#672 Sick As A Dog: Animal & Human Health - Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz
The Not Old - Better Show
Paul Vogelzang
4.7 • 106 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Sick As A Dog: Animal & Human Health - Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz
The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series
Welcome to The Not Old Better Show on radio and podcast. I'm Paul Vogelzang, and today's show is part of our Smithsonian Associates Art of Living Interview series.
Thank you so much for listening. We've got a great returning guest today, whom I'll introduce in just a moment…But, quickly, if you missed any episodes, last week was our 671st episode, and I spoke to Smithsonian Associate and author, historian, and educator Clay Jenkinson about The Future of the US Constitution. Two weeks ago in another great interview, I spoke to Pulitzer-prize-winning author Stacy Schiff about her new book titled "The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams." Wonderful stuff…If you missed those shows, along with any others, you can go back and check them out with my entire back-catalog of shows, all free for you there on our website, NotOld-Better.com…and if you leave a review, we will read it at the end of each show…leave reviews on Apple Podcasts for us.
What do you call a veterinarian that can only take care of one species? A physician. As you just heard from our guest today, Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, who is a physician, who'll share how a species-spanning approach to health can improve medical care of the human animal — particularly when it comes to mental health. Dr. Natterson-Horowitz is co-author of the amazing book and creator of the TV series, Zoobiquity, Zoobiquity explored how animal and human commonality can be used to diagnose, treat, and heal patients of all species.
Infertility, lung cancer, anxiety, obesity, eating disorders, heart attacks, and PTSD are common in humans, but they are not uniquely human disorders. Concerns about the diseases associated with animals have encouraged researchers around the world to try to bridge the gap between animal and human medicine. Drawing on the latest in medical and veterinary science—as well as evolutionary and molecular biology—it's now understood that animals and humans suffer from many of the same health problems. Practitioners and researchers are actively comparing the human and veterinary approaches to shared ailments and transforming medical practices and research in the process.
Through observation and research studying animals in natural settings, cardi
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Not Old Vetter Show on Radio and Podcast. |
| 0:03.6 | I'm Paul Vogelsang, and today's show is part of our Smithsonian Associates' Art of |
| 0:07.7 | Living Interview Series. |
| 0:10.4 | Thank you so much for listening today. |
| 0:12.2 | We have got a great guest today whom I will introduce in just a moment but quickly, |
| 0:17.4 | if you missed any episodes last week, was our 670 first episode nice spoke to Smithsonian |
| 0:24.6 | Associate, author, historian, and educator, returning guest, Clay Jenkinson, about the |
| 0:30.4 | future of the US Constitution. |
| 0:33.6 | Two weeks ago in another great interview, I spoke to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacey |
| 0:37.8 | Schiff about her new book, The Revolutionary Samuel Adams, wonderful stuff from Smithsonian |
| 0:44.4 | Associates if you miss these shows. |
| 0:46.8 | Along with any others, you can go back and check them out with my entire back catalog |
| 0:51.9 | of shows all free for you there on our website, not old-better.com. |
| 0:57.1 | And if you leave a review, we will read it at the end of each show, please leave reviews |
| 1:02.7 | on Apple Podcasts for us. |
| 1:05.5 | Ten years ago, I got a phone call that changed my life. |
| 1:11.0 | At the time, I was a cardiologist at UCLA specializing in cardiac imaging techniques. |
| 1:18.2 | The call came from a veterinarian at the Los Angeles Zoo. |
| 1:23.8 | An elderly female chimpanzee had woken up with a facial droop and the veterinarians were |
| 1:30.3 | worried that she'd had a stroke. |
| 1:32.8 | They asked if I'd come to the zoo and image the animal's heart to look for a possible cardiac |
| 1:39.5 | cause. |
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