Healthy Tips After 50 Podcast

Growth of NAFLD Disease Do you know what NAFLD is? NAFLD stands for Non-Alcohol Fatty Liver Disease and It is an umbrella term for a range of liver conditions affecting people who drink little to no alcohol. The main characteristic of NAFLD is too much fat stored in your liver cells. NAFLD is not commonly known even though about 25% of the US population has it and it is a risk factor of a number o...

Worse Than the Dirty Dozen Today's show brings us up to date on one of the Environmental Working Group's (EWG) dirtiest food. They reported on the Department of Agriculture's 2020 pesticide residue tests on fruits and vegetables and for the first time the DOA included raisins in their tests. When the EWG compared the raisin results with those on the Dirty Dozen list they found that it was worse th...

Vitamin D and Cancer 2-3 years ago there were a couple of research studies published called the VITAL study which looked at the the affect of Vitamin D and Omega-3's on almost 26,000 men and women over 50. All were free from cancer and cardiovascular disease at the start of the study which ran from 2011 until the end of 2017. The men and women in the study were randomly assigned to different group...

Maintaining Your Balance This podcast is about keeping your balance physically, not emotionally, better known as not falling and hurting yourself. I have a lot of experience with falling, not purposefully, and usually with some resulting bumps, bruises, and once a broken clavicle. There are a lot of reasons that people take falls and I talk about most of them. Things like losing muscle mass from a...

The Mediterranean Diet Revisited The Mediterranean Diet is rated as the best overall and easiest to follow diet by US News & World Report. This diet is meant to be a life-style change – not a quick weight loss diet. It is an easy diet to stay on as you can eat as much of the recommended food as you want.
 Lots of vegetables and fruits, whole grains, olive oil & nuts, fish & chicken. Red meat once...

Do You Have SAD This Winter? This week's podcast deals with the issue of Seasonal Affective Disorder - better know as SAD. At this point in time there is no good understanding of the causes of SAD, that makes it very difficult to find solutions for managing it. SAD is a disorder that occurs during "winter" time (i.e. short days and long nights). There are various treatments available but none of t...

Mushrooms as Food and Medicine Today's guest is Jeff Chilton, the owner of Nammex (North American Medicinal Mushroom Extracts). Jeff's interest in mushrooms started when he was a student at the University of Washington in the late 1960's. He became a mushroom grower in 1973 and in 1989 he founded his company Nammex which raises organically certified mushrooms for the Nutritional Supplement industr...

Live a Stress-Free Day This week's podcast is another short but valuable show. I have collected a number of ways that we can, in a short amount of time calm down and let go of whatever stress we are feeling. You'll notice that all of them do essentially the same thing - break the thought and feeling that is keeping us tied up in our heads. They are all versions of time-outs - like we give our fami...

Dr. Jay - The Brain Doctor Dr. Jay Sordean has over 40+ years of experience as an acupuncturist, herbalist, nutritional therapist, homeopath, and wellness consultant. His office is in Berkeley, California but his clients come from all over the US. It was a very interesting interview although we had a bit of a disconnection towards the beginning of it. Dr. Jay related how he contracted leprosy duri...

Can Medical Hypnosis Help You? That's the question I address in this podcast. Medical Hypnosis has become a much more respected tool in the medical toolbox. In most people it can help with: phobias and PTSD hot flashes pain control insomnia quitting smoking overeating and obesity plus many more We all grew up watching comedy skits or movies where someone is hypnotized and then sent out to do somet...

From Medicine to Wellbeing Wednesdays My guest today is Giles P Croft, a former NHS (National Health Service, UK) surgeon who stepped aside from clinical practice for a decade to explore a number of career paths, including health informatics, cycling journalism, public speaking and high street retail with his wife. He is now back in the healing profession, tackling the root cause of chronic mental...

My 2020 Holiday Message This holiday podcast is very short because I am taking some time off during the Hanukah and Xmas holidays. But I did want to send a health & wellness message to everyone and especially for those of us over 50!  Next week I will be sharing an interview I had with Giles P Croft, a health & wellness professional from Wales. It was a fun and enlightening conversation and I'm su...

As we get older it can get harder to get all of the vitamins and minerals we need from our food. There are various reasons for that but mostly it has to do with less stomach acid to break down our food into essential vitamins. One of those vitamins is B12. B12 helps us maintain and improve our red blood cells, nervous system, digestive system, and our production of DNA to name just a few. If that...

An MDMA Love Letter Charley Wininger is a psychotherapist in private practice, and the author of "Listening to Ecstasy: The Transformative Power of MDMA", a story of his life and marriage, that he calls An MDMA Love Letter. Licensed as a Psychoanalyst as well as a Mental Health Counselor, he specializes in relationships and communication skills, and has been treating couples and individuals in his...

Get Some Exercise Everyday! Today's podcast is all about exercise and how important it is (or should be) in our lives. Especially with all of us limited to exercising outside or in our house/apartment (at least that's how it is here in California). Exercise is so, so important to our health, under regular circumstances! It's how we keep our hearts, lungs, muscles, brains, … working at their best....

The Naturopathic Path to Health My podcast guest this week is Dr. Cris Azzola, ND. Dr. Cris is a licensed naturopathic doctor in San Francisco, CA, and is a descendant from a long line of physicians who believed in balancing conventional medicine with natural healing techniques. From early childhood, she was inspired by her family's dedication to helping others and became curious about the natural...

Reminder to Take Care of Your Hearing This week's show is a rebroadcast of one from the middle of 2019. I'm running it again because hearing and hearing loss is such an important subject, especially during this pandemic. We are all staying close to home and even more so for us older people. We are the ones who are most at risk for hearing loss and not getting it checked regularly and/or taken care...

Getting Stronger and Healthier As We Age My guest today is Joseph Oniwor. Joe is a pro arena football player turned transformation trainer who has been in the fitness industry for 28 years. His mission is to help women 48 years old and older to take back control over their bodies while they are dealing with the energy loss and weight gain that typically comes along with menopause. Listen in as we...

Coffee & Caffeine - Are They Healthy For Us? I read an article about coffee and the health benefits of it which aroused my curiosity and led to this week's podcast subject - Coffee & Caffeine. I found quite a few recent studies that showed the health benefits of coffee and especially of caffeinated coffee. The only bad kind of coffee is very hot coffee - drinking that can increase your risk of dev...

An Interview with Nina Lockwood Nina Lockwood is a transformative coach, author, speaker and artist who shares the joy of creativity, inner freedom and genuine aliveness. Nina has over 30 years of expertise in psychology and personal development and over 20 years in the field of energy medicine. Our discussion was wide ranging and mind opening. We discussed trying to stay in the present moment as...

Cruciferous Vegetables and Fibre - How Much to Eat? Results from 2 studies in the UK both dealing with the impact of vegetables and/or fruit in the diet. The first shows the relation between higher amounts of cruciferous vegetables in one's diet and a lower rate of abdominal aorta calcification. In the study a group of women over 70 years old eating 1/4 cup or more of cabbage, broccoli, brussel sp...

Kari Klein - Changing Her Message and Her Vocation My guest on this week's podcast is Kari Klein. Kari was a chiropractor for 16 years before she decided that she wanted to work with people from a more whole body/mind point of view and not just specific aches and pains. To help people to live from a deeper sense of well being. Some of the areas we talked about included looking at health & wellness...

Multi-Subject Podcast As the title says, this podcast is made up of 5 different short subjects. There were so many new and interesting studies that had been published that I thought it would be a good change from the longer one subject podcasts and the interviews I've been doing recently. The different subjects are: 1) Chemotherapy and breast cancer 2) Covid-19 and its impact on loneliness 3) Gend...

How Relaxation Makes You Healthier My guest today is Jeff Kelton, PhD, self-described incessant wanderer and author of An Insider's Guide to the Art of Deep Relaxation. We had a very good conversation about his background and grounding as a clinical psychologist, consultant, and nowTransformation Coach. Jeff also created his own process where he guides "leaders, truth seekers, and creatives to fin...

Reducing Food Loss and Food Waste We human beings produce a lot of food waste and loss. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations is observing their first International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste on September 29. It will be an online event. To learn more go to this link: http://www.fao.org/platform-food-loss-waste/events/detail/en/c/1269190/ To register to atte...