YOU: The Owner's Manual

Today we sit down with gastroenterologist Dr. Haleh Pazwash as she shares tips on topics such as: how to maintain a healthy gut and avoid tummy upset during a heat wave; summer safety tips to keep your gut health in check; and food safety tips from outdoor entertaining to advice on travel. She will also cover: How to ID food poisoning – signs, symptoms, treatment and prevention plus the 101 on mayo and summer sun Dehydration & heat stroke – best beverages to keep you from wilting in the summer heat plus signs, symptoms, treatment and prevention Travel & your tummy – from jet lag to Montezuma’s revenge, how to enjoy your summer vacation while maintaining “regularity”

Long COVID Awareness Day was on March 15. The day highlighted the far-reaching effects of this disabling, chronic, and sometimes lethal disease worldwide, and sound the alarm for governments to accelerate the search for effective treatment. Long COVID means that post-infection symptoms persist for at least three months after contracting COVID-19—and may significantly impair one’s ability to perform day-to-day activities. Jacob Teitelbaum, MD, co-author of the new book called You Can Heal From Long COVID (DEVA Publishing June 2024), is here today to discuss his new book and how you can get back to your life after long COVID.

Dr. Roizen talks about the latest health headlines that YOU need to know.

The Source: Judith Orloff, MD, is author of the new book, The Genius of Empathy: Practical Skills to Heal Your Sensitive Self, Your Relationships, and the World with Foreword by the Dalai Lama (Sounds True, April 9, 2024). Dr. Orloff is a member of the UCLA Psychiatric Clinical Faculty and a New York Times bestselling author. She’s a leading voice in the fields of medicine, psychiatry, empathy, and intuitive development. Her work has been featured on CNN, NPR, Talks at Google, TEDx, and the American Psychiatric Association. She has also appeared in USA Today; O, The Oprah Magazine; Scientific American; and The New England Journal of Medicine. She specializes in treating highly sensitive people in her private practice. Learn more at drjudithorloff.com.

Dr. Roizen talks about the latest health headlines that YOU need to know.

Marijuana and medical research: what may happen in medical research if marijuana is rescheduled, and why our understanding of marijuana's impact is now limited. The Biden administration recently proposed reclassifying marijuana from a Schedule I controlled substance to a Schedule III controlled substance, a change that acknowledges the medical benefits of the drug and would get rid of a lot of research red tape. While we currently have a basic understanding of how marijuana impacts the body and the brain, rescheduling the substance will bring more researchers to the table and make it easier to study the THC products people are currently using today.

Easy to learn and fun to play, pickleball is also a surprisingly athletic sport. In this user-friendly book, fitness superstars, the Brungardt brothers, focus their expertise on the needs of pickleball players of all levels, applying the same innovative training methods they’ve used with NBA MVPs, Cy Young Award-winners, and Olympic and tennis champions, to make picklers more athletic and injury-resistant. To safely reach your pickleball potential, health and fitness professionals agree that the sport should not be your only form of exercise. To fill this critical gap, the Brungardts have created PB-150, a comprehensive program that delivers all the components of an elite pro training center experience—with the fun and flexibility of the pickleball spirit. The Complete Book of Pickleball brings together a dream team of experts in the fields of strength and conditioning, sports movement, sports vision, physical therapy, sports psychology, athletic training, performance nutrition, and sports medicine. Along with the Brungardts, these experts will coach you through an interactive, easy-to-follow, holistic workout. Combining your passion for the game with the PB-150 training program gives you a portal into all the transformative benefits of exercise, while allowing you to enjoy the game you love, for a lifetime.

Dr. Roizen talks about the latest health headlines that YOU need to know.

Dr. Roizen talks about the latest health headlines that YOU need to know.

When treating allergies, your wallet may drain faster than your sinuses. According to the latest ValuePenguin study, 31.8% of American adults have allergies — whether seasonal, food or eczema. And spending on allergic reactions rose 230% between 2000 and 2021. In addition to exploring our findings, stick around to learn how you can utilize your health insurance to save on allergy spending.

Dr. Roizen talks about the latest health headlines that YOU need to know.

Dr. Edoardo Marcora, Ph.D, is here today to discuss Immune Cells Identified as Key Player in Brain Health: New Discoveries for Alzheimers and other lipid rich tissue related diseases.

Dr. Roizen talks about the latest health headlines that YOU need to know.

Gretchen Rubin is the bestselling author of The Happiness Project and other books, co-host of the hit podcast Happier, and one of our most influential observers of happiness and human nature writing today. In LIFE IN FIVE SENSES, Rubin explores how fully plugging into her senses personally helped her experience her own life in a more fulfilling way, and shares research and tips for how we all can harness the power of our senses to increase our happiness and well-being.

Dr. Roizen talks about the latest health headlines that YOU need to know.

Vulnerable Minds: The Harm of Trauma and the Hope of Resilience (Penguin Random House / Avery; 3/12/24) by neurobiologist and educator Marc Hauser, PhD shows the importance of these dimensions, shows how they generate signatures of trauma, and provides a road map for treatment that emphasizes the idea of a toolkit of options. This book offers a hopeful new pathway to understanding children’s trauma and providing effective interventions to build healthier communities. Each year at least a billion children around the world are victims of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) that range from physical abuse to racial discrimination to neglect and food deprivation. The brain plasticity of our most vulnerable makes the adverse effects of trauma only that much more damaging to mental and physical development. Those dealt a hand of ACEs are more likely to drop out of school, have a shorter life, abuse substances, and suffer from myriad mental health and behavioral issues. The crucial question is: How do we intervene to offer these children a more hopeful future? Dr. Hauser provides a novel, research-based framework to understand a child’s unique response to ACEs that goes beyond our current understanding and is centered around the five Ts—the timing during development when the trauma began, its type, tenure, toxicity, and how much turbulence it has caused in a child’s life. Using this lens, adults can start to help children build resilience and recover—and even benefit—from their adversity through targeted community and school interventions, emotional regulation tools, as well as a new frontier of therapies focused on direct brain stimulation, including neurofeedback and psychedelics. While human suffering experienced by children is the most devastating, it also presents the most promise for recovery; the plasticity of young people’s brains makes them vulnerable, but it also makes them apt to take back the joy, wonder, innocence, and curiosity of childhood when given the right support.

“AMD is one of the leading causes of vision loss and blindness,” says Dr. Andrea Zimmerman, Low Vision Specialist at Lighthouse Guild. “If you are over 60, you are at risk for AMD, which is why even if you have no symptoms, you should get an eye exam once a year,” In addition to age, other risk factors for AMD include: a history of smoking, genetics and family history, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol levels. Dr. Zimmerman is here today to discuss everything you need to know about AMD and steps you can take to protect your vision.

The New Approach to Health: Using Power Foods to Cause Rapid, Permanent Weight Loss Scientists have found that certain foods trigger weight loss automatically. Unlike the usual approach to dieting which focuses on going hungry and avoiding the foods you love, the Power Foods approach encourages you to add specific foods that cause weight loss. Power Foods work in three ways: First, they trigger satiety, taming your appetite so that you naturally eat less. Second, they trap calories in your digestive tract and carry them out with the wastes. Third, they ramp up your metabolism, so you burn calories faster hour after hour. There are dozens of Power Foods, including common, everyday foods, like blueberries, melons, apples, and asparagus, as well as certain spices (cinnamon, ginger, and hot peppers). Blueberries, for example, get their color from anthocyanins, which have been associated with weight loss in research studies. Cinnamon contains a natural ingredient that boosts metabolism. Weight loss can be as easy as including these foods in your daily routine, say, with French toast made with cinnamon and topped with blueberry syrup. The Power Foods and how to use them are spelled out in the Power Foods Diet, the new book by Neal Barnard, MD, author of the best-sellers Power Foods for the Brain and The 21-Day Weight-Loss Kickstart. In this scientifically proven program, Power Foods do the work for you at home, at restaurants—anywhere you eat. You will never count calories again. And while exercise is always a good idea, the program works whether you exercise or not. The Power Foods Diet includes 120 mouthwatering recipes, from French Toast and Wild Blueberry Muffins to Creamy Chipotle Butternut Soup, Southwest Chili, and Pesto Spaghetti with Broccoli and Sundried Tomatoes. And don’t forget dessert! The Power Foods ingredients are built into Blueberry Pops, Triple Berry No Churn Sorbet, a Fruity Banana Split, and Carrot Cake. There are also plenty of tips for people who prefer convenience foods or who generally eat in restaurants. The approach is revolutionary: • Power Foods bring you a healthier weight, healthier cholesterol level, lower blood pressure, and healthier blood sugar. • Power Foods boost your energy, making you look and feel younger. • Power Foods let you end “dieting” forever. • Power Food allow you to enjoy eating again—at home or restaurants. No more skimpy portions. • Among the Power Foods are those under study for their ability to reduce the risk of cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. The Power Foods Diet: The Breakthrough Plan That Traps, Tames, and Burns Calories for Easy and Permanent Weight Loss By Neal D. Barnard, MD, FACC, with menus and recipes by Dustin Harder and Lindsay S. Nixon. Balance Books (Hachette) Publication date: March 26, 2024

Much of what we know about women’s bodies and health has come from men. Their points of view have helped shape the way we feel about our bodies—and the kind of medical attention we receive. Our “normal” bodily functions—as well as our pain, pleasure, strength, and intellectual capacity—have been based on an overwhelmingly male narrative uninformed by women’s own voices, and often used to shame and subjugate us. The result is a cultural and societal legacy that continues to shape our health and care, despite recent advances that challenge it. In ALL IN HER HEAD: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today (Harper Wave; on-sale February 13; ISBN: 9780063293014; 448 pages), medical historian and Memorial Sloan Kettering oncologist Elizabeth Comen, M.D. unpacks this legacy and reframes the conversation to empower women. Comen shines a light on the female medicalized body and illuminates the myths and blind spots we’ve unwittingly inherited through generations. She takes readers back in time to meet the legendary—and sometimes infamous—doctors who shaped the field of medicine, as well as the patients they cared for (or in some cases, didn’t.) Comen explores the sanitariums of 18th century Europe, the anatomy labs of Victorian New York City, the makeshift hospitals of the Antebellum South. She connects the dots to show how a legacy of ignorance, indifference, oppression, and subjugation toward women’s medical issues commands women’s medical present.

Dr. McConnell, through his work with the American Heart Association and the National Fitness Foundation, highlights the many ways our society can reduce heart disease for all. Fight Heart Disease Like Cancer covers, among other topics: • simple and powerful therapies to reverse heart disease and prevent heart attacks and strokes • digital health technologies, including wearable devices and artificial intelligence, that broaden access for detecting and monitoring heart disease • prevention techniques that incorporate both a heart-healthy lifestyle and medical help when needed and screening for early heart disease