Health Currents Radio

Health Currents Radio

Ellen Goldsmith is a nationally board certified, licensed acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist, educator, health and wellness consultant, and author of the book Nutritional Healing with Chinese Medicine: + 175 Recipes for Optimal Health. She is on faculty at the National University of Natural Medicine’s College of Classical Chinese Medicine, where she teaches graduate students in the study of Chinese Dietetics and its clinical application. She is also on faculty with the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine teaching integrative medical fellows on the Energetics of Food. She created the podcast Health Currents Radio to motivate, educate and inspire people to improve their health. She later hosted Healthwatch on Pacifica Radio, a popular weekly show. Ellen’s expertise and dedication to the advancement of Asian and natural medicine extends to her years of service on the Oregon Medical Board’s Acupuncture Advisory Committee and the National University of Natural Medicine’s board of directors where she served as its chair. She speaks frequently on the value of understanding food as medicine from a Chinese medicine point of view at conferences and schools. Currently she maintains a consulting and Chinese medicine practice out of Portland, Oregon

Episodes

Acupuncture without Borders: Providing Relief, Recovery and Support

October 5, 2017 • 32 mins
Melanie Rubin, M.Ed., associate director and Director of National Disaster Relief of Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB) discusses how AWB provides disaster relief, recovery and support for building resiliency – to communities affected by disasters, human conflict, environmental devastation, poverty and social injustice. Unresolved trauma affects not only the health of individuals, but the well-being of families, communities and e...
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Lyme Disease and Its Treatment: with Dr. Tom Messinger

July 11, 2017 • 29 mins
Lyme disease affects more than 300,000 people in the United States, costs $1.3 billion to treat each year and is the sixth most common reported infectious disease in the United States. It is named after Lyme, Conn., where it was first discovered 40 years ago. Lyme disease, contracted through bites from a black footed deer tick and caused by the Borrelia burgdoferi bacteria, was once thought of as a disease only contracted in the N...
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An Inside Job: A psychologist shares healing wisdom for your cancer journey

April 20, 2017 • 11 mins
Advice from cancer specialists, psychologists, and other healers..... Amidst all of the doctors’ visits, unfamiliar treatments, anxiety, and fear that follow a cancer diagnosis, it’s crucial to maintain a sense of stability and peace during your journey. That’s exactly what An Inside Job: A Psychologist Shares Healing Wisdom for Your Cancer Journey offers readers. By combining scientific findings with integrative wisdom and the t...
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An Interview with Peggy Orenstein: Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape

March 14, 2017 • 24 mins
Peggy Orenstein is the author of The New York Times best-sellers Girls & Sex, Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Waiting for Daisy as well as Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love and Life in a Half-Changed World and the classic, School Girls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap. A contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, Peggy has also written for such publications as The Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Elle, Time, Mo...
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Podcast: Sandor Ellix Katz and Wild Fermentation an Interview

February 14, 2017 • 14 mins
Sandor Ellix Katz is a fermentation revivalist. His books Wild Fermentation (2003, 2016) and the Art of Fermentation (2012), along with the hundreds of fermentation workshops he has taught around the world and helped to catalyze a broad revival of the fermentation arts. A self-taught experimentalist who lives in rural Tennessee, the New York Times calls him “one of the unlikely rock stars of the American food scene.” Sandor is t...
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Podcast: Interview with Mark Hyman, M.D., Eat Fat, Get Thin

January 24, 2017 • 27 mins
The companion cookbook to Dr. Hyman's revolutionary Eat Fat, Get Thin, with more than 175 delicious, nutritious, heart- and waist-friendly recipes. Ellen Goldsmith, L.Ac., interviews Dr. Mark Hyman on KBOO's Healthwatch Dr. Hyman's Eat Fat, Get Thin radically changed the way we view dietary fat, and proved that the key to losing weight and keeping it off is to eat ample amounts of good fats. Now, Dr. Hyman shares more than 175 mou...
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Podcast: The Microbiome Solution an interview with Dr. Robynne Chutkan

November 15, 2016 • 30 mins
Gastroenterologist Dr. Robynne Chutkan speaks with Ellen Goldsmith, L.Ac. on Healthwatch about living a little more dirty and eating clean as a way to heal your gut. With the prevalence of chronic afflictions like obesity, diabetes, food allergies, auto-immune disease, chronic fatigue, depression, acne & rosacea they'll talk about the connection to digestive health and the microbiome. Dr. Chutkan discusses her new book The Microb...
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Podcast: Gut Health and Inflammation a Naturopathic and Chinese Medicine Approach

October 17, 2016 • 29 mins
According to the United States Center for Disease Control, it is currently estimated that about 1 – 1.3 million people suffer from Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Known as IBD this disease involves chronic inflammation of all or part of the digestive tract. IBD primarily includes ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, potentially debilitating conditions. Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a chronic condition that also affects the digestive t...
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Teens and Screens: An interview with Lisa Tabb, co-executive producer of Screenagers

September 20, 2016 • 26 mins
SCREENAGERS probes into the vulnerable corners of family life, including the director's own, and depicts messy struggles, over social media, video games, academics and internet addiction. Through surprising insights from authors and brain scientists solutions emerge on how we can empower kids to best navigate the digital world. Today, Ellen Goldsmith, L.Ac. interviews Lisa Tabb,co-executive and co-producer on the film Screenagers ...
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Peace in Schools: Bringing Mindfulness to Teens in High School - an interview with Caverly Morgan

July 19, 2016 • 26 mins
In 2014, the American Psychological Association deemed teens, during the school year, the most stressed group of people in the United States. Teens experience stress much the way adults do, but do not yet have the skills and mechanisms to effectively work with it. To address this dilemma, Peace in Schools launched the first for-credit high school mindfulness course in the nation in 2014 in collaboration with Portland’s Wilson High...
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Podcast: Herbs and Seasonal Allergies with Dr. Glen Nagel

June 5, 2016 • 30 mins
It’s spring in the Pacific NW and for many that can mean misery. If you suffer from seasonal allergies it is also the season of allergy medicine advertising, promoting many over the counter medications designed to ease your symptoms. If you suffer with allergies, you're certainly not alone. According to the US National Institutes of Health, more than 50 million Americans live with allergies. This represents the 6th leading cause o...
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Making Babies: A 3-month program to maximize fertility with Jill Blakeway, L.Ac.

April 19, 2016 • 28 mins
Join Ellen Goldsmith, L.Ac. as she speaks with Jill Blakeway, L. Ac., CEO of the Yin Ova Center in New York City and author of Making Babies: A proven 3-month program for maximum fertility, co-authored Dr. Sami David, a reproductive endocrinologist. This book offers women and men a guide to fertility using the wisdom of Chinese medicine in conjunction with Western medicine. Fertility medicine today is all about aggressive surgic...
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65 Cure Your Child with Food

January 14, 2016 • 35 mins
Can you cure your child with food? Do you want to know what the hidden connections between nutrition and childhood ailments are? Listen in as Kelly Dorfman, M.S., L.N.D., one of the world’s foremost experts on using nutrition therapeutically to improve brain function, energy and mood introduces listeners to that connection. Her marvelous book, Cure Your Child with Food, offers parents the opportunity to become their family’s nutri...
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64 Afro-Vegan by Bryant Terry

January 14, 2016 • 22 mins
Afro-Vegan by Bryant Terry is about eating close to home. Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean and Southern Flavors Remixed Bryant Terry is a chef, educator, and author renowned for his activism to create a healthy, just, and sustainable food system. In regard to his work, Bryant’s mentor Alice Waters says, “Bryant Terry knows that good food should be an everyday right and not a privilege.” Bryant is the author of four books and and the ...
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63 Herbs for Health: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

January 14, 2016 • 14 mins
Parsely, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme are herbs for our health. Herbs for health, yes they are in your pantryThose simple cooking herbs in your pantry are there to add flavor to your meal yet they also help clear your ills, uplift your spirits and help you with that sore throat you may be getting. They have been used for millennia in cultures all around the world. Let’s not forget their benefits and that the power of nature is right a...
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62 Autism Spectrum Disorder – Part 2 – Treatment

January 14, 2016 • 20 mins
Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Bio-Medical Treatment, Part Two Dr. Valerie LaRosa continues the conversation about the bio-medical and naturopathic approach to treating children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The bio-medical and naturopathic treatment takes a functional approach to each individual. Not all treatments fit all people. Dr. LaRosa takes us through what evaluation is like, and what treatments can be beneficial to childr...
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61 Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Bio-Medical Approach

January 14, 2016 • 19 mins
Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders are challenging and the Bio-Medical Approach to treatment is making a difference. Dr. Valerie LaRosa, naturopathic physician and former behavioral therapist speaks about what Autism Spectrum Disorder is, what underlying issues may accompany it, and what could be done to help a child and their family. The bio-medical approach to the treatment of autism and Autism Spectrum Disorder has contributed...
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60 5 Flavors in Chinese Medicine: For Your Health

January 14, 2016 • 16 mins
The 5 flavors in Chinese medicine exists in the food we eat as well as the herbs we may take. This is perennial wisdom. Let’s bring this wisdom into the future. Chinese Medicine, 5 Healing FlavorsChinese medicine offers us a way to understand food and its healing capacity. One of the most important elements is the therapeutic effect that a flavor of a food has. The action and the energy a flavor has on us is not simply the pleasur...
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59 Sugar? Fat Chance. Rowing for a Cause

January 14, 2016 • 29 mins
Sugar is it too much? Sami and Meredith think so.foracause Rowing 2400 miles to raise money and awareness on how sugar is detrimental to our health. Sami Inkinen and Meredith Loring are rowing from San Francisco, California to Honolulu, Hawaii as part of the inaugural Great Pacific Race as a mixed pair. fat chance row, sugar, Dr. Robert LustigWhy are they doing this, unsupported-meaning they will carry all their food (no sugar or p...
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58 Sugar: Hiding in Plain Sight

January 14, 2016 • 23 mins
Sugar is everywhere. Sugar is addictive. sugar- hiding in plain sightSugar, sugar you are everywhere and we do not even know it. Wolfram Alderson, Executive Director of the Institute for Responsible Nutrition founded by Dr. Robert Lustig, is back on Health Currents Radio to talk about the progress made in bringing awareness to the toxic effects sugar can have on our health and how to find it in your food. But, it is hard to avoid i...
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