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Extreme weather phenomena such as destructive storms, heatwaves, or blizzards strain on the electric grid. For National Preparedness Month, we are reminding families to proactively prepare for potential disasters, some of which might lead to extended power outages.Matt Blashaw, HGTV host and homebuilding expert, partners with the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC), to share tips to safeguard your home and family before an extended power outage. Matt will share his own experience of living without power after a tornado caused a power outage in his community. This is an important reminder for your viewers during National Preparedness Month, and as the Fall and Winter seasons quickly approach.PREPARE FOR A POWER OUTAGE—WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: POWER OF PREP—Tips to ready your home for an upcoming power outage.RELIABILITY—How to keep critical systems in a home operating even when the electric grid is downBACKUP POWER—generators provide supplemental electricity in as little as 10 seconds after a power out

NY Times, Today Show Contributor, Clinical Psychologist & Sleep SpecialistDr. Shelby Harris Teams Up with #1 Melatonin Brand to Share Tips to Help People Form Better Sleep Routines for FallEach year, people lose an average of 15.5 hours of sleep during the summer (about 10 minutes a night). It happens for a variety of reasons, including a leisurely pace of life, traveling more, spending more time outside, less structured routines and fewer obligations. The adjustment from summer’s slower pace to the more hectic fall and back-to-school season can be challenging.Sleep Specialist Dr. Shelby Harris is teaming up with Natrol – a leading sleep, mood and stress brand – to share some timely sleep strategies to get sleep patterns back to normal. Learn simple ways to inspire quality rest by supporting a healthy sleep routine, including melatonin basics. Dr. Harris will dig into the key tips consumers need to know about using melatonin supplements so they can be more informed. Learn valuable strategies to get sleep

Carolina Schneider, MS, RD, a registered dietitian known as “Carolina the Green RD” says the farm bill's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) - formally known as food stamps - provides vital assistance to millions of disadvantaged Americans to ensure that all people have access to nutritious food, however there are some crucial nutrition gaps that demand attention from Congress that voters can elevate to advocate for an updated farm bill to improve SNAP and enhance the program's quality and nutritional offerings for all Americans. Carolina visits with Mark Alyn on this episode of late Night Health.Some points • Why We Need the Farm Bill: The farm bill is a matter of concern when it comes to nutrition because it plays a crucial role in shaping food and agricultural policies in the United States. The bill influences various aspects of our food system, including agricultural production, food access, nutrition programs, and public health. • The farm bill includes provisions for nutrition as

When parents put a child on a school bus, the expectation is that the young person will arrive safe and ready to learn. Now, with significant funding available through the EPA’s Clean School Bus Program, there’s never been a better time to prioritize clean and more efficient modes of school transportation. The goal is to replace inefficient gas or diesel-powered buses with safer propane or electric alternatives. Tucker Perkins, President/CEO of PERC, the Propane Education & Research Council, ishares cleaner options for the nation’s school bus fleets, and a study that shows how low-emission buses are linked to improved test scores. We’ll also provide information about school districts using propane buses in your market, and a the unique BetterOurBuses.com program. More than 1.3 million students will ride a propane school bus this year. WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT SCHOOL BUS INNOVATIONS:Comparing the efficiency of propane vs. electric and other alternativesEnvironmental benefits of an affordable and plentiful c

Rachel Zemach became Deaf at age ten, and has lived with one foot in both the Deaf and hearing worlds since then. After teaching Deaf students for ten years in a hearing, public school she became more solidified in her Deaf-with-a-capital-D identity. She loved thee job passionately but found it a shockingly, un-necessarily obstacle-laden environment for Deaf students and felt compelled to write a memoir describing it, with the goal of educating hearing people and enacting change. The Butterfly Cage came out April 26, 2023 and has gotten strong reviews. As a Deaf person, she doesn’t listen to radio, and had never heard of this show. But when talking with Mark Alyn of Late Night Health she was struck by two things: the passion HE has, when it comes to health issues, and the quick understanding of a person with little knowledge of the Deaf perspective, once they are exposed to it.As an added bonus, Mark wears hearing aids. Reaching hard of hearing people, or “Inbetweeners,” as she calls them, is important to Zem

Lauri Quinn Loewenberg is a professional dream analyst and author of the book Dream on It, Unlock Your Dreams Change Your Life. She is best known as "Dream Expert to the stars" and has been featured on hundreds of radio stations across North America and the UK and on national television shows such as The Today Show, Dr. Oz, The View, Good Morning America, Daily Pop on E! and more. Thanks to a series of recurring dreams, she is also a prominent Pin Up Artist and resides in Tampa, FL with her handsome hubby, musical son and her overlord Sigmund the rescue kitty. Lauri visits with Mark Alyn to talk about the meaning of dreams.

What if no one—gay or straight or bi, trans or cis or nonbinary—was “born that way”? In GENDER WITHOUT, award-winning psychoanalysts Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini challenge the argument widely embraced by rights activists and members of the LGBTQ+ community that gender identity is innate and immutable. “There is nothing wrong with being gay, queer, gender nonconforming, or trans, nor is any of these an undesirable or pathological outcome,” Pellegrini stresses. “Genderqueer and sexually diverse individuals can and do live full, pleasurable, exciting lives—which is not to say that they are spared the miseries that befall everyone as part of the human condition. Indeed, trans people and queer people should get to have all the feels, including negative or bad feelings.” With a vision of expanding the narrowminded view and treatment of queer and trans people by analysts and society at large, Ann Pellegrini talks with Mark Alyn about gender identity.

Everyone deserves to die well. By reimagining End of Life Care and helping to plan in advance,Empowered Endings™ enables everyone to do so. This is what Dr. Bob and Late Night Health’s Mark Alyn discuss. This unique, San Diego-headquartered company evolved based on Bob’s 30 years of experience as a physician in emergency medicine, palliative care and hospice and Elizabeth’s expertise in spiritual counseling and medical social work in end of life and grief care. Dr. Bob and Elizabeth’s combined passion for assisting families at this stage of life has evolvedinto the Empowered Endings Collective, currently serving all of Southern California. With fourentities under its umbrella, Empowered Endings has all End of Life needs well covered.

The overwhelming narrative in the U.S. is that caregiving for older adults is a burden to bear and a problem to be solved. In her new book, Positive Caregiving, Sarah Teten Kanter, Ph.D., offers a different perspective and a practical methodology that combines elements of positive psychology, mindfulness, reminiscence therapy, and lifestyle medicine to help make caregiving and care receiving a more positive and meaningful experience. Dr. Kanter joins Mark Alyn on this edition of Late Night Health.

Staring back at doctors who say the symptoms are normal, bleeding through clothes in public, losing big chunks of time to pain, and living with undiagnosed conditions for years–these are experiences I know well. Are they familiar to you?These experiences are common for millions of people - some will endure life-altering complications because their conditions were not diagnosed quickly. Mental health suffers, relationships suffer, and they are left to battle against debilitating conditions while navigating misinformation and bias inside a stressed healthcare system.We saw a way to help.Carol Johnson from Uterinekind talks with Mark Alyn on this episode of Late Night Health.

Author, poet and musician Thomas Lane debuts his first novel, The Karma Factor, a work of visionary fiction exploring the boundaries of human consciousness against the backdrop of a classic suspense thriller. With a purpose that transcends the genre, Lane expertly weaves the novel’s wider message in a ground-breaking, white-knuckle ride between worlds, as characters set out to make karmic amendments, right wrongs and re-establish the power of choice. Haunted by a nameless guilt, tired of running from his demons, NYPD detective James Early decides to end his life. Taunting an armed suspect into blind fury, he makes himself an easy target. But the bullets fired at point blank range are mysteriously diverted.Born and raised in Connecticut, Thomas Lane is a multi-dimensional artist drawn to spaces where art, spirit, and social justice intersect. He is the author of The Artists’ Manifesto and a catalog of songs, poems, screenplays, novels, and paintings. He also founded The Helen Hudson Foundation, a charitable or

Kim Cantin and her daughter survived an unimaginable loss. In January of 2018, heavy rainfall combined with deforestation from recent wildfires caused a series of mudflows northwest of the Montectio, California in 2018. The powerful mudslide took the lives of her beloved husband, son, dog and home. Through it all Kim’s love as a mother and wife, her strength, courage and determination got she and her daughter through the physical healing and into the years-long search for the remains of her teenage son. Kim talks with Mark Alyn on this episdoe of Late Night Health.

We all want to know the secret to leading a long, happy life, so who better to ask than someone who is 102 yearsold? And all the more qualified as a doctor, and the mother of holistic medicine.This expert is Dr.Gladys McGarey, and in her new book THE WELL-LIVED LIFE: A 102-Year-Old Doctor'sSix Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age (Atria May 2, 2023), she shares a philosophy for living life tothe fullest that has healed thousands of her patients and that has guided her own life for over a century.In 1978, Gladys co-founded the American Holistic Medical Association with the goal of bringing a holisticunderstanding—one that unites body, mind, and spirit—to modern Western medicine. Dr. Gladys visits with Mark Alyn on this edition of Late Night Health.

Here’s a way you can jumpstart a good mood for Mental Health Awareness Month: By immersing yourself in Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience (open in major cities throughout the country), which features some of the artist’s most famous spring paintings like Almond Blossoms, Fishing in Spring, and other iconic paintings like flowering orchard, sunflowers and irises. Changing your mindset and environment can help, and ironically from an artist who suffered severe undiagnosed mental problems before taking his own life. John Zaller shares the history of mental health problems Van Gogh endured throughout his career, including his lifestyle choices that contributed to these, as well as his enormous willpower, resilience and perseverance traits that propelled him to keep on painting, even during the most difficult periods in his life. John Zaller, Executive Producer, Exhibition Hub visits with Mark Alyn on this episode of Late Night Health.

Dr. Gail Gazelle, MD, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, renowned physician coach and author of her new upcoming book, “Mindful MD. 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout” Visits with Mark Alyln. Our topic tonight is a pressing phenomenon making national and international headlines: the 'Great Resignation' that's causing disruption across various industries, particularly healthcare.

Hiring a consultant or agency can cost tens of thousands of dollars, effectively leaving out small businesses owners who are priced out of taking advantage of this resource. Instead of leaving these businesses out to fail, this tech company asked, why not have a single place where small business owners can meet with pre-vetted consultants who are specialized in the areas that they need help most? Meet technology company, Sobo. Robert Burke, CEO of Sobo, visits with Mark Alyn on this editon of Late Night Health.

Harold Cameron, The People's Advocate, Consumer Advocate and Government Liaison for HaroldSays, llc provides professional and positive advocacy services for consumers who have legitimate and justified complaints against, or issues with, corporations worldwide. A few of the companies he has successfully advocated with on behalf of consumers includes Wells Fargo Bank, Comcast, United Health, American Airlines, and others. And issues he has helped consumers resolve includes recovery of money from financial scams, product/service complaints and billing complaints.Also, he provides advocacy services for citizens who have grievances against, or questions for government agencies, or need assistance from them. A few he has successfully assisted citizens with includes The SSA, HUD, DOJ, DOE as well as some state agencies across the country. Reach out to Harold at haroldcameron65@gmail.com.

Lowering Drug Costs with Health Insurance Regulations Has Overwhelming Bipartisan Support - Voters Strongly Favor Policies that Hold Pharmacy Benefit Managers Accountable and Provide Value* A new national poll finds that a majority of likely voters overwhelmingly support policies that regulate health insurance middlemen companies known as Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), requiring them to provide more value and help lower drug costs. PBMs act as middlemen between drug manufacturers and patients’ health plans who – instead of lowering drug costs as they initially promised – take advantage of the healthcare system to increase their revenues at the expense of local pharmacies, taxpayers and patients. Three PBM companies control 75% of the market. The poll, conducted by the bipartisan polling team of Lake Research Partners and Bellwether Research, found that 84% of likely voters say it’s important or very important to have rules that require PBMs to provide value and lower drug costs for consumers. Respondents s

Just in time for Arbor Day, the Arbor Day Foundation is renewing its efforts to plant 500 million trees. The organization celebrates the power of trees to oxygenate the planet, purify water and air, lower city temperatures, provide habitat, nurture the soul, and provide essential food sources. A new national survey shows that 94 percent of Americans believe trees are good for the planet. Plus, nearly 9 out of 10 say now is a critical time to replant our nation’s forest. We have a special interview with Dan Lambe, who is the CEO of the Arbor Day Foundation, the largest non-profit member organization dedicated to planting trees. He visits with Mark Alyn on this editon of Late Night Health. Lambe is available to discuss how trees and forests are the number one nature-based solution for reversing the negative effects of a changing climate. He will explain why ‘If ever there was a time to be planting trees, that time is now.’ This renewed campaign comes on the heels of Earth Day and in celebration of Arbor Day 202

Could we live better if the damage from hidden stress that starts at birth was reversed? The evidence is proving yes, beyond what standard care has been able to achieve.New therapies are being combined with standard medicine to target the hidden effects of stress, resulting in success for thousands of heart patients. as described in the #1 Bestselller in five Amazon categories; Discovering the Nature of Longevity, and its Companion The Story of NanobacTX: How a medical maverick improved cardiovascular health.With a Foreword by one of America’s leading cardiologists, Discovering the Nature of Longevity describes how these aren’t cures, but are improving lives by reversing the damage. The stories are told in plain language, supported by more than 700 scientific citations. Author Douglas Mulhall vists with Mark Alyn.