The Whole Health Cure

Latest Episodes:

PART I: Exercising for your DNA and Cardiorespiratory Fitness with Peter Sprague, PT, DPT May 30, 2024

Show notes

About Peter:

Dr. Sprague holds the positions of Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine and Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics in Emory University’s School of Medicine. His primary teaching appointment is within the Physical Therapy Division in the Emory School of Medicine where he is the co-course coordinator for the Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation course, the course coordinator for the Introduction to Interventions course, and course coordinator for a course he developed entitled “A Movement System Approach to the Orthopaedic Client.” He is a Board Certified Clinical Specialist in Orthopaedic Physical Therapy and currently serves on the Committee of Content Experts for the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties. Dr. Sprague has extensive clinical experience working with high school and collegiate athletes in an interprofessional team setting and has assisted in the development and implementation of screening procedures assessing for musculoskeletal injury risk for collegiate and professional sports organizations. He has an active research agenda exploring movement as it relates to outcomes following ACL reconstruction and is interested in exploring teaching methodology that promotes learning related to the identification and treatment of movement dysfunction that results in pain and injury or is caused by pain and injury. Dr. Sprague lives in the Atlanta area and enjoys outdoor activities with his wife and 3 dogs.

The Heart-Mind Connection with Jonathan Fisher, MD, FACC May 16, 2024

Show notes

About Jonathan:

Jonathan Fisher, MD, FACC, is a cardiologist, certified mindfulness teacher, and well-being and resiliency leader at Novant Health, supporting a team of 38,000. He is also the founder of Mind Heart Now LLC, delivering keynotes and workshops on mindfulness, stress mastery, total well-being, and heart-centered leadership for teams and organizations globally including IBM, Bank of America, IE Business School (Madrid), the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and many others.

He is a founding board member of The Charlotte Center for the Humanities and Civic Imagination; co-founded the Ending Clinician Burnout Global Community; and organized the world’s first global summit dedicated to ending clinician burnout, with over a thousand participants from 43 countries.

Dr. Fisher completed his medical training at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and Harvard University.

He lives in Charlotte with his wife, Julie, their three teen-aged children, and two doodle dogs, Cosmo and Hugo.

Dr. Fisher’s mission is to help others harness the power of the mind-heart connection to create a kinder, more compassionate world.

Links:

Connect with Jonathan on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/happyheartmd/

Visit Jonathan's website, https://www.drjonathanfisher.com/

Order Just One Heart: A Cardiologist's Guide to Healing, Health, and Happiness at https://a.co/d/31aUl69

How Not to Age According to Dr. Michael Greger with Michael Greger, MD, FACLM May 02, 2024

Show notes

A founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, Michael Greger, M.D., is a physician and internationally recognized speaker on nutrition. His science-based nonprofit, NutritionFacts.org, offers a free online portal hosting more than 2,000 videos and articles on myriad health topics. Dr. Greger is a sought-after lecturer and has presented at the Conference on World Affairs and the World Bank, testified before Congress, and was invited as an expert witness in Oprah Winfrey’s defense in the infamous “meat defamation” trial. A graduate of Cornell University School of Agriculture and Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Greger is also an acclaimed author. How Not to Die, The How Not to Die Cookbook, and How Not to Diet became instant New York Times Best Sellers. More than a million copies of How Not to Die have been sold. All proceeds Dr. Greger receives from the sales of his books and speaking honoraria are donated directly to charity.

Links:

Learn more about Dr. Greger's work at NutritionFacts.org

Order Dr. Greger's latest book, "How Not to Age," at nutritionfacts.org/book/how-not-to-age/

Managing Microskills for Mega Impact with Adaira Landry, MD, MEd, and Resa Lewiss, MD Apr 18, 2024

Show notes

ADAIRA LANDRY, MD, MEd, is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School who studied and trained at University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Los Angeles; New York University; and Harvard with almost a decade of experience mentoring students and early-career professionals. She is an entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and award winning mentor. She co-founded Writing in Color, a nonprofit that teaches the craft of writing.

RESA E LEWISS MD is a professor of emergency medicine, TEDMED speaker, TimesUp Healthcare founder, designer, entrepreneur, and award winning educator, mentor, and point-of-care ultrasound specialist. She studied at Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, the NIH Howard Hughes Research Scholars Program, Harvard Emergency Medicine, and Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Roosevelt. She hosts the Visible Voices Podcast, amplifying content in the healthcare, equity, and current trends spaces.

They have written for CNBC, Fast Company, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Nature, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Science, Slate, STAT News, Teen Vogue, VOGUE, and USA Today. They have been quoted and featured in the Guardian, the HuffPost, The New Yorker, and The New York Times.

Links:

Connect with Adaira on X/Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram

Visit Adaira's website at www.adairalandryMD.com

Connect with Resa on LinkedIn, Instagram, and X/Twitter

Visit Resa's website at www.resalewissmd.com

Adaira’s Nonprofit: WritingInColor.org

Resa’s Podcast: The Visible Voices

200 Episodes: Reflections and Predictions for 2024 with Sharon Bergquist, MD, & Krystyna Morgan, MPH, NBC-HWC Apr 05, 2024

Show notes

Krystyna R. Morgan, MPH, NBC-HWC serves as Director of the WHSC Office of Well-Being (EmWELL) at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. The focus of the office is to lead the design, direction and implementation of well-being programs that address the current environmental stressors among clinicians, health professionals, faculty and staff in clinical, research and academic health sciences areas. The goals of the office include facilitating system-wide changes that enable team members to effectively practice in a culture that prioritizes and promotes wellness and professional fulfillment while optimizing the function of Emory’s health system and establishing a robust well-being research foundation.

Before EmWELL, Krystyna engaged in other innovative efforts, such as supporting the founding of Emory Lifestyle Medicine & Wellness, helping develop and implement the inaugural Emory Healthy Kitchen Collaborative and to secure its three consecutive grants, and co-launching and producing the first 172 episodes of The Whole Health Cure podcast for over 50,000 listeners. She has co-authored 6 peer reviewed articles and continues to present at national and international conferences.

Krystyna earned her Summa Cum Laude Master in Public Health degree at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta after completing a Summa Cum Laude Bachelor of Science in International Business at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. She is a National Board Certified Health and Well-being coach, has completed certifications in Plant Based Nutrition through T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies, and is a Diabetes Prevention Program Coach. She received the 2019 Donald A. Pegg Student Leadership Award from American College of Lifestyle Medicine in honor of the establishment of the Emory Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group and her ongoing efforts to increase recognition of lifestyle medicine at the university and its affiliated healthcare institutions.

RECAST: Reversing Heart Disease with Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD Mar 22, 2024

Show notes

Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., received his B.A. from Yale University and his M.D. from Western Reserve University. In 1956, pulling the No. 6 oar as a member of the victorious United States rowing team, he was awarded a gold medal at the Olympic Games. He was trained as a surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic and at St. George’s Hospital in London. In 1968, as an Army surgeon in Vietnam, he was awarded the Bronze Star.

Dr. Esselstyn has been associated with the Cleveland Clinic since 1968. During that time, he has served as President of the Staff and as a member of the Board of Governors. He chaired the Clinic’s Breast Cancer Task Force and headed its Section of Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology.

In 1991, Dr. Esselstyn served as President of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons, That same year he organized the first National Conference on the Elimination of Coronary Artery Disease, which was held in Tucson, Arizona. In 1997, he chaired a follow-up conference, the Summit on Cholesterol and Coronary Disease, which brought together more than 500 physicians and health-care workers in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. In April, 2005, Dr. Esselstyn became the first recipient of the Benjamin Spock Award for Compassion in Medicine. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Cleveland Clinic Alumni Association in 2009. In September 2010, he received the Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame Award. Dr. Esselstyn received the 2013 Deerfield Academy Alumni Association Heritage Award In Recognition of Outstanding Achievement & Service, and the 2013 Yale University George H.W. Bush ’48 Lifetime of Leadership Award. Dr. Esselstyn has also received the 2015 Plantrician Project Luminary Award, the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award, and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award.

His scientific publications number over 150, “The Best Doctors in America” 1994-1995 published by Woodward and White cites Dr. Esselstyn’s surgical expertise in the categories of endocrine and breast disease. In 1995 he published his bench mark long-term nutritional research arresting and reversing coronary artery disease in severely ill patients. That same study was updated at 12 years and reviewed beyond twenty years in his book, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, making it one of the longest longitudinal studies of its type. In July of 2014 he reported the experience of 198 participants seriously ill with cardiovascular disease. During 3.7 years of follow up of the 89% adherent to the program, 99.4% avoided further major cardiac events.

Dr. Esselstyn and his wife, Ann Crile Esselstyn, have followed a plant-based diet since 1984. Dr. Esselstyn presently directs the cardiovascular prevention and reversal program at The Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute.

The Esselstyns have four children and ten grandchildren.

Links:

For more information, please visit https://www.dresselstyn.com

RECAST: The Science Behind Changing Your Athletic Game with David Goldman, MS, RD Mar 08, 2024

Show notes

David Goldman, MS, RD, CSCS, CPT, is the Chief Science Advisor to The Game Changers. He has a dual Ivy League graduate degree in physiology and nutrition and helped build Facebook HQ's nutrition program from scratch. David has years of experience as a dietitian and strength and conditioning specialist that spans from obesity research to coaching Olympic athletes and celebrities.

David talks about the evidence-based nutrition science for optimal athletic performance, addresses some common myths and beliefs around exercise, and shares what he learned from both his research and stories of the athletes that he works with personally.

Links:

The paper referenced: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/11/1/130/htm

Learn more about The Game Changers movie

Follow The Game Changers movie on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter/X

RECAST: The Connection Between Soil, Gut, and Healing with Zach Bush, MD Feb 24, 2024

Show notes

Zach Bush, MD is a physician specializing in internal medicine, endocrinology and hospice care. He is an internationally recognized educator on the microbiome as it relates to health, disease and our food production systems. Dr. Bush founded *Seraphic Group to develop root-cause solutions for human and ecological health and extend his passion for educating the world on topics such as the state of our soil - including the need to eradicate toxins such as glyphosate from our farming chain - and the importance of gut/brain communication as a vital part of our overall health/wellbeing.

Dr. Bush is a respected speaker and authority in the health and wellness space. He travels the world speaking to medical and farming communities as well as consumers who are interested in taking proactive control of their health.

Links:

Visit Zach's website, ZachBushMD.com

Follow Zach on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter/X, & Youtube

Visit FarmersFootprint.us

Follow Farmer's Footprint on Instagram and Facebook

This podcast is brought to you by Emory Lifestyle Medicine & Wellness. To learn more about our work, please visit https://bit.ly/EmoryLM

RECAST: Mastering Diabetes with Robby Barbaro, MPH Feb 12, 2024

Show notes

Robby Barbaro, MPH graduated from the University of Florida and is the cofounder of Mastering Diabetes and Amla Green. He worked at Forks Over Knives for six years before turning his attention in 2016 to coaching people with diabetes full time.

Robby was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 12 and has been living this lifestyle since 2006. In that time, while eating pounds of fruit every day, his HbA1c value has never exceeded 6.4%, and his blood glucose has been stable and easy to manage.

He is the co-host of the annual Mastering Diabetes Online Summit, a featured speaker at Whole Foods Global Headquarters, VegFest LA, Plant-Stock, Torrance Memorial Medical Center, and has been featured on Forks Over Knives, Healthline, Medical Medium, Vice, Thrive Magazine, Diet Fiction, Thrive Global, BestLife, and the wildly popular podcasts Plant Proof and Nutrition Rounds.

In this conversation, Robby talks about the New York Times bestselling book he coauthored with Cyrus Khambatta, PhD, called Mastering Diabetes, The Revolutionary Method to Reverse Insulin Resistance Permanently in Type 1, Type 1.5, Type 2, Prediabetes, and Gestational Diabetes.

Links:

Website: https://www.masteringdiabetes.org/

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/masteringdiabetes/

YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/user/mindfuldiabeticrobby
Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/masteringdib
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cyrus-khambatta-32686a4/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbybarbaro/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/masteringdiabetes.org/

RECAST: How Not to Diet? with Michael Greger, MD Jan 26, 2024

Show notes

Michael Greger, MD, FACLM, is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized professional speaker on a number of important public health issues. Dr. Greger has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the International Bird Flu Summit, among countless other symposia and institutions; testified before Congress; has appeared on shows such as The Colbert Report and The Dr. Oz Show; and was invited as an expert witness in defense of Oprah Winfrey at the infamous "meat defamation" trial. In 2017, he was honored with the ACLM Lifestyle Medicine Trailblazer Award.

Dr. Greger's most recent scientific publications in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Critical Reviews in Microbiology, Family and Community Health, and the International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition, and Public Health explore the public health implications of industrialized animal agriculture.

Dr. Greger is also licensed as a general practitioner specializing in clinical nutrition and is a founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He was featured on the Healthy Living Channel promoting his latest nutrition DVDs and honored to teach part of Dr. T. Colin Campbell's esteemed nutrition course at Cornell University. Dr. Greger's nutrition work can be found at NutritionFacts.org, which is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit charity.

He is the author of Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching and Carbophobia: The Scary Truth Behind America's Low Carb Craze. Both of his latest books, How Not to Die and the How Not to Die Cookbook, became instant New York Times Best Sellers. Dr. Greger is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University School of Medicine.

Links:

Website: https://nutritionfacts.org

Free Daily Dozen App: https://nutritionfacts.org/daily-dozen-challenge/

Podcast: https://nutritionfacts.org/audio/

How Not to Die Book: https://nutritionfacts.org/book/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/NutritionFactsOrg

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org

Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/nutrition_facts

Free Downloadable Evidence-Based Eating Guide: https://nutritionfacts.org/healthkit/