Added 4.11.19. Milt delves into sleep with two experts: James Herdegen and Kristen Knutson. At the time of the broadcast he was director of the Sleep Science Center at University of Illinois-Chicago, and she was a biomedical anthropologist and professor of medicine at University of Chicago. Together they explore the science of sleep, including questions such as: Do fish sleep? How is sleep measured? What are the causes and remedies of sleep disorders? And much more.

Added 12.10.18. Milt interviews Joe and Teresa Graedon about their then-new book, “Top Screw-ups Doctors Make And How To Avoid Them.” The noted consumer health writers had a syndicated newspaper column, and a show on PBS. They also run the informative web site peoplespharmacy.com. Each year in the U.S., report the Graedons, about 500,000 people die from health system mistakes including incorrect diagnoses, procedures gone wrong, and hospital-acquired infections. Dig in to this lively and eye-opening conversation to learn more.

Added 9.18.18. Milt in this 2012 episode talks with  Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, a cardiologist – and science writer Kathryn Bowers. They authored the book, “Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health And The Science Of Healing.” This fascinating discussion explores the underpinnings and philosophical ramifications of how the study of animal health and well-being can and does guide advances in human health. It starts – as Milt notes – from the premise that “we are very much like our animal neighbors in our pathologies.”

Added 6.12.18. Bite into this: in-vitro meat as a real-meat, more-humane alternative to fare from the slaughterhouse.  More ostrich meat in your diet, along with fish raised indoors, and tasty, satisfying wheat-less bread “baked” through fermentation of raw ingredients. Let’s chew on a few more things. How do we make tomatoes great again, and advance real sustainability in the way we foster the world’s food supply, all as cooking becomes more an intersection of art and science – rather than just an art, as in years past? The food of the future and the future of food are closely intertwined, as Milt and his guests reveal in this 2010 conversation. Guests are Josh Schoenwald, author of “The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches From The Future Of Food;” Chef Chris Koetke, Vice-President of Strategy and Industry Relations at Kendall College and its School of Culinary Arts, and the late Chef Homaro Cantu, who trained with the legendary and innovative Chef Charlie Trotter, and later opened the restaurants Moto and iNG in Chicago.

Added 6.5.18. The practice of psychiatry in recent decades has grown in sophistication and diagnostic capabilities. Milt in this 2010 probe discusses the state of modern psychiatry with three prominent researcher-practitioners. They are: Mani Pavuluri, Founding Director of the Pediatric Mood Disorders Program, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine; Will Cronenwett, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavorial Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University; and Murali Rao, Department Chair, Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Loyola University Medicial Center. They delve into a range of topics, including: the hard-wiring of the human brain; how advances in biomedical technology and analysis have fostered earlier detection and treatment of psychiatric pathologies; and the ongoing tension between  the need for involuntary treatment and the individual’s right to autonomy. Discussants also briefly wrestle with whether, in fact, the world’s vast proportion of psychiatrists are based in the United States, and what that might mean.