188: How your surroundings can help or hurt your health with Amitha Kalaichandran, M.D.

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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“How can we redesign the patient experience so that it's more conducive to healing? How can we help health care professionals do their best work?” Epidemiologist and New York Times contributor Amitha Kalaichandran, M.D., MHS, CPH, joins Jason Wachob to discuss how our physical environments can either help heal or harm our overall health, plus: *How we should really be reading research studies* *The benefits of forest bathing* *How we should redesign our hospitals* *Why we should heal the healer* *How to be less anxious about scary headlines* Enjoy this episode, and don't forget to subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, or your preferred platform! Comments: [email protected] Sponsorship inquiries: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.
0:07.0	Dr Amita Kalichandran is an epidemiologist, physician, and a writer.
0:14.7	She's a graduate of the Johns Hopkins-Blumberg School of Public Health, received her
0:18.3	MD at the University of Toronto, her fellowship in integrative Medicine from the University of Arizona
0:24.0	and a Journalism Fellowship from the Monk School of Global Affairs.
0:28.0	She has additional certifications in Public Health from the National Board of Public Health Examiners, Humanitarian Assistance through the Harvard Humanitarian
0:36.0	Institute, and she's a regular contributor to the New York Times Well
0:40.0	section, where she covers a diverse range of topics from health and wellness to
0:44.3	medical education. She's definitely one of my favorites to read there. In addition to
0:48.6	the New York Times, her award-winning writing has been featured in the
0:51.4	Washington Post, New York, Mag,
0:53.6	LA Times, Wired, the Boston Globe, and the Atlantic.
0:56.9	And today we're going to cover all things wellness,
1:00.0	from nature bathing to making sense of all those confusing nutrition studies out there.
1:05.0	Amita, welcome.
1:08.0	Thanks for having me.
1:09.0	It is an honor to have you here, one of my favorite contributors at the New York Times.
1:13.4	I love when we see your pieces go up and live, and we read them
1:16.2	and get so excited.
1:17.5	Thanks so much.
1:18.5	So sweet.
1:19.5	Well, you do such an incredible job of I think bridging Western and
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