Epidemiologist Ai Kubo: How Mindfulness and Nutrition Affect Cancer Patients

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Ai Kubo received a PhD in cancer epidemiology from Columbia University, and has nearly 40 scientific publications in peer-reviewed medical journals. Years ago, Kubo was told flat out, by one of the most renowned mindfulness researchers, not to try to create (and fund) mindfulness studies. At that time, studying mindfulness and yoga was too fringe, she was told. She heeded this advice and spent a decade studying the effect of nutrition on cancer. But, as a yoga teacher, she felt that something was missing, so she decided to change the focus of her research. These days, Kubo is hard at work creating studies that examine the effect of mindfulness for cancer patients and their families in reducing stress and depression. We had a lively conversation about her current studies, her approach to eating and living in a way that minimizes cancer risk, and the details on her 3-week Mindfulness Cleanse, which focuses on helping the body rest and reset.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 105 of Yoga Land.
0:04.7	On today's episode I speak to I-Cubo.
0:11.5	I has a very multifaceted career that she has created for herself.
0:16.0	She's a yoga teacher. She's a cancer epidemiologist and I ask her to explain exactly what that means.
0:23.0	She has a master's in public health in nutritional and cancer epidemiology
0:28.0	and a BS in nutrition, so she's also a nutritionist.
0:31.0	I is working on several studies that incorporate
0:35.4	mindfulness and that are studying the benefits of mindfulness both in cancer
0:39.7	patients and also in pregnant women and so that's what we talk about today. I also got to ask
0:48.1	her you know what her takeaways are when it comes to nutrition and cancer because she studied that for many years too.
0:56.8	And her answer kind of surprised me.
0:59.7	Ultimately, it was a very heartening answer and I think it's just a great reminder for all of us and I'm just gonna leave it as a cliffhanger there.
1:11.0	I always love talking to people who are in public life using their yoga background and their
1:17.5	mindfulness background to kind of nudge us all in the direction of gaining benefits from these practices.
1:24.7	So it was really a pleasure to talk to I today.
1:28.2	Before we get to the interview, I just want to remind you that iTunes reviews and
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1:44.0	Thanks so much.
1:45.0	Enjoy the interview.
1:46.6	Thanks so much for being here and for, you know, being in our glamorous studio today.
1:51.6	I love it. It's nice to meet you in person. glamorous studio
1:55.0	It's nice to meet you in person. I remember you from Yoga Journal and from being on the cover of Yoga Journal and I feel like I've probably interacted with with your husband Mark as well. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, yeah, over the years. So you have such an interesting educational background. You are certified and practicing it you teach yoga you also have a
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