Healthwatch With Dr. David Naimon: Interviews With Experts In Natural Medicine, Nutrition, And The Politics Of Health

Botanist, nature photographer, writer, and founder of Wild Food Adventures, John Kallas discusses his book Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate. Learn how to identify, harvest and prepare nutritious and delicious wild greens within walking distance of … Continue reading →

Bestselling author Dr. Michael T. Murray, discusses how five common medications–for sleep, headaches, osteoarthritis, acid reflux and depression—can lead to unforeseen consequences, sometimes even, in the log-run, worsening the condition they are meant to treat. Michael T. Murray ND is … Continue reading →

Family physician Daphne Miller long suspected that farming and medicine were intimately linked. Increasingly disillusioned by mainstream medicine’s mechanistic approach to healing and fascinated by the farming revolution that is changing the way we think about our relationship to the … Continue reading →

Could it be possible that your vitamin and mineral supplements offer you no health benefits at all or even that they harm you, shortening your life or increasing the incidence of disease?  Several studies recently have suggested that.  Yet the … Continue reading →

Dr. David Naimon talks with author and psychotherapist Gary Greenberg about his latest book, The Book of Woe, an insider’s challenge to psychiatry’s scientific pretensions. “Gary Greenberg has become the Dante of our psychiatric age, and the DSM-5 is his … Continue reading →

When Temple Grandin was born in 1947, autism had only just been named. Today it is more prevalent than ever, with one in 88 children diagnosed on the spectrum. And our thinking about it has undergone a transformation in her … Continue reading →

In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements—fire, water, air, and earth—to transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink. Apprenticing himself … Continue reading →

Dr. Naimon talks with Sandor Katz about his do-it-yourself guide to home fermentation. Katz contextualizes fermentation in terms of biological and cultural evolution, health and nutrition, and even economics.  Michael Pollan, in the foreword, describes The Art of Fermentation this … Continue reading →

“America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and … Continue reading →

A botanist, medical biochemist, and self-defined “renegade scientist,” Diana Beresford-Kroeger brings together ethnobotany, horticulture, spirituality and alternative medicine to discuss how forests affect our health individually, collectively, ecologically and globally. Her books include The Global Forest and Arboretum Borealis: A … Continue reading →

From a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. Michael Moss reveals how companies use salt, sugar, and … Continue reading →

In THE HORMONE CURE, Harvard/MIT-trained integrative physician/scientist and board-certified gynecologist, Dr. Sara Gottfried, tells women exactly what they can do to optimize their hormones — without drugs, hormone replacement therapy, or a prescription for antidepressants and sleeping pills. Women are constantly … Continue reading →

Everyone thinks of preventative medicine as the best course of action.  But is it possible that getting certain medical screenings when you are healthy, the same screenings your doctor urges you to get,  could be harmful to us?   Today’s guest … Continue reading →

Siddhartha Mukherjee, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction for his book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an … Continue reading →

The increase in environmental toxins, processed foods, and stress, as well as the advancing ages at which couples seek to have children, have made it more difficult for women to conceive. In Be Fruitful, Dr. Victoria Maizes, an expert on women’s … Continue reading →

Today’s guest, Dr. Gary Weiner, is a naturopathic physician, licensed acupuncturist, and founder of Pearl Natural Health in downtown Portland. He joins host Dr. David Naimon to discuss natural approaches to the inflammatory bowel diseases–ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease–as well … Continue reading →

For 25 years, Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles about the places where nature and culture intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in the built environment.  In today’s episode host David Naimon talks with … Continue reading →

Medical researcher and New York Times bestselling author, Brenda Watson, shares simple, natural ways to reverse the cycle of poor heart health in her current PBS special and latest book, Heart of Perfect Health: The Startling Truths About Heart Disease … Continue reading →

Why, even as medicine improves, are we becoming less healthy? Why are more American women dying in childbirth? Why do we grow fatter the more we diet? Why have so many attempts to save the environment backfired?These are some of … Continue reading →

With the incredible rise in the use of anti-depressant, anti-anxiety and ADHD medications in the last thirty years, one would think the incidence of mental illness would’ve decreased in that time.  Yet medical disability from mental illness has nearly tripled … Continue reading →