MARK HYMAN, MD is dedicated to identifying and addressing the root causes of chronic illness through a groundbreaking whole-systems medicine approach called Functional Medicine. He is a family physician, a four-time New York Times bestselling author, and an international leader in his field. Through his private practice, education efforts, writing, research, and advocacy, he empowers others to stop managing symptoms and treat the underlying causes of illness, thereby tackling our chronic-disease epidemic.

We conducted two interviews with Dr Mark Hyman. In the first part of the interview, Dr. Mark Hyman takes us through his journey through Haiti after the devastating earthquake hit the region. In the second part of the interview, Dr. Mark Hyman takes us through something I refer to all the time – a doctor should be a partner in a patient’s health journey. The similarities between South Africa and Haiti is also discussed in this interview.

Our very first interview with the world famous Baaba Maal! We’ve been talking about him all week on our site and today you’ll get to see him how we do – as the most down to earth, well educated, modest, non-egoic, talented musician. We sat down with Baaba an hour before his talk and performance at Joe’s Pub last week in New York City.

Stephen Cowan, MD, FAAP is a board-certified pediatrician with 20 years of clinical experience working with children. He has a subspecialty in Developmental Pediatrics and is NY certified in Medical Acupuncture.

He is a fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics, a member of the AAP Committee on Children with Disabilities, a member of the Autism Research Institute’s DAN practitioners and a member of the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture. He is a co-founder and advisory board member of the Holistic Pediatric Association. He is co-founder of Riverside Pediatrics, in Croton, New York, where he incorporates alternative therapies in the treatment of common childhood disorders. He is the founder of The Holistic Developmental Center for Children, in Mt. Kisco NY, where he offers holistic consultations and treatment that include biomedical alternatives, acupuncture, biofeedback, meditation. He specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of chronic pediatric problems such as Attention Deficit Disorder, Autistic Spectrum Disorders, migraine, Tourette’s syndrome, asthma, allergies and chronic digestive disorders. He is a clinical instructor at NY Medical College and has lectured internationally on the holistic management of chronic problems in children.

We recently conducted two interviews with Dr Stephen Cowan. In the first part of the interview, Dr Stephen Cowan discusses various aspects like digestion, a parents urge to feed, stagnation of spleen, accumulation of toxins, and building up phlegm/inflammation. In the second interview, Dr Stephen Cowan discusses how can we get our children to eat more.

An in depth interview with Ganga White, the author of Yoga Beyond Belief: Insights to Awaken and Deepen Your Practice.

Susan Luck RN, BS, MS, HNC, CCN, has worked in the field of nutrition, holistic health, and immunology for over 20 years. As a holistic nurse educator, medical anthropologist, and clinical nutritionist, she has been practicing in integrative healthcare models both in the U.S. and abroad. She is a national speaker and consultant on Integrative Medicine. She is founder and program director of the Earthrose Institute, a not for profit organization for environmental health education.

Ms Luck is also the Director of the Integrative Nursing Institute, and believes that holistic nursing education is essential for healing our broken health care system.

Barbara Dossey is the author of many award-winning books including her latest, Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer.

Interview with Larry Dossey, a well known authority on prayer in medicine. He discuses that we desperately need to construct a healing system that is less dangerous, less costly, and more applicable to everyone.

I spoke to Sophyto Founder Karen Sinclair Drake about skin, ethical business and what keeps her in rhythm. Karen is the founder of Sophyto Organics. Karen and her team aimed as high as anyone can go in their desire to produce the first professional grade, sustainable skin care line on the market which has caught the attention of renowned dermatologists, plastic surgeons and even neurologists and most recently by ELLE Magazine who named the company’s famous Polyphenol Skin Drops the best anti aging treatments.

Is the founder of Island Records. Born in London to an Irish father and a Costa Rican-born Sephardic Jewish mother, Blackwell spent his childhood in Jamaica. He was sent to England to continue his education. Deciding not to go to university, he returned to Jamaica to become ADC to the Governor of Jamaica Sir Hugh Foot. After Sir Hugh Foot was transferred to Cyprus he left Kings House and dabbled in real estate and other businesses which brought him into contact with the Jamaican music community. He formed Island Records in 1959 and was one of the first to record Jamaican popular music that became known as ska music. In 1962, he went back to England and sold records out of the back of his car to the UK’s black Jamaican population.

An influential and prolific American Buddhist writer and academic who has authored, edited or translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism. He is the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, holding the first endowed chair in this field of study in the United States. He also is the co-founder and president of the Tibet House New York and is active against the People’s Republic of China’s control of Tibet.

Gabrielle Roth is a musician, author, music director, dancer, philosopher and recording artist in the world music and trance dance genres, with a special interest in shamanism. Known as the “urban shaman,” she is music director of the theater company The Mirrors, and has been a member of the Actor’s Studio. She is the founder of the recording label Raven Recordings. She has been a faculty member of both Kripalu and the Esalen Institute, and offers classes at the Omega Institute, often joined by her son, Jonathan Horan. Her international institute, The Moving Center, oversees the teaching of her work through schools in New York, California, and Europe, and has certified over 250 teachers worldwide. She is currently teaching experimental theater in New York based on The Roth 5Rhythms and training others to use shamanic methods within artistic, education, and healing contexts.

In 1984, Tutu became the second South African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Tutu was the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa). Tutu chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and is currently the chairman of The Elders. Tutu is vocal in his defence of human rights and uses his high profile to campaign for the oppressed. Tutu also campaigns to fight AIDS, homophobia, poverty and racism. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism, and the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2005. Tutu has also compiled several books of his speeches and sayings.

Currently living in England, Satish has been a Jain monk and a nuclear disarmament advocate, and is the current editor of Resurgence, founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College international centre for ecological studies and of The Small School. His most notable accomplishment is a “peace walk” with a companion to the capitals of four of the nuclear-armed countries – Washington, London, Paris and Moscow, a trip of over 8,000 miles. He insists that reverence for nature should be at the heart of every political and social debate.