Second Opinion Welcomes Joan Lunden
Second Opinion with Joan Lunden is a national health initiative that reaches an engaged audience through television, web, social media, and community and national outreach. The series has been helping people become healthy, stay healthy, and navigate the healthcare system since its inception in 2004. Second Opinion with Joan Lunden uses the power and the mission of noncommercial public media to educate, promote good health, improve doctor/patient communication, and empower people to take charge of their own healthcare. Second Opinion with Joan Lunden focuses on health literacy in a way that is relevant and accessible to viewers and to physicians, in a format that engages and entertains. The program and related website and social media provide trusted health information on every platform, and the weekly television program engages viewers from across the United States as they watch doctors and patients talk through a variety of health issues from high blood pressure and cancer, to mental health and racial disparities in health.
LIVE WITH JOAN | MEET THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Joan speaks with Executive Producer Fiona Willis about the making of Second Opinion with Joan Lunden.
Louis J. Papa M.D., FACP
Louis J. Papa M.D., FACP is a primary care physician and has been a popular regular panelist with the series since the beginning.
Thanks to improvements in the effectiveness of #HIV medications, people with HIV are living longer and healthier lives. According to CDC, over 50% of people in the U.S. with diagnosed HIV are 50 and older.
Learn more about #HIVandAging ahead of NHAAD: ms.spr.ly/6185XRkY1
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A significant indicator of whether a patient with rheumatoid arthritis will improve over the course of disease may lie in part in their gut, according to new research from Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine.
"This is the first study to date that uses gut microbiome data to predict clinical improvement in rheumatoid arthritis disease activity independent of the initial measurement of their condition or prior treatment," says Jaeyun Sung, Ph.D., a computational biologist within Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine and co-senior author of the study. (from Mayo Clinic)
Mayo researchers link gut microbiome to rheumatoid arthritis prognosis
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So interesting to learn WHY some people have more harmful gut bacteria and others have mostly beneficial gut bacteria. What we eats feeds them, for better or for worse. Choose your foods wisely. The best foods = the best health. “When it comes to gut flora, there are just two types of people in the world: those that grow out mostly Bacteroides, and those that overwhelmingly are home to Prevotella species. The question is why?...What matters is what you eat.” “They looked at over a 100 different food components and a theme started to arise.” “Animal foods like protein and fat are associated with the Bacteroides enterotpye, and those found almost exclusively in plant foods are associated with Prevotella. So, no surprise African Americans fell into the Bacteroides enterotype, whereas most of the native Africans were Prevotella. The reason this may matter is Bacteroides species are generally associated with increased risk of colon cancer, our second leading cause of cancer death, yet almost unheard of among native Africans. The differences in our gut flora may help explain why Americans appear to have more than 50 times the rate of colon cancer.” nutritionfacts.org/video/whats-your-gut-microbiome-enterotype/
No mention of ways we can increase the beneficial bacteria and decrease the harmful bacteria in our colon. More FIBER. Less animal protein and animal fat. “It has become evident that diet has a dominant role in the bacteria in our colon and that diet-driven changes can occur within days to weeks.” nutritionfacts.org/video/microbiome-the-inside-story/
If you or an older person you know has fallen, you're not alone. More than one in three people age 65 years or older falls each year. Find tips on fall prevention, how to avoid tripping and slipping, and ways to lower your chances of getting a fracture (from National Institute on Aging - NIH): go.usa.gov/xMWfF
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Doesn't help when our sadistic government refuses the 'right to sight' to seniors and disabled people the most at risk.
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