Healthscape
The podcast focuses on health rather than disease. The conversation centers on resilience and epigenetics, the study of how other factors like behaviors and environment can influence gene expression. It also highlights daily healthful behaviors and techniques that may reduce the progression and facilitate recovery from chronic physical and mental diseases including chronic pain, addictions and trauma. Lastly, it highlights helpful usable technologies as well as education on current trending medical delivery issues such as over-investigation and over-diagnosis. The aim is to encourage and educate you to take a more active and holistic approach to your own wellbeing. Healthscape can be heard Wednesdays at 12 Noon Pacific Time on the VoiceAmerica Health and Wellness Channel.
Episodes
October 12, 2022 • 60 mins
Part II of a two part discussion on Death with the author Ivan Obolensky, The Anatomy of Death- A Montage
Is there already at least some overlap with Death in our materially focussed lives?
When we die, does consciousness finally get shod of the 'training wheels?
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October 5, 2022 • 60 mins
Part I of a two part discussion on Death with the author Ivan Obolensky.
A much needed discussion on an even more greatly avoided subject, our inevitable departure from Life.
As the title suggests, a synthetic (rather than analytic) approach was adopted, using an array of approaches and disciplines, employing paradox and sometimes even anachronism to assemble snippets that shed light on the complexity and scope of this slippery ...
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September 28, 2022 • 60 mins
Dr. Karl Zarse, a double Board certified anesthestist and regenerative medicine specialist, returns to speak about one of the most prevalent problems in medicine, namely back pain.
He addresses episodic, recurrent and chronic pain, highlighting the problems, myths, treatment solutions as well as insights into health daily practices and behaviors to maximize outcomes, functionality and quality of life.
In back pain, self-care rem...
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September 21, 2022 • 60 mins
Dr. Pawa provides a lucid overview of mind-body treatment approaches, offering compelling insights and examples. All along the way her incisive intelligence, compassion and obvious love for her calling shine through.
Most of all, she makes the discipline accessible and easy to implement by providing exactly what is needed whenever there is dis-ease that is usually accompanied by fatigue, low energy and anxiety.
Her over-archin...
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September 14, 2022 • 60 mins
Hear Dr. Raouf Gharbo, Director of Cardiac and Wellness Integration at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), discuss breathing techniques, biofeedback and heart rate variability (HRV), and the value that these activities can add to your mental and physical flexibility, general health and recovery potential from chronic diseases, including chronic pain, anxiety and trauma.
Simple to perform and highly accessible, this will help y...
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September 7, 2022 • 60 mins
Dr. Karl Zarse, a double Board certified anaesthetist and regenerative medicine specialist, shares his experience and insights on how to maximize your situation post-injury or when in chronic pain.
The owner of Idaho Spine and Pain Management, he outlines tips to enhance flexibility, strength, sleep and nutrition, helping you to outmaneuver ageing and to flip the chronic injury script.
Learn how to benefit from the potentially ma...
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August 31, 2022 • 60 mins
Alzheimer's disease is a neuro-degenerative and relentlessly progressive disease causing cognitive, memory and behavioral impairment. It disproportionately affects women and can be of early onset. More typically, it afflicts the elderly, most often having a long pre-clinical period. It is also incurable, and the sixth largest cause of death in the United States.
This challenge only inflates as life expectancy in developed coun...
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August 24, 2022 • 60 mins
Have we reached a point of 'crisis overload,' both at the societal and global level? We seem to trip through the caveats while the larger challenges seem intractable.
We are already well aware that unbridled stress increases the risk of or worsens most physical and mental disease.
But this time it's different. In previous decades, our guiding light was a credible media that mostly portrayed a journalistic 'best ef...
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August 17, 2022 • 60 mins
A fascinating revelation of how our hearts and brains communicate by Dr. Rollin McCraty, Director of Research at the Heartmath Institute. Learn how this is reflected in our heart rate variability (HRV) and why this metric is so vitally important.
It turns out that the heart has a nervous system of its own, a 'heart brain,' that sends nine times more the information to our intracranial brains than it receives from it, in th...
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August 10, 2022 • 60 mins
Listen to Dr. Taryl Felhaber describe the suboptimal way that menopausal issues are currently dealt with in family practice. Poor physician undergraduate education and a paucity of continuing medical education offerings in the field for practicing physicians are but part of the problem.
Too many family physicians under treat the often debilitating and life intrusive symptoms on the basis that hormones are 'unsafe,' some ci...
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August 3, 2022 • 60 mins
While today’s subject is not a conventional choice for Healthscape, there are a good deal of lessons that can be learned from this discussion by those who have chronic diseases and chronic pain as they know better than most, all about feeling stuck.
What would it be like if one brought one’s full consciousness and awareness to the table when making decisions.? Do we perhaps sometimes have to break a fixed pattern of behavior or th...
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July 27, 2022 • 60 mins
In this episode, we discuss emerging topics in Family Medicine like polypharmacy, over-medicalization as well over-diagnosis. We also reflect on the value that family physicians add, particularly at this time when their discipline is under significant threat, both in terms of staff shortages, expanded responsibilities, technological demands and burgeoning paperwork, some of it questionable and much of it unpaid.
Generalists, like ...
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July 20, 2022 • 60 mins
Hear Dr. Robert Barrett, sociologist and author of Hardwired: How our Instincts to be Healthy are Making us Sick, discuss the problem of authenticity in our current social climate.
Poets, philosophers, bards and society itself exhort us to be authentic, Shakespeare, in his play Hamlet, urges us to thine own self be true, but society itself often lacks authenticity, and while it trumpets the virtue, regularly penalizes them that wo...
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July 13, 2022 • 60 mins
I interview Dr. Sue Stuart-Smith, author of “The Well- Gardened Mind”- The Restorative Power of Nature. She is both a psychiatrist and a gardener. The utility and value of this book can hardly be overemphasized, given the pressurized and frankly pathogenic or illness inducing-lifestyles that many of us lead today, often while being quite detached from Nature or Source. The Well Gardened Mind, is a work that both educates and deligh...
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July 6, 2022 • 60 mins
Spirituality is innate in all of us, yet it often causes discomfort and even aversion when the topic comes up in conversation.
The mystery, suspicion and misinformation with which (for some) it appears to be enshrouded, does little to reduce any of the unease.
Hear Dr. Richard Miller, clinical psychologist and spiritual teacher, dismantle some of the myths, and misunderstandings. He further walks listeners through a brief guided ...
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June 29, 2022 • 60 mins
Shauna Sky Romano, kinesiologist, athlete, and coach to elite athletes believes that “while the principles of high performance and science don’t change, the art is the application of those principles through movement, and the magic lies in developing a love for movement.”
Her clients include people recovering from injuries as well as those with chronic pain and chronic disease. Exercise, of course has a central role in this, and t...
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June 22, 2022 • 60 mins
A Spiritual quest invariably starts with a journey inwards. We are sometimes drawn into it and sometimes nudged, but the inevitable reward is the ability to live an enriched life more fully and more freely.
Our passage further compels us to accept and fulfil our role in this elevated reality, showing us that we need to transcend, rather than deny our own cherished ideas of who we are.
Learn how Dr. Richard Miller, clinical psych...
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June 15, 2022 • 60 mins
Part 1- Personal reflections on the practice of meditation and mindfulness, and the value that this adds not only in health wellness, but in all chronic disease, especially mental disease and chronic pain.
Part 2- An overview of CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy), the relationships and the inevitable interactions between our thoughts, behaviors and mood. How gaining better control over out thinking patterns can reduce our daily s...
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June 8, 2022 • 60 mins
Child abuse is pervasive and shocking and it's toxic reach may endure for decades when not frankly lifelong. It may include physical, psychological and sexual abuse in any combination, but it also encompasses neglect and willful deprivation.
Once again, the causation is usually multi-factorial, including conditions like mental illness, substance abuse, personality disorders and a whole constellation of possible stressors.
You...
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June 1, 2022 • 60 mins
Dr. Tanguay clearly explains how untreated mental trauma is a common confounder in the treatment of mental health conditions. What is often labeled as treatment-resistant depression or anxiety disorder, for example, may well turn out to be driven and complicated by untreated mental trauma.
Aversive childhood events and mental trauma often lie at the root of mental disorders, yet these are either overlooked or more surprisingly, l...
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