Integrative Medicine with Andrew Weil
Transforming the Culture of Health Care

Dr. Andrew Weil has been helping Americans take more control over their health for three decades. In the process he’s written numerous books and has become an internationally known figure in the field of health care. The goal of Dr. Weil’s transformation in health care is an approach called integrative medicine. It’s an attempt to broaden the scope of medical thinking and practice to look at patients as whole persons, not just as symptoms, and to integrate lifestyle choices in the pursuit of optimum well-being.

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Dr. Andrew Weil
Official Website

How To Talk To Your Doc
Tips For Navigating the CAM System

Dr. Ronald Hoffman is a New York City physician and nutritional expert who’s thought a lot about the relationship between doctor and patient. He says you can’t expect every doctor to embrace all aspects of complementary medicine, but at least they should understand what that is and be open to it. Hoffman says finding a physician committed to fully engaging their patients in all the new health options isn’t always easy but he does recommend one source – the American College for the Advancement of Medicine.

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Dr. Ronald Hoffman
Official Website

Embracing Natural Wellness
Olivia Newton-John

Season Four kicks off with a new co-host, Olivia Newton-John. For more than three decades Olivia’s been delighting audiences around the world. In that time she’s had numerous top ten singles and won most of the music industry’s top awards. She’s also been deeply involved in a variety of humanitarian, environmental and wellness efforts. What many people may not know about Olivia is that homeopathy, acupuncture, massage, meditation and yoga have been a big part of her life for a long time.

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Olivia Newton-John
Official Website

The Campaign to Cure Cancer
Olivia's Great Wall Walk

Cancer is a huge problem not only in the U.S. but also in many places around the world. So finding a cure has become a worldwide challenge, and Olivia led an amazing three-week event on the Great Wall of China to help fund the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Center in Melbourne, Australia. Friends, celebrities, sports stars and cancer survivors flew in from all around the world to help Olivia with the cause.

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Join Olivia's Campaign
to Cure Cancer

Awakening Our Internal Pharmacy, Part I
Using the Five Senses in Ayurveda

Dr. David Simon, a distinguished physician and author and medical director of the Chopra Center, believes the most powerful pharmacy on the planet is the human body. He says we can awaken our internal pharmacy through the conscious use of our five senses, a basic principle of Ayurveda. By being attentive to what we’re hearing, how we’re being touched, what we see, what we taste and what we smell, we can awaken our internal healing chemistry that can treat a full range of health disorders.

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About Dr. David Simon

The Chopra Center

Awakening Our Internal Pharmacy, Part II
The Five Basic Elements in Ayurveda

Dr. David Simon, a distinguished physician and author and medical director of the Chopra Center, believes the most powerful pharmacy on the planet is the human body. He says a simple way to be present and to utilize the energy information of our environment in order to awaken the internal pharmacy is to connect with the five basic elements, which in Ayurveda are known as space, air, fire, water and earth. This helps us to harmonize our inner environment with the outer, to integrate the body/mind with our spirit – which awakens us to our innate healing potential.

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About Dr. David Simon

The Chopra Center

Vibrational Healing
with TurboSonic

We’re made of energy and the practitioners who use the Turbosonic vibrating platform say this device stimulates our cells in a way that promotes better health. It uses sound and vibration to tone muscles and increase microcirculation, and they say the vertical vibration works all the muscles and cells in the body. It can help with inner core stability and has even been shown to help with weight loss!

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Sonic Vibration

TurboSonic U.S.A.

Colorpuncture
The New Frontier of Light Medicine

Acupuncture is something many of us are familiar with. Now there is a new therapy called Colorpuncture that uses the frequencies of light instead of needles to balance our nervous system and stimulate chi. Two Colorpuncture therapists show us what to expect during a treatment, which usually includes the use of specific crystals and light wands. Combined with Kirilian photography, Colorpuncture has been shown to be an important tool to diagnose our energetic, psychological and to some extent even our spiritual state of being.

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Colorpuncture U.S.A

Healthy Digestion with Probiotics
Della's Story

It turns out that having a “gut feeling” is not only a good guide for our intuition, it’s also an increasingly important factor in our overall health. Della Porter didn’t want to quit her job and take a disability retirement. But 15 years of battling arthritis and fibromyalgia plus thyroid, sleep and blood pressure problems had taken a heavy tool. Then a naturopathic physician approached Della’s difficulties from a different perspective – focusing on the digestive system.

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The Get Well Store

Enzymatic Therapy

Nutrition to Prevent Breast Cancer
Cheryl's Story - Update

Cheryl Greene and her husband, Dr. Alan Greene, an author and pediatrician at Stanford University, just launched a new business venture together, and felt like life was going well and that they couldn’t imagine being any happier. That’s when Cheryl found a lump in her breast. She and her husband looked at her family of origin and found no family history with cancer. Then they learned about the potential impact of Cheryl growing up on a conventional grape and raisin farm, where they used high levels of toxic pesticides that had clear links to breast cancer.

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Dr. Alan Greene
Official Website

Chi Running
Aligning With the Forces of Nature

Chris Griffin is a Master Instructor of something called Chi Walking and Chi Running. Both programs combine the inner focus of T’ai Chi with the physical movements of walking and running. Griffin gives us helpful hints for improving our physical performance while avoiding injuries. He also shows us how exercise can be a mindful practice – bringing presence, awareness and intention – capacities which can serve us in all areas of life.

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Chi Running Website

Healing Touch
New Therapies for Hospitals

A new kind of therapy is finding its way into hospitals all across the country called Healing Touch, a type of energy medicine that works with the subtle energy / bio field of the patient. Healing Touch has been endorsed by the American Holistic Nurses Association and is part of their ongoing effort to integrate complementary and alternative modalities into mainstream clinical practice. Touch is now part of patient care in more than 30 U.S. hospitals.

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Greenwich Hospital

Healing Touch Programs

Are You Toxic?
Whole Body Cleanse

Almost all of us have to deal with scores of toxins everyday. That’s why an increasing number of health professionals are recommending that we periodically cleanse our bodies from the inside out. Dr. Holly Lucille is a naturopathic physician and former president of the California Naturopathic Association. She tells us about how virtually everyone can benefit from giving the body’s natural detox systems a boost with a regular internal cleansing.

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Enzymatic Therapy

Sweat Lodges
Purification From the Inside Out

Sweat lodges are an integral part of the healing practices in many indigenous cultures. Maka’ala Yates has been teaching and practicing Hawaiian healing concepts for over 25 years, and was Judy and Roy’s guide for a ceremony in the House of Purification, or the Hale Pu Lo O Lo O, a small hut made with sticks from the forest and covered with lowhala woven leaves. It’s both a physical and a spiritual experience that reminds us of who we are and that we’re all connected.

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Kapalua

Ritz Carlton Kapalua

Hawaiian Massage
The Practice of Iluna A'e

Iluna a’e is similar to a massage, but is much, much more. Iluna means upwards and a’e means direction in and upwardly direction. According to practitioner Kapi’ioho Okaolani, it is to elevate ourselves to a higher level spiritually. Part of that spiritual focusing looks at issues that are deeply embedded in us and that cause our body has to respond in unhealthy ways. Iluna a’e uses the hands and intuition to perform basic maintenance on the body and release those blockages.

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Kapalua

Ritz Carlton Kapalua

Integrative Medicine
with Soram Khalsa, MD

For Dr. Soram Khalsa, a board certified internist, acupuncturist, homeopathist, nutritionist and master yoga practitioner, integrative medicine is the idea of integrating the best of conventional medicine with all other modalities of therapy we’ve come to call complimentary and alternative medicine. He believes tour consciousness as a nation needs to change so self-care becomes an integral part of how to stay well and promote well-being.

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Dr. Soram Khalsa
Official Website

Burning Calories in Your Sleep
The Muscle Mass Factor

It’s typical for a person to be burning somewhere between 1200 and 1700 calories per day just because of the energy that it takes to maintain your body’s normal functioning. One of the primary determinants of that is how much lean tissue you have in your body, and the largest lean tissue that most people have is muscle. Researchers at Purdue University say you even burn calories while you nap. In fact, your body burns about 10 to 15 calories an hour for every pound of muscle you have in your body.

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University of Purdue

Holistic Eye Health
Exercise for Ocular Fitness

Every second your brain receives 3 million messages, and of those 2 billion comes from your eyes! It’s no wonder that since our eyes work so hard that they can eventually encounter all kinds of problems. Hardly anyone needs glasses when they are born, yet two-thirds of the population wears glasses. Jacob Liberman, an author and inventor trained in the science of optometry, says the modern epidemic of vision problems is the result of working indoors, and shows eye exercises that can actually improve our eyesight.

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Dr. Jacob Lieberman
Official Website