Health Grooves

Nancy Stein, Ph.D., is an epidemiologist and founder of Seniority Matters, a company designed to help aging parents in need of companion care as well as help with tasks such as bill paying, meal preparation or transportation solutions. Nancy, who spent many years providing long-distance care for her own parents, understands the value of having an experienced, trusted advisor.

As a Miami resident for 25 years, Nancy has built an extensive network of healthcare contacts and resources.  You can think of her as your personal caregiving coach, who can help you create a care strategy, sort through your options and fine-tune solutions as your individual needs change.  

In our conversation, we discuss the problems many of us encounter as caregivers and offers up solutions. Combining her academic work with real, in the weeds, practical experience, Nancy is a great source of information about how we can best support our loved ones as they age and need us.

Links:

www.senioritymatters.com
www.facebook.com/senioritymatters
www.twitter.com/senioritymatter

Kevin Pereau is a leading digital health expert and author of the The Digital Health Revolution. He spent the early part of his career managing strategy and management consulting firms with a specialty focus on technology. His first health technology company was a consumer health scoring firm who’s mission was to provide longitudinal context around how what we do and how we feel affects who we are.

“You can’t manage, what you don’t measure” is something Pereau is fond of saying and for that, you need a scoring system.

From there, Pereau founded one of the most influential boutique consulting firms in healthcare. He serves on the advisory boards of LifeData and HealthSaaS and speaks at healthcare conferences where he also moderates panel discussions.

Pereau is probably one of the most connected people in healthcare. He has consulted to variety of digital health companies ranging from population health & tele-health solutions, marketplace and consumer transparency tools to predictive analytics engines. He likes to describe the industry as being on the cusp of the most exciting time ever; a world of connected health where sick-care, meets healthcare and data can be shared with any stakeholder in our healthcare value chain. In our podcast we discuss his excellent new book and the state of digital health care past, present and future. There are few people in the industry more up to date on this subject than Kevin.

Dr. Ruchi Puri is a San Francisco based Ob/Gyn who teaches clients holistic approaches to transforming their health.  She is a graduate of George Washington and Duke Universities with additional education in Ayurvedic Medicine, Five Element Acupuncture, Trauma and Modalities of Spiritual Healing. She has an integrative women’s wellness platform with on-line courses and groups to support women embody their wellness potential and regain their vitality. Her blog: Unveiling Being on www.ruchipuri.com helps readers redefine their understanding of many of the modern challenges to health we are facing today. In this conversation, Ruchi describes her journey from being a traditional Ob/Gyn, working within the allopathic tradition, to exploring the deep causes of health, wellness, disease and dysfunction. Ruchi represents the cutting edge of twenty first century medicine.

David Kahl is a furniture designer, mindfulness practitioner, and the founder and CEO ofFully. In 2002, inspired by a Norwegian task chair that completely changed how he felt at work, he left a successful but unfulfilling career on Wall Street to build a socially conscious business around active sitting and healthy workspaces. Fast forward 17 years, and Fully is now a Portland-based B Corp that designs its own innovative, movement-inspired furniture that fosters a connection between the body and the mind. In this interview David describes his journey to become one of the leading proponents and purveyors of high quality ergonomic furniture/equipment. Functional design is his passion. How and why that is comes out clearly in this conversation.

David speaking about emotional intelligence in the workplace at the Portland B Lab event (2018): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uMmXZeT_qs&t=131s

Blog post about the origins of Fully: https://www.fully.com/blog/our-founder-david-kahl

Website: www.fully.com

Nicole is a nutritionist, certified by the National Association of Nutrition Professionals, who helps clients strategically develop food plans for themselves and their families according to their individual needs, situations, health challenges and preferences. She is inspired by the joy of fresh, whole foods and educates clients on the many benefits of optimal nutrition. Her areas of practice are gastrointestinal health and family nutrition, and she also helps individuals and groups address the role of added sugar and refined foods in our current food landscape. In this podcast, we discuss what healthy eating is; how, why and what to eat.  We also discuss the dangers of the most addictive substance in our diets, sugar, and how it contributes to the chronic disease that is ravaging our national health.

LINKS:

nicolebianchinutrition.com
sfadvancedhealth.com/provider/nicole-bianchi-nc
instagram.com/nicolebianchinutrition

Dr. Walter Randolph Adams is a bicultural evolutionary ecological, biocultural (analyzing the nexus of biology and culture), medical anthropologist, whose primary research focused on the nutritional factors underlying alcohol abuse and domestic violence.  He served as co-director of an anthropological field school for 13 years in the highlands of Guatemala, resulting in three books published by the University of Oklahoma Press, all of which highlighted the contributions of the undergraduate participants.  After spending 15 years in the private sector, he has merged his investigative and business interests to work toward improving the provision of health care to disadvantaged populations. Walter is the research director of the Integrative Health Project, a non-profit organization, founded by practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine. IHP runs clinics in Guatemala twice per year which provide free care to local populations. This work includes the training of local people to provide auricular acupuncture in clinics twice per month.  In this interview, Walter discusses his anthropological work, the state of health care in Guatemala and the role of the IHP in that health care system.

Links:

www.theintegrativehealthproject.org/

[email protected]

Harry Nelson is the author of The United States of Opioids: A Prescription for Liberating a Nation in Pain (2019) and co-author of From ObamaCare to TrumpCare: Why You Should Care. He is the founder of Nelson Hardiman, L.A.’s largest healthcare/life science law firm (with 30 lawyers), more than half of whom devote some or most of their time to work on addiction treatment and behavioral health. He also chairs the board of the Behavioral Health Association of Providers (BHAP), an industry trade group focused on education and advocacy for the treatment community.  In this conversation, Harry and Ricky discuss Harry’s trajectory from health care attorney to expert on the opioid epidemic.  Harry brings his unique perspective to what has become the largest drug epidemic in US history. He describes the origins and evolution of the current crisis and offers solutions rooted in public policy guided by a heart of compassion. As an expert on the opioid epidemic and health care law, Harry is a much sought after speaker in the areas of public policy, health care and governmental regulatory reform.

Links:
https://harrynelson.com/

https://www.facebook.com/hnelso

https://www.nelsonhardiman.com/

Cathryn Jakobson Ramin struggled with backache and sciatica for years. Like millions of other back pain sufferers, she was overwhelmed with ill-defined options for treatment. Which would work? Which would simply drain her wallet? And which might leave her in worse shape than when she began? As she struggled to answer these questions, she realized that she had plenty of company. In the United States, the cost of treating back pain exceeds $100 billion a year, and much of that money is wasted on ineffective tactics.

What started as her straightforward effort to resolve an annoying problem turned into six years of investigative reporting and writing. The book, “Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery,” is the culmination of her odyssey.

Her goal with Crooked is to set the back pain industry’s offerings in their proper context so that patients have the information they need to make good decisions; to know what works sometimes, what works rarely, and what can cause harm.

She engages in a lively conversation with Dr. Ricky Fishman, a chiropractor, a profession that receives quite a bit of scorn (along with many others) in Ms. Ramin’s excellent book.

Links:

https://www.cathrynjakobsonramin.com/books

https://m.facebook.com/crookedbackbook/

 
www.cathrynjakobsonramin.com

[email protected]

Josh Kornbluth is an American comedic autobiographical monologist based in the San Francisco Bay Area who has toured internationally, written and starred in several feature films, and hosted a television interview show.

Born in New York City, the son of Communist parents, Josh describes himself as a “Red Diaper Baby.” One of his monologues is so titled.  In addition to his solo performance work, Josh, in the last few years, has worked as a volunteer at the Zen Hospice in San Francisco and as an Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Heath at the Global Brain Health Institute, as well as Hellman Visiting Artist at UCSF’s Memory and Aging Center.

In this episode, Josh discusses his work at the hospice dealing with death and dying as well as his interest and focus on aging, dementia and empathy.  We can expect all of his work to show up in monologues that will be performed nationally.

Links:

Website: www.joshkornbluth.com

Citizen Brain: "The Empathy Circuit": https://youtu.be/a_732-H1CUY

"Citizen Brain: "Age Without Ageism": https://youtu.be/_7cIgjwZtPo

Global Brain Health Institute: https://www.gbhi.org/

Vann Duke is a master fitness trainer and coach with 20 years in the fitness industry.  He is the founder of Second Half Fitness, an organization that specializes in online fitness and wellness services exclusively for adults 50+.  His unique approach to exercise and aging embraces sustainability and the belief that youthfulness can be experienced life-long. 

In this conversation, Vann describes his philosophy of training.  His holistic approach includes movement, nutritional coaching and a focus on mindfulness.  He has worked with some of Hollywood’s top actors and he specializes on working with aging clients, in their “second half of life.”  He believes that we are fully capable of maintaining a high level of wellness into our later years.  

Vann is about to move to France where he will be opening a wellness center that will be based upon his approach to fitness, including healthy outdoor exercise, delicious and nutritious food and inner mental work.  Vann is an elite trainer with a lot to say.

Links:
www.SecondHalfFitness.com
Facebook: secondhalffitness
Instagram: secondhalffit