Nutrition, Herbs and Supplements
What If You Could Be Your Own, Best, First Doctor?
TEDx
Dr. Melinda Ring, Director of Northwestern’s Osher Center, presented at TEDxChicago on the importance of plant-based nutritionology and being your own best, first, doctor.
The American Diet Gone Bad: Refined Grains
Optimizing Wellbeing in Older Age
Dr. Robert Baron, UCSF Professor of Medicine, highlights the importance of switching to a whole grain diet. The healthiest diet limit sugars, refined grains, and large amounts of saturated and trans fat. He advises to eat fruits and vegetables, healthy oils, whole grains, legumes and nuts.
Toxic Plants, Fungi, and Herbal Supplements
Staying Healthy in a Toxic Environment: Poisonings, Overdoses, and Toxic Exposures
Substances that might seem innocent can be toxic. Dr. Kent Olson is the Medical Director of the San Francisco Poison Control System. He helps us understand when plants and fungi can be toxic and how to avoid misbegotten uses of herbal medications.
Medical Marijuana: Is the current research evidence sufficient to inform clinician decision making?
Integrative Medicine Research Seminar
Presenter: Donald B. Levy, MD, Medical Director, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Integrative Medicine Network Forum – Alessio Fasano, Keynote
Dr. Alessio Fasano, from MGH, gave a well received keynote presentation at the IM Network Forum, 2016. His talk focused on the microbiome and intestinal permeability and their relevance to integrative medicine research and patient care.
Integrative Medicine Network Forum, Morning Session
Introduction and Welcome by Drs. Helene Langevin and Peter Wayne, Osher Center
Keynote presentation by Dr. Alessio Fasano, MGH
Clinical Panel Discussion and Audience Q&A, moderated by Dr. Darshan Mehta, Osher Center/MGH
Panelists include Drs. Alessio Fasano (MGH), Ather Ali, (Yale School of Medicine), Anthony Lembo (BIDMC) and Donald Levy (Osher Center)
Maximizing mind-body connections to minimize balance decline in aging and disease
Integrative Medicine Research Seminar
Presenter: Bradley Manor, PhD, Director, Mobility and Brain Function Laboratory, Brain Fit Club, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Gastrointestinal Distress: One patient’s ongoing journey
Integrative Medicine Grand Rounds, Osher Clinical Center
Presenters: Donald Levy, MD; Walter Chan, MD; Randall Paulsen, MD
Nutritional Health Coaching in an Integrative Setting
Treating the Whole Patient
Integrative Medicine Grand Rounds, Osher Clinical Center
Presenters: Caitlin Hosmer-Kirby, MS, RD, Kathy McManus, MS, RD, LDN, Donald Levy, MD
How Super Are the Newly Proclaimed Superfoods?
Integrative Medicine Grand Rounds, Osher Clinical Center
Presenter: Howard Sesso, ScD, MPH, Director, Nutrition Research in Divisions of Preventive Medicine and Aging, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Therapies and Conventional Care for Prostate Cancer
Integrative Medicine Grand Rounds, Osher Clinical Center
Acupuncture and Supportive Care, A Care of High-Risk Prostate Cancer
Presenters: Weidong Lu, MB, MPH, PhD, Emily E Biever, MS, RD, LDN, Sharon Bober, PhD, Douglas Brandoff, MD, Nancy Campbell, MS
JoAnn Manson on Vitamin D Dosage
Osher Research Seminar
Presenter: JoAnn Manson, MD
In this presentation, Dr. Manson discusses the international randomized trial being conducted by Brigham and Women’s Hospital to evaluate the health benefits of different dosage levels of vitamin D: The large-scale VITamin D and OmegA-3 TriaL (VITAL). This is the largest of its kind, with 26,000 participants from across the U.S., Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
Donald Abrams, MD: Integrative Cancer Care (part 4)
The New School at Commonweal
Part 4: Cannabis in Integrative Cancer Care
A Training for Health Professionals and Cancer Advocates
Donald Abrams, MD: Integrative Cancer Care (part 3)
The New School at Commonweal
Part 3: Rational Use of Natural Supplements
A Training for Health Professionals and Cancer Advocates
Donald Abrams, MD: Integrative Cancer Care (part 2)
The New School at Commonweal
Part 2: The Role of Nutrition
A Training for Health Professionals and Cancer Advocates
Donald Abrams, MD: Integrative Cancer Care (part 1)
The New School at Commonweal
Part 1: An Introduction to Integrative Cancer Care
A Training for Health Professionals and Cancer Advocates
Dietary Fats: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly- Eating for Health (and Pleasure): The UCSF Guide to Good Nutrition
UCSF nutritionist Katie Ferraro explains a healthy person on 2,000 calorie diet per day should strive for 65 grams total fat, less than 20 grams saturated fat, zero grams trans fat and under 200 milligrams of dietary cholesterol. Learn more about each type of fat and how to identify which is in what food.
Health and Vitality: What Science Tells Us About How to Thrive
For many of us, today’s world is out of balance, characterized by breaking news every minute, instant messaging, new technologies to be mastered and more channels of communication than ever before. Scientific advances from integrative medicine can help you bring the balance back and improve the quality of your day. Presenter: Ellen Hughes, MD, PhD, former director of education at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine.
Nutrition and Cancer
Dr. Donald Abrams of UCSF sifts through some of the complex data on the relationship between nutrition and cancer and endeavors to help separate fact from fiction in this quickly moving field.
Sugar: The Bitter Truth
Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin.