Elements of Nature: How Natural Forces Shape Human Health

About Elements of Nature: How Natural Forces Shape Human Health

"Elements of Nature: How Natural Forces Shape Human Health” is a monthly podcast series about how nature influence our health and wellness, and affects our flourishing. Each episode is focused on an element of nature – earth, water, wind, fire, thunder, ice, force, time, flower, trees, shadow, light and moon – and how they regulate the rhythms of our lives and enhance wellness, health, and resilience. We discuss how sleep and sunlight regulate our mood and fitness, how air pollution of natural domains impairs our health and increases our the risk of chronic disease, and how green spaces and vegetation affect our moods, attention, and immunity. We will explore the many and sometimes magical mysterious nuances of nature and learn how, if we pay attention to nature, we can all live a more healthy and harmonious life. Each month we talk to an accomplished scientist, a professor, or a renowned author with expertise in studying the relationship of each element of nature with human health and wellness.

Publisher

Dr. Aruni Bhatnagar

Category

health & fitness · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Mar 2022

Latest episode

6 Jul 2023

Latest episodes

12 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Jul 2023

   12: Food - Patrick Holden, CBE

   In this episode, Aruni talks to Patrick Holden, CBE a UK organic dairy farmer, campaigner for sustainable food and farming, and co-founder with Anthony Rodale of U.K. The Sustainable Food Trust and U.S. Sustainable Food Alliance. They discuss how Patricks interest in farming were sown during his London childhood. Holden kept a variety of animals, ranging from mice and rabbits to budgerigars and myna birds, and would spend hours in his back garden studying the amphibians that...

2. 

   30 May 2023

   11. Climate and People's Health - Dr. Sharon Friel

   Sharon Friel is an ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor of Health Equity. She is Director of the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse, and the Menzies Centre for Health Governance at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia and the Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. Previously, she was Director of RegNet from 2014-2019, and Head of the Scientific Secretariat (University College London) of...

3. 

   16 May 2023

   10. Breathtaking - Dr. Alison Kenner

   Alison Kenner is an associate professor in the Department of Politics, with a joint appointment in the Center for Science, Technology and Society. Professor Kenner's research is concerned with human-environment relations in late industrialism, particularly how people inhabit their homes, think about and experience environments, and work to create change in the world. Working in the traditions of experimental and collaborative ethnography, Kenner’s research tacks between political economy, eve...

4. 

   17 Nov 2022

   9. Climate Health - Dr. Jay Lemery

   In this episode we will talk about the effects of climate change on human health. We all know that global climate is changing progressively, that global temperatures are rising, the levels of greenhouse gases are increasing and glaciers are melting at an unprecedented rate, but what is less well known are the effects of climate change on health, how extreme weather events and rising temperatures affecting human health and wellbeing. What are the effects of climate change on the most vulnerabl...

5. 

   20 Oct 2022

   8. Wildfires - Molly Petersen

   Today on the podcast, we will be talking with Molly Peterson. Ms. Peterson a science news writer, who reports on issues relating to climate change, catastrophe and risk for KQED, a Public Broadcasting Service member television station in San Francisco. In the past, she has was environmental correspondent at Southern California Public Radio. Her work has appeared at the New York Times, The Guardian, as well as NPR and other national outlets. She has recently reported on a ran...

6. 

   22 Sept 2022

   7. Planetary Health - Jennifer Cole

   Today we will talk about Earth - the key elements of nature that support all life. Tucked away in an obscure corner of the milky way, this blue planet is home to us all and the only known planet that supports organic life. Throughout its course of evolution, the planet has undergone radical transformations – from a hot fiery ball of fire to a frigid snowball earth that remained frozen for 300 million years. As the earth warmed, life flourished on the planet in exuberant profusion....

7. 

   13 Aug 2022

   6. Solastalgia - Glenn Albrecht

   In this episode, Dr. Aruni speaks with Professor Glenn Albrecht about solastalgia and how it is affecting people today worldwide. Solastalgia is a new concept developed to give greater meaning and clarity to environmentally induced distress. As opposed to nostalgia--the melancholia or homesickness experienced by individuals when separated from a loved home--solastalgia is the distress that is produced by environmental change impacting on people while they are directly connected to their home ...

8. 

   16 Jul 2022

   5. Nature - Richard Louv

9. 

   18 Jun 2022

   4. Sun - Dr. Michael Holick

10. 

    21 May 2022

    3. Green - Gay Browne

11. 

    16 Apr 2022

    2. Air - Dr. Arden Pope

12. 

    19 Mar 2022

    1. Circadian Rhythms - Professor Russell Foster

    In this episode Dr. Bhatnagar speaks with Professor Russell Grant Foster, a British professor of circadian neuroscience, the Director of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology and the Head of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute. "We have an internal biological clock, which is ticking away and essentially fine tuning every aspect of our physiology and behavior to the varied and indeed dynamic demands of the 24 hour rotation of the earth on its axis and the light/dark ...

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