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  • Dr. Mark Hyman, Image: Photo by Masha MaltsavaDr. Mark Hyman  
    on Living Healthy to 100 and Beyond  

    Mark Hyman is a practicing family physician and an internationally recognized leader, bestselling author, speaker, educator and advocate in the field of functional medicine. He is the...

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  • Carol Penn on Finding Calm in a Chaotic World, Image: Carol Penn on Finding Calm in a Chaotic World  

    Dr. Carol Penn, double board-certified in family and obesity medicine, is a movement, meditation and mindset coach who teaches people to prioritize self-care to achieve their best and highest selves. She is certified in...

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  • Terry Wahls, Image: Dr. Terry WahlsTerry Wahls  
    on Managing Autoimmune Disease With Lifestyle Interventions  

    Terry Wahls, M.D., is a certified practitioner at the Institute for Functional Medicine, as well as clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa, where she conducts clinical trials testing the effect of therapeutic diet and lifestyle to treat multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms...

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  • Bruce Cryer, Image: Bruce Cryer  
    on His Love Affair With the Heart  

    Bruce Cryer has been called a Renaissance man because of a varied, four-decade career as a singer, actor, dancer, publisher, author, marketing executive, teacher and coach. In New York City, he played The Boy for 800 performances in the world’s longest running...

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  • Milton Mills, MDMilton Mills  
    on Optimizing Health with a Plant-Based Diet  

    Milton Mills, M.D., practices internal medicine and critical care in underserved communities in Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia. He advocates switching to...

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  • Jeffrey Rediger on the Science of Miraculous Recoveries, Image: Board-certified psychiatrist Jeffrey Rediger is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and medical director of McLean Southeast Adult Psychiatry and Community Affairs at McLean Hospital, near Boston. He holds a Master...

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  • Rachel Jones on Grief, Image: Rachel Jones on Grief  
    In the Healthcare Front Lines  

    After earning a journalism degree from Columbia University, Rachel Jones spent four years as a reporter in Caracas, Venezuela, including a year and a half as a correspondent for The Associated Press. Her articles have...

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  • Nadine Clopton, Image: Nadine Clopton  
    on Advancing Regenerative Organic Agriculture to Health Care   

    During the last century, the rise of chemical-based agriculture has severely changed the way food is produced, and we have failed to recognize its unintended consequences. Research has revealed that if we continue...

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  • Lissa Rankin, Image: Lissa Rankin  
    on the Mysteries of Healing  

    Mind-body physician Lissa Rankin, a New York Times bestselling author and founder of the Whole Health Medicine Institute in the San Francisco Bay Area, takes readers on her decade-long journey in her latest...

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  • Mark Mincolla on, Image: al;sfdjlweufkjasldkuMark Mincolla on  
    the Healing Power of Our Superconsciousness  

    For 40 years, nutritional therapist and quantum energy healer Mark Mincolla, Ph.D., has integrated ancient Chinese energy healing techniques with emerging nutritional science in what he calls Electromagnetic Muscle Testing, an approach that...

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  • Jeffrey Smith on the, Image:  courtesy of Duke University Sanford School of Public PolicyJeffrey Smith on the  
    Threat of Gene-Edited Microbes   

    When most people didn’t know what a GMO (genetically engineered organism) was 25 years ago, Jeffrey Smith, the founder and executive director of the Institute for Responsible Technology, was one of the leaders of...

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  • Frank Bruni, Image: courtesy of Duke University Sanford School of Public PolicyFrank Bruni  
    on Living With Afflictions  

    One day in late 2017, Frank Bruni, a writer for more than 25 years for The New York Times—including as a White House correspondent, op-ed columnist, Rome bureau chief and restaurant critic—woke up with partial loss of sight in his right eye. He found out that his condition was...

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