891 Life as Your Best Medicine

Tune in to our radio show on your local public radio station, or sign up for the podcast and listen at your leisure. Here’s what it’s about:
Dr. Tieraona Low Dog is one of the country’s most knowledgeable experts on integrative medicine. As Director of Fellowship for Dr. Andrew Weill’s Integrative Medicine Center at the University of Arizona, she helps other doctors learn how to combine conventional medicine with alternative and holistic approaches. How did she become interested in this unusual approach to healing? Dr. Low Dog shares her own story with us.
She also shows us how to make smart choices every day so that ordinary activities like eating dinner, meeting a friend or heading off to work can contribute to our health instead of tearing it down. What supplements are really helpful and which drugs may create nutritional deficiencies? How can you get enough sleep? Does loneliness pose a health hazard? Dr. Low Dog brings you the practical information you need on how to arrange your life so that it is your best medicine.
Guest: Tieraona Low Dog, MD, is Director of Fellowship for the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona. She has served as Chair of the United States Pharmacopeia Dietary Supplements–Botanicals Expert Committee and on the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Her books include Integrative Women’s Health and National Geographic’s Guide to Medicinal Herbs. Her most recent book, also published by National Geographic, is Life Is Your Best Medicine: A Woman’s Guide to Health, Healing, and Wholeness at Every Age. Her website is www.drlowdog.com
The podcast of this program will be available the Monday after the broadcast date. The show can be streamed online from this site and podcasts can be downloaded for free for four weeks after the date of broadcast. After that time has passed, digital downloads are available for $2.99. CDs may be purchased at any time after broadcast for $9.99.