Late Night Health

As women age, many health issues can be overlooked-- largely because they go undiscussed. Dr. Dana Cohen, a respected physician, author and authority in women's health is here to help us break the silence on the most important health challenges for women over the age of 40-- and she wants men to be an important part of normalizing these conversations for their partners.Talking Points:Dr. Dana Cohen, a nationally renowned internal and integrative medicine specialist whose multi-disciplinary approach has helped transform the lives of many women using a variety of conventional and complementary therapies will shine a spotlight on important, but often overlooked health issues that matter most to women aged 40+ and their partners who want to support them, but don’t know how: • Misconceptions in Menopause • "Menopause Starts in Your 50s": Some believe menopause begins in the late 50s, but it can actually start in the late 40s or earlier. Additionally, understanding when perimenopause ends and menopause o

November is recognized as National Family Caregivers Month, which is an important part of the Parkinson's Foundation efforts to honor the contributions of the 65 million people in the U.S. who care for a loved one who is aging or living with a chronic condition like Parkinson's disease (PD). We have a special interview with John L. Lehr, President and CEO of the non-profit Parkinson’s Foundation, and Gil Kim, who is the primary care partner for his wife, Gina, who was diagnosed with PD in 2011.John L. Lehr leads the Parkinson's Foundation as president & chief executive officer. He has nearly three decades of nonprofit fundraising and management experience, with a strong focus in the voluntary healthcare and medical research sectors. John played a key role in merging two legacy Parkinson’s organizations into the Parkinson’s Foundation in 2017. Since joining the Foundation, fundraising revenue has grown each year by double digits, allowing the Foundation to greatly expand its mission programs. John led the

Learn How To Help The Library Of Congress HonorThe Veterans, Living Or Deceased, For...Veterans DayNationwide Campaign to Collect Stories from the Men & Women Who Served their Country with Monica Mohindra of the Veterans History Project When we think of U.S. military veterans, we often imagine those who saw combat overseas, but just as relevant and heroic are those who served in other capacities, including Uniformed Public Health Officers and those who were deployed to respond during a natural disaster or public health crisis. The Commissioned Corp of the U.S. Public Health Service is one of eight uniformed services. Founded more than 200 years ago, its members play a critical role in protecting our nation’s health in all 50 states and overseas. Monica Mohindra, Director of the Veterans History Project, joins Mark Alyn to discuss how the VHP is actively seeking stories from these veterans with oral history interviews, original photographs, letters and other corresondence to be archived and made accessible

Each October 28th, National First Responders Day provides a poignant reminder of the bravery displayed daily by paramedics, firefighters, police, EMTs, emergency managers, and other public safety professionals who put their lives on the line to protect others. Verizon Frontline is the advanced network built over 30 years of working with these first responders hand-in-hand on the front lines. Verizon Frontline President Maggie Hallbach joins Mark Alyn to talk about how important it is to recognize and honor those who help keep our communities safe. Plus, learn important information about how direct feedback from first responders is helping shape the ways in which Verizon Frontline supports public safety agencies across the country, including an overview of the results of the third-annual Verizon Frontline Public Safety Communications Survey. LEARN HOW VERIZON FRONTLINE IS SUPPORTING FIRST RESPONDERS ACROSS THE NATION: 5G AND THE FUTURE — How 5G is impacting emergency response nationwideINNOVATIVE NEW TECH — Ad

Renowned Financial Experts from the Media and Business WorldShare Sneak Peek Results from the Edelman Financial Engines Study So much of our lives are connected to our financial well-being that it’s impossible to separate the two. Last year, Edelman Financial Engines launched a new podcast – Everyday Wealth – a weekly show that explores this dynamic intersection of life, money, and the many decisions attached to a dollar. A groundbreaking study, Everyday Wealth in America was also launched, to help explore these important money matters and gain insights into how people form opinions and make decisions relative to their own financial values and goals. Now, Edelman Financial Engines will share key findings from the second edition of the study – “Everyday Wealth in America 2023”– continuing to uncover the ways people engage with their wealth so they can take better control of their financial well-being.Everyday Wealth host Jean Chatzky, who is best known as the financial editor of TODAY for 25 years, and Jason V

Staying healthy and vibrant is the main theme behind Supplyside West (October 23 - 27 in Las Vegas). Sandy Almendarez, VP of Content for SupplySide, shares insider information about this upcoming industry event including sustainability and the latest science. From nutrition to supplements, the latest research about staying healthy and more, SupplySide is packed with information that helps people live better lives.

Each October, National Cybersecurity Awareness Month provides a timely reminder that criminals are trying to steal information and money from small businesses and their customers. Cybercrime u on the rise, and 60% of small businesses that experience a cyberattack go out of business within 6 months. That’s why it’s important to take proactive measures to protect data (and your business) from criminals.Cybersecurity expert Mike Caralis of Verizon Business jins Mark Alyn to offer essential tips for keeping small businesses safe from criminals. Learn how to implement cybersecurity practices, bolster cyber hygiene, and safeguard against threats. Plus, see the new technology, solutions and resources now available to help small businesses protect themselves.

Extreme weather phenomena such as destructive storms, heatwaves, or blizzards strain on the electric grid. For National Preparedness Month, we are reminding families to proactively prepare for potential disasters, some of which might lead to extended power outages.Matt Blashaw, HGTV host and homebuilding expert, partners with the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC), to share tips to safeguard your home and family before an extended power outage. Matt will share his own experience of living without power after a tornado caused a power outage in his community. This is an important reminder for your viewers during National Preparedness Month, and as the Fall and Winter seasons quickly approach.PREPARE FOR A POWER OUTAGE—WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: POWER OF PREP—Tips to ready your home for an upcoming power outage.RELIABILITY—How to keep critical systems in a home operating even when the electric grid is downBACKUP POWER—generators provide supplemental electricity in as little as 10 seconds after a power out

NY Times, Today Show Contributor, Clinical Psychologist & Sleep SpecialistDr. Shelby Harris Teams Up with #1 Melatonin Brand to Share Tips to Help People Form Better Sleep Routines for FallEach year, people lose an average of 15.5 hours of sleep during the summer (about 10 minutes a night). It happens for a variety of reasons, including a leisurely pace of life, traveling more, spending more time outside, less structured routines and fewer obligations. The adjustment from summer’s slower pace to the more hectic fall and back-to-school season can be challenging.Sleep Specialist Dr. Shelby Harris is teaming up with Natrol – a leading sleep, mood and stress brand – to share some timely sleep strategies to get sleep patterns back to normal. Learn simple ways to inspire quality rest by supporting a healthy sleep routine, including melatonin basics. Dr. Harris will dig into the key tips consumers need to know about using melatonin supplements so they can be more informed. Learn valuable strategies to get sleep

Carolina Schneider, MS, RD, a registered dietitian known as “Carolina the Green RD” says the farm bill's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) - formally known as food stamps - provides vital assistance to millions of disadvantaged Americans to ensure that all people have access to nutritious food, however there are some crucial nutrition gaps that demand attention from Congress that voters can elevate to advocate for an updated farm bill to improve SNAP and enhance the program's quality and nutritional offerings for all Americans. Carolina visits with Mark Alyn on this episode of late Night Health.Some points • Why We Need the Farm Bill: The farm bill is a matter of concern when it comes to nutrition because it plays a crucial role in shaping food and agricultural policies in the United States. The bill influences various aspects of our food system, including agricultural production, food access, nutrition programs, and public health. • The farm bill includes provisions for nutrition as

When parents put a child on a school bus, the expectation is that the young person will arrive safe and ready to learn. Now, with significant funding available through the EPA’s Clean School Bus Program, there’s never been a better time to prioritize clean and more efficient modes of school transportation. The goal is to replace inefficient gas or diesel-powered buses with safer propane or electric alternatives. Tucker Perkins, President/CEO of PERC, the Propane Education & Research Council, ishares cleaner options for the nation’s school bus fleets, and a study that shows how low-emission buses are linked to improved test scores. We’ll also provide information about school districts using propane buses in your market, and a the unique BetterOurBuses.com program. More than 1.3 million students will ride a propane school bus this year. WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT SCHOOL BUS INNOVATIONS:Comparing the efficiency of propane vs. electric and other alternativesEnvironmental benefits of an affordable and plentiful c

Rachel Zemach became Deaf at age ten, and has lived with one foot in both the Deaf and hearing worlds since then. After teaching Deaf students for ten years in a hearing, public school she became more solidified in her Deaf-with-a-capital-D identity. She loved thee job passionately but found it a shockingly, un-necessarily obstacle-laden environment for Deaf students and felt compelled to write a memoir describing it, with the goal of educating hearing people and enacting change. The Butterfly Cage came out April 26, 2023 and has gotten strong reviews. As a Deaf person, she doesn’t listen to radio, and had never heard of this show. But when talking with Mark Alyn of Late Night Health she was struck by two things: the passion HE has, when it comes to health issues, and the quick understanding of a person with little knowledge of the Deaf perspective, once they are exposed to it.As an added bonus, Mark wears hearing aids. Reaching hard of hearing people, or “Inbetweeners,” as she calls them, is important to Zem

Lauri Quinn Loewenberg is a professional dream analyst and author of the book Dream on It, Unlock Your Dreams Change Your Life. She is best known as "Dream Expert to the stars" and has been featured on hundreds of radio stations across North America and the UK and on national television shows such as The Today Show, Dr. Oz, The View, Good Morning America, Daily Pop on E! and more. Thanks to a series of recurring dreams, she is also a prominent Pin Up Artist and resides in Tampa, FL with her handsome hubby, musical son and her overlord Sigmund the rescue kitty. Lauri visits with Mark Alyn to talk about the meaning of dreams.

What if no one—gay or straight or bi, trans or cis or nonbinary—was “born that way”? In GENDER WITHOUT, award-winning psychoanalysts Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini challenge the argument widely embraced by rights activists and members of the LGBTQ+ community that gender identity is innate and immutable. “There is nothing wrong with being gay, queer, gender nonconforming, or trans, nor is any of these an undesirable or pathological outcome,” Pellegrini stresses. “Genderqueer and sexually diverse individuals can and do live full, pleasurable, exciting lives—which is not to say that they are spared the miseries that befall everyone as part of the human condition. Indeed, trans people and queer people should get to have all the feels, including negative or bad feelings.” With a vision of expanding the narrowminded view and treatment of queer and trans people by analysts and society at large, Ann Pellegrini talks with Mark Alyn about gender identity.

Everyone deserves to die well. By reimagining End of Life Care and helping to plan in advance,Empowered Endings™ enables everyone to do so. This is what Dr. Bob and Late Night Health’s Mark Alyn discuss. This unique, San Diego-headquartered company evolved based on Bob’s 30 years of experience as a physician in emergency medicine, palliative care and hospice and Elizabeth’s expertise in spiritual counseling and medical social work in end of life and grief care. Dr. Bob and Elizabeth’s combined passion for assisting families at this stage of life has evolvedinto the Empowered Endings Collective, currently serving all of Southern California. With fourentities under its umbrella, Empowered Endings has all End of Life needs well covered.

The overwhelming narrative in the U.S. is that caregiving for older adults is a burden to bear and a problem to be solved. In her new book, Positive Caregiving, Sarah Teten Kanter, Ph.D., offers a different perspective and a practical methodology that combines elements of positive psychology, mindfulness, reminiscence therapy, and lifestyle medicine to help make caregiving and care receiving a more positive and meaningful experience. Dr. Kanter joins Mark Alyn on this edition of Late Night Health.

Staring back at doctors who say the symptoms are normal, bleeding through clothes in public, losing big chunks of time to pain, and living with undiagnosed conditions for years–these are experiences I know well. Are they familiar to you?These experiences are common for millions of people - some will endure life-altering complications because their conditions were not diagnosed quickly. Mental health suffers, relationships suffer, and they are left to battle against debilitating conditions while navigating misinformation and bias inside a stressed healthcare system.We saw a way to help.Carol Johnson from Uterinekind talks with Mark Alyn on this episode of Late Night Health.

Author, poet and musician Thomas Lane debuts his first novel, The Karma Factor, a work of visionary fiction exploring the boundaries of human consciousness against the backdrop of a classic suspense thriller. With a purpose that transcends the genre, Lane expertly weaves the novel’s wider message in a ground-breaking, white-knuckle ride between worlds, as characters set out to make karmic amendments, right wrongs and re-establish the power of choice. Haunted by a nameless guilt, tired of running from his demons, NYPD detective James Early decides to end his life. Taunting an armed suspect into blind fury, he makes himself an easy target. But the bullets fired at point blank range are mysteriously diverted.Born and raised in Connecticut, Thomas Lane is a multi-dimensional artist drawn to spaces where art, spirit, and social justice intersect. He is the author of The Artists’ Manifesto and a catalog of songs, poems, screenplays, novels, and paintings. He also founded The Helen Hudson Foundation, a charitable or

Kim Cantin and her daughter survived an unimaginable loss. In January of 2018, heavy rainfall combined with deforestation from recent wildfires caused a series of mudflows northwest of the Montectio, California in 2018. The powerful mudslide took the lives of her beloved husband, son, dog and home. Through it all Kim’s love as a mother and wife, her strength, courage and determination got she and her daughter through the physical healing and into the years-long search for the remains of her teenage son. Kim talks with Mark Alyn on this episdoe of Late Night Health.

We all want to know the secret to leading a long, happy life, so who better to ask than someone who is 102 yearsold? And all the more qualified as a doctor, and the mother of holistic medicine.This expert is Dr.Gladys McGarey, and in her new book THE WELL-LIVED LIFE: A 102-Year-Old Doctor'sSix Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age (Atria May 2, 2023), she shares a philosophy for living life tothe fullest that has healed thousands of her patients and that has guided her own life for over a century.In 1978, Gladys co-founded the American Holistic Medical Association with the goal of bringing a holisticunderstanding—one that unites body, mind, and spirit—to modern Western medicine. Dr. Gladys visits with Mark Alyn on this edition of Late Night Health.