Show 995: Changing Your Life to Improve Your Health
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2015
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Most of us know what we should do to clean up our lifestyles–eat right, exercise, get enough sleep, and so on ad nauseum. You’ve heard it all before. But we don’t necessarily do the things we know that we ought to.
Perhaps we think it doesn’t really matter for us, at least not right now. Or maybe we think it won’t make enough of a difference. In some cases it might feel like changing our behavior will be too much trouble.
Making Changes
We talk with our friend John who has made significant changes, little by little, and reaped great rewards. He was suffering terrible heartburn that prompted him to choose different foods to eat. He ended up losing 50 pounds-and the heartburn.
We’d like to hear your story. How have you changed the way you live to improve your health?
A Sex Drug for Women?
An FDA advisory committee met Thursday to consider whether flibanserin (Addyi) should be approved to treat hypoactive sexual desire disorder. It would be the first such medication for women. After much consideration, a majority of the members recommended for approval, but with caveats that are important. We’ll discuss them with pharmacologist David Kroll, who will help us answer your questions.
Call in your stories and comments at 888-472-3366 or email radio@peoplespharmacy.com between 7 and 8 am EDT on June 6, 2015.
Read Joe’s blog about the flibanserin FDA hearings and his perspective on the drug here.
This Week’s Guests:
John Lester is an expert in immersive learning and 3D simulations in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is Chief Learning Officer with ReactionGrid. He is also Creative Advisor and Community Developer at Wiggle Planet. The photo is of John Lester.
David Kroll, PhD, is a pharmacologist and science writer in Durham, NC. His blogpost about flibanserin was published at Forbes.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Joe Graydon. |
| 0:02.3 | I'm Terry Graydon. |
| 0:03.8 | Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines. |
| 0:10.2 | This podcast is brought to you by Redux Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream. |
| 0:16.0 | 800-345-7339 on the web at utter cream.com. |
| 0:21.6 | Have you ever tried to lose weight and exercise more? This can be challenging. How can you make |
| 0:40.4 | real change that lasts? This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon. |
| 0:52.9 | Today we talk with John Lester, a self-described computer geek who used to treat his body like a wood chipper. |
| 0:59.3 | He'd throw in any food that was handy or tasty and never worry about the consequences. |
| 1:04.8 | Exercise seemed like too much effort, and it took time away from his computer. |
| 1:09.6 | John will share his transformation into a vegan exercise nut. |
| 1:14.0 | What can the rest of us learn from John? |
| 1:16.5 | What changes have you made for your own health? |
| 1:19.7 | Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, |
| 1:22.3 | the health news that matters to you with your calls and questions. |
| 1:27.7 | First, this news. |
| 1:33.0 | In the people's pharmacy health headlines, |
| 1:36.3 | scientists have found out why Lyme disease can sometimes linger |
| 1:39.7 | long after the patient has finished antibiotic treatment |
| 1:42.6 | that should have wiped it out. |
| 1:44.7 | Lyme disease is caused by bacteria called Borrelia and Bergdorferi. |
| 1:48.8 | It's transmitted through the bite of a black-leg tick. |
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