Late Night Health Radio

The Launch of NORD Founder, Abbey Meyers' memoir "Orphan Drugs: A Global Crusade"

Mark speaks with Abbey Meyers, founder and past President of the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), about the launch of her new book Orphan Drugs: A Global Crusade.

Ms. Meyers opens up about the struggles she had in getting a proper diagnosis for her son, who was eventually diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome, followed by additional struggles to get treatment option that was safe and effective. The talks about her unwavering efforts that ultimately supported the enactment of the groundbreaking “Orphan Drug Act of 1983”

Among her many accomplishments, Ms. Meyers served as the consumer representative on the National Commission on Orphan Diseases (1986-89), the NIH Human Gene Therapy Subcommittee, the NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC), the FDA Biological Response Modifiers Committee, and the HHS National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee. She was also an Honorary President of the European Organization for Rare Disorders (EURORDIS) and currently hold the honorary title of President Emeritus of NORD.

Ms. Meyers asserts to Mark, "One day, I wish everyone dealing with the pain and misery of the 7,000 rare disorders will have access to a treatment that will alleviate their symptoms.”

Margaret Overton, MD joins the Late Night Health Show to talk about Greed in the Hospice Industry and how services have changed in the last 10 years!

While tending to patients as well as her aging parents as both a doctor and a daughter, Margaret Overton realized something about end of life care: dying well requires more than just good medical care.

In her new book Hope for a Cool Pillow (Outpost19, March 1, 2016, Paperback Original), Dr. Overton alternates chapters discussing her patients, her experience with her parents and her time at Harvard Business School’s course on healthcare management, which she took after realizing that our plan for dying well in this country is broken. She wanted to do research on how to fix it for her family as well as for her patients.

Checking in with Mark Alyn on Late Night Health, Dr. Overton can talk listeners through advanced directives and DNRs – which can can be a scary and uncomfortable conversation, but it doesn’t have to be. Dr. Overton’s Hope for a Cool Pillow provides both factual and emotional frameworks to broach this subject with your loved ones. She can talk about profit vs. non profit hospice, what the differences are, and what makes the most sense for you and your family. Finding hospice and palliative care is not only a practical decision for a family: it is a sustainability issue for our society as well.

Nuanced and full of compassion, Hope for a Cool Pillow has humor as well as a strong, impassioned argument about how end of life care can be less fraught for people all over the US.

Margaret Overton, MD joins the Late Night Health Show to talk about Greed in the Hospice Industry and how services have changed in the last 10 years!

While tending to patients as well as her aging parents as both a doctor and a daughter, Margaret Overton realized something about end of life care: dying well requires more than just good medical care.

In her new book Hope for a Cool Pillow (Outpost19, March 1, 2016, Paperback Original), Dr. Overton alternates chapters discussing her patients, her experience with her parents and her time at Harvard Business School’s course on healthcare management, which she took after realizing that our plan for dying well in this country is broken. She wanted to do research on how to fix it for her family as well as for her patients.

Checking in with Mark Alyn on Late Night Health, Dr. Overton can talk listeners through advanced directives and DNRs – which can can be a scary and uncomfortable conversation, but it doesn’t have to be. Dr. Overton’s Hope for a Cool Pillow provides both factual and emotional frameworks to broach this subject with your loved ones. She can talk about profit vs. non profit hospice, what the differences are, and what makes the most sense for you and your family. Finding hospice and palliative care is not only a practical decision for a family: it is a sustainability issue for our society as well.

Nuanced and full of compassion, Hope for a Cool Pillow has humor as well as a strong, impassioned argument about how end of life care can be less fraught for people all over the US.

Author of “The Calorie Myth”, Jonathan Bailor, personal trainer and health coach joins Mark Alyn for this eye-opening discussion about calories and losing weight. Obesity being caused by eating too many calories is a myth. In his book Jonathan talks about why we need to focus on everything other than calories when trying to lose weight. Lower calorie foods are modified to lower the calories and the natural food source is altered, is terrible for your body. Jonathan talks about how eating the wrong foods can actually affect your brain and cause food cravings which leads to eating more.

When physicians tell patients to "just eat less calories to lose weight" the patient is set up to fail. When people eat foods naturally found in nature they lose weight. The processed foods and foods specifically processed to be low-calorie keep people over weight and make it extremely difficult to lose weight. Jonathan approaches weight loss and the calorie from an engineering stand point.

The focus on calories has taken our focus away from real food and towards non-foods. 40-60% of the average American calories are coming from non-foods. By eating non-foods we have broken our bodies ability to regulate weight. When we focus on calorie quantities we end up eating the wrong things and we break bodies the natural system to regulate weight.

What if everything you were taught about eating, exercise, weight loss, and health was proven wrong? We talk about beating diabetes and what foods to eat. Jonathan discusses the 4 food groups that people need to eat to be healthy and lose weight. Fat in foods is not bad for you and your body actually needs these fats and you can lose weight eating this way. Protein is also key in that it keeps you full longer.

Author of “The Calorie Myth”, Jonathan Bailor, personal trainer and health coach joins Mark Alyn for this eye-opening discussion about calories and losing weight. Obesity being caused by eating too many calories is a myth. In his book Jonathan talks about why we need to focus on everything other than calories when trying to lose weight. Lower calorie foods are modified to lower the calories and the natural food source is altered, is terrible for your body. Jonathan talks about how eating the wrong foods can actually affect your brain and cause food cravings which leads to eating more.

When physicians tell patients to "just eat less calories to lose weight" the patient is set up to fail. When people eat foods naturally found in nature they lose weight. The processed foods and foods specifically processed to be low-calorie keep people over weight and make it extremely difficult to lose weight. Jonathan approaches weight loss and the calorie from an engineering stand point.

The focus on calories has taken our focus away from real food and towards non-foods. 40-60% of the average American calories are coming from non-foods. By eating non-foods we have broken our bodies ability to regulate weight. When we focus on calorie quantities we end up eating the wrong things and we break bodies the natural system to regulate weight.

What if everything you were taught about eating, exercise, weight loss, and health was proven wrong? We talk about beating diabetes and what foods to eat. Jonathan discusses the 4 food groups that people need to eat to be healthy and lose weight. Fat in foods is not bad for you and your body actually needs these fats and you can lose weight eating this way. Protein is also key in that it keeps you full longer.

Isabella Cuda actress in Eternal Salvation born with Spinal Bifida. Isabella Cuda is 10 year old actor who is featured in the Christian film "Eternal Salvation". Born with Spina Bifida, Isabella's parents were told that their daughter would never walk. After surgeries by Presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson, Isabella not only walks, she dances and plays golf as a member of the Junior PGA. She visits with Mark about her life on stage, Television and Film, while thanking Dr. Carson and God for helping her have a healthy life.

Isabella Cuda actress in Eternal Salvation born with Spinal Bifida. Isabella Cuda is 10 year old actor who is featured in the Christian film "Eternal Salvation". Born with Spina Bifida, Isabella's parents were told that their daughter would never walk. After surgeries by Presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson, Isabella not only walks, she dances and plays golf as a member of the Junior PGA. She visits with Mark about her life on stage, Television and Film, while thanking Dr. Carson and God for helping her have a healthy life.

Marianne Ryan,PT, OCS, author of Baby Bod, joins Mark Alyn to about situps. Sit Ups Suck! Marianne returns to Late Night Health to teach Mark and listeners the best way to flatten tummys! It seems that doing sit ups can even cause a bigger stomach.

Marianne Ryan,PT, OCS, author of Baby Bod, joins Mark Alyn to about situps. Sit Ups Suck! Marianne returns to Late Night Health to teach Mark and listeners the best way to flatten tummys! It seems that doing sit ups can even cause a bigger stomach.

Acid Reflux is much more common than thought. Jamie Koufman, M.D. revisits Late Night Health and explains to Mark the difference kinds of reflux and how she has had great success in working with patients with this disorder. Dr. Jamie Koufman joins Mark Alyn to talk about her new book, Dr. Koufman’s Acid Reflux Diet: With 111 All New Recipes Including Vegan & Gluten-Free, which provides essential information for fighting reflux by combating food additives and unhealthy eating habits. Running counter to the medical mainstream, Dr. Koufman introduces a paradigm shift in reflux treatment through a diet that promotes weight loss, health maintenance, and disease prevention centered on lean, clean, green, and alkaline eating. Not only an ideal new alternative to reflux treatments prescribed by other doctors, Dr. Koufman’s Acid Reflux Diet is also the never-need-to-diet-again diet.

With acid reflux and reflux-related diseases affecting nearly half of Americans and a terrifying jump in reflux-caused esophageal cancer — it is time to make a change. That process begins not in the medicine cabinet, but in the pantry.

Combining 35 years of work in the field of acid reflux, including scientific research and the treatment of thousands of patients at the Voice Institute of New York, Dr. Jamie Koufman has identified the causes and the cures for this much-misunderstood health crisis. Her new book teaches reflux sufferers how to conquer their condition and emerge healthier than ever.

Dr. Koufman’s Acid Reflux Diet features 111 new recipes to help readers on the path to health. Recipes are divided by dish type, with ideas for breakfast, soups, salads, sides, entrées, snacks, desserts, and kitchen staples. Plenty of vegan and gluten-free options are provided, making the recipe collection sure to please a wide range of readers.