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Gabor Maté, an expert on addiction, can help you if you're hooked on sugar, smoking, taking drugs, texting, or another unhealthy activity. Addiction is "one of the most misunderstood phenomena in our society, says Dr. Maté, author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction n the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters. You'll learn from Dr. Maté that "almost anything can become addictive, from seemingly healthy activities such as eating or exercising to abusing drugs intended for healing. The issue is not the external target but our internal relationship to it." Learn on this Gab with the Gurus Radio Show that addictions "develop in a compulsive attempt to ease one’s pain or distress in the world." Dr. Maté, who for twelve years practiced medicine in Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside – North America’s most concentrated area of drug use -- will share views that counter prevailing notions of addiction as either a genetic disease or an individual moral failure. In fact, Dr. Maté pre

Due to technical issues, this show was rescheduled. Please join us on May 16. Remember, you can listen at any time. Donna Gates has helped thousands of people around the world to overcome candidiasis and other immune system disorders. Donna's book, The Body Ecology Diet, was written after years of research to find a cure for her own candida-related health problems. On today's Gab with the Gurus Radio Show, I have the pleasure of introducing you to Donna, who will help you to reclaim your health (assuming you have some issues). Among other things, Donna will discuss her journey -- how after being frustrated with conventional medicine, she embarked on a long course of study into many different healing concepts, including ancient Chinese medicine, macrobiotics, natural hygiene, raw foods and mega-supplement therapy. She then developed her own system of health and healing, and her success inspired her to share it with others. In addition, you'll get some valuable tips. Donna has received awesome endorsements from

Earth Day and Earth Week are day devoted to our wonderful planet. But that's simply not enough, declares green commentator Betsy Rosenberg, host of The Green Front. Get the inside dirt on the movement that falls short big time, according to Betsy Rosenberg, who formerly anchored EcoTalk – once called TrashTalk – on KCBS Radio in San Francisco in 1997. Besy, who has produced and hosted more than 1,200 one-minute segments covering green lifestyles with a consumer focus and a “news-you-can-use” approach, will give you tips galore on how to life a green lifestyle that projects our planet. You'll also have a chance to learn about her pet projects, Green-To-Go, which will be syndicated on mainstream channels nationwide, and Don’t Be Fueled! – Mothers For Clean and Safe Vehicles. Rosenberg is a graduate of The Climate Project, Al Gore‘s training program created to better educate the public about global warming, and she has been a regular guest on local and national television programs, including CNN Headline News an

Robert Rosenthal, M.D., author of From Plagues to Miracles: The Transformational Journey of Exodus, from the Slavery of Ego to the Promised Land of Spirit, will help you think about whether or not you've been in bondage. Dr. Rosenthal -- a board-certified psychiatrist and psychotherapist inprivate practice in the Princeton, New Jersey -- will talk about in one form or another, we have all suffered plagues, and we all want to be free. The biblical book of Exodus is not just the story of Moses leading the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt 3,000 years ago.  It is very much our story, too. The conflict between Moses and Pharaoh is our conflict—an inner struggle played out every day in our own hearts and minds. Dr. Rosenthal will share his new understanding of Exodus in which Moses and Pharaoh represent dueling aspects of the human mind.   In this Gab with the Gurus Show, you'll get ideas on how to discover a road map for navigating the different stages of your spiritual journey—the rough terrain that stands between

Want to be thinner by next week?  Celebrity fitness guru, television star, and New York Times bestselling author Jackie Warner will show you how in her highly anticipated new fitness and diet book Jackie Warner's 10 Pounds in 10 Days: The Secret Celebrity Program for Losing Weight Fast . Learn about Jackie Warner’s newest program, which is organized so you don’t have to think about what you need to do. You'll get information about easy meals (and no recipes!), exercise sessions, and motivational support. Jackie will tell you how her diet is balanced and nutrient-rich with superstar foods that research has shown have the most fat-burning, muscle-building, and mood-stabilizing bang for their buck.   On this Gab with the Gurus Radio Show, you'll also find out about exercises that you can do anytime, anywhere, whether you're at home, at the gym, or in a hotel room.  Jackie will also give you some psychological tools to reframe your thinking to help you achieve them your goals.  This should be an exciting show.  T

Anita Moorjani -- the much-talked about woman, whose doctors gave her only hours to live but who ultimately healed from cancer -- appears on the Gab with the Gurus Radio Show. Anita will share her amazing, inspirational story, which she relates in her memoir, Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing. You'll discover how, after fighting cancer for almost four years, her body, overwhelmed by the malignant cells spreading through her system, began shutting down. You'll also find out how, when her organs failed, Anita entered into a near-death experience, where she realized her inherent worth -- and the cause of her disease. Upon regaining consciousness, her condition improved so rapidly that she was able to be released from the hospital within weeks. . . without a trace of cancer in her body!  On this Gab with the Gurus Radio Show, Anita will share what she learned about illness, healing, fear, "being love," and "the true magnificence of each and every human being." You'll discover

Marc David, M.A. -- a nutritional psychologist and author of two bestselling books, The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss and Nourishing Wisdom: A Mind-Body Approach to Nutrition and Well Being -- is today's Gab with the Gurus guest. A nationally recognized teacher, Marc will share his unique approach to food and eating. For instance, Marc -- founder and director of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating -- will delve into how our food life is deeply connected to our sex life. Indeed, you'll discover the link betweens sexuality and overeating, compulsive eating, and chronic dieting.     You'll also learn how many of our health challenges have been clinically linked to past wounding around sexuality. In addition, you'll get a glimpse at the connection between sexual wounding and calorie burning capacity and how masculine and feminine psychology impacts our experience of food and sex.   Marc will teach you to develop a more soulful approach to healing our relationship with food, a

Blood sugar issues? Today's Gab with the Gurus guest is bestselling author and renowned physician Dr. Mark Hyman, author of the exciting new book, The Blood Sugar Solution. Dr. Hyman has dedicated his career to identifying and addressing the root causes of chronic illness through a groundbreaking whole-systems medicine approach known as Functional Medicine. You'll get tips galore from Dr. Hyman -- who is an internationally recognized leader in his field -- strives to improve access to Functional Medicine, and to widen the understanding and practice of it, empowering others to stop managing symptoms and instead treat the underlying causes of illness, thereby also tackling our chronic-disease epidemic. In today's Gab with the Gurus Show, you'll learn about Dr. Hyman's Diabesity Quiz, which gives you a very precise idea of how much you are at risk. Make sure to mark your calendar to hear Dr. Hyman, who is also Chairman of the Institute for Functional Medicine and was awarded its 2009 Linus Pauling Award for Lead

Health and fitness guru Tony Horton needs no introduction to millions. The charismatic Tony Horton is the master behind the best selling fitness program in America P90X®. To put it simply, Tony has a gift for helping millions get fit and feel their best. On this Gab with the Gurus Show, Tony -- author of Bring It!: The Revolutionary Fitness Plan for All Levels That Burns Fat,  Builds Muscle, and Shreds Inches -- will help you as he has professional athletes, sports teams, television and major movie stars, and recording artists. You'll learn valuable information about such activities as post-rehabilitation training, advanced stretching, yoga, weight/resistance training, cardiovascular/aerobic training, boxing and kickboxing, plus circuit, cross and interval training. You'll also find out about the fitness camps, where Tony personally helps scores of people meet their goals. And you'll discover what you can do -- as do140 members of Congress --- to get into shape. His training techniques have produced amazing r

Did you know that how you eat can make you wired, tired, edgy or nervous -- or the reverse -- calm, centered, and focused? My guest today, Trudy Scott, is a Food Mood Expert, nutritionist, speaker and author ofThe Anti-Anxiety Food Solution: How the Foods You Eat Can Help You Calm Your Anxious Mind, Improve Your Mood & End Cravings. You will get valuable information about the amazing healing powers of food and nutrients and how they can be used to eliminate anxiety and other mood problems. Trudy is President of the National Association of Nutrition Professionals and she is a member of Alliance for Addiction Solutions and Anxiety Disorders Association of America. Trudy publishes an electronic newsletter entitled Food, Mood and Gal Stuff, available at www.everywomanover29.com and www.antianxietyfoodsolution.com Trudy’s goal for all her clients: “You can be your healthiest, look your best and feel on-top-of-the-world!”

  Since we're in the week where love is on our minds (because of Valentine's Day), we'll talk about love on this show. My guest today is neuropsychologist and psychotherapist Marsha Lucas, Ph.D., author of Rewire Your Brain for Love: Creating Vibrant Relationships Using the Science of Mindfulness, and an expert on neurscience and relationships. As Dr. Lucas points out, while on the way to finding and creating vibrant, successful relationships, too many of us end up tangled in the same old patterns, tripped up by relationship habits that get in our way whether we “know better” or not. On this Gab with the Gurus Show, Dr. Lucas discusses the effectiveness in changing your brain using mindfulness meditation. You'll also discover how your current relationship wiring developed. You can transform your brain from an enemy to an ally in all matters of the heart, creating more loving communication, building emotional resilience, and reducing overreactivity—not to mention enjoying better sex.

Psychologist Gay Hendricks, Ph.D. has made a huge name for himself for more than three decades as one of the major contributors to the fields of relationship transformation and body-mind therapies along with his wife, Dr. Kathlyn Hendricks. The loving couple have co-authored many bestsellers, including Conscious Loving and Five Wishes. He is the author of 33 books, including The Corporate Mystic, Conscious Living and The Big Leap. On this show, though, we won't talk much about relationships. Instead, Dr. Hendricks will discuss his first novel, The First Rule of Ten , which is about a detective, Ten, who, "draws on his upbringing in a Tibetan monastery to bring spiritual awareness into his work on the gritty streets of Los Angeles,” as Dr. Hendricks puts it. The First Rule of Ten is co-authored by Tinker Lindsay, who explains that it combines mystery and mindfulness, two of her passions.

Terry Walters joins the Gab with the Gurus to discuss how to easily eat clean and live well. Terry, author of the exciting books, Clean Food and Clean Start, believes (as I do) in nourishing yourself with nutrient-rich foods in a rainbow of colors and a full spectrum of tastes. Terry will tell you how to find joy in shopping, preparing, sharing; enjoying meals and mealtime; how to listen to your body and serve your unique being; and why you want to make healthy choices that nourish your body, family and environment. She'll also share two or three simple recipes that taste delicious.

As we head into Thanksgiving, my guest Marianne Williamson, acclaimed spiritual teacher, will tell you how to release excess weight instead of over-indulging. Marianne will discuss principles from her book -- the acclaimed A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever.    

November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. Today's Gab with the Gurus Show will educate you about this disease. Lung cancer remains the leading  cancer killer among both men and women in the United States, with heavy smokers being at highest risk. Dr. Roger Maxfield of ColumbiaDoctors Eastside will educate you about symptoms of lung cancer, how to prevent and treat it and how to support a loved one, who's come down with this disease. You'll learn about worrisome symptoms, which include pain in the chest, shoulder, or back, persistent  coughing, shortness of breath, changes in the voice, coughing up  blood, weight loss, phlegm, or mucus, and recurrent bronchitis or pneumonia. It's important to focus on these symptoms, because signs of lung cancer can take years to develop and  it may not appear until the disease is at advanced stages. Dr. Maxfield's areas of clinical interest are asthma, COPD, lung cancer, and interventional bronchoscopy including ultrasound guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA), b

Today, I'll talk with Jill Escher, who talks about launching Sugar Addiction Awareness Day (SAAD) and she discusses her tell-all book, Farewell, Club Perma-Chub: A Sugar Addict's Guide to Easy Weight Loss. Jill shares how she put together a team eager to spread the word about sugar addiction, a widespread but largely unrecognized disorder and why she picked the day before Halloween as the appropriate kickoff. "Refined sugar, the addictive cycle it creates, and diseases of high blood sugar are now so commonplace we're blinded to the strangeness of it all," Jill says. "But the day we take Sugar Addiction seriously is the day we finally begin to turn the obesity and diabetes epidemics around."

Lisa Cherney, a.k.a. the "Juicy Marketing Expert," will help you find your authentic voice so you can attract your ideal clients. The energetic, enthusiastic Lisa, president of Conscious Marketing, has inspired thousands of entrepreneurs to record-breaking profit while creating businesses full of passion.  She is one of three dozen co-authors of the book, Inspiration to Realization: A Women’s Guide to Business, Personal & Spiritual Fulfillment.   Previously, Lisa advised Fortune 500 companies and led advertising agencies working with major brands. She now works with small business owners, who've had a boost in sales after using Lisa’s Juicy Marketing System. She considers her greatest accomplishment having the courage to follow her heart and laser-focus her business so precisely that she tripled her income while taking off Fridays & Mondays to be a mom.

Dr. Bernard Siegel—or Bernie, as he prefers to be called—needs no introduction. He has touched many lives all over the planet. As a physician, who has cared for and counseled innumerable people whose mortality has been threatened by illness, Bernie embraces a philosophy of living and dying that stands at the forefront of the medical ethics and spiritual issues our Society grapples with today. In May 2011, Bernie was honored by the Watkins Review of London, England, as one of the Top 20 Spiritually Influential Living People on the Planet.  He continues to break new ground in the field of healing, supporting changes in medical education to “humanize” medical practice. Learn about Bernie's latest book, A BOOK OF MIRACLES—Inspiring True Stories of Healing, Gratitude, and Love, which recounts riveting, warm true stories of healing, gratitude and love from more than thirty years of practice. Bernie achieved acclaim for his first book, Love, Medicine & Miracles, which flaunted his disagreement with mainstream me

Think you don't have time to work out? Wondering why you should bother to exercise? On today's Gab with the Gurus Show, you'll get the latest information about the benefits of physical activity from Mark Hendricks, Group Fitness Manager for New York City's Greenwich Ave. location of Equinox Fitness Clubs, which was voted Best Gym in America by Fitness Magazine. Hendricks, a fitness industry veteran, will discuss how a regular exercise program can improve your health; how working out can help you slim down and tone up; why people don't exercise; how to get motivated to move.; how exercise can improve your moods and ability to concentrate; and why bursting is good for you.

Struggling with weight issues? This is the show for you! Join the acclaimed health expert, weight-loss pioneer and best-selling author Dr. Ann Louise Gittleman, who will tell you how to lose weight year round. Dr. Gittleman is author of the exciting new book, Fat Flush for Life: The Year-Round Super Detox Plan to Boost Your Metabolism and Keep the Weight off Permanently Dr. Gittleman will tell you about healing strategies that take advantage of your body’s unique response to the seasons to keep you thin and healthy for life while safely cleansing toxins from your system. For instance, you'll learn about what she calls “superstar fat flushing foods,” as well as spices, and supplements specifically designed for each time of the year. Dr. Gittleman is a visionary, weight loss/detox expert, author, spokesperson, and award-winning author of 30 books. She was recognized as one of the top 10 nutritionists in the country by Self magazine. If you use a computer, cell phone, wireless router, microwave or another electr