Host: Is it possible to plan a healthy lifestyle?Sarah Alligood: So it's definitely important to eat right and to be active, but its also really important to plan for these things. If you haven't -- if you don't have foods around you that could be included in your balanced eating plan, then how are you going to follow it? For example, if you have a hard time maybe fitting in fruits, putting on you...read more

Audra Lowe: We hear a lot about cold and flu season in November and December, but we're still in the thick of things; and today Better really wants to keep you healthy. Earlier Dr. Natalie Stern gave us some really easy tips on how to reduce our chances of getting sick. Good to have you back Dr. Stern, a lot of people talking about cold and flu season and everyone is trying to figure out what we c...read more

Music Medicine – Soothing EffectHost: If there is one thing that unites every culture around the world and throughout history, its music. Whatever the country or the century, songs have been used to entertain, to evoke emotion, and to express ideas.Now, after thousands of years, researchers are finally discovering what poets often suggested. And many have long believed that music has the power to ...read more

Jennifer Matthews: When menopause struck Terry Linehan, it came with a vengeance. Terry Linehan: One minute you're fine, and the next you're at somebody's throat, and then you're sweating to death. Jennifer Matthews: Then there was a change Linehan didn't expect -- loss of libido. Terry Linehan: As much as you could even come close to me, I'd say get out of my face. Jennifer Matthews: To make it w...read more

Host: What treatment or combination of treatments seems to work best?Dr. Kim Penberthy: Well, what we have seen in the literature is that a medication similar to an SSRI or SNRI plus Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is the most effective treatment and like I said, in combination they are almost doubly as effective as one alone. The medication works much more quickly than therapy does, but the effectiv...read more

What is a migraine? How do you define it?Migraine is a very special headache. Its much more than a headache. Its a whole sequence of events that are happening in your brain that can include pain and throbbing, nausea, vomiting, light bothers your eyes, noises bother you. Often times they run in the family and theyre very disabling really different than just plain old headache....read more

Post Breast Cancer Survival StoryI have been a social runner for many years, and it has just been more of a therapy thing to me. It just makes my day. I run four to five times a week. So obviously when I was diagnosed with breast cancer and then going through that major surgery, you know I could not exercise for six weeks. But that gave me more determination to come back and do it more and do it b...read more