The Intelligent Medicine Podcast

Intelligent Medicine Podcast: Cook for good
April 9, 2014
After taking the National Food Stamp Challenge, food evangelist Linda Watson had an idea: how to promote a healthy but low-cost lifestyle that’s accessible to people of all income backgrounds. The results are CookForGood.com and the book "Wildly Affordable Organic.” We discuss food stamp abuse, the need to revive Home Ec courses, and simple tips for helping busy cash-strapped families to eat healthy while not busting their budgets.

Intelligent Medicine Podcast: Natural treatment for depression Part 2
April 8, 2014
Dr. H continues his conversation with Dr. Peter Bongiorno, author of “How Come They’re Happy and I’m Not?” The top seven steps to healing depression: What tests to ask your doctor for? What’s the best diet for mood? What supplements work best for depression? Can acupuncture help?

Intelligent Medicine Podcast: Natural treatment for depression Part 1

Natural treatment for depression with Dr. Peter Bongiorno, author of “How Come They’re Happy and I’m Not?” The top seven steps to healing depression: What tests to ask your doctor for? What’s the best diet for mood? What supplements work best for depression? Can acupuncture help?

Intelligent Medicine Radio Show for April 5 Part 2
April 7, 2014
FDA colludes with BigPharma to ban a supplement useful in autism, depression, L-citrulline for blood pressure, Alzheimer’s; your most important blood test; Ft. Hood shooter yet another instance of consequences of psych meds? Cruciferous vegetables cut risk of inflammation; Are you using the wrong type of vitamin D? Click here for articles and resources relating to this podcast episode.

Intelligent Medicine Radio Show for April 5 Part 1

Is “Vitamin D Denialism” costing untold lives? More doubts about mammograms’ value raised by large new study; fruits and vegetables are really good for you (DUH!); being single, gluten, excess running and diet soda are unexpected new heart risks; clues to how dark chocolate delivers its heart, diabetes and weight-loss benefits. Click here for articles and resources relating to this podcast episode.

Intelligent Medicine Podcast: Ha! Part 2
April 3, 2014
Dr. H continues his conversation with Scott Weems, author of the new book, "Ha! The Science of When We Laugh and Why.”

Intelligent Medicine Podcast: Ha! Part 1

Is laughter really the best medicine? Scott Weems, author of the new book, "Ha! The Science of When We Laugh and Why,” is a Ph.D scientist who has studied the neurobiology of laughter. Is Patch Adams, MD, who dresses up in a clown suit to make hospital rounds on the right track? Did Norman Cousins, author of "Anatomy of an Illness,” really cure himself of a serious disease by watching comedy videos.

Intelligent Medicine Podcast: Q&A with Leyla Part 2
April 2, 2014
Mixed signals--good Body Mass Index, bad waist-hip ratio, what does this mean? Post-menopausal weight gain and "Syndrome W"; nitric oxide supplements; Dr. Hoffman weighs in on this week's New England Journal of Medicine op-ed calling for tight regulation of the supplement industry.

Intelligent Medicine Podcast: Q&A with Leyla Part 1

Q&A with Hoffman Center nutritionist, Leyla Muedin: Supplements for healing a calf injury; fluoroquinolone syndrome; EBT scanning reveals plaque in coronary arteries--what to do? Famed natural health advocate Byron Richards dies at 59 while running--how could this happen?

Intelligent Medicine Podcast: Healing Fibroids Part 2
April 1, 2014
Dr. H continues his conversation with Dr. Allan Warshowsky, America’s foremost integrative GYN and author of "Healing Fibroids”