Pair-a-Docs of Health

Internet Radio Program

Your health is your greatest treasure and the foundation for everything you are in life. Secure and enhance this precious gift by lending your ears to the lively discussions of today’s hottest health issues by two seasoned doctors of holistic medicine and their informative guests. In their light and breezy style, Drs. Patrick Donovan and Herb Joiner-Bey explore all aspects of wellness and healing – spiritual, psychological & emotional factors; nutrition; lifestyle choices; and exercise. Natural healing methods showcased will include herbal & nutritional medicine, homeopathy, and exercise while more conventional methods will also be discussed. Stated in plain light-hearted language, their information is based on solid scientific evidence and clinical experience. See more information as PDF.

Archive of Some Past Episodes

September 30, 2009, Living Your Life Powerfully: Anxiety, depression, confusion, bewilderment, alienation – these are the emotional states underlying the lives of many people around the globe....listen now.

September 23, 2009, Vitamin D: A New Look at an Old Unappreciated Friend: Vitamin D is an under-appreciated fat-soluble micronutrient that is essential for optimal calcium metabolism and many other functions. The fact...listen now.

September 16, 2009, Patients Who Hate Their Own Guts: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD, distinct from irritable bowel syndrome or IBS) involves two chronic ailments characterized by inflammation of the...listen now.

September 9, 2009, Can New WTO Food Laws Kill You? In December 2009, the WTO Codex Alimentarius (Food Law) will become mandatory for all member nations. This brainchild of corporate...listen now.

September 2, 2009, The Miracle of Homeopathy: Homeopathy is a 200-year-old system of healing that applies a principle first expressed by Hippocrates in ancient Greece–Like cures like....listen now.

August 26, 2009, What is Sexual Medicine? Sexual medicine embraces the physical and psychological study, diagnosis, and treatment of sexual concerns of men and women. It is...listen now.

August 19, 2009, The Healing Elixir of Creativity and the Courage to Live Creatively: In The Face of Consciousness, Dr. Donovan says: “Through creativity, you are delivered from the chaos of illness into the...listen now.

August 12, 2009, Naturopathic Approaches to Breast Cancer: One in eight women will get breast cancer in her lifetime. Risk increases with age; 77% of women with breast...listen now.

August 5, 2009, Cultural Autism and Intimacy-Deficiency Disorder: Today human interaction has been reduced to text messages, Facebook pages, computer screens, and mindless television. Parents are merely chauffeurs...listen now.

July 29, 2009, Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the leading killers of Americans yearly. Eighty million people in the US have CVD... listen now.

July 22, 2009, The Most Under-Diagnosed Major Illness in America: Most Americans would be astounded to hear that Celiac Disease and Gluten Intolerance constitute the most under-diagnosed disease syndrome in... listen now.

July 15, 2009, Naturopathic Approaches to Urinary Health: Dr. Eric Yarnell joins us for a lively discussion pertaining to the urinary system. Some of the topics we will... listen now.

July 8, 2009, The Essential Nature of Health and Disease: Drs. Donovan and Joiner-Bey will be discussing “the healing journey,” based on their book, The Face of Consciousness: A Guide... listen now.

Listen live to upcoming episodes every Wednesday at 1:00 pm Pacific time, or review this archive, which will be updated after each broadcast.

About the Docs

Doctor Donovan is a Naturopathic Physician, author and educator. He has over 30 years of patient-care experience. He currently maintains a robust private practice at his integrated medical clinic, theUHC, in Seattle, Washington and is a professor of clinical medicine at Bastyr University. In his naturopathic medical practice, he diagnoses, treats and co-manages patients with various chronic health problems that include heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, and other chronic inflammatory and autoimmune disorders.

Dr. Donovan also writes and lectures on the transformational process of healing. He believes a person's healing journey is ultimately a quest for his/her identity, purpose and meaning. In his clinical practice, Dr. Donovan assists his patients in discovering the theme of their healing quest while providing for them the medical, nutritional and lifestyle therapies and guidance necessary to complete their individual journey.

He has written two books, The Face of Consciousness: A Guide to Self-Identity and Healing and Dancing With The Beloved: Resurrecting Divine Sexuality Through Profound Relatedness. The Face of Consciousness, written with Dr. Joiner-Bey, was a finalist in the 2007 Nexus Books Awards and is considered a "masterpiece of integration that explores the underlying principles of the transformational process of healing." It has been called "a bold and imaginative work"...that is "penetrating to the core of the question that confronts us all: Who are we? What are we?"

Dr. Herb Joiner-Bey is a unique voice for holistic living and healing. Dr. Joiner-Bey serves as an adjunct professor in naturopathic medicine, as well as a medical/scientific consultant in the nutriceutical industry. He has conducted acclaimed seminars for health professionals and the public across the US and the UK. He is a regular guest speaker on radio programs nationwide. Dr. Joiner-Bey inspires his audiences to apply in their daily lives the principles of evidence-based natural medicine for enhanced vitality and longevity. He blends the time-honored healing traditions of diverse cultures with the latest insights of modern scientific inquiry. He is the author/co-author of several books in this field (The Healing Power of Flax; Clinician’s Handbook of Natural Medicine 2nd ed.; The Omega-3 Miracle; Water: The Foundation of Youth, Health, and Beauty) and scores of magazine articles. Dr. Joiner-Bey received a B.A. degree in Physics from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and an N.D. degree (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine) from Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington.

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