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Category Archives: Health Edge Podcast Episodes

Building Immune Resilience

Leave a comment July 19, 2020 Mark Pettus

In this Health Edge recording, Mark provides a lifestyle medicine approach to creating greater immune resilience. This webcast was created for Berkshire Health Systems employees. Enjoy!

 

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Saturated Fat: Questioning the evidence condemning it !

Leave a comment July 10, 2020 Mark Pettus

In this Health Edge recording Mark and John review a soon to be published review entitled: Saturated Fats and Health: A Reassessment and Proposal for Food-based Recommendations: JACC State-of -the-Art Review https://www.onlinejacc.org/content/early/2020/06/16/j.jacc.2020.05.077

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Q & A

9 Comments June 12, 2020 Mark Pettus

Questions-and-AnswersIn this episode of The Health Edge Mark and John respond to some listener questions on gardening, wearing masks during the covid pandemic, pancreatic insufficiency and vitamin D deficiency in autoimmunity.

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Cancer Care and Circadian Rhythms

1 Comment June 9, 2020 Mark Pettus

Screen Shot 2020-06-09 at 6.25.38 AMThis is a recording from June 4th on behalf of our local Berkshire Health System Cancer Care team and the patient-family support network. In this video, Mark reviews the critical connection between health, rmetabolic resilience and circadian entrainment.

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Wellness Tips for Quality Sleep

Leave a comment June 7, 2020 Mark Pettus

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This is a recording from a recent community wellness workshop I gave on key sleep tips. The PowerPoint Slide Deck that goes with it can be found on my web site www.thehealthedgepodcast.com

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Sleep Wellness Tips May 2020


Sunlight and Vit D: Are they the same thing?

1 Comment June 5, 2020 Mark Pettus

 

In this videocast of The Health Edge Mark and John review a nice paper from Stephanie Seneff from the Spring 2020 Weston A Price Foundation.

https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/sunlight-and-vitamin-d-theyre-not-the-same-thing/


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Coffee Consumption, Epigenetics and Health

1 Comment May 20, 2020 Mark Pettus

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In this episode of The Health Edge Mark and John review the principles of epigenetics and a paper titled: Epigenome-wide association meta-analysis of DNA methylation with coffee and tea consumption. 

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.15.042267v1


Starting a Vegetable Garden 101

2 Comments May 13, 2020 Mark Pettus

In this episode of The Health Edge John Bagnulo shares his wisdom on the basics of starting your vegetable garden. We apologize the video quality was disrupted by some broadband connection challenges. Enjoy!

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Niacinamide (Vitamin B3) And Skin Cancer Prevention

1 Comment May 6, 2020 Mark Pettus

In this Health Edge video recording Mark and John discuss some research linking vitamin B3 with prevention of skin cancer in individuals with frequent sun exposure.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/exd.13819

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27942349

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4570055/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26992108

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Covid-19 Resilience: Part 2

4 Comments April 22, 2020 Mark Pettus

In this episode of The Health Edge Mark and John offer some follow-up observations on covid-19, current statistics, the CDC response, and the potential negative consequences of the current response.
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