Late Night Health

The overwhelming narrative in the U.S. is that caregiving for older adults is a burden to bear and a problem to be solved. Sarah Teten Kanter, Ph.D., joins Mark to offer a different perspective and a practical methodology that combines positive psychology, mindfulness, reminiscence therapy, and lifestyle medicine to help make caregiving and care receiving a more positive and meaningful experience.

                                                                                  23:58 Carol Johnson chats with Mark to describe how her experience with unhelpful results from the medical system when seeking diagnosis and treatment for chronic conditions led her to establish the app, Uterinekind.  Because delayed diagnoses cause harm not only to the patient but also collaterally to health systems, providers, and society, Uterinekind is designed to help patients and providers arrive at a diagnosis quickly and achieve shared decision-making, saving lives, resources, and time.

Carol Johnson chats with Mark to describe how her experience with unhelpful results from the medical system when seeking diagnosis and treatment for chronic conditions led her to establish the app, Uterinekind. Because delayed diagnoses cause harm not only to the patient but also collaterally to health systems, providers, and society, Uterinekind is designed to help patients and providers arrive at a diagnosis quickly and achieve shared decision-making, saving lives, resources, and time.

Mark welcomes Kim Cantin, author of Where Yellow Flowers Bloom, who shares her healing journey after suffering the devastating losses of her husband, son, dog, and home in the catastrophic Montecito mudslides in January 2018. Kim recounts how she and her daughter were blessed by the incredible group of people who helped them through the aftermath of the tragedy and subsequent search for her son’s remains, leading to her profound realization that love transcends life.

Thomas Lane, author, poet, and musician, joins Mark to introduce his first novel, The Karma Factor, an exciting work of visionary fiction exploring the boundaries of human consciousness against the backdrop of a classic suspense thriller, combining mysterious forces, a hero’s quest for redemption, righting wrongs through the ages, and the timeless human need for hope.

                                                                                  24:59 Almost everyone has run into roadblocks when trying to navigate through the maze of trying to get answers and assistance from the likes of medical companies, banks, and government agencies. It’s even more frustrating and disheartening when a serious medical condition is involved. Mark Alyn welcomes The People’s Advocate, Harold Cameron, to delve into his journey from being diagnosed with two brain tumors to turning his experience with corporate bureaucracy into a way of helping others.

                                                                                  25:00 A new national poll finds that a majority of likely voters overwhelmingly support policies that regulate health insurance middlemen companies known as Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), requiring them to provide more value and help lower drug costs.  Are these PBMs providing the services they claim or taking advantage of the healthcare system to increase their revenues at the expense of pharmacies, taxpayers, and patients?  Mark Alyn talks with Mark Blum, Executive Director of America’s Agenda: Health Care for All, to learn how to hold these companies accountable.

Almost everyone has run into roadblocks when trying to navigate through the maze of trying to get answers and assistance from the likes of medical companies, banks, and government agencies. It’s even more frustrating and disheartening when a serious medical condition is involved. Mark Alyn welcomes The People’s Advocate, Harold Cameron, to delve into his journey from being diagnosed with two brain tumors to turning his experience with corporate bureaucracy into a way of helping others.

A new national poll finds that a majority of likely voters overwhelmingly support policies that regulate health insurance middlemen companies known as Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), requiring them to provide more value and help lower drug costs. Are these PBMs providing the services they claim or taking advantage of the healthcare system to increase their revenues at the expense of pharmacies, taxpayers, and patients? Mark Alyn talks with Mark Blum, Executive Director of America’s Agenda: Health Care for All, to learn how to hold these companies accountable.

Just in time for Arbor Day, Dan Lambe, the CEO of the Arbor Day Foundation, the largest non-profit member organization dedicated to planting trees, visits with Mark Alyn on this episode of Late Night Health to discuss how trees and forests are the number one nature-based solution for reversing the negative effects of a changing climate.