American Indian Living – Lifetalk Radio

Our guest today is a radiation oncologist, blogger, and author of 'Alternative Financial Medicine', Kenyon Meadows, MD, shares insights into how alternative investment strategies can boost your financial health. His insights can benefit tribes and individuals alike. For further information, please visit www.alternativefinancialmedicine.com

Nurse and author Tana Amen tells how we are being manipulated into eating what isn’t good for us, and provides tips for breaking the chains of addiction and developing healthier eating habits to improve memory, energy, focus, moods, and weight. For more information contact: www.amenclinics.com

Guest: Paul Ratoff, Certified Management Consultant, President of Strategy Development Group Inc., Author of 'Thriving in a Stakeholder World: Purpose as the New Competitive Advantage' Description: Certified Management Consultant Paul Ratoff explains how the business you run or work for can reach new levels of excellence by clearly defining and achieving its underlying purpose. For further information contact: www.ratoffconsulting.com

Description: This week’s show welcomes guests Kaylana Gates and Sandi Bokovoy (Cherokee), and highlights two areas: work with Native youth and insights from the developers of the Tribal Resource Tool. The latter group 'states that indigenous peoples have the highest crime victimization rates in the nation but often have difficulty connecting with the services that exist to help them recover from crime and abuse.' Learn about a new service to help change these statistics. For more information: www.tribalresourcetool.org or 202-467-8723 (Gates) 817-403-1427 (Bokovoy)

Learn from the Oklahoma City Indian Clinic how you can run a multispecialty clinic and deliver far more than quality medical services. This week’s show concludes with an example of how the National Indian Health Board is impacting even Native American health professional students.

We all face stresses and challenges in life, but can we bounce back and thrive? Dr. Joni Bokovoy shares insights into how you can boost your resilience, thus helping you deal better with physical, emotional, and mental health stresses.

This is a one-hour weekly talk show focusing on health issues in Indian country. The show covers a broad range of health issues, viewed in a holistic way in keeping with traditional Native perspectives.

Tribes, individuals, and other entities throughout Indian Country are making a difference by using both traditional Native wisdom and cutting-edge medical technologies. In today’s show, we learn from a Pennsylvania company offering state-of-the-art oral diagnostics for HIV, an Oklahoma tribal diabetes program, and an oncology nurse.

Infection remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, but often is not on the radar screen of many individuals throughout Indian Country, and the U.S. as a whole. Dr. Joni Bokovoy shares practical insights that can help you, your family, and your tribe avoid infectious illnesses. For more information: www.sepsisalliance.org

Today’s show features life-changing opportunities for First Nation peoples. We first look at Native scholarships and programs at Grand Canyon University. We then turn to Tribal Diagnostics, a reference lab offering help with blood testing from a culturally competent perspective. Finally, we examine opportunities for decreasing the incidence of SIDS among tribes.