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Non-healing wounds may be worse than cancer

 
 
Dr. Des Bell, Chief Medical Officer at Omeza LLC, a medtech and consumer healthcare products company specializing in skin care and wound management products from the sea joins eHealth Radio and the Health News and Skin Care Channels.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Dr. Des Bell discuss the following:
Having served on the board of directors for American Board of Wound Management as well as the Association for the Advancement of Wound care and American Board of Wound Management Foundation, you are considered an expert in your field…why do you say that non healing wounds may be worse than many forms of cancer?
Why are these wounds non healing?
What type of issues do physicians face in wound care treatments today? 
What can be done to prevent these wounds from becoming chronic?
I understand you have created a non-profit organization called SALSAL to help advance wound care in America. Can you tell us a little bit about your mission?

Dr. Desmond “Des” Bell, DPM, CWS is Chief Medical Officer of Omeza, and has consulted with the Omeza founders since the company’s inception, helping develop the product line and overseeing its practical application. He serves as lead clinician in an approved test program for Omeza products at the Wound Management program at Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida.
Dr. Bell, a leader in limb preservation and lower extremity wound care, is a Board-Certified Wound Specialist (CWS, American Board of Wound Management).  A graduate of Tulane University and the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine, Dr. Bell is the Founder and President of “The Save A Leg, Save A Life” Foundation (SALSAL), a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing unnecessary lower extremity amputations. He has previously served on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Wound Management and the American Board of Wound Management Foundation.  He has been the recipient of the Frist Humanitarian Awards at Specialty Hospital (2009) and Memorial Hospital (2018) in Jacksonville, Florida. Dr. Bell has also been elected as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
He is a frequent lecturer and author on the subject of wound care, peripheral arterial disease and diabetes, and is a founding editorial Board Member of “Today’s Wound Clinic”, as well as being a regular contributor to “Podiatry Today”. He is a nationally recognized speaker, with regular faculty roles at AMP, ASCENT and Modern Wound Care Management.
 
 
Website: omeza.com
Social Media Links: Facebook: facebook.com/omezaskin  Instagram: @omezaskin

Food addiction: A Bite Size Explanation

 
 
Dr. Vera Tarman, addictions specialist and Medical Director of Renascent, an inpatient drug and alcohol treatment centre in Canada, as well as the author of Food Junkies: the Truth about Food Addiction joins eHealth Radio and the Addiction Prevention and Health News Channels joins eHealth Radio.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Dr. Vera Tarman discuss the following:
Is food really addictive?
What foods are addictive?
Why do we care? Why is it so Important to acknowledge Food Addiction?
What does food recovery (from the obsession to eat) mean?
Do you have to stop eating sugar. Forever?
Why do diets not work? Why can you lose weight only to gain back only more? How does this relate to the growing obesity crisis?

Dr. Vera Tarman is the Medical Director of Renascent, Canada’s largest drug and alcohol residential treatment centre. Dr Tarman is currently overseeing Renascent’s unique 28 day live-in treatment program for women with food addiction. She has treated over 100 food addicts, and can attest that food addiction is as serious as all other addictions. She is the author of Food Junkies: The Truth about Food Addiction, and has spoken internationally on the subject of sugar / carb addiction.
Dr. Tarman is herself in recovery from food addiction and has sustained a weight loss of 100 pounds for over 10 years, mainly by following a healthy and delicious food abstinent plan. She is passionate about her subject, which she sees is personal. She maintains a website: AddictionsUnplugged.com and encourages you to join her Facebook page: “I’m Sweet Enough: Sugar Free for life Support Group Page”.
 
 
Media links: Speaker One link: Dr_Vera_Tarman_One_Sheet_Print Website: veratarmanMD.com | addictionsunplugged.com Email: veratarmanmd@gmail.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VeraTarmanMD Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drveratarman Amazon: amazon.com/author/food-junkies Amazon CA: http://bit.ly/FoodJunkiesRecoveryFromFoodAddiction Amazon: http://bit.ly/FoodJunkiesRecoveryfromFA Twitter: @addunplug

The Importance of Strength Training for children

 
 
Michelle Miller, the CEO of MM FITNESS LLC, a company specializing in mobile personal training and the Creator of an innovative new fitness product for kids age 5-10 that teaches them how to get started on a fitness and weight lifting program at home under the direction of a parent joins eHealth Radio and the Children's Health & Fitness Channels.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Michelle Miller discuss the following:
What was the motivation behind the idea for My First Workout®?
What’s one of the biggest things you’ve learned through this and how are you helping others learn it too?
Is your program for all kids? Why or why not?
How does the program work?
How is your program different from other programs?
What’s one thing tip or piece of advice you would give parents from a professional fitness trainer’s stand point?

Michelle is an entrepreneur with a lifelong passion for physical fitness. As a Certified Personal Trainer, with a B.S. Degree in Exercise Science and Fitness, and advanced training for special populations, including but not limited to Cardiac Rehabilitation, Pregnancy, Children and Youth, Diabetes, Stroke, PVD, COPD, Asthma, Cancer, Hypertension, HIV/AIDS, MS and Joint Rehab.
Michelle has spent her career providing exceptional training at every stage of a person’s life. As her passion continued to evolve into a family affair, Michelle launched My First Workout® with the goal of connecting kids with good habits. The progressive strength and conditioning program she developed called My First Workout®, focuses on enhancing performance and preventing injuries in children 5 - 10 years old. Michelle’s goal in creating this program is to assist parents in building essential lifestyle habits from the earliest moments in their child’s life, which she believes is the key to improving the health of all our children.
My First Workout® is an award-winning program on a mission to build stronger family connections and instill a habit of fitness from the earliest age possible in every child. The key to a healthier tomorrow is getting kids involved today. This super smart kids-fitness program that focuses on fun and ease of use has quickly become one of the most innovative and critically essential new products to hit the market in 2019!
 
 
 
Website: myfirstworkout.com
Social Media Links: Instagram: @myfirstworkout  Twitter: @MyFirstWorkout1  Facebook: facebook.com/MyFirstWorkout

Digital Product Innovation in the Healthcare Industry

 
 
Ronak Patel, the CEO & Co-founder at Sunflower Lab, an award-winning digital product and innovations agency joins eHealth Radio and the Healthcare and Technology Channels.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Ronak Patel discuss the following:
What is your take on digital product trends for the healthcare market?
How is big data being leveraged with respect to healthcare solutions?
What are your thoughts on SAAS healthcare solutions?
What is your outlook on wearable devices, what trends are you witnessing?
Where and how does mobile app development fit in to the healthcare digital mix?
What are the different types of digital products that the healthcare oriented IT market is segmented into?
What different types of healthcare products is Sunflower Lab building?
How is the infrastructure for a healthcare digital product different than any other IT solution?

Ronak Patel is the Co-Founder & CEO at Sunflower Lab. He’s an entrepreneur, thought leader, and a problem solver. With nearly 20 years experience in the IT industry, he is a generalist who can contribute and lead in any technical discipline. Since 2010 he has led the Sunflower Lab team with an emphasis on creating digital solutions that solve client’s business problems.
Website: thesunflowerlab.com
Social Media Links:  Twitter: @SunflowerLab  Facebook: facebook.com/sunflowerlab

Why therapists need to take marketing seriously

 
 
Avivit Fisher, a Marketing Coach and a Principal at REdD Strategy, an agency that helps therapists to launch and grow their private practices joins eHealth Radio and the Health Marketing Channel.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Avivit Fisher discuss the following:
Why did you decide to focus on a niche like therapists in private practice?
What is the main problem with not marketing yourself as a therapist today?
What does a clinician need to keep in mind when they are marketing their practice?
How has people's beahvior change with respect to "shopping for a therapist" in the last few years?
What are the first marketing steps you would recommend to take for someone who is launching a private practice?

Avivit Fisher is a Marketing Coach and a principal at REdD Strategy, an agency that helps therapists to launch and grow their private practices. Avivit believes that with the right marketing strategy therapists can reach more people who really need help. She helps her clients create and deliver a marketing message that connects and converts ideal clients.
 
 
Website: reddstrategy.com
Social Media Links: Facebook: facebook.com/reddstrategy  Twitter: @reddstrategy 

BetterPT: Transforming Patient Access To Physical Therapy

 
 
Greg Peters, Co-Founder and CEO of BetterPT, a healthcare technology platform company providing end-to-end digital connectivity between physical therapists (PT), patients, and physicians joins eHealth Radio and the Health News and Physical Therapy Channels.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Greg Peters discuss the following:
What is BetterPT and how does it work?
Tell us a little bit about your background and how it lead into creating BetterPT?
Why is physical therapy important?
What has enabled BetterPT’s success thus far and allows the company to continue its rapid growth?
I believe congratulations are in order as you have recently raised $5M in series A financing. What are you planning to use the money for? Give us some details.

Greg Peters is the Co-Founder and CEO of BetterPT. Greg is a leading health and fitness professional and digital entrepreneur. With more than 15 years of experience in the health and fitness industry, Greg has applied his expertise to building disruptive mobile technology in healthcare, fitness and hospitality industries.
Since 2004, Greg has been an active Managing Partner for LA PALESTRA Center for Preventative Medicine, which combines both standard and alternative medical practices with state-of-the-art and time tested fitness modalities and programs.
In 2014, Greg founded TRN Technologies, a company focused on building disruptive platforms in fitness & hospitality. The company’s first mobile app, TRN On-demand health and fitness, provided a convenient way for members to locate, book and pay for individual training sessions in multiple fitness disciplines.
Greg serves as the Chairman of the Board of TRN Technologies. Greg has proven time and time again that building a great business is dependent on great vision and leadership, incredible team dynamics and perseverance.
 
 
Website: www.betterpt.com
Social Media Links: Facebook: facebook.com/betterptapp  Twitter: @betterptapp

Propolis from Bee & You in the US!

 
 
Dr. Asli Tanugur Samanci the CEO and Founder of BEE & YOU, an innovative provider of natural BEE products joins eHealth Radio and the Health News & Nutrition Channels.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Dr. Asli Tanugur Samanci discuss the following:
What is propolis? How did you find out about Propolis? Can you tell us about the health effects of propolis?
Should we use it regularly in the summer? What are the benefits of consuming it in the summer? And where can we find the products in the USA.
Can you tell us about the effect of propolis on blood sugar? What are the effects of royal jelly on human health?
What is the difference of raw honey? Why should we consume raw honey? The pine honey difference?

Dr. Asli Tanugur Samanci is the CEO and Founder of BEE & YOU, an innovative provider of natural BEE products.
A food scientist committed to creating natural and healthy products for the educated consumer, Dr. Samanci is a pioneer to combine science and nature for safer, more effective natural bee products. She created a business modal to contract the beekeepers to prevent bees from becoming extinct. This also allowed her to create and patent the Propolis in its healthiest, most natural and safe form. Her ultimate goal is to make Propolis a consistent product harvested from all the beehives available in the world and introduce the natural healing power of Anatolian Propolis to the world.
BEE & YOU products (Royal Jelly, Propolis, Pure Raw Honey) are antiviral, antibacterial and they are natural energy boosters. They are effective in fighting allergy symptoms naturally and they support the immune system. They are 100% natural; Gluten Free; Non-GMO; Pesticide Free; Free from additives & colorants & preservatives. Bee and you products have innovative taste options for kids and adults. And they are on sale at 3000 CVS stores nationally and at Amazon.
 
 
 
Website: www.bee-and-you.com
Social Media Links: Facebook: facebook.com/BeeAndYouNatural  Instagram: @beeandyounatural  Twitter: @beeandyou

Supporting the initiative of value-based health care

 
 
Tom Gardner, CEO and Founder of Omeza, a skin innovations and life sciences company specializing in skin care and wound management products from the sea joins eHealth Radio and the Health News and Skin Care Channels.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Tom Gardner discuss the following:
What is value-based health care?
Can you give me an example?
Why the shift now?
What is Omeza doing to support the initiative of value-based health care?
Are insurance companies supporting this shift to value-based care?
What’s your forecast for where value-based care is headed in the future?

Tom Gardner is Founder and CEO of Omeza, LLC, as well as managing member of KeyView, LLC. KeyView works with investors, owners and CEO’s of startup to early-stage health care companies. Tom is also founder and managing member of KeyView Labs (cognitive health dietary supplements), former chairman of IntegriChain (informed software applications for the pharmaceutical industry sold to Accel-KKR), and former chairman of MMIT (managed market insights and technology for the pharmaceuticals industry). He is an investor in and board chairman of Florida Mobile Physicians (medical house calls) and co-founder and co-manager of BRIDGE Angel Investors, LLC.
Prior to KeyView, Tom was CEO of several public and private companies including Nucryst Pharmaceuticals (sold to Smith & Nephew), Songbird Hearing (sold controlling interest to Procter & Gamble), Datamonitor (IPO on London Stock Exchange), Base Ten Systems (assets sold to Smiths Aerospace and ABB Group), and Access Health (sold to HBOC then became part of McKesson Health Solutions). Earlier, Tom held marketing and general management positions at Procter & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson. He earned a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) and has been a guest lecturer on marketing channels at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
 
 
Website: https://omeza.com
Social Media Links: Instagram: @omezaskin  Facebook: facebook.com/omezaskin

Everyday Accessible Health by Brandable

 
 
Oliver Bogner the Founder and CEO of Brandable, a next-generation consumer products company that is reinvigorating tired product categories and building brands that appeal to Millennials and Gen Zs joins eHealth Radio and Health News and Nutrition Channels.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Oliver Bogner discuss the following:
How did you start Brandable?
Where did the idea for Ready to Thrive and VeggieCraft Farms come from?
What does accessible health mean to you?
What do you think is the biggest road block for people when it comes to eating healthy?
What makes Ready to Thrive and VeggieCraft Farms different from competitors?

Twenty-six-year-old mastermind Oliver Bogner is the founder and CEO of Brandable, a next-generation consumer products company that is reinvigorating tired product categories and building brands that appeal to Millennials and Gen Zs. As an incubator of sorts, Brandable’s nimbleness allows it to innovate and have products on shelves in a fraction of the time it takes for traditional CPG companies. It is focused on creating the best products possible—and ones that buyers have expressed an urgent need for. Bogner’s “created for Millennials, by Millennials” approach is central to Brandable’s success, and why it’s becoming known as “the millennial P&G.”
In less than 18 months, Bogner has grown Brandable from a mere concept to a 90+person operation, with a vast portfolio featuring over 100 products across Toys, Food, and Wellness categories, as well as exclusive programs with the two largest retailers in America: Target and Walmart. The former TV hit series producer for TLC, Lifetime and Food Network has harnessed his keen understanding of entertainment and the power of celebrity influence to drive excitement and appeal for the company’s brands, many of which are influencer-inspired. Brandable’s agile product development approach has earned the company “vendor-of-record” status by coveted national retailers, including Petco, JoAnn, 7-Eleven, Walgreens, CVS, HSN, Michaels, and Claire’s.
 

 
Websites: VeggieCraftFarms.com | ReadytoThrive.com
Social Media Links: Instagram: instagram.com/brandablela  Facebook: facebook.com/brandablela

Skincare Expert Dr. Howard Murad's Latest Obsession: Cultural Stress

 
 
Dr. Howard Murad the founder of the innovative skincare company Murad, Inc. and is largely recognized as The Father of Modern Wellness based on his years of expertise as a board-certified dermatologist and pharmacist whose holistic health approach recognizes the mind/body/skin connection in living a healthier, happier life – at any age joins eHealth Radio and the Dermatology & Stress Management Channels.
Dr. Murad’s mission is to teach people how to manage cultural stress through a comprehensive treatment plan he describes in his published books and on his website.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Dr. Howard Murad discuss the following:
What is Cultural Stress and when did you first identify it?
Do you think things like our digital devices and cellphones are contributors?
Why do you think that people are so stressed out? Is it worse than ever?
You say that there are three ways to determine if a person is a victim of Cultural Stress? What are they?

Dr. Howard Murad is recognized as The Father of Modern Wellness® based on his years of expertise as a board-certified dermatologist and pharmacist whose holistic health approach recognizes the mind/body/skin connection in living a healthier, happier life – at any age. Dr. Murad’s ability to “connect the dots” linking cellular hydration, nutrition, joyful exercise, creative expression, reducing cultural stress, and efficacious skincare, are unique contributions to Modern Wellness.
A practitioner not just of medicine but of the philosophy of health, Dr. Murad has been studying the effects of the environment, nutrition, and lifestyle on skin and overall wellness since 1972. In 1989 – at the age of 50 – he founded Murad, Inc. and launched the first science-backed, doctor-branded skincare line. Understanding that healthy skin comes from the inside out, Dr. Murad was the first to also introduce “internal skincare” first through supplements and later expanding it to include mental and emotional wellbeing which became the beginning of the Inclusive Health® movement.
Having treated over 50,000 patients and counting, Dr. Murad hopes to inspire people to achieve not just beautiful skin – but greater health and happiness inside and out. Dr. Murad’s inclusive health protocol has been fundamental in reversing the effects of “Cultural Stress,” a condition he named and identified as the constant and pervasive form of stress due to modern day living which has been scientifically shown to have a negative impact on cellular health.
Dr. Murad’s impact on healthy living reaches far beyond his legendary skincare line. Today, much of Dr. Murad’s work involves teaching people how to manage cultural stress through a comprehensive treatment plan he describes in his published books and online at www.drhowardmurad.com.
Website: www.drhowardmurad.com
Social Media Links: Twitter: @drmurad  Instagram: @muradskincare  Facebook: facebook.com/MuradSkincare