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Mark Hyman believes that functional medicine is the way of the future, and that we can only improve medicine if we understand the body’s system, not just symptoms.
Uploaded on Dec 15, 2009
Steve Shapiro – Open Innovation for Rocket Scientists
Articulate, knowledgeable, and provocative, Steve Shapiro quickly captures the attention of his audience in a style that is as innovative as his subject matter. During his 15-year tenure with the international consulting firm Accenture, he established and led their Global Process Excellence Practice, delivering innovation training to 20,000 consultants. Shapiro helps individuals and businesses realize their full potential with less effort and more personal satisfaction.
Birke Baehr -“what’s Wrong With Our Food System? And How Can We Make A Difference?”
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Robyn shares her personal story and how it inspired her current path as a “Real Food” evangelist. Grounded in a successful Wall Street career that was more interested in food as good business than good-for-you, this mother of four was shaken awake by the dangerous allergic reaction of one of her children to a “typical” breakfast. Her mission to unearth the cause revealed more about the food industry than she could stomach, and impelled her to share her findings with others. Informative and inspiring.
About this speaker
Robyn authored “The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It.” A former Wall Street food industry analyst, Robyn brings insight, compassion and detailed analysis to her research into the impact that the global food system is having on the health of our children. She founded allergykidsfoundation.org and was named by Forbes as one of “20 Inspiring Women to Follow on Twitter.” The New York Times has passionately described her as “Food’s Erin Brockovich.”
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Before we released our speaker’s names, we featured a series of Speaker Teasers. Here, Robyn’s:
Real food, is that too much to ask;
Big industry, I take to task;
It’s time that we reclaim our plates;
from food forced into altered states.
Fanziska Michor of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute answers questions about the evolution of rogue cancer cells and how they multiply within the body.
Not all microbes are pathogens. As Jonathan Eisen of the University of California of Davis points out, the health of our microbiome is vital to protecting us from disease.
Some two-thirds of cancer are caused by lifestyle choices, says Otis Brawley, chief medical offer of the American Cancer Society. But routine screening, which causes over-diagnosing, is not the answer.
Jon Cohen, chief medical officer of Quest Diagnostics, talks about why patients don’t behave like wise consumers when it comes to choosing doctors.
Traditionally tech devices have been rigid and boxy – until now. David Icke creates breathable, implantable microcomputers that conform to the human body, which can be used for a variety of medical applications.
Unhealthy lifestyles have brought on a social epidemic of “diabesity,” says author Mark Hyman, and community-driven solutions may be the only way out.