Dr Zieve explores how cannabis can be used in health care with Dr Julie Holland, editor of The Pot Book, A Complete Guide to Cannabis. Julie Holland is a psychiatrist specializing in psychopharmacology, with a private practice in New York City. She majored in the Biological Basis of Behavior at the University of Pennsylvania and received her M.D. in 1992 from Temple University School of Medicine. At Mount Sinai Medical Center, she completed a residency program in psychiatry, where she created a ...
Jan 12, 2011
Dr Zieve talks with Drs Stephan Schwartz and Dick Thom about America's critical shortage of family doctors, its causes and possible solutions. Stephan A. Schwartz is the Senior Samueli Fellow for Brain, Mind and Healing of the Samueli Institute, and a Research Associate of the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory of the Laboratories for Fundamental Research. He is the columnist for the journal Explore, and editor of the daily web publication Schwartzreport.net in both of which covers trends that are af...
Dec 22, 2010
Dr Zieve explores the science of grounding the body electrically to the earth and its possible health effects with Martin Zucker and Dr Steven Sinatra, co-authors with Clinton Ober of Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever? Read more about Earthing at earthinginstitute.net . If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element
Dec 22, 2010
Dr Zieve talks with surgeon and author Dr Bernie Seigel about how learning to live well keeps us healthier. In 1978 Bernie Seigel MD began talking about patient empowerment and the choice to live fully and die in peace. He embraces a philosophy of living and dying that stands at the forefront of the medical ethics and spiritual issues our society grapples with today. He continues to assist in the breaking of new ground in the field of healing and personally struggling to live the message of kind...
Dec 22, 2010
Dr Zieve discusses the genetic factors in breast cancer and the decisions women face in responding to elevated risk with researcher and author Dina Roth Port and oncologist Dr Dwight McKee. Journalist, and author Dina Roth Port is a former health editor for Glamour magazine. Previvors: Facing the Breast Cancer Gene and Making Life-Changing Decisions is her first book. Read more at previvors.com . Dwight McKee MD has been a member of the Internal Medicine staff at Scripps Clinic, and practiced me...
Dec 22, 2010
Dr Zieve talks with Dr Karl Maret about the latest scince on how environmental electromagnetic fields can affect our health and well-being. Karl Maret, M.D. is a practicing physician in Santa Cruz, California. He is a leading international spokesperson in energy medicine, and President of the Dove Health Alliance. Read more at www.heartmindcommunications.com . If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element...
Dec 22, 2010
Dr Zieve talks with Dr. Stephen Barrie about the common denominators in succesful self-care and dealing with chronic health problems, as well as new directions in laboratory testing. Stephen Barrie ND is an international lecturer, writer and thought leader on making integrative medicine a valuable part of modern western healthcare. He founded the Great Smokies Diagnostic Laboratory, co-authored The 7-Day Detox Miracle and Energize Your Life, and has published frequently in medical journals such ...
Nov 11, 2010
Dr Zieve talks with Dr. Soram Khalsa, author of The Vitamin D Revolution, about this vital hormone, how it works in the body and its importance in maintaining health. Board certified in internal medicine, Soram Khalsa MD is is an associate physician in the Division of Internal Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the Environmental Medicine Center of Excellence at Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in Phoenix, Arizona. He is also a founding me...
Nov 11, 2010
Dr Zieve discusses how standard pharmacological treatment can lead to physical and mental illness with physician and educator Dr Gary Kohls, author of the recent article "Americaís mental illness epidemic: It turns out that the drugs are the problem." Gary Kohls MD retired in 2008 from private independent practice. His special area of interest was in helping people recognize the connections between physical and emotional symptoms, psychological trauma, brain malnutrition and neurotransmitter/bra...
Nov 11, 2010
Dr Zieve talks with Hollie and Patrick Quinn, authors of "You Did What? Saying No to Conventional Cancer Treatment," about Hollie's personal experience of taking responsibility and control over her condition and building an unconventional team to help her work through breast cancer. Part 2 of two. From the book cover: "This is a story about a young woman with a very common but deadly illness who did a very uncommon thing when faced with that disease. She disagreed with her doctors, rejected thei...
Nov 11, 2010
Dr Zieve talks with Hollie and Patrick Quinn, authors of "You Did What? Saying No to Conventional Cancer Treatment," about Hollie's personal experience of taking responsibility and control over her condition and building an unconventional team to help her work through breast cancer. Part 1 of two. From the book cover: "This is a story about a young woman with a very common but deadly illness who did a very uncommon thing when faced with that disease. She disagreed with her doctors, rejected thei...
Nov 11, 2010
Dr Zieve discusses retraining the brain and the pioneering approach of therapist Ashok Gupta to chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia and other puzzling disorders. Ashok Gupta, a researcher and therapist in the field of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), has dedicated ten years of his life to understanding and treating the condition. He suffered from ME/CFS himself and, having overcome his own problem, runs a clinic in Central London where he successfully treats patients with the condition. Read more at gu...
Sep 26, 2010
Dr Zieve talks with Dr Beatrice Golomb of UCSD medical school about the science of pharmaceutical studies and how conflicts of interest can bias your prescriptions, as well as her research on Gulf War Syndrome. After receiving a bachelor's degree in physics summa cum laude at USC, Prof Golomb received her PhD and MD in 1988 and 1989 at UC San Diego. Following a medical residency and chief residency in Los Angeles, and a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholarship at UCLA/RAND, she joined UC San Die...
Sep 26, 2010
Dr Zieve talks with writer, teacher and coach Wayne Lehrer about the purpose and practice of yoga and how it relates to health and well-being. Artist, writer, inventor and educator Wayne Lehrer has taught hatha yoga for over 25 years. His book "The Prodigy Within: Discovering the Gift You Have to Give" offers principles for connecting with and manifesting one's own special gifts. Read more at theprodigywithin.com . If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio ele...
Sep 26, 2010
Dr Zieve talks with Dr Erica Elliott about the rapidly growing field of environmental medicine, the hidden hazards that can cause serious, complex and difficult-to-diagnose symptoms, as well as strategies for reducing the body's toxic load. Erica Elliott MD is board-certified in both family practice and environmental medicine, practicing in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has more than two decades of experience in successfully treating people with complex and perplexing chronic ailments. Dr. Elliott h...
Sep 26, 2010
Dr Zieve Talks with Dr David Riley about how conventional medicine is integrating complementary and alternative therapies to maximize the healing response and looking at healing in new ways. David Riley MD is the founder of the Integrative Medicine Institute, which conducts research on the effectiveness, safety, patient satisfaction, and costs of health services that integrate complementary and alternative therapies with conventional medicine. The goals of IMI are to help improve healthcare deci...
Aug 09, 2010
Dr Zieve talks with Dr Larry Dossey about his research into the surprisingly substantial role of hunches, intuition and "business sense" in our health, how we can exercise our natural intuitiveness, and his book, The Science of Premonitions. Larry Dossey MD is an internationally influential advocate of the role of the mind in health and the role of spirituality in healthcare. Bringing the experience of a practicing internist and the soul of a poet to the discourse, Dr. Larry Dossey offers panora...
Aug 09, 2010
Dr Zieve discusses the integrative medicine program at the University of Minnesota and educating health-care consumers with Dr. Mary Jo Kreitzer, director of the UMinn Center for Spirituality and Healing, who advocates new models and bigger ideas for our health-care system. Dr. Mary Jo Kreitzer PhD, RN is the founder and director of the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota, with more than two decades of leadership and expertise to the field of integrative health and...
Aug 09, 2010
Dr Zieve looks into the current state of integrative medicine in medical schools with Dr Tanya Edwards of the Cleveland Clinic and the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, exploring the expansion of professional interest in and acceptance of alternative disciplines. For ten years Tanya Edwards MD has taught courses on complementary and alternative medicine at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, where she established the Area of Concentration for Alternative Med...
Aug 09, 2010
Dr Zieve talks with Dr. Tom Cowan about the role of diet in healing and consistent health, and the Westin Price dietary approach, including some especially thought-provoking ideas about heart disease. Tom Cowan MD has served as vice president of the Physicians Association for Anthroposophical Medicine and is a founding board member of the Weston A. Price Foundation. He is the principal author of the book The Fourfold Path to Healing, published in 2004 by New Trends Publishing. He writes the "Ask...
Aug 09, 2010
Dr Zieve talks with Harvard Medical School Professor John Ratey MD about using physical exercise to build and maintain a healthy brain and improve cognition. John J Ratey MD is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, research synthesist, speaker, and author, as well a clinical psychiatrist with a private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has lectured and published 60 peer-reviewed articles on aggression, autism, ADHD, and other issues in neuropsychiatry. D...
Aug 09, 2010
Dr Zieve continues his conversation with Dr Charles Gant, an MD, naturopath and integrative physician, about the four-part-brain, letting go of pain and how mindfulness practices can reduce stress and provide benefits for all sorts of health challenges, from cancer to addiction. Dr. Charles Gant has practiced Integrative, Bomplementary/Alternative and Functional Medicine for over three decades, and teaches mindfulness-based meditation, incorporating Gestalt, Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, ...
Jul 01, 2010
Dr Zieve discusses the larger concepts of mindfulness with therapist and "mindfulness student" Neil Pinholster, exploring the mind-body connection and ways to reroute neural pathways for healthier living. Neil Pinholster has studied and practiced energy medicine since 1976. He has been studying since 1997 with the International School for Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy with added focus on non-cathartic shock and trauma release with Peter Levineís trauma-resolution methods. He has studied and ta...
Jul 01, 2010
Dr Zieve talks with Dr Charles Gant, an MD, naturopath and integrative physician, about the four-part-brain, letting go of pain and how mindfulness practices can reduce stress and provide benefits for all sorts of health challenges, from cancer to addiction. Dr. Charles Gant has practiced Integrative, Complementary/Alternative and Functional Medicine for over three decades, and teaches mindfulness-based meditation, incorporating Gestalt, Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, Transpersonal and oth...
Jul 01, 2010
Dr. Dickson Thom DDS returns to Healthy Medicine to talk with Dr Zieve about daily practices and finding the right health-care partner for your optimal health. Dr. Dickson Thom DDS, ND lectures extensively and has written and collaborated on many articles dealing with energy medicine and nutrition. He is the author of "Coping with Food Intolerances" and "Unda Numbers: An Energetic Journey to Homeostasis and Wellness.,"and he operates the Bamboo Clinic in Portland, OR. Read more at www.wholistics...
Jul 01, 2010
Dr Zieve discusses the many aspects of functional medicine with Dr Mark Hyman MD, including why antidepressants don't work, the importance of Vitamin D and what he calls the "metabolic tune-up." Bestselling author, lecturer, and practicing physician Mark A. Hyman MD is a leader in the emerging field of functional medicine, which moves beyond diagnosis-based medicine to incorporate new research that for the first time allows treatment of the underlying causes of disease. Read more at www.ultrawel...
Jul 01, 2010
Dr Zieve discusses some of the systemic problems with health-care today with Helene Jorgensen, author of "Sick and Tired: How the U.S. Health Care System Fails Its Patients" In 2003 economist Helene Jorgensen was bitten by a tick and began a new, unpaid, and full-time jobósojourner through the US health care system. Her five-year odyssey reveals the many inefficiencies and irrationalities that both characterize the system and put lives at risk. In her new book, Sick and Tired: How the U.S. Healt...
Jul 01, 2010
Dr Zieve talks with local community organizers about creating and maintaining organizations to support healthier communities. Al Carter is an organizer for Americorps. He and Gary Stokes work with the Yavapai Community Collaborative, an organization working to "develop and support collaborative partnership opportunities that vitalize our communities." Read more at yavcc.org . If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element...
Jul 01, 2010
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor talks with Dr Zieve about her experience with stroke, the importance of exercising our intuitive side, and her best-selling book, My Stroke of Insight. Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a respected and published neuroanatomist specializing in the postmortem investigation of the brain as it relates to schizophrenia and severe mental illness. In 1996 Dr. Taylor experienced a rare form of stroke and underwent major brain surgery to remove a golf-ball sized blood clot from the left hemi...
Jul 01, 2010
Simple ways to reduce costs and promote health are the topic as Dr Zieve talks with registered nurse Andreanna Rainville about detoxification techniques and the importance of drinking water. Andreanna Rainville RN is an instructor in the Institute of Neurobiology of the American Academy of Neural Therapy and the Klinghardt Academy of Neurobiology, and works as a full-time RN for Dr Dietrich Klinghardt, MD. With over 20 years of healthcare experience, she is certified in a broad variety of health...
Jul 01, 2010
