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Heather Krug, Clinical Associate Professor in Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Eleanor discuss dyslexia in children and useful practices to help improve speech, reading, writing, and more. Featuring: Heather Krug, Clinical Associate Professor in Speech-Language Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Host: Eleanor Barrett, 5th Grader About Emory University&a...

Peter Locke, Head of High School at Madison Country Day School in Wisconsin, and Eleanor discuss why school is important and how school can help social and emotional development in children. Featuring: Peter Locke, Head of High School at Madison Country Day School Host: Eleanor Barrett, 5th Grader About Emory University's Center for the Study of Human Health: The Emory Center for the Study of...

Meditation Made Easier: The New Science of Wellness, Compassion and Mindfulness Have you wanted to meditate but can’t seem to commit to sitting quietly and trying to concentrate for 20 or 30 minutes a day? Or have you tried to meditate, but find that the standard mindfulness practices of focusing on the breath or on bodily sensations produce little more than a desire to fidget with boredom or drif...

We Are the Stories We Tell Ourselves: The Role of Self and Family Narratives in Human Well-Being It's no accident that most of us crave stories, in books, in movies on the internet. In many ways, our lives are created by the stories we tell others— and ourselves. And we don’t just tell stories, we live them, and not infrequently we are willing to die for them. Stories have beginnings, middles...

Creativity in Biomedical Science: How a Drug Never Expected to Work is a Life-Saver for COVID-19 and People Living with HIV Medical science has come under a lot of criticism lately for waffling on its understandings of the COVID-19 virus and of how we can best protect ourselves. Why the confusion? The answer this points to one of science’s greatest gifts to humanity: the ability to change our mind...

As you read this, you are breathing and taking no notice of this. After listening to this podcast, we think you may never completely ignore breathing again. In fact, like us, you might become fascinated with the potential breathing holds for changing how we think about ourselves and the world around us. Few scientists understand this better, both professionally and personally than Don Noble, our g...

Most of us who lived through the back half of the 20th Century forgot about infections. We had vaccines for the terrible diseases of childhood and antibiotics for the scary diseases of adulthood. When we caught an infection, it was usually a cold. Certainly, AIDS sent shock waves of grief through many communities, but then antiretroviral medications converted it from a death sentence to a chronic...

Dr. Tessa Roseboom is famous for her groundbreaking studies of the long-term effects of babies born during the World War II Dutch famine. Those studies showed unequivocally that the diets of pregnant women affect the health of their children in later life. Subsequent studies have shown that a wide variety of negative exposures in the womb or in childhood exact lasting costs in terms of poor mental...

It’s common knowledge that stress can make you sick. But why? It’s also becoming increasingly understood that it is the body’s own inflammatory system that is responsible for most COVID deaths. Why does the immune system get so confused? If these questions seem interesting but unrelated, this is the podcast for you. Our guest is Steve Cole, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry and Biobehavior...

If you follow these podcasts you know that Dan Benardot, a nutritional expert, warns us about the many problems of fasting as a weight-loss strategy. How, then, are we to understand the growing popularity of practices like intermittent fasting, not just as a way of losing weight, but as health-enhancing lifestyles? Is fasting good or bad? If it has benefits, what are these and why does it work? Ad...

The scale shows you a number you just can’t abide by. Or you swore you would not buy clothes one size bigger…. So you try to diet. You try to be reasonable so you eat less often. Maybe you decide to be au courant so you fast. But no matter what you do, the weight hardly comes off. Or maybe it comes off but then when you ease up, even just a little you immediately gain the weight back. What is goin...

Dr. Karl Doghramji, Medical Director at the Jefferson Sleep Disorder Center at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, and Eleanor discuss the importance of sleep to keep our lives regular. Dr. Doghramji gives some tips on how to sleep better and fight off insomnia. Featuring: Dr. Karl Doghramji, Medical Director at the Jefferson Sleep Disorder Center at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital,...

Dr. Charles Raison, host of the Health is Everything podcast, and Eleanor discuss why it’s important to wear your mask and practice social distancing while empathizing with the human need for socialization. Dr. Raison helps explain how to help combat the fear and anxiety that kids are experiencing during this pandemic. Featuring: Dr. Charles Raison, Psychiatrist & Depression Researcher at the...

Dr. Rakesh Jain is a psychiatrist and researcher. Dr. Jain and Eleanor sit down to discuss anxiety and nervousness, and how allowing yourself to have these feelings is okay. Dr. Jain also explains helpful & easy ways to manage these emotions. Featuring: Dr. Rakesh Jain, Psychiatrist, Researcher Host: Eleanor Barrett, 4th Grader About Emory University's Center for the Study of Human Health...

Dr. Malia Jones is a social epidemiologist with the University of Wisconsin Applied Population Laboratory and the UW-Madison Department of Community and Environmental Sociology. Dr. Jones and Eleanor sit down to discuss what going back to school in the middle of a pandemic will be like and how to navigate those situations. Featuring: Dr. Malia Jones, Social Epidemiologist with the University of Wi...

It’s All About Relationships, and Not Just With Other People. What COVID Is Trying To Tell Us About Well-Being Why are people more frightened by COVID than by global warming? Despite being frightened, why are many of us now choosing to be with other people, even at a risk to our own health? Can we draw lessons from these contradictions that will allow us to deepen our relationships with each other...

Life is often wonderful, but it is also difficult. Given how much we want happiness, why can’t we be happy more often in our lives? What stands between us and mental peace? Join us for compelling and challenging answers to these questions courtesy of Dr. John Dunne, our guest on this podcast. Dr. Dunne is a Distinguished Chair of Contemplative Humanities in the Center for Healthy Minds and the Dep...

Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi, PhD, is Executive Director of the Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics at Emory University and Director of the Emory Tibet Science Initiative. Dr. Negi and Eleanor sit down to discuss different ways kids can show compassion to their friends and family members, and why being compassionate & kind is so important. Featuring: Dr. Geshe Lobsang Ten...

Think you should eat less often if you want to lose weight? Think again says Dan Benardot, our guest for this podcast. Dan Benardot, PhD is an internationally-recognized expert on nutrition, especially as nutrition pertains to peak athletic performance. Dr. Benardot has served as a nutritionist for a number of US Olympic teams, including Track and Field, Ice Skating and Gymnastics. In recognition...

Think that COVID-19 virus is the greatest potential infectious threat facing the modern world? Think again. In this podcast, noted journalist and author Maryn McKenna joins host Charles Raison, MD to discuss why our modern lifestyles make us especially vulnerable not just to viruses, but also to bacteria capable of producing a host of frightening illnesses. Unlike viruses, which are generally best...

George H. Grant, PhD, is a psychologist and theologian who serves as Executive Director of Spiritual Health for Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, GA. In this role, Dr. Grant oversees the delivery of chaplaincy care throughout the Emory Healthcare system and guides the country’s largest chaplaincy education program. Join us as we discuss Dr. Grant’s pioneering vision for transforming chaplaincy from an...

Dr. Dan Benardot is a Registered and Licensed Dietitian/Nutritionist and Professor of Nutrition at Emory University's Center for the Study of Human Health. From fruits to vegetables to proteins, Dr. Benardot helps us understand what types of food our bodies need and how to get the most out of them. Featuring: Dr. Dan Benardot, Registered and Licensed Dietitian/Nutritionist, Professor of Nutri...

Dr. Cassandra L. Quave is an Ethnobotanist, Herbarium Curator and Assistant Professor in the Department of Dermatology and the Center for the Study of Human Health at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Quave is widely regarded for her research into the potential of indigenous, plant-based medicines to treat infectious disease and to combat antibiotic resistance. Join us as we focus on the food-m...

Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi, PhD, is Executive Director of the Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics at Emory University and Director of the Emory Tibet Science Initiative. Among Dr. Negi’s many accomplishments is developing Cognitively Based Compassion Training, or CBCT, a highly influential meditation program, which is a major focus of our discussion in this podcast, and whi...

Dr. Lindsey Leininger is a public health educator and researcher, and a clinical professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. Eleanor and Dr. Leininger talk about numbers, health and, of course, the global pandemic on this week's episode of Health is Everything: No Kidding. Featuring: Dr. Lindsey Leininger, Public Health Educator and Researcher, Clinical Professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck Sch...