DEEP HEALING with LEN SAPUTO, M.D. & VICKI SAPUTO, R.N. Program #3331 - Buy Now ($1.99/MP3 Download) Full Program Description

• Why your digestive tract is so important to your immune system
  
• What the difference is between curing and healing
  
• Why medicine is not really a science
  
• Why it's so dangerous to go to the hospital
  
• What six steps you can take to take charge of your own health
  

Does your doctor gather with other doctors to sit with you in a healing circle to discuss your needs? Probably not. If the standard of care you're accustomed to is considerably more sterile than that, you'll be heartened to hear Dr. Len Saputo talk about his vision—and practice—of healing as it should be. In his view, modern medicine falls tragically short because, "What's important is not so much what you do to a person, in terms of the biochemistry and physiology. It's looking at the deeper essence of who they are and what went wrong in their life, or what led to the body needing to show back to the person that there was something wrong." This deeply holistic approach is what each of us is longing for. But even if you're unable to be treated by Dr. Saputo or his wife, nurse Vicki Saputo, they have recommendations for how you can take charge of your own health through simple lifestyle choices—and by knowing when it's time to call on the big guns of conventional medicine. As this caring partnership tells us, "We have to have a return to healing, and that's about community and love and connecting. It's about sharing and giving."

Len Saputo, M.D., is board certified in internal medicine. He and his wife, Vicki Saputo, R.N., are co-founders of the Health Medicine Forum and the Health Medicine Center in Walnut Creek, California, a pioneering center for integral medicine. Dr. Saputo is author of Boosting Immunity: Creating Wellness Naturally (New World Library 2002) and co-author with Byron Belitsos of A Return to Healing: Radical Health Care Reform and the Future of Medicine (Origin Press 2009). To learn more about the work of Len Saputo, M.D. and Vicki Saputo, R.N. go to www.AReturnToHealing.com.

SURVIVING AND THRIVING WHEN TIMES ARE TOUGH with JOAN BORYSENKO, Ph.D. Program #3332 - Buy Now ($1.99/MP3 Download) Full Program Description

• What first step you can take today to change your life for the better
  
• When stress is a good thing
  
• Why optimism can break your heart
  
• How "burning out" can be a good thing
  
• How you can find your balance when you feel overwhelmed
  

We live in challenging times. Beyond life's typical ups and downs, there seems to be an overabundance of obstacles each of us must overcome. At times the stress feels overwhelming, and we struggle to find the balance we desperately need to get through it all. In this conversation with beloved teacher and healer Joan Borysenko, she turns her wise attention to how you can develop the resilience to stay on course no matter what life throws your way. She explains, "Resilience is that recognition that it's not the end of the world. Furthermore, resilience is more than just bouncing back from the stress, like losing your house or losing your money. It's an innate transformation, for example understanding that happiness is an inside job." She'll guide you through the warning signs of pessimism and the pitfalls of optimism, and offer up a wealth of suggestions for how you can develop what she calls "stress-hardiness"—to handle all of life's challenges with resilience, equanimity, and inner peace.

Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., holds a doctorate in medical sciences from Harvard Medical School, and has completed post-doctoral fellowships in behavioral sciences and psychoneuroimmunology. She is a pioneer in integrative medicine and a world-renowned expert in the mind-body connection. She is a journalist, host of her own radio show, and bestselling author of fourteen books including It's Not the End of the World: Developing Resilience in Times of Change (Hay House 2009). To learn more about the work of Joan Borysenko go to www.JoanBorysenko.com

AMERICA—AN INSIDER'S VIEW with GERALD ROSEN, Ph.D. Program #3328 - Buy Now ($1.99/MP3 Download) Full Program Description

• The side of Dostoyevsky no one knows
  
• Which American writers brought Buddhism to the American novel
  
• Where the religious fundamentalists get it right—and wrong—about our culture
  
• Why American culture is like professional wrestling
  
• The one feature of American life no one talks about
  

Gerald Rosen has seen America from most every vantage point. He grew up in a house without books, obtained an ivy league Ph.D. in literature, and went on to run a liquor store on the edge of Harlem. He's crossed paths in one way or another with Miles Davis, Jack Kerouac, Janis Joplin…even Babe Ruth. So his observations about American culture carry his own particular brand of authenticity. And what he sees has him a little concerned. "We each of us are born into this culture, so we start getting in a sense hypnotized the day we're born," he notes. "So we're Americans—we walk like Americans, we talk like Americans. This is our social inheritance. But this culture, it's not working for us. There's something missing. There's some hunger, some dryness, some hollowness to our culture." How we got to that place of hollowness, and how we can begin to fill it, is the subject of this provocative interview with this very American author.

Gerald Rosen, Ph.D., holds a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in American history and literature. He has been called a "master of comedy" and a "poet of the one-liner." His books include Blues for a Dying Nation (Dial Press 1972), Growing Up Bronx (North Atlantic Books 1984) and Cold Eye, Warm Heart: A Novelist's Search for Meaning (Calm Unity Press 2009). To learn more about the work of Gerald Rosen write to JerryDutch@aol.com.

A BRAVE NEW WORLD FOR OUR BRAVE NEW BRAINS with JUDITH HORSTMAN Program #3330 - Buy Now ($1.99/MP3 Download) Full Program Description

• How you can get that caffeine boost without spending money on a latté
  
• Why our species is losing our sense of smell
  
• How you can improve your memory in six minutes a day
  
• Why you can become addicted to grief or the internet
  
• Why you often wake up at 3 a.m.
  

Not too long ago neuroscientists believed we were born with an assigned number of brain cells, and as they died they were never replaced—we were doomed to get along with ever decreasing cognitive abilities. But as Judith Horstman tells us, more current research tells us that our brains are constantly adapting to our experiences, and new neuronal pathways are being forged every minute. "The brain is very plastic," she says. "It changes in response to just about anything that affects our lives. The information is not so much stored in the neurons but in the circuits, and those circuits are affected by what we eat, what we drink, what we feel, what we think." In this fascinating interview Ms. Horstman shares the latest findings in brain research, and the exciting new developments just ahead. Best of all, because she’s not a scientist but a journalist she makes it easy for any of us to discover ways to make the most of our brain power.

Judith Horstman is an award winning journalist who writes about health and medicine for doctors and the general public. She has been a Washington correspondent, a journalism professor, a Fulbright scholar, and has written and edited in diverse media including USA Today, Gannett News Service in Washington, D.C., and publications for Stanford, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins universities. She is the author of several books including The Arthritis Foundation’s Guide to Alternative Therapies (Arthritis Foundation 1999) and The Scientific American Day in the Life of Your Brain (Jossey-Bass 2009). To learn more about the work of Judith Horstman go to www.JudithHorstman.com.

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