What are some of the myths surrounding breastfeeding?
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1533wl5a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Dia Michels, Author
- Book Title Breastfeeding Facts for Fathers
- Guest Website Platypus Media
- Guest Facebook Account https://www.facebook.com/PlatypusMedia
- Guest Twitter Account @PlatypusMedia
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Guest Bio
Dia Michels is an award-winning internationally published science and parenting writer. She has written, coauthored or edited over a dozen books. Her titles include Milk, Money & Madness: The Culture and Politics of Breastfeeding; Breastfeeding Facts for Fathers; If My Mom Were A Platypus Mammal Babies and their Mothers, and 101 Things Everyone Should Know About Science. Dia is founder and president of two independent presses in Washington, DC: Platypus Media, and Science, Naturally!
A popular speaker, she appears regularly healthcare, parenting and education conferences. She also teaches classes at children’s, natural history and science museums and leads professional development workshops for teachers. Dia lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and their three children. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
Each week, host Dr. Susanne Bennett shares her Nature's Secrets to a healthier body. This week: Your Gut's Brewery.
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- Segment Number 5
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1532wl5e.mp3
- Featured Speaker Susanne Bennett, DC
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
The Healing Seekers team has discovered new superfoods that benefit your health, inside and out.
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- Segment Number 3
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1532wl5d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Amy Greeson, Executive Director of Healing Seekers
- Organization Seek Beauty
- Guest Website Healing Seekers
- Guest Twitter Account @HealAndSeek
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Guest Bio
Amy Greeson, Natural Discoveries, Inc. CEO, brings over 23 years of experience as a registered pharmacist who formerly specialized in integrative medicine. Greeson has traveled extensively to study indigenous healing methods and plant based medicine, having led expeditions to the Amazon and Andes, Ecuador, Madagascar, and Papua New Guinea. Additional travels to regions in Peru, Belize, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Guatemala, and Mexico have furthered her study and research with herbal and botanical medicine. In January, she will lead a team into the Republic of the Congo for a two-month expedition.
A 1990 graduate of UNC Chapel Hill School of Pharmacy, Amy’s background includes serving as President of the UNC-CH Pharmacy School’s Academy of Students of Pharmacy (the student branch of the American Pharmaceutical Association); awarded one of the prestigious National Pharmacy Internships in Research and Development at Burroughs Welcome Pharmaceutical Company. An externship with the Public Health Service led to stints in Anchorage, Kotzebue, and Bethel, Alaska, before eventually returning home to North Carolina to join the family business, an independent pharmacy of 28 years.
In 2006, she founded and presently serves as the Executive Director to Healing Seekers, (www.healingseekers.com), a 501c3 non-profit which creates unique educational materials for school systems and educators. Materials are with one of the largest on-line media venues, with distribution to over 50,000 schools in the U.S. alone.
Amy’s work in remote bio-diverse countries with indigenous people, searching for novel medical treatments, has attracted interviews with NPR on several occasions, Australian Public Radio, and numerous articles and other press including International Policy Digest and an article in the NYC publication, "Women Around Town."
Her upcoming book, And the Silent Spoke, will be available early 2016. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
Healing Seekers envisions a world where exploration and discovery bring heightened awareness to the value and significance of every life form.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 3
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1532wl5c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Amy Greeson, Executive Director of Healing Seekers
- Organization Seek Beauty
- Guest Website Healing Seekers
- Guest Twitter Account @HealAndSeek
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Guest Bio
Amy Greeson, Natural Discoveries, Inc. CEO, brings over 23 years of experience as a registered pharmacist who formerly specialized in integrative medicine. Greeson has traveled extensively to study indigenous healing methods and plant based medicine, having led expeditions to the Amazon and Andes, Ecuador, Madagascar, and Papua New Guinea. Additional travels to regions in Peru, Belize, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Guatemala, and Mexico have furthered her study and research with herbal and botanical medicine. In January, she will lead a team into the Republic of the Congo for a two-month expedition.
A 1990 graduate of UNC Chapel Hill School of Pharmacy, Amy’s background includes serving as President of the UNC-CH Pharmacy School’s Academy of Students of Pharmacy (the student branch of the American Pharmaceutical Association); awarded one of the prestigious National Pharmacy Internships in Research and Development at Burroughs Welcome Pharmaceutical Company. An externship with the Public Health Service led to stints in Anchorage, Kotzebue, and Bethel, Alaska, before eventually returning home to North Carolina to join the family business, an independent pharmacy of 28 years.
In 2006, she founded and presently serves as the Executive Director to Healing Seekers, (www.healingseekers.com), a 501c3 non-profit which creates unique educational materials for school systems and educators. Materials are with one of the largest on-line media venues, with distribution to over 50,000 schools in the U.S. alone.
Amy’s work in remote bio-diverse countries with indigenous people, searching for novel medical treatments, has attracted interviews with NPR on several occasions, Australian Public Radio, and numerous articles and other press including International Policy Digest and an article in the NYC publication, "Women Around Town."
Her upcoming book, And the Silent Spoke, will be available early 2016. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
Certain foods contained in the Standard American Diet (SAD) can actually stimulate natural opiate receptors in the brain and may lead to addictive behaviors.
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1532wl5b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Keith Kantor, PhD
- Book Title What Matters: Leadership Values that Just Might Save America
- Guest Website Dr. Keith Kantor
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Guest Bio
Dr. Keith Kantor has been an advocate of natural food and healthy living for 30 years. In 1994 he was appointed CEO of Service Foods, Inc., the largest all natural food company of its kind in the United States. He is currently the CEO and Founder of the NAMED Program, which frees people from addiction through nutrition.
Dr. Kantor has a PhD in Nutritional Science, a Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine, and a Doctorate in Business Entrepreneurship. He also holds undergraduate degrees in Biology and Chemistry.
Dr. Kantor has been married for 39 years to Karen DeFiore Kantor. Karen is a registered nurse and is Director of Nursing for Service Foods, Green Box Foods, Blue Ribbon Foods and Southern Foods At Home. They have two children.
Dr. Kantor has been an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps since 1976, and still serves in the reserves. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
New studies show that a person’s diet can actually be a greater factor in alcohol and drug abuse.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 1
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1532wl5a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Keith Kantor, PhD
- Book Title What Matters: Leadership Values that Just Might Save America
- Guest Website Dr. Keith Kantor
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Guest Bio
Dr. Keith Kantor has been an advocate of natural food and healthy living for 30 years. In 1994 he was appointed CEO of Service Foods, Inc., the largest all natural food company of its kind in the United States. He is currently the CEO and Founder of the NAMED Program, which frees people from addiction through nutrition.
Dr. Kantor has a PhD in Nutritional Science, a Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine, and a Doctorate in Business Entrepreneurship. He also holds undergraduate degrees in Biology and Chemistry.
Dr. Kantor has been married for 39 years to Karen DeFiore Kantor. Karen is a registered nurse and is Director of Nursing for Service Foods, Green Box Foods, Blue Ribbon Foods and Southern Foods At Home. They have two children.
Dr. Kantor has been an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps since 1976, and still serves in the reserves. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
Each week, host Dr. Susanne Bennett shares her Nature's Secrets to a healthier body. This week: detoxify your brain.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 5
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1530wl5e.mp3
- Featured Speaker Susanne Bennett, DC
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
Can you prevent aging of your brain?
Additional Info
- Segment Number 3
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1530wl5d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Brant Cortright, PhD
- Organization Neurogenesis Diet & Lifestyle
- Book Title The Neurogenesis Diet & Lifestyle
- Guest Website Brant Cortright, PhD
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Guest Bio
Brant Cortright, PhD, is a highly respected clinical psychologist and Professor of Psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies. His consulting practice specializes in cutting-edge brain health and neuroscience-informed depth therapy. He is the author of two previous books published by SUNY Press, Psychotherapy and Spirit as well as Integral Psychology. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
What is considered a "healthy brain"?
Additional Info
- Segment Number 3
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1530wl5c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Brant Cortright, PhD
- Organization Neurogenesis Diet & Lifestyle
- Book Title The Neurogenesis Diet & Lifestyle
- Guest Website Brant Cortright, PhD
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Guest Bio
Brant Cortright, PhD, is a highly respected clinical psychologist and Professor of Psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies. His consulting practice specializes in cutting-edge brain health and neuroscience-informed depth therapy. He is the author of two previous books published by SUNY Press, Psychotherapy and Spirit as well as Integral Psychology. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
Peripheral neuropathy can be extremely painful. Are meds your only recourse? Or, is there a natural way to ease symptoms?
Additional Info
- Segment Number 1
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1530wl5b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Jason W. Kelberman, DC, BCIM, DMBBP
- Organization Neuropathy Treatment Center
- Guest Website Westside Wellness Center
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Guest Bio
Jason W. Kelberman, D.C., BCIM, DMBBP, is the owner and founder of the Westside Wellness Center, a chiropractic corporation for education, non surgical treatment and prevention programs. The letters after Dr. Kelberman’s name refer to: DC-doctor of chiropractic, BCIM-Board certified Integrative Medicine, DMBBP-Diplomate in manipulative therapy.
The treatments at Westside Wellness Center are designed to eliminate acute or chronic pain as fast as possible without drugs or surgery, utilizing lifestyle changes, nutritional therapies, modern chiropractic care, physical therapy modalities, acupuncture without needles, exercise rehabilitation, blood, urine, saliva and stool analysis.
Dr. Kelberman is a chiropractor who can integrate chiropractic care, physical therapy modalities, metabolic nutritional therapy, exercise rehabilitation and acupuncture without needles into a complete treatment protocol.
Westside Wellness Center was the first office in Los Angeles to offer a comprehensive treatment program for the treatment of Peripheral Neuropathy. Treating nerve damage successfully by treating neurologically and metabolically.
Dr. Kelberman’s life’s work is a chiropractic specialty known as “Applied Kinesiology.” He is a master in the diagnosis and treatment of sport related and injuries of all types. Tennis is Dr. Kelberman’s favorite sport and Afghan Hound dogs are one of his passions. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
