The Whole Health Cure

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 th...

John La Puma, MD, FACP is the  New York Times  best selling author of seven books, translated into 10 languages, with over a million copies sold. Co-founder of ChefMD, a consumer-health media company, he is considered the founder of culinary medicine, now taught in 40% of U.S. medical schools and worldwide. He is also Founder of EcoMedicine.org , a nature-based approach to optimal well-being and o...

Sean Hashmi, MD, MS, FASN, is a practicing Nephrologist and Obesity Medicine specialist in southern California.  He is a sought-after speaker on topics ranging from health, nutrition, fitness, and wellness.  Currently, Dr. Hashmi serves as the Regional Director for Clinical Nutrition and Weight Management at a large healthcare ogranziation in Southern California.  Driven by his lifelong commitment...

Rollin McCraty, Ph. D. is Director of Research of the HeartMath Research Center at the HeartMath Institute. As a psycho-physiologist, Dr. McCraty’s research interests include the physiology of emotion, heart-brain communication and the global interconnectivity between people and the earth’s energetic systems. Findings from this research have been applied to the development of tools and technology...

Liana Lianov, MD, MPH, FACLM, FACPM, DipABLM is the President of Global Positive Health Institute. As an innovative global leader in lifestyle medicine, Liana Lianov, MD, MPH, FACLM, FACPM, DipABLM has advanced the movement for integrating positive psychology into health care. She led the development of the original lifestyle medicine core competencies for physicians and health professionals, whic...

In this episode we interview Cath Lee, Lar Lee and Matt Crane - founders of Semaine Health, "a health and wellness company that takes women’s pain seriously". Cath and Lar, twin sisters, describe their personal journey with endometriosis and years of period pain. Together with Matt (Lar's husband), they started experimenting with trying natural plant-based ingredients, vitamins and supplements, to...

Jacob Mirsky, MD, MA is a primary care physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital Revere HealthCare Center and a consultation physician at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine. Dr. Mirsky attended medical school at the University of California San Francisco and completed residency in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston as part of the Harvard Vanguard M...

David Prologo, MD is a Christian, a Husband, a Father, and a Fighter. He is a dual board-certified interventional radiologist and obesity medicine specialist.  Dr. Prologo has spent more than twenty years specifically analyzing the phenomenon of diet attrition—why do diets always fail? More importantly, when they do fail , why do we blame the patients for that failure?   That journey led Dr. Prolo...

Kristi Artz, MD, diplABLM, is a practicing board certified Emergency Medicine specialist since 2006, ABLM certified diplomat 2018 and Lifestyle Medicine specialist 2021.  She serves as Medical Director of Lifestyle Medicine at Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, MI. She is an Advisory Board member for Health Meets Food and is a Certified Culinary Medicine specialist since 2017.  She is the physician...

TJ Waterfall is a registered sports nutritionist specialising in plant-based nutrition. TJ has a first-class Master's degree in clinical and public health nutrition from University College London (currently in the top 10 universities in the world) and has since worked with many world-class elite athletes, including several UK Olympians. TJ recently authored a book published by Penguin, The Plant-B...

William Hsu, MD is the Chief Medical Officer at L-Nutra - a company that is leading the science of Longevity Through Nutrition. To date, L-Nutra had numerous scientific breakthroughs, attracted over $36 million in funding and carried out 14 clinical trials. One of their key discoveries was unlocking the benefits of periodic fasting (fasting for more than two days). Their research showed that perio...

Jennifer Maynard spent over twenty years in the field of Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals, where she focused mainly in Oncology, Ophthalmology and Hematology, working to try to make a change for the better in human health. She left her career as a Pharma Executive to pursue her passion for “Food as Medicine,” as she believes that only by addressing what we put on our plates can we begin to truly...

Amy Hanus leads Full Plate Living, a foundation-funded FREE online nutrition resource for people who want doable small-steps that lead to big health outcomes. As the Program Director for the Ardmore Institute of Health foundation, Amy loves being able to share the power of fiber foods and how eating a plant predominant diet can transform our health.  She helped develop Full Plate Living’s lifestyl...

Dr. Liana Lianov is the Founder and President of Global Positive Health Institute , assisting physicians and health professionals to leverage the science of positive psychology and lifestyle medicine to achieve flourishing in themselves and their patients. She is an International leader in Lifestyle Medicine and positive psychology, leading the movement to promote the science of positive psycholog...

Bob Gold is one of the world’s leading behavioral technologists with more than 20 years applied research and development in the behavioral and cognitive science of human motivation, activation and resiliency; with a specialty in the design of clinical care plans and digital therapeutics that integrate pyscho-social factors and determinants into physical care plans for chronic and complex populatio...

David Hanscom is an orthopedic spine surgeon whose practice focused on patients with failed back surgeries. He quit his practice in Seattle, WA to present his insights into solving chronic pain, which evolved from with his own battle with it. The second edition of his book is, Back in Control: A Surgeon’s Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain. His website, www.backincontrol.com presents an action plan and h...

Dr. Anurag Sahu is an adult cardiologist at Emory University Hospital. He is an Associate Professor of Cardiology and an Associate Professor of Radiology at the Emory School of Medicine. His areas of expertise include adult congenital heart disease, advanced cardiac imaging, and cardiac intensive care.   He developed the cardiac intensive care service line at Emory University Hospital, leads the h...

Experience activators are mindsets that all individuals have — which generate energy and expand our capacity to improve overall experiences and quality of life. They can be strengthened through both personal action and organizational support and include: resilience, mindfulness, optimism, openness, purpose, gratitude, self-efficacy, and emotional regulation. People with high levels of experience a...

Lindsay Lagreid is the Senior Advisor of the Limeade Institute. In her Senior Advisor role, Lindsay is responsible for  providing strategic and operational guidance to Limeade customers, prospects and internal stakeholders. Lindsay shares key industry research with the employee experience market and provides innovative direction to the Limeade product team. With nearly 10 years of customer account...

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 th...

Brittany Verras is a clinical dietitian who is board certified in lifestyle medicine. She specializes in plant-based nutrition and diabetes related care. Brittany earned a master's of public health before pursuing a nutrition program through Kansas State University. She completed her clinical training at Emory University Hospital and now works in clinic at Emory Student Health and provides counsel...

Amit Shah, MD, MSCR is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology with an adjunct appointment in Medicine (Cardiology) at Emory University. He is also Chief of Preventive Cardiology and Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation at the Atlanta VA Healthcare System. Dr. Shah completed his undergraduate degree in physics, and certificate in biophysics, at Princeton University, and his medical degree at the Univ...

Staci Rieder is a Certified Integrative Nutrition Health and Wellness Coach through The Institute of Integrative Nutrition. She has been on a life long journey of learning and sharing natural modalities to improve the quality of life and to live from the heart. She is passionate about food, plants, cooking, yoga, meditation, hiking, gardening and her 19 year old daughter who lives in Colorado. Bec...

Anthea is a registered dietitian at the private practice Culina Health and a freelance health reporter based in New York City. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Emory University and is one month away from completing her Master’s in Clinical Nutrition at New York University. She completed her clinical training at NYU Langone Health.  Anthea believes that how and what we eat drives...

Margaret Moore , MBA, is an executive coach and founder and CEO of Wellcoaches Corporation, a coaching school for health professionals, which has trained more than 13,000 coaches in 50 countries since 2000.Prior to Wellcoaches, Margaret was an executive in the biotechnology industry in the US, UK, Canada, France for 17 years, including serving as CEO and COO of two biotech companies.  Margaret is...