Dr. Len Saputo and Byron Belitsos talk about A Return to Healing: Radical Health Care Reform and the Future of Medicine.
In this timely book, Belitsos and Saputo present the inspiring story of integrative medicine, and reveal how it can unlock the door to a health care system for all Americans.
Bio
Byron Belitsos
Byron Belitsos is an award-winning book publisher and a highly experienced journalist, editor, author, activist, and businessman. He has edited and published a number of acclaimed books on health, consciousness, spirituality, and politics, including Faith and the Placebo Effect by Lolette Kuby, Mind Science by Charles Tart, The Unfolding Self by Ralph Metzner, Waking Up in Time by Peter Russell, The Terror Conspiracy by Jim Marrs, and the classic self-help book, The Center Within.
Belitsos is also the principal author of the acclaimed book One World Democracy: A Progressive Vision for Enforceable Global Law (Origin Press: 2005) and he wrote, directed, and produced the companion film, Toward a Well-Governed World. In 2009 he published A Return to Healing: Radical Health Care Reform and the Future of Medicine, of which he is coauthor. Belitsos has recently published articles in Shift, Roll Call, and various websites, including 911truth.org.
Belitsos has taught English and humanities at the college level. In 1983 he launched his career as a writer as a business journalist in Silicon Valley, authoring over fifty stories and features, and coauthoring Business Telematics (Dow Jones-Irwin: 1986); he also cofounded a highly successful computer-services company that was sold to a Fortune 200 company in 1994, and has helped launched several other enterprises, including a gold mining operation.
Belitsos earned a B.A. (Honors) from the University of Chicago in intellectual history in 1977. He has done graduate work in the history at the University of California (Santa Cruz and Berkeley campuses), and at the California Institute of Integral Studies, developing expertise in history, philosophy, psychology, politics, and religious studies.
He also studied poetics with American poet Allen Ginsberg at Naropa Institute. Belitsos was an inaugural member of Ken Wilber's Integral Institute, a founding board member of 911truth.org, and a board member of the Democratic World Federalists. He founded Origin Press in 1996, and is today its CEO and Publisher. He resides in Fairfax, California.
Dr. Len Saputo
Len Saputo, MD, a 1965 graduate of Duke University Medical School, is board certified in internal medicine and was in private practice in affiliation with John Muir Medical Center in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 30 years. After his awakening to the deep flaws in conventional medicine which culminated in the early 1990s, Saputo began a quest to develop a new approach to healing now known as integral-health medicine—the emergent medical care model that is integrative, holistic, person-centered, and preventive.
In order to further this mission, Dr. Saputo founded the Health Medicine Forum in 1994 and was its director until 2008. The Forum (healthmedicineforum.org) is a nonprofit educational foundation that has sponsored hundreds of public and professional events in the San Francisco Bay Area—including monthly presentations, workshops, and conferences—focused on integrative medicine, the nature of healing, and the politics of health care. In 2001, Saputo cofounded what is now called the Health Medicine Center, in Walnut Creek, California—one of the first clinics to bring the new model of integral-health medicine into practice. In the course of disseminating his unique vision for the new medicine, Saputo has given more than 100 presentations to hospitals, medical schools, universities, and community organizations.
Dr. Saputo is the coauthor of Boosting Immunity: Creating Wellness Naturally (New World Library, 2002); has edited six books, including Beating the Years and Boosting Your Digestive Health; and has authored book chapters on numerous medical and health subjects. He has contributed dozens of articles on a wide range of topics in both mainstream and complementary and alternative medicine to such journals as California Pharmacist, Alternative Medicine, and Townsend Letter. He is also actively engaged in clinical research related to the use of near-infrared light therapy in pain management.
Active in public and professional education over the past decade, Dr. Saputo produces and hosts the Prescriptions for Health show on KEST-AM, aired in the San Francisco Bay Area every weekday morning, with his wife, Vicki, who is a registered nurse. Saputo has been a strong advocate of fitness and athletics all of his life. In 1996 and again in 2001, he won the International Tennis Federation’s Senior World Individual Championship in his age group and was ranked number one in the world in 1996 (in the 55-year-old division) by the ITF. With never-ending support from his wife, Saputo is committed to his life’s purpose of changing the health care system in America from a disease care model to a genuine health care model based on the principles of the new medicine, as well as broad-ranging reform of the manner in which care is financed and delivered.
Dr. Len Saputo, co-author of A Return to Healing: Radical Health Care Reform and the Future of Medicine, describes one city's mission to achieve real healthcare reform at the community level by improving the food quality in schools and hospitals.
System for the advance financing of medical expenses through contributions or taxes paid into a common fund to pay for all or part of health services specified in an insurance policy or law. The key elements are advance payment of premiums or taxes, pooling of funds, and eligibility for benefits on the basis of contributions or employment without an income or assets test. Health insurance may apply to a limited or comprehensive range of medical services and may provide for full or partial payment of the costs of specific services. Benefits may consist of the right to certain medical services or reimbursement of the insured for specified medical costs. Private health insurance is organized and administered by an insurance company or other private agency; public health insurance is run by the government (seesocial insurance). Both forms of health insurance are to be distinguished from socialized medicine and government medical-care programs, in which doctors are employed directly or indirectly by the goverment, which also owns the health-care facilities (e.g., Britain's National Health Service). See alsoinsurance.
Disorder characterized by frequent passage of gastric contents from the stomach back into the esophagus. Symptoms of GERD may include heartburn, coughing, frequent clearing of the throat, and difficulty in swallowing. It can be caused by relaxation of the muscle that connects the esophagus and the stomach, delayed emptying of the esophagus or stomach, hiatal hernia, obesity, or pregnancy. Treatment is with antacids or acid-inhibiting medications and lifestyle changes such as not eating before bedtime, avoiding acidic or fatty foods or beverages, cessation of smoking, and weight loss. Surgery may be necessary in severe cases.
The purple pill was formerly known as Prilosec, which went generic and over the counter, so they developed Nexium by changing a molecule or two so they could make more money via prescriptions. It's like Claritin, which went generic and over the counter, so they changed a molecule or two and called it Clarinex to continue making money by prescriptions. Sick of big pharma's mind games and money making schemes.
But it is a big deal!! Real food contains live cells. If we put it in our live body our live cells can utilize the live cells of the vegetables and fruits. This is a big deal. When I was in the hospital I asked for fresh juiced carrots and apples and such. I then was asked by the nutritionist in charge of the kitchen, what do I eat for real food!!! These nutritionists schools need to start over...
