Healthy Talk w/ Dr. Michael Smith

A worker bee creates a secretion called royal jelly to help feed and keep the queen alive. Can humans benefit from this?

Listen in as Dr. Mike provides the answers to a wealth of health and wellness questions.

Listen in as Dr. Mike provides the answers to a wealth of health and wellness questions.

The Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) study is one of the largest studies done on childhood maltreatment and development of diseases later in life.

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Featured Speaker Donna Jackson Nakazawa, Public Speaker
Book Title Childhood Disrupted
Guest Website Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Guest Bio Donna Jackson Nakazawa is an award-winning science journalist, public speaker, and author of The Last Best Cure, in which she chronicled her yearlong journey to health. Childhood Disrupted was born through the author's own search to better understand the role her own childhood adversity played in the chronic health issues she faced as an adult. She also wrote The Autoimmune Epidemic, an investigation into reasons behind today's rising rate of autoimmune diseases.

Ms. Nakazawa lectures nationwide and has appeared on The TODAY Show, National Public Radio, and ABC News. Her work has been featured on the cover of Parade, in Time Magazine, USA Today Weekend, Parenting, and Psychology Today. She has been a regular contributor to More and her research has been covered by the Washington Post, Glamour, Ladies Home Journal, and AARP: the Magazine. Donna blogs regularly for Psychology Today.
Length (mins) 10
Waiver Received No
Host Mike Smith, MD

Constantly being emotionally "worked-up" can cause your heart rate to escalate and your body to shut down.

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Featured Speaker Donna Jackson Nakazawa, Public Speaker
Book Title Childhood Disrupted
Guest Website Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Guest Bio Donna Jackson Nakazawa is an award-winning science journalist, public speaker, and author of The Last Best Cure, in which she chronicled her yearlong journey to health. Childhood Disrupted was born through the author's own search to better understand the role her own childhood adversity played in the chronic health issues she faced as an adult. She also wrote The Autoimmune Epidemic, an investigation into reasons behind today's rising rate of autoimmune diseases.

Ms. Nakazawa lectures nationwide and has appeared on The TODAY Show, National Public Radio, and ABC News. Her work has been featured on the cover of Parade, in Time Magazine, USA Today Weekend, Parenting, and Psychology Today. She has been a regular contributor to More and her research has been covered by the Washington Post, Glamour, Ladies Home Journal, and AARP: the Magazine. Donna blogs regularly for Psychology Today.
Length (mins) 10
Waiver Received No
Host Mike Smith, MD

Do certain minerals work in combating PMS?

Listen in as Dr. Mike provides the answers to a wealth of health and wellness questions.

Listen in as Dr. Mike provides the answers to a wealth of health and wellness questions.

According to a recent study, eating organic food (even occasionally) has some major benefits to your health.

Will the constant change of technology impact the way you visit your doctor?

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Featured Speaker Pat Basu, MD, MBA
Guest Website Doctor On Demand
Guest Bio Dr. Pat Basu is the Chief Medical Officer of Doctor On Demand. Previously, he served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Medical Officer of Virtual Radiologic, the largest telemedicine provider in the world. He helped lead hundreds of physicians in caring for millions of patients across all fifty states while improving patient service and clinical quality.

Prior to this executive role, Dr. Basu served as a White House Fellow, America's most selective and prestigious program for national leadership and public service. Dr. Basu worked at the highest levels of the Federal government helping to shape public policy.

To serve his country as a White House Fellow, Dr. Basu took leave from faculty appointments at Stanford University where he worked as a board certified physician and served a course director of Health Policy and Economics. He has been invited by companies, universities and professional organizations both nationally and internationally on improving health care cost, quality and access.
Length (mins) 10
Waiver Received No
Host Mike Smith, MD