Health

Prepare For and Treat Menopause Naturally with Dana LaVoie

Airs at: Mon, 04/03/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Healthwatch

Uncontrollable weight gain and boiling hot flashes, crying one minute and angry the next... Menopause (or peri-menopause) is here - it's taking over your life - and you're seriously ready to get some relief and feel like yourself again. Did you know that in a recent stu... Read more

Pacific Underground - Live - On Mental Health

Airs at: Fri, 03/03/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Pacific Underground

In this uncharacteristically early morning episode (yes, we consider 9am early, and yes, we're making this a recurring thing!), we have musician and artist Jason Chu on mic guest hosting LIVE! We'll also be having two other guests on the show to share some of their journe... Read more

Famine Looms in Parts of Africa and Yemen

Airs at: Mon, 02/27/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm

Produced for: Evening News

Famines are looming over several dry and war-torn areas in North Africa and the Middle East. The United Nations officially declared a famine in South Sudan last week, and is on the verge of declaring famines in Yemen, Somalia and northeastern Nigeria as well. While low rai... Read more

LEADing the Way

Airs at: Mon, 03/06/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

On Monday, Feb. 27, a coalition of Multnomah County and Portland officials and social service agencies announced that local law enforcement would begin a Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion Program (LEAD). LEAD was first developed in King County, Seattle, WA in 2011. LEAD is... Read more

A Really Good Day

Airs at: Thu, 03/02/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

Ayelet Waldman is a mother of teenagers, a former federal public defender, and a writer living with mood disorders who discovers an underground culture of clinicians advocating for the therapeutic use of LSD. Having exhausted virtually every other medical option for her... Read more

The Case Against Sugar with Gary Taubes (Part One)

Airs at: Mon, 03/06/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Healthwatch

Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever; obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. And sugar is at the root of these, and other, critical society-wide, health-related problems. Wit... Read more

Sugar: How Sweet It Isn't

Airs at: Tue, 02/28/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making some people very sick. There is growing evidence that sugar triggers chronic diseases such as diabetes that are likely to kill us, or at least hasten our deaths. In t... Read more

A Transgender Journey to Manhood in China

Airs at: Mon, 02/27/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

"Born in a rural Chinese village and identified as a girl at birth, Lei Ming, was barely cared for during his childhood. Often lonely, terrified and abused, he learned early to fend for himself and look within for answers, but there he discovered a paradox that threaten... Read more

Kurt Cobain's Top 50 (Take 2)

Airs at: Fri, 02/24/2017 at 12:00am - 3:00am

Produced for: The Sacred Circle "TEMENOS"

Kurt Cobain would have turned 50 years old this week! In his honor we are going to play a track from each of the albums on his list of his top 50 albums handwriten in his journal along with some other audio treats. (Last year we only got through 49 of his album picks, bu... Read more

THE NATURE FIX: WHY NATURE MAKES US HAPPIER, HEALTHIER, AND MORE CREATIVE

Airs at: Wed, 02/15/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Wednesday Talk Radio

On the final day of KBOO's Winter Membership Drive Paul Roland welcomes Florence Williams to the studio to discuss her new book The Nature Fix. "For centuries, poets and philosophers extolled the benefits of a walk in the woods: Beethoven drew inspiration from rocks an... Read more