Posted in Food and Nutrition, Nutritional Therapies, Toxins, Vegetarianism on 02/24/2010 05:21 pm by admin
Guest: Nathalie Thandiwe
Book: The Yummi Cookbook: Healthy, Delicious, Affordable Food without Meat, Dairy, Wheat or Soy & Nut Free
I think during my third year of medical school I realized I could not be a mainstream doctor. I watched the treatment that people received in the hospital and not that it was bad but as a student we were required to take a history and physical from many patients on the wards. I realized that the pharmaceutical prescriptions being given by well meaning doctors were not really going to address the problems that people had. When I looked into psychiatry and spent my summer after my first year in medical school at a community health center I became alarmed at the drugs being prescribed. I voiced this to the head psychiatrist at this clinic in New Haven who told me that I was a fool for not wanting to get on the drug bandwagon. I don’t remember what my reaction was at the time but I guess you could say that I was more disturbed by what I saw happening in the clinic than his comments to me. I was a vegan during my medical school years and many years after. And of course through that filter all of my patients appeared to be suffering from the effects of meat eating and the toxic chemicals that were added to the food.
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Posted in Diabetes Mellitus, Food and Nutrition, Health, Nutritional Therapies, Podcast on 12/09/2009 02:51 pm by admin
This week’s show is a rebroadcast of the show Good Calories Bad Calories that aired on 04/29/2009.
Posted in Digestion, Food and Nutrition on 10/28/2009 02:39 pm by admin
This is a two hour presentation in a special edition of the Global Medicine Review in WBAI’s fall fundraiser. Dr Kokayi interviews Sally Fallon Morell, President of the Weston A Price Foundation. Excerpts from Ms Fallon’s DVD the Oiling of America are played, highlighting the manner in which the vegetable oil industry has hijacked the mainstream medical intelligencia into manipulating data concerning the danger of animal fats and cholesterol to human health. The interview and DVD look at the history of the American diet since the turn of the century, going back to a time when animal fat was in just about everything yet there were was virtually no cardiovascular disease. The food supply was altered with the introduction of cheap polyunsaturated vegetable oils and the American diet was changed forever, coincident with the rise of cardiovascular disease. The documentation concerning cholesterol’s non role in the generation of heart disease is reviewed and much of it is an analysis of same data that was generated in the major lipid studies. The role of the vegetable oil industry in manipulating the AHA and AMA and FDA and the public is documented as well as its role in suppressing decenting research.
Posted in Botanical Medicine, Digestion, Food and Nutrition, Health on 09/16/2009 02:51 pm by admin
Today we are going to hear from the founder of the American Botanical Council, Mark Blumenthal so that we can get a better understanding of the botanical world and the world of plant medicines from the perspective of an organization that provides educational opportunities and helps to disseminate information about botanicals, appreciating them in their cultural/geographic environment as well as their medicinal qualities. All of these are of course related.
Plant medicines are all around us but in large measure we ignore and under appreciate them. There is a saying to the effect that a weed is a medicinal plant whose value has not been discovered. Even our kitchen cooking herbs and spices are underutilized with respect to their medicinal qualities. Yet we all complain about the side effects associated with pharmaceuticals and many of us are not motivated enough to do some herbal 101 work. On the other hand health professions have to be high on the list of people looking for a second career with a willingness to go back to get another degree or some recognized license. Why not herbal medicine. Unlike much of what goes on with pharmaceutical medicines plant medicines do heal and would be particularly useful for chronic health concerns.
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Posted in Digestion, Food and Nutrition on 09/09/2009 02:37 pm by admin
Dr Kokayi uses the hour to discuss an approach to understanding stomach dysfunction highlighting the use of metaphor to better appreciate stomach problems. The limitations of mainstrearm ant acids and acid blockeing therapies is discussed along with the true causes of acid reflux. Low stomach acid as being the predominant condition of most people who take prescription medication for the stomach is highlighted and alternative treatments from apple cider vinegar to various homeopathic rememdies and mastic gum are discussed. A patient recently treated by Dr Kokayi for GERD (gastro esophageal reflux) is called and shares her experience with this disorder and the treatment modalities she has been exposed to over the years.
Posted in Food and Nutrition, Genetic Technology on 06/24/2009 01:06 pm by admin
Dr Kokayi discusses food safety with JD Hanson of the Center for Food Safely. Dr Kokayi looks at the effect of corporations being given the right to patent living organisms. The US patent office has patented human , animal, and plant genes, and entire animals. By patenting a plant and the pollen from that plant blows in your field you can be sued for having these genetically engineered products on your property. Genetically engineered companies are buying up all of the world’s seeds. Moreover these seeds are programmed to need the pesticides being produced by theses multinationals. The book Your Right to Know focuses on the crisis in finding healthy food and looks at the corporate superstructure in detail. Progress is being made in companies not buying milk from cows on recombinant growth hormone (cows on crack).
Posted in Detoxification, Food and Nutrition, Vegetarianism on 06/17/2009 01:01 pm by admin
Dr Kokayi has a chance to share the airwaves with health activist , author, and live foodist Queen Afua. Queen Afua is joined by Dr Bernadette Sheridan a local Brooklyn family practitioner who has worked with Queen Afua and has been helping her to document the impact of diet on disease states. Queen Afua also shares with the listening audience the upcoming kick off a her week of wellness culminating with opening of her institute in Bklyn with her guest Erica Badou. She also speaks about her City of Wellness shut in where people will dedicate themselves to a detoxification process over the course of a day. Queen Afua speaks about the different levels of vegetarianism.
Posted in Alternative Medicine, Cancer, Food and Nutrition, Fund Raiser, Nutritional Therapies, Podcast on 05/20/2009 05:59 pm by admin
This is a three hour fundraiser featuring the must see DVD Healing Cancer from the Inside Out and the Rave Diet Lifestyle book. Not only do these fundraiser premiums offer a real critique of current cancer care but they propose both in principle and thru the examples of people who have successfully checked cancer a plant based diet focus as the main approach to healing their cancer problem. The DVD critiques the current methodology of statistical sharing with respect to cancer survival and chemotherapy. It becomes clear that in many instances people are being misinformed. The connection between cancer and animal protein is also established. The Rave Diet Book offers over two hundred plant based recipes to address cancer and overcome a number of chronic diseases. This was the highest earning premium for WBAI’s May fundraiser as of May 26th, 2009.
Posted in Diabetes Mellitus, Food and Nutrition, Health, Nutritional Therapies, Podcast on 04/29/2009 04:09 pm by admin
Dr Kokayi has an opportunity to interview the award winning science writer Gary Taubes. This is a truly compelling interview highlighting Mr Taubes’ very well referenced Good Calories Bad Calories. Mr Taubes has provided excellent documentation for the way that obesity has been dealt with throughout the last one hundred years in the Western world, starting with the emphasis on CHO to the latest craze around low fat diets. The myths and lack of real scientific documentation around the low fat approach to weight loss is highlighted and Mr Taubes shows the link between sugar, obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer.
Posted in Alternative Medicine, Autism, Care of Children, Detoxification, Food and Nutrition, Health, Podcast, Toxins on 04/08/2009 03:23 pm by admin
Dr. Kokayi talks to Dr. Parris Kidd, international recognized nutrition educator, about the connection between the lack of functioning within a cell membrane and how it affects the body. The conversation moves from environmental toxicity and it’s affects to the autism-add spectrum along with powerful steps to take to lead children who suffer from it to wellness. With an outlined plan, it is best to have a pen in hand for this one. You can also read the articles spoken about at Dr. Kidd’s website.
