YOU: The Owner's Manual

serving others.In WONDER DRUG: 7 Scientifically Proven Ways That Serving Others is the Best Medicine For Yourself physician-scientists Stephen Trzeciak, M.D., and Anthony Mazzarelli, M.D., explain, through neuroscience and captivating stories from their clinical practices, how being a giving other-focused person is a secret superpower. Kinder people not only live longer, but they also live better; physically, emotionally, and mentally and find more success in work, relationships, and life.Stephen Trzeciak, M.D. joins us in this episode to talk about his new book. He is a physician-scientist, professor, and chair of medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, and the chief of medicine at Cooper University Health Care in Camden, New Jersey.

If you were offered a doctor-prescribed drug that could boost your health, give you more energy and resilience and diminish burnout, depression, and anxiety, while increasing your chances of personal and professional success with no harmful side effects would you take it? It sounds too good to be true, but there is actually a way to reach those gains – and it’s by serving others.

In WONDER DRUG: 7 Scientifically Proven Ways That Serving Others is the Best Medicine For Yourself physician-scientists Stephen Trzeciak, M.D., and Anthony Mazzarelli, M.D., explain, through neuroscience and captivating stories from their clinical practices, how being a giving other-focused person is a secret superpower. Kinder people not only live longer, but they also live better; physically, emotionally, and mentally and find more success in work, relationships, and life.

Stephen Trzeciak, M.D. joins us in this episode to talk about his new book. He is a physician-scientist, professor, and chair of medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, and the chief of medicine at Cooper University Health Care in Camden, New Jersey.

Dr. Roizen talks about the latest health headlines that YOU need to know. 

 

Dr. Roizen talks about the latest health headlines that YOU need to know. 

 

In his new book, FIRST PATIENTS: The Incredible True Stories of Pioneer Patients, Dr. Rod Tanchanco shows us how far we’ve come; what we’ve learned from past pandemics, and the real-life patient stories behind our most important medical advancements. 

Often marked by the desperate need to save human lives, important developments in medicine have invariably started with patients—people whose ordeals fostered the advancement of medical knowledge. This book is a collection of such stories, each chapter an enthralling view into the history of medicine, revealing the extent of human inventiveness, resilience, and compassion.

Dr. Rod Tanchanco, MD is an internist & a Fellow in the American College of Physicians with three decades of experience. Rod has worked as a primary care physician, hospitalist, research doctor, and medical director for global healthcare organizations. He writes medically-themed non-fiction focused on historical events and their human narratives.

Dr. Roizen talks about the latest health headlines that YOU need to know. 

 

Despite last spring’s hotly contested FDA approval of the first new drug in 18 years, Alzheimer’s remains an intractable, progressive, and slowly devastating disease for which there is no magic bullet. For spouses, adult children, and other devoted caregivers, watching a loved one with Alzheimer’s struggle to remember and communicate is beyond frustrating and often heartbreaking. Yet, that doesn’t mean that someone with Alzheimer’s or any other forms of dementia is ever a “shell” or “gone.”

In Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People: How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer’s Disease, Stephen G. Post, Ph.D., a medical ethicist and recipient of the Alzheimer's Association Distinguished Service Award, shifts the focus from finding a cure for Alzheimer’s to continuing to see, cherish, and connect with the whole person—their core personality, preferences, emotions, creativity, and capacity for joy—despite the limitations of dementia.

An advocate for “deeply forgetful people” since the 1990s, Post enables readers to notice the continuing self-identity that remains beneath the surface.

Dr. Roizen talks about the latest health headlines that YOU need to know. 

 

Most people believe you don’t need to get a colonoscopy until you’re 51. But colorectal cancers are the third-leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States, and the best way to prevent those deaths is with early detection. When are you supposed to start getting colonoscopies? And how is prep getting easier? Dr. Joseph Jennings joins us today to set the record straight.

Dr. Joseph Jennings is a board-certified gastroenterologist with a focus on bleeding within the GI tract. He graduated from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 2012 and completed his Internal Medicine training at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in 2015. He served as the Chief Medical Resident for MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and served as an attending physician in Internal Medicine at the Washington DC VA Medical Center and Virginia Hospital Center as well.

He currently serves as the associate director for the MedStar Georgetown University Hospital's gastroenterology fellowship program.

Dr. Roizen talks about the latest health headlines that YOU need to know.