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By making some simple adjustments in our lives, we can boost our brains’ health and help ensure that we maintain our cognitive abilities and memory capacities well into old age. So, if you’re curious about how exercise can help produce new brain cells or how brushing your teeth may help your memory, you’ll want to listen in. Host David B. Feldman speaks with Professor James Goodwin, author of the book, Supercharge Your Brain: How to Maintain a Healthy Brain Throughout Your Life.

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Join Thuy in conversation with Dine Relatives as they discuss modern and traditional views on Thanksgiving and Veterans Day on Navajo Lands offering insight into traditional and spiritual knowledge that can heal collectively.

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A program designed to give listeners an opportunity to talk directly with experts in the fields of both traditional and non-traditional health, with Dr. Lenoir and Rona Renner, RN.

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Dating apps are now one of the most common ways people meet and fall in love. That’s especially true for Gen Z’ers and Millennials, but it’s also increasingly true for earlier generations. But, how well does online dating actually work? Do relationships that begin online really turn into long-term commitments, supposing that’s what people are looking for? And, what other types of relationships begin online? Of course, there are others ways that technology is influencing how we form romantic connections. Dating via video apps like Zoom and Facetime, is almost mundane these days, partially as a result of the COVID pandemic. And, yes, Virtually Reality dating is now even a thing. So, what are the pros and cons of this brave new world of dating? And how is technology changing the way we fall in love? Host David B. Feldman speaks with Dr. Liesel Sharabi, Assistant Professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University, where she directs the Relationships and Technology Lab.

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Join Nurse Rona and Dr. Louise Aronson

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Join Thuy and Stephen Jenkinson as they wonder out loud on this season’s inspired topic of death. Together they discuss how the dominant North American culture influences our understanding of death and elderhood and demonstrate what activism may look like in such a culture.

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A program designed to give listeners an opportunity to talk directly with experts in the fields of both traditional and non-traditional health, with Dr. Lenoir and Rona Renner, RN.

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Indigenous Communities exemplify diverse and vibrant cultures, and also face unique historical and contemporary realities of colonialism, dispossession, and oppression. In this episode, we hear from a luminary social worker and professor about both the trauma faced by Indigenous individuals and communities, as well as the resilience and strength present in those communities. Host David B. Feldman speaks with Dr. Hilary Weaver, Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo, member of the Lakota Community, and author of several books, including Trauma and Resilience in the Lives of Contemporary Native Americans: Reclaiming our Balance and Restoring our Well-Being as well as The Routledge International Handbook of Indigenous Resilience.

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A program designed to give listeners an opportunity to talk directly with experts in the fields of both traditional and non-traditional health, with Dr. Lenoir and Rona Renner, RN.

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