https://bit.ly/holidayswithoutstress
Enjoy a FREE download - "The Eight Holiday Health Hacks" The holidays are a time for joy and celebration, but they can also wreak havoc on your health. You know it!

From indulging in rich, spicy meals to sipping festive cocktails, it’s easy to overdo it—leading to unwelcome side effects like heartburn, hangovers, seasonal illnesses, and stress.

Did you know that heartburn affects up to 20% of U.S. adults weekly or that stress levels often peak during the holiday season, impacting sleep, immunity, and digestion?

The good news: A little preparation can go a long way in protecting your health while enjoying the festivities. From soothing heartburn to beating hangovers and speeding healing from seasonal bugs, discover how to keep holiday stress under control and stay energized and healthy to make the most of the season.

Sherry Torkos, pharmacist, author, and health expert with a passion for wellness and disease prevention. She combines conventional and holistic approaches to help people achieve better health. Sherry has received multiple national pharmacy awards for her dedication to patient care and is a trusted authority in holistic medicine.

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https://bit.ly/loneliness-support-women-over-60

The Holidays are not an easy time for everyone. People can feel sadness, depression, isolation over times past.

This is especially true for women over 60, one-third of whom are part of the US Surgeon General’s warning about the epidemic of loneliness and isolation.

AARP’s Ethel Gathering Groups help women across the country (27,000+ in 44 States) to provide each other company, support, commiseration, and humor via private Facebook groups and local get-togethers.

Shelley Emling, Senior Director, Specialized Content at AARP and Kentucky group Member Lisa Marcellino provide insight into the program and share how easy it is to join and get support.

This is a heart-warming interview.

QUESTIONS ANSWERED

- How has a support group impacted your life?

- How do you join an Ethels support group?

- How do you start an Ethels support group?

- How have these support groups impacted women's lives across the US

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https://bit.ly/jackieforjoy

This show today is for you overthinkers, over-achievers, people-pleasers and perfectionists – in other words, those of you who are probably too focused on everyone else and not enough on yourself and what’s best for you.

With this focus on everyone else, your stress level may be through the roof and your nervous system in overdrive. A number of folks just like you suffer from chronic headaches, muscle tension, digestive issues, insomnia and high levels of anxiety.

If this sounds like you, or someone you know, stay tuned, because our guest today has written a book just for you called The Overthinker’s Guide to Joy: A Handbook for Overachievers, People-Pleasers, and Perfectionists.

Her motto is, "You’re not broken, you’re not too old, and it is never too late to start living the life you want… instead of just surviving the one you have."

Enjoy this insightful and uplifting interview.

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https://bit.ly/best-baby-nutrition

For Moms and Dads, there is this concept of The First 1,000 Days. Do you know about this? It’s the time between conception and two years of age.

Why is this time so important? Because the brain goes through the most development than at any other time during life.

That makes nutrition vitally important. For both Mom AND the Baby. It’s Mother’s nutrition while baby is in the womb that determines the baby’s health and development. It’s Mother’s breast milk during infancy that continues the nutrition for the child.

So, what makes for the best nutrition?

Listen to our interview with award-winning registered dietician Lauren Manaker.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has identified a list of 14 nutrients that are vital for prenatal and infant growth. They are: choline, copper, folate, iodine, iron, lutein, magnesium, omega-3 fatty acids, protein, vitamin A, vitamins B, vitamine D, zeaxanthin, and zinc.

You can learn more about this by visiting these two websites:

gonnaneedmilk.com and thousanddays.org

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https://bit.ly/gth-holiday-vaccines

As we say at this time of year, Tis the Season! Tis the season for flu, pneumonia, RSV and COVID-19. Don’t let these illnesses ruin your end-of-year holidays and celebrations. The good news is vaccines help reduce the risk of severe illness, particularly for older adults who are at greater risk for complications and reduce the odds of hospitalization from a respiratory infection. Immunization rates went down during the pandemic when many people missed routine care. For certain vaccines, progress is being made to get people back on track, but immunization uptake for other vaccines continues to lag. IQVIA tracks this information and has provided the latest trend analysis:

• COVID-19 immunization rates this fall were higher than they were last year at this time.
• But vaccination against influenza, a disease that sickens tens of millions of people in the U.IS. each year, has declined every year since 2021.
• We also see stubborn disparities, with lower immunization rates among black and Hispanic individuals

Two experts in the field join us to explain the safety of vaccines, their development, testing and surveillance, as well as the advisability of getting your vaccines NOW before you travel and gather for the Holidays.

Nandini Selvam, PhD, Vice President and General Manager of IQVIA Government Solutions, and Michelle Fiscus, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Association of Immunization Managers (AIM).

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https://bit.ly/gth-overactivebladder

Do you have to find a bathroom to go pee more often than you like?

About 30% of men and 40% of women in the US have a condition that’s called Overactive Bladder, or OAB. The numbers may be much higher because a lot of people think this is just part of aging and don’t report symptoms to their doctor. OAB is most common in people 65 and older, but women may have OAB at a younger age, usually around 45.

Are you tired of feeling like your overactive bladder is running the show? Do you find yourself constantly worrying about when and where you’ll be able to find a bathroom? Overactive bladder causes anxiety, embarrassment, and disruption to daily life.

And there are things you can do about it. You don’t have to live like this.

To talk with us today, we are honored to have Holly Robinson Peete. She is an actor, author, talk show host, activist, and philanthropist, working in the film and TV industry for more than three decades. She is popularly known for her roles as Judy Hoffs on 21 Jump Street, Dr. Malena Ellis on For Your Love, and was one of the original co-hosts on The Talk, as well as her most recent hosting of the dating show Queen’s Court. Holly is also a passionate advocate raising awareness of several diseases through her HollyRod Foundation, founded with her husband and former football player Rodney Peete.

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https://bit.ly/medicare-in-trouble

68 million Americans are enrolled in Medicare, 90% of whom are over the age of 65. Medicare is a federal health insurance program that helps people pay for hospitalizations, physician services, prescription drugs, home and skilled nursing care and hospice care.

Medicare expenditures are expected to double by 2030 with the aging of the Baby Boomer population, and the concern is that funding will not cover the rising costs. Medicare is funded primarily by payroll taxes, self-employment taxes, and taxes on social security benefits.

One of the ways the Government has controlled the costs of Medicare is to limit the payments made by Medicare to doctors for the services they provide. Medicare physician payment has been cut 29% since 2001, and an additional almost 3% cut is scheduled for 2025.

According to the American Medical Association (AMA), this is leading to reduced access to care for patients, with many physician practices eliminating staff or limiting the number of Medicare patients they see. And this is compounded by physician workforce shortages, particularly in rural and underserved areas.

Bruce Scott, MD, President of the American Medical Association (AMA) discusses their appeal to Congress to eliminate the 3% cut for 2025 and restore reimbursements to a level that covers costs.

Dr. Scott also tells how WE can communicate with our elected representatives to inform them that these Medicare reimbursement cuts are harming patient accessibility and quality of treatment in healthcare.

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https://bit.ly/facs-lung-cancer-awareness

Which cancer causes the greatest number of deaths in the United States? If you guessed lung cancer, you’re right. We hear so little about lung cancer. Each year we lose about 130,000 people to lung cancer in the United States. That’s four times higher than colorectal and pancreatic cancer deaths, which average around 50,000 each year. And it’s more than colon, breast and prostate cancer deaths combined.

According to the American Cancer Society, the average age of diagnoses with lung cancer is 65 and older, and it’s equal among women and men. And if you get lung cancer, you have only a 50% survival rate. The two largest causes of lung cancer are, to no surprise, smoking of tobacco products which accounts for over 80% of deaths. And, you guessed it again, second-hand smoke- being exposed to tobacco smoke.

November is LUNG CANCER Awareness Month, and with us to talk about this today is Dr. Luis A. Godoy, Assistant Professor in General Thoracic Surgery at UC Davis Health in Sacramento, California.

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