Dr. Henry Lodge graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981 and from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1985, where he received the Robert Loeb Award for Excellence in Clinical Medicine. He did his Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. After complet-ing his training in 1988, he joined the faculty of the medical school at Columbia University, where he has been ever since. He is named in “Who's Who in America,” “Who's Who in the World,” “Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare,” and “Who's Who in Science and Engineering,” as well as in the “Best Doctors in New York” and “Best Doctors in America” surveys. Dr. Lodge is a past president of the New York Clinical Society and a past president of the Presbyterian Hospital Alumni Association. He is a member of the American College of Physicians and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine. Dr. Lodge is the co-author of the best selling books, Younger Next Year and Younger Next Year for Women: A Guide to Living Like Your 50 Until You’re 80 and Beyond.

CRAIG PEPIN-DONAT: Well, I really need to let people know, when I talk about your busy schedule, a little bit about your background. I mean, after all, you do operate one of the largest and most prestigious medical practices in New York City. So, a lot of times people use the phrase “taking time out of your busy schedule” loosely, but you’re schedule is particularly hectic, isn’t it?

DR. HENRY LODGE: There doesn’t seem to be quite enough hours in a day.

CRAIG PEPIN-DONAT: So, I’ve read your entire book, Younger Next Year, and I’ve gone through most of Younger Next Year for Women. Of course, I also had the opportunity to interview your co-author, Chris Crowley. He was phenomenal—very inspirational. Your books are really universal, I think. They’re not just for people who are getting old, they’re really just for anyone who wants to live better; anyone who wants to improve their health; and, anyone who wants to find out all of the answers. So, I want to dig right in and start out by having you give a little background on your practice and on your patient, Chris Crowley, and how he and other patients led you to write Younger Next Year?

Joel Fuhrman, M.D. is a board-certified family physician and one of the country’s leading nutritional medicine experts. He is a frequent guest speaker at hospital grand rounds and has lectured at benefits for the American Heart Association and the U.S. Olympic Team. Dr. Fuhrman has been interviewed for hundreds of magazines, radio, and television shows and he is widely published in various medical journals. Dr. Fuhrman’s most recent book, Eat For Health, guides the reader through a gradual transition to increase the level of micronutrients in his/her diet, while losing the addictive and psychological dependencies of unhealthy foods. Dr. Fuhrman is the author of Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Plan for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, which has gone through 11 printings in hardcover and 6 printings in paperback. Below is an excerpt of my interview with Dr. Fuhrman.

CRAIG PEPIN-DONAT: Now, Dr. Fuhrman, you are responsible for providing some of the most extensive educational information in the world related to health and nutrition. Now you have a new book, Eat For Health, and it happens to be a two-book set. We’re fortunate at FitAdvocate.com to have been able to review that book, preview it, and I have to say it is absolutely tremendous. It’s not a book that you read; it’s more a book that you study and learn from, and you could pick it back up and gain incredible amounts of information as you read through it. I’ve been pouring through the pages of the first book in the set, and the depth of information and your knowledge is just truly remarkable. I just want to start out by saying that it’s just fantastic.

DR. JOEL FUHRMAN: Oh, thanks so much. Well, it’s designed so it really can help people.

CRAIG PEPIN-DONAT: I think it’s going to do more than just help people; it’s actually going to save lives, truthfully, and we’re going to talk a lot about that. It’s really more than just a book, and it’s certainly not a diet book because I’ve read hundreds of diet books, and every time I read one I roll my eyes in the back of my head, because it’s just repeating a lot of the same information over and over again, or information that we’ve all heard before and that we’re recycling. This is really more of a lifestyle system that’s broken down into four specific phases. So I’d like to start out by giving an overview of what people can expect from your new book, Eat For Health, and to get into detail about how these four phases actually work.

We live in the “age of drugs.” Not illegal, addictive substances, but legal over-the-counter and prescription medications. These substances can be just as dangerous as cocaine and crystal meth when they take the place of a healthy lifestyle, good nutrition and regular exercise.

High blood pressure? Pop a pill. High cholesterol? Take this. Sexual problems? A little blue pill will fix that. There’s a pill for every ailment, but society, as a whole, is getting sicker by the day.

Shane Ellison, the people’s chemist, began as his career as an organic chemist, working for the Big Pharma. But his dedication to natural health prompted him to empower thousands of people to say “no” to prescription drugs and yes to natural medicine and better health. In this interview, Ellison talks with Craig Pepin-Donat about the “pill-popping culture” and its dangers.

Craig Pepin-Donat: Let’s start out with an overview of the current health status in our society and the path we’re on.

Shane Ellison: If we look at the big picture of health in America, we have to say we’re the sickest we’ve ever been. It’s attributable, paradoxically, to the prescription drug epidemic. We have an average of 14 prescriptions being written for every single individual. At the same time, we have over 200,000 deaths as a result of it. On top of that, we have 2 million people who suffer from what’s known as drug-induced illness.

We’re not sick from any type of infectious disease; we’re sick from all the toxins that we’re being fed by prescription drugs and, of course, our lifestyle habits.

Every single drug is known chemically as a “xenobiotic.” That’s just a fancy term for toxin. When you swallow these drugs, your kidney and liver have to process them. Over time, if you’re using drugs just as you would take vitamins, the kidney and the liver can fail. We have about 19,000 people who die every single year with some type of kidney or liver failure.

Every year, the FDA and CDC release frightening statistics: One in every three men will contract some form of cancer and one in every nine women will get breast cancer.  

The following is just a small portion of the life-saving advice renowned author Mike Adams (also known as The Health Ranger) offered recently at the International Health and Fitness Symposium. If you are ready to lower your cholesterol levels and prevent cancer, heart disease and diabetes the natural way, you must read on.

Craig Pepin-Donat: You stated that your ‘risk of getting cancer is as close to zero as you can possibly get in modern society today.’ How did you accomplish this?

Mike Adams: I don’t eat any cancer-causing foods. In fact, I eat anti-cancer foods. Did you know that there’s an active ingredient in turmeric, which is an ingredient in curry, called curcumin. Curcumin causes cancer tumors to be unable to grow by destroying the blood vessels that feed those tumors, making the tumors die inside your body. If you combine curcumin with black pepper, it multiplies the effectiveness of curcumin by 1,000 times. It makes it the most powerful natural chemotherapy you can ever experience. You eat curry and pepper, and add some broccoli, and for the next 48 hours, your body will be destroying cancer tumors better than any chemotherapy known to modern science.