovative healthcare delivery company with the mission to provide high-quality, accessible, affordable, 24-7 primary care services. Dr. Hill is a partner and practicing physician with Urology Specialists of Atlanta, is on the board of the Medical Association of Atlanta and is a delegate to the Medical Association of Georgia annual House of Delegates. He has been selected to the League of Leaders with the Institute of Healthcare Consumerism and service on the IHC editorial advisory board. Dr. Hill is the author of Stop the Noise: A Physician’s Quest to Silence the Politics of Health Care Reform as well as numerous articles on healthcare reform.

To lear more visit: https://hipnation.com

"Meat Alternatives: Plant-based vs Clean Meat" with Bruce Friedrich Oct 25, 2018

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Bruce Friedrich is executive director of The Good Food Institute (GFI), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that promotes innovative alternatives to industrially produced animal products. Bruce has penned opinion pieces for USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. Bruce is a popular speaker on college campuses and has presented repeatedly at most of the nation's top universities, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and MIT. Bruce co-authored two books, contributed chapters to six books, and authored seven law review articles. Bruce graduated magna cum laude from the Georgetown Law and Phi Beta Kappa from Grinnell College. He also holds degrees from Johns Hopkins University and the London School of Economics.

This is a conversation about innovative solutions to animal food alternatives that are emerging on the market today. Producing animal products for mass consumption is extremely inefficient, and is increasingly so with rapidly increasing population on the planet. Bruce talks about the environmental impact of our modern diet, and inefficiencies inherent in it. He talks about his work, and the mission of the Good Food Institute in the area of science and research, food innovation and policy.. He describes the innovative solutions, such as plant-based meat and clean meat, that are rapidly getting support and investment from large food companies.

GFI website & social:

http://www.gfi.org

https://www.facebook.com/thegoodfoodinstitute/

https://twitter.com/GoodFoodInst

Some key articles:

Nerds Over Cattle: How Food Technology Will Save the World - https://www.wired.com/2016/10/nerds-cattle-food-technology-will-save-world/

The Good Food Institute’s Executive Director Bruce Friedrich takes to Wired to discuss the various problems caused by our current method of producing meat, and how plant-based and clean meat will be able to solve those problems.

“Markets & Food Technology Will Save the World” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liZtyP2tKhA

Bruce Friedrich’s TEDx talk covers the basics of why our current system of producing meat is inefficient and harmful, and how new technologies and markets will be the fix.

Clean Meat: The Clean Energy of Food - https://www.gfi.org/clean-meat-the-clean-energy-of-food

The Good Food Institute’s Executive Director Bruce Friedrich explaining the environmental and public health benefits of this groundbreaking food tech, and why it earns the name “clean meat.”

Will People Eat Clean Meat? - https://www.gfi.org/will-people-eat-clean-meat

A summary of The Good Food Institute’s Executive Director Bruce Friedrich’s presentation at the International Cultured Meat Conference in Maastricht on the question of consumer acceptance.

Transforming the Meat Industry from the Inside Out - https://www.gfi.org/transforming-the-meat-industry-from-the-inside

It has been an open question as to whether the current meat industry would see this coming transformation as an opportunity or a threat. Investments and acquisitions have shown that many meat companies recognize the opportunity presented by these coming changes. Written before Tyson’s investment in Memphis Meats, and PHW Group’s investment in SuperMeat.

"Dinner with the Doctor" with Dr. Michael C. Hollie Oct 18, 2018

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Michael C. Hollie, MD is a practicing physician board certified in Asthma, Allergy and Immunology. He received his undergraduate degree from the College of Idaho. Dr. Hollie attended Loma Linda University School of Medicine in Loma Linda, California, and received his medical degree in 1985. Subsequently, he trained in Pediatrics at Loma Linda University Medical Center and T.C. Thompson Children's Hospital, Chattanooga, TN where he was Chief Resident. He completed his asthma, allergy, and immunology training at National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine in Denver, Colorado. He served in the U.S. Air Force in Phoenix, AZ where he was Chief of Allergy and Immunology. He currently practices in the Chattanooga, TN area treating adult and pediatric patients. Dr. Hollie is a member of the teaching faculty at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Chattanooga Unit. He is a member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.

Dr. Hollie is the speaker for "Dinner with the Doctor" (DWTD) an instructional program developed to educate people about how to implement a whole food, plant based (WFPB) approach for treating, preventing and reversing disease. DWTD is a practical, hands-on application of the Forks Over Knives lifestyle. DWTD offers monthly programs consisting of a health presentation along with a tasty WFPB meal served to the attendees. On alternate months, oil free, WFPB food preparation demonstrations allow participants to see first-hand how they can cook healthy meals at home. The program is offered to the community and has multiple locations throughout the Chattanooga, TN area and North Georgia region.

Dr. Hollie was the medical consultant for, and also appears in the documentary Eating You Alive. Eating You Alive features leading medical experts and researchers taking a scientific look at the reasons we’re so sick, who’s responsible for feeding us the wrong information and how we can use simple, whole food, plant based nutrition to take control of our health.

Dr. Hollie and his wife Cindy Ford Hollie, MD have two adult sons and the entire family embraces the WFPB approach to eating and health.

Dr. Hollie talks about how he found whole food plant-based lifestyle and the health improvements he has experienced, that lead him to share it in his work; he talks about starting Dinner with the Doctor program and how it went from a small class in a church to a program that continues to change lives for thousands of people; he shares his experience with working on Eating You Alive documentary, as well as the educational work he does in Romania.

To learn more please visit:

https://www.dinnerwiththedoctor.com

https://www.plantbaseddoctors.org/michael-hollie

https://nutritionstudies.org/dinner-with-the-doctor/

"Evidence Behind the Plant-based Diet and Where to Start the Journey" with Matt Ruscigno, RD Oct 12, 2018

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Matt Ruscigno, MPH, RD is a registered dietitian with two nutrition degrees, including graduate training at Loma Linda, one of the only accredited universities promoting plant-based diets. He is the past-Chair of the Vegetarian Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and co-author of No Meat Athlete. Matt lives in Los Angeles where he has taught community college and worked with low-income youth creating after-school cooking and gardening programs. Currently he is the Chief Nutrition Officer for Nutrinic, a healthcare company that uses plant-based diets to reduce risk for chronic diseases.

This is the conversation about the evidence behind and how to follow a plant-based to diet to reduce, prevent and reverse chronic disease. Matt briefly covers ethical and environmental argument for plant-based diet, and goes in detail about the health benefits of this lifestyle. He talks about the barriers in behavioral change, ways to overcome them and the proven health benefits that are inevitable when transitioning to plant-based lifestyle.

To learn more please visit:

Website: https://truelovehealth.com

Nutrinic: https://nutrinic.com

IG: https://www.instagram.com/mattruscigno/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattruscigno

Newsletter: https://truelovehealth.us8.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=c2c2ae43a3525bbf72821a12d&id=6fafdcdf69

"Public Health and Preventive Medicine" with Matthew McKenna, MD Oct 04, 2018

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Dr. Matthew T. McKenna is a Professor in Emory School of Medicine, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine where he has been director of the Division of Preventive Medicine for almost two years. He has extensive experience in public health and preventive medicine. From 1989 – 2000, he worked for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and before joining the Emory faculty he was the Medical Director for the Fulton County (the county where the city of Atlanta is located) Department of Health and Wellness from 2010 to 2015. Dr. McKenna is a graduate of the Emory University School of Medicine, and he completed his residency in Family Medicine and a post-doctoral fellowship in epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh. He was involved in several programs during his career at CDC including Cancer Prevention and Control, Tuberculosis, HIV and his last position at CDC was as the Director of the Office on Smoking and Health. He is Board Certified in Family Medicine and General Preventive Medicine and Public Health.

Though most of his prevention work has involved the demographic and social determinants of health, Dr. McKenna continued to practice primary care throughout his career. In his current position he continues to provide medical services to patients in the Emory Family Medicine clinic, and he is committed to engaging a full spectrum of health care providers in the learning and practice of health care prevention, lifestyle change, and population health. He also continues to serve on the editorial and advisory boards for a variety of public health organizations, and publications, and he works hard to use his bicycle as a primary mode of transportation whenever possible.

This is a conversation about ways to improve public health in communities and a power of each individual to make an impact. It is also a conversation about making changes in our personal lives - simple steps that, when incorporated in every-day life, make a big difference. This includes behaviors, simple principles around food, exercise and stress management.

"Helping Kids and Families to Develop Healthy Eating Habits" with Linda Craighead, PhD Sep 27, 2018

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Linda Wilcoxon Craighead, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at Emory University in Atlanta and has been the Director of their Clinical Psychology Training Program since 2003. Dr. Craighead received her B.A. from Vanderbilt University and her Ph.D. in Psychology from The Pennsylvania State University. Prior to moving to Emory she had been on the faculty at The Pennsylvania State University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and The University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr. Craighead has published extensively in the areas of eating disorders and weight concerns. She developed and evaluated an intervention called Appetite Awareness Training (AAT), described in The Appetite Awareness Workbook: How to listen to your body and overcome binge eating, overeating and preoccupation with food (New Harbinger, 2006). Dr. Craighead has also published a book on AAT for children and their families called Training Your Inner Pup to Eat Well, Lanier Press).

This is a conversation about helping kids and families to develop healthy eating habits, helping kids develop a healthy body image and teaching parents how to talk about food in a healthy way.

To learn more about Dr. Craighead's work please visit:

https://craigheadlab.weebly.com/

http://psychology.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/craighead-linda.html

"Functional and Integrative Nutrition" with Dr. Betsy Redmond Sep 21, 2018

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Dr. Redmond is a Senior Manager in Clinical Evidence at a specialty diagnostic laboratory and also owns runs her own private practice nutrition consulting business, Nutrition Provisions in downtown Atlanta. Dr. Redmond earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Nutrition at the University of Georgia, in Athens. Her dissertation focused on diabetes self-care activities in older adults and the ability of a nutrition and diabetes education program to effect change. Dr. Redmond got her Master of Medical Science in Clinical Nutrition from Emory University with a focus on colorectal cancer in relation to fiber and calcium. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nutrition from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas.

Dr. Redmond has worked in content development, clinical research, public health, as a speaker, and as a nutrition practitioner focusing on those trying to make lifestyle changes. Her clients include those with, and trying to avoid, prediabetes, high blood pressure, GI issues, and mood disorders. Dr. Redmond is the recipient of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 2016 Dietitians in Integrative and Functional Medicine's Excellence in Practice award, is past chair of Dietitians in Integrative and Functional Medicine a dietetic practice group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, was a working group member of the American Dietetic Association Standards of Practice (SOP), and is one of the three developers of the Integrative and Functional Medical Nutrition Therapy (IFMNT) Radial which is the current accepted conceptual model of how to apply integrative and functional nutrition in practice. She is well versed in nutritional, microbiome and environmental toxin testing. Dr. Redmond was one of the researchers of the first clinically available fecal microbiome test and has done extensive research on how diet and lifestyle can impact the microbiome.

This is a conversation about functional and integrative nutrition, various testing options available on the market today, common nutrient deficiencies , and how and when to look for dietitian.
To learn more visit https://www.nutritionprovisions.com/about/

"Eating Ethically: Religion and Science for a Better Diet" with Jonathan Crane Sep 14, 2018

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Jonathan K. Crane is the Raymond F. Schinazi Scholar of Bioethics and Jewish Thought at Emory University’s Center for Ethics. He is also an Associate Professor of Medicine, Emory School of Medicine, and an Associate Professor of Religion, Emory College.

Jonathan has recently published a book - "Eating Ethically: Religion and Science for a Better Diet"- available for purchase at https://cup.columbia.edu/book/eating-ethically/9780231173445

He earned a B.A. (summa cum laude) from Wheaton College in Massachusetts, a M.A. in international peace studies from the University of Notre Dame, a M.Phil. in Gandhian thought from Gujarat Vidyapith in India, a M.A. in Hebrew Literature and rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, and a Ph.D. in religion from the University of Toronto. The co-author of Ahimsa: The Way to Peace, co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality, author of Narratives and Jewish Bioethics, editor of Beastly Morality: Animals as Ethical Agents, author of Eating Ethically: Religion and Science for a Better Diet, and editor of Shades: Race with Jewish Ethics (forthcoming), he is the founder and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Jewish Ethics. A past president of the The Society of Jewish Ethics, he frequently speaks and publishes broadly on Judaism, ethics and bioethics, comparative religious ethics, narrative ethics, eating, environmental and animal ethics, among other topics. He was awarded an honorary degree from Wheaton College.

In our modern world, eating can be a conundrum. We have so many choices but often the thought of making one about food is burdensome. Jonathan Crane looks to some conventional wisdom mixed with contemporary perspective to ask some provocative questions about food and our relationship with it. He explores the notions of what it means to eat well, to eat poorly, and everything in between. Yes, humans rely on food for survival and nourishment, but we also grow relationships, community, and reflect our cultural and geographical context through food. Eating Ethically is a compelling look into the complex network of food, religion, science, and culture in a unique way that will leave you with plenty of ‘food for thought.’

To learn more or to connect with Dr. Jonathan Crane please go to https://jonathankcrane.wordpress.com .

"The Power of Plants: The Roots of Future Medicine" with Cassandra Quave, PhD Sep 06, 2018

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Dr. Cassandra Quave is Curator of the Emory University Herbarium and Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Human Health at Emory University, where she leads antibiotic drug discovery research initiatives and teaches undergraduate courses on medicinal plants, food and health. Trained as a medical ethnobotanist, her research is focused on the documentation and biochemical analysis of botanical remedies used in the traditional treatment of infectious and inflammatory skin disease. To date, she has authored more than 60 publications, 2 edited books and 3 patents.

Dr. Quave is the co-founder and CEO/CSO of PhytoTEK LLC, a drug discovery company dedicated to developing solutions from botanicals for the treatment of recalcitrant antibiotic resistant infections. She is also a Past President of the President of the Society for Economic Botany, an international society with the mission of fostering research and education on the past, present, and future uses of plants by people.

Her work has been profiled in the New York Times Magazine, BBC Focus, Brigitte Magazin and National Geographic Channel, and featured on NPR, National Geographic Magazine and several major news outlets including the Washington Post, The Telegraph, CBS News, and NBC News.

This is a conversation about the the true, unique and profound power of plants as medicine, the knowledge that has been passed down through generations, as well as new discoveries, recently verified through studies. Dr. Quave shares her knowledge and experience from years in both - the lab AND the field, tapping into the roots of future medicine.

Want updates on the Quave Group’s research and posts on herbal medicine?

Check out the Quave Research Group website: http://etnobotanica.us/
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"Exercise as Medicine" with Felipe Lobelo, MD Aug 30, 2018

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Felipe Lobelo, M.D., Ph.D., FAHA, is an Associate Professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health at Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health and Senior Physician Consultant for Population Health Research, Department of Quality and Patient Safety, The Southeast Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Permanente Georgia.

His interests are in chronic disease prevention, implementation science, mHealth and population health and quality improvements leveraging clinical-community linkages. He has authored more than 120 peer-reviewed scientific publications and directs the Exercise is Medicine Global Research and Collaboration Center. Dr. Lobelo has a special interest in global health and health disparities in both non-communicable and infectious diseases.

From 2008 to 2010 he served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer at CDC and was involved in international epidemiological field investigations, having an active role in CDC's H1N1 response; investigating the outbreak abroad and serving as CDC's spokesperson for Hispanic/Latino populations. His work with H1N1 took him to the White House, where he served as the CDC representative in the first-ever Spanish Town Hall Meeting alongside President Obama and around the nation for vaccine campaign outreach events for at-risk populations/minorities. From 2010 to 2014, Dr Lobelo served in various roles as a Medical Epidemiologist at CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention in their Office of the Director and their Diabetes Translation and Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity divisions. In 2012 was selected as Fellow of the American Heart Association and currently Chairs their Physical Activity Committee.

Dr. Lobelo believes in “practicing what you preach” and strongly advocates for doctors to become healthy role models. He enjoys soccer and plays for the US Medical Soccer Team, the US representative in the Annual “World Cup for Doctors”.

Follow @EIMGRCC

To learn more:

Exercise is Medicine Global Research and Collaboration Center:

https://www.exerciseismedicine.org/support_page.php/global-research-and-collaboration-center0/

Current Exercise studies at Emory:

https://eimconnection.com/

A recent paper on our work in the Circulation Journal:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29618598