Interview with Dejan Ilijic | Sound Authors Radio

November 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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Dr. Kent:  That’s a beautiful tune, it’s called Tina and that’s from Dejan Ilijic’s album called Eyot.  He’s a good friend of mine and we’re trying to get through to him in Serbia but he’s in the middle of a thunderstorm right now and we’ve had a little trouble.  So, I’m going to play another track.  It’s actually an album he recorded with me recently, but this is a song he wrote and I helped him out with a few instruments but it’s a song called Molme’ and it’s an album that we have together called I Am Here.  It’s with Kent Gustavson, that’s me, and Dejan Ilijic on piano and on electronics and things like that.  So we’re going to listen to that full track and we’ll have Dejan on another day to chat about his music.  We wish him the best in the middle of that thunderstorm over there.  So I’ll play that track and if we get Dejan on the line we’ll have him join the show.  Listen to this.

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Dr. Kent:  We have one minute to chat with Dejan.  We have him from Serbia.  Welcome to the show.

Dejan Ilijic:  Hello, thank you for inviting me on your show.

Dr. Kent:  Tell me a little about your music.  You’re a piano player and you did this album with me of course with the electronics.  What’s your career goal?

Dejan Ilijic:  First of all happy Fourth of July to you and to all the listeners in the United States and to all the listeners around the world.  Now about my music; well I’m happy to start with a career that’s an all piano album and with the album that we made together.  I have now two more solo piano albums in the future and I hope you and me will work together; I don’t know.  It’s important to me that I continue with great music and have fun.

Dr. Kent:  Me too and the album I Am Here is a very different thing than your solo piano albums.  Do you like all kinds of music?

Dejan Ilijic:  Yes, I grew up with pop rock bands like U2, and then I did classical training.  I think music is one beautiful thing and why not play all of the different stuff.

Dr. Kent:  So I’m running out of time here, but I’m going to start the track Mome again and we’ll listen to a little bit of Dejan Ilijic’s music.  It’s been a real honor chatting with you on the show and I’ll have you on many more times I hope to play our music and your music.  Dejan Ilijic has some albums out, if you go to his website ilijicdejan.com or if you go to www.ninetyandninerecords.com you’ll find information about our album together.  What are you doing to celebrate the American Independence Day this evening?

Dejan Ilijic:  Well I don’t know.  It’s our anniversary, my girlfriend and me, seven years and ten months, so we will celebrate that.

Dr. Kent:  Seven years and ten months?

Dejan Ilijic:  Yeah at least I think it is.

Dr. Kent:  Very nice and what’s your next project?  What are you working on right now?  I know you’re working on a folk music album with Macedonia music and you’re playing with another group.

Dejan Ilijic:  Yes I think I’m ready to finish that album, it’s in the final phase of mixing and doing some stuff.  I hope soon, maybe in a month or two it will come out for Ninety and Nine Records.

Dr. Kent:  Dejan, it’s always a pleasure.  We’ll have you on again anytime you want and of course I’ll be in touch with you and I hope we do a lot of great music in the future.  So happy Fourth of July to you.

Dejan Ilijic:  Happy fourth and thank you for inviting me.

Dr. Kent:  Thank you for tuning in to Sound Authors today.  It’s the Fourth of July, have a safe one and we’ll see you again soon.

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Sound Authors Radio Show Releases Interview With Amiri Baraka on www.blogtalkradio.com/soundauthors

November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment

 ((Setauket, NY November 25, 2008)

Blog Talk Radio network broadcasting Sound Authors, a live interview talk radio show, features revolutionary political activist and poet icon Amiri Baraka.Amiri Baraka is the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism, who has recited poetry and lectured on cultural and political issues extensively in the USA, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe.

Baraka is renowned as the founder of the Black Arts Movement in Harlem in the 1960s that became, though short-lived, the virtual blueprint for a new American theater aesthetics. The movement and his published and performance work, such as the signature study on African-American music, Blues People (1963) and the play Dutchman (1963) practically seeded “the cultural corollary to black nationalism” of that revolutionary American milieu.Sound Author’s host Dr. Kent Gustavson had the pleasure of interviewing Amiri on the November 21st, 2008  show. This podcast and all archived podcasts can be searched from the Sound Authors website at www.soundauthors.com/category/podcast. Each Friday at 1PM Eastern Standard Time, Sound Authors radio show features live interviews and readings from all varieties of authors, known and not-yet-known; all soon-to-be bestselling authors from all walks of life, from Hollywood actors to marathoners, to PhD therapists or life coaches.

Tune in next week, December 5th to hear New York Times Best Selling author Katherine Neville, author of ‘The Fire’. Katherine Neville’s groundbreaking novel, The Eight, dazzled audiences more than twenty years ago and set the literary stage for the epic thriller. A quest for a mystical chess service that once belonged to Charlemagne, it spans two centuries and three continents, and intertwines historic and modern plots, archaeological treasure hunts, esoteric riddles, and puzzles encrypted with clues from the ancient past. Now the electrifying global adventure continues, in Neville’s long anticipated sequel: THE FIRE.

Sound Authors radio show each week is replete with authors from around the country and around the world, each telling their tales, from self-help to fiction, children’s books to thrillers, how-to books to corporate guidebooks. Original music is also featured, along with up-and-coming bands and singer-songwriters. Listen for musician interviews and fresh music each week! No need to run out to your nearest bookstore to find the next great book or CD.

Tune in to Sound Authors every Friday at 1PM EST on Blog Talk Radio at http://www.blogtalkradio.com. The show also podcasts each interview separately, and all archived podcasts can be searched from the Sound Authors website at www.soundauthors.com or www.blogtalkradio.com/soundauthors .  Sound Authors - where authors sound off! Sound Authors Host Dr. Kent Gustavson’s background is in music, but his career has been in publishing. He is the owner of an independent book publisher, and a publishing consultant around the world. His many CDs and his book are available from his website online, or through the Sound Authors website.

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Interview with Ron Bourque | Sound Authors Radio

November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Dr. Kent:  Welcome back to Sound Authors.  Today is Friday, July 4, 2008.  It’s Independence Day and my next guest on the show, Ron Bourque, his book is called Disturbing Questions: Has God Stopped Blessing America.  Welcome to the show.

Ron Bourque:  Thank you doctor and happy Fourth of July to you and all your listeners.

Dr. Kent:  To you too.  So tell me a little about this book.

Ron Bourque:  Well, I work as a management consultant and I try to help organizations become more competitive.  So we don’t have to send all the jobs to India, China and all that kind of stuff.  Of course we’re losing the battle but at any rate I’ve been doing this economic analysis of our country since the early 90s.  92 in fact and I began to notice that we’re on this incredible losing streak and its gotten worse and worse year after year and I don’t know why it took me so long to notice the correlation but it looks like all this trouble started back in the early 70s.  Can you think of anything that’s happened in the early 70s that kind of comes to mind?  Like maybe 1973?

Dr. Kent:  Like disco balls?

Ron Bourque:  Yeah.

Dr. Kent:  And?

Ron Bourque:  The oil shortage started back then.

Dr. Kent:  Right.

Ron Bourque:  A whole bunch of other things but one of the things I think happened that kind of got my attention and I kind of thought it was ridiculous at first but the whole idea of Roe vs. Wade.  It was like, oh my goodness, could this be a coincidence?  And it’s a kind of crazy question and I kind of put it aside and didn’t want to do anything with it.  but it seemed like every time I turned around I’d find another bit of data or something like that, that pointed in the same direction and then I started doing some research and it was incredible how many things just seemed to start going wrong right about that same time frame.

If you think in terms of the book that we call the Holy Bible, it’s kind of like an interesting love story that’s sort of very repetitive.  Things go along very well and all of a sudden we start experimenting with I don’t know false gods or something like that and its something that He doesn’t like and he steps back and says, “Okay go ahead and try your way for awhile.”  And we do, and we go off and get into all kinds of trouble.  The harder we try to get out of the trouble, the worse things seem to get.

Dr. Kent:  Are you equating the modern day United States with Israel in the bible?

Ron Bourque:  Well I wonder if that sequence isn’t continuing even to this day and again it’s a question.  I don’t know the answer, that’s why the book is called Disturbing Questions.  I put the question out there, I’m not a prophet or anything, I don’t have a direct line to God or any of that other kind of stuff, but I look at that and I look at all of the correlation and that word correlation means an awful lot because I do a lot of problem solving.  And when you see things that correlate with each other it could very will be that this gives you the cause of the problem.

Dr. Kent:  You say Roe vs. Wade is the root of the problem.  Explain to me do you mean that when the courts decided that a woman has a right to choose whether to have an abortion or not that’s the moment God started not blessing America?

Ron Bourque:  Well I’m asking the question.  I’m asking the question from the perspective of when we decided that it was okay to have abortions legally was that kind of like God stepping back and saying okay go ahead and try it your way for awhile.

Dr. Kent:  Do you feel like it’s the same thing with like war or capital punishment or something like that or is abortion a unique thing for you?  I know you talk in your book about the number of abortions that have been performed and the number of people that would have been and things like that.  Do you equate that to other kinds of killing like war or what do you think about those things?

Ron Bourque:  I kind of think that all killing isn’t a good thing but I think that abortion is a special category because now what we’re doing is killing a perfectly defenseless child in a womb that hasn’t had a chance to do anything to earn such a punishment.

Dr. Kent:  What about the premise of Roe v. Wade and all of the abortion legislation.  You’ve got two lives to protect, one is the mother and one is the child.  What do you think about for example the cases of rape or incest or underage children that won’t be able to raise their kids or things like that?

Ron Bourque:  Well I think that those don’t make any difference.  Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t wish some of these circumstances on anyone, but if through whatever reason somebody becomes pregnant the idea of adding essentially murder to the scene doesn’t fix anything it only makes it worse.

Dr. Kent:  Is a condom also murder?

Ron Bourque:  Well I don’t think of that as murder per se because what you’re doing is preventing the conception from happening in the first place.  When a male sperm fertilizes the woman’s egg, you now have a third person.

Dr. Kent:  Right.  So lets say that it is a case that certain people believe that, lets say a large amount of the American population believes that abortion is murder, a lot of people don’t, but lets go by the premise and say abortion is killing of a fetus and lets say that its wrong.  Form that point, I still don’t understand is that because we are committing this act your concept is that God might have stopped blessing us?

Ron Bourque:  Yes and essentially if you look at our history, we’ve been incredibly blessed and everything seemed to go right with us, even through a couple of world wars and stuff where we came out victorious and not in a small way but in a big way and we were victorious economically.  Our standard of living has multiplied.  Each generation has done much better than the previous generation and this has gone on for quite awhile.  And we’ve got this long string of successes and then all of a sudden since 1973 all the things that seemed to be going right for us started going wrong.  And it’s getting worse and worse all the time.

Dr. Kent:  What about from 1980 to 1988 Regan era where most conservatives believe that the country was booming pretty well.  The trickle down economics started; what’s your take on that?

Ron Bourque:  I think that President Regan and I’m a fan of his, did an incredible job.  He had a lot of insight and he dramatically improved our economy but I always have the question in the back of my mind if how much better could it have been if we didn’t have that abortion problem.  See Regan did a pretty good job with the hand he was given.  But if he had had a better hand to play I wonder if things could be even better.

When we look at what’s going on today with all the jobs going overseas, with gas now $4.00 a gallon and who knows where its going to end, now they’re saying $7.00 a gallon.  Our national debt is way out of control.  The average person is working very hard to scrape a few things together and a lot of them don’t have any hope.  What happened to the American dream?

Dr. Kent:  Could that have come from things like failed economic policies?  Clearly the Bush administration has messed up a lot of things in economical side.  The great depression happened in the 30s, it was another economic mess-up.  Is it possible that these things theoretically the God not blessing America could be because of maybe God is starting to bless other people around the world as much as us or maybe we made some false decisions and maybe it doesn’t go back to abortion?

Ron Bourque:  It certainly could be.  As I said earlier, that’s one of the reasons its called Disturbing Questions; however, we’ve made some incredibly big mistakes and when we talk about the president Bush and the economy, the legacy that we’re struggling with right now today is not President Bush’s legacy, its President Clintons legacy.  President Clinton is the one who signed NAFTA the North American Free Trade Agreement.  He signed GATT, The General Agreement on Tariffs and Taxes and he also gave the Chinese most favorite nation trading I forget the last word but at any rate he set this thing up.

Now people say gee whiz, if it’s so bad and all the jobs are going over there, why didn’t President Bush put a stop to it?  That’s a very good question but what they don’t understand is it’s like trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube.  It came out a heck of a lot easier.  Try putting it back in sometime, that doesn’t work very well.  Once we let those jobs go over there, it changed our economy fundamentally.  If you remember early in the Bush administration, he’d only been president for a few months; one of our spy planes collided with a Chinese fighter jet off the coast of china and was forced to land on the Chinese island.

The Chinese immediately took the crew prisoner, took over the plane, started going through it to get whatever intelligence they could out of it and everything and the Americans were incensed and everybody was screaming up and down we’ve got to stop trading with china.  The heck with them.  Sounded good but what most people don’t know is a fair number of presidents of large companies went to the White House and said President Bush if you shut off trade with China you’re going to put us out of business because the components of the things we make and sell come from there and we don’t have another place to get them from.

We have made a strategic and fundamental error.  The Chinese can shut us off any time they want and there’s very little we can do to them.  In fact, even if we forget about manufacturing for a few moments and believe me that’s not a good thing to forget about, when we look in terms of our incredible debt, more than 50% of which is funded by China, people now talk about something they call the nuclear option for China.

The interesting thing is it doesn’t require them to fire a single nuclear weapon, no missiles, none of that kind of stuff.  All they have to do is start dumping bonds.  It will immediately destroy our financial systems and bring us to our knees.  People claim that would be more devastating than a nuclear attack.  We have never in our entire history been this subservient to another country.

Dr. Kent:  Right, so I would agree with all of what you just said.  It’s a fascinating thing to talk about the outsourcing and to talk about China and things like that.  We don’t have any more time but we will check out your book, it’s Ron Bourque and the book is called Disturbing Questions: Has God Stopped Blessing America?

I guess neither one of us probably think that God has stopped blessing America.  My opinion is God blesses the whole world and I think we both share that but check out this book for some questions, whether abortion, whether outsourcing; it’s a fascinating discussion to have.  Thank you for being on the show Ron.

Ron Bourque:  Thank you very much doctor and please have a great day.

Dr. Kent:  Have a great Fourth of July.

Ron Bourque:  You too.

Dr. Kent:  My next guest on the show will be someone named Arupa Tesolin.  She’s going to talk with us about the creative process in her book The Spark. Come on back for that.

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Interview with the Host–November 21st, 2008 Show

November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

 I had the honor of turning the tables on Sound Authors host Dr. Kent Gustavson and interviewed him about the guests on last week’s show.

You interviewed award winning poet icon and author Amiri Baraka, who has written over 40 books.  Have you been an avid reader of his work?

I had never read his work before, but did a good bit of research before he came on the show. I was especially interested in his recent highly political work. What an honor to chat with him for half an hour! His readings on his website are extraordinary. I was especially intrigued by his associations with Coltrane, Monk and other giant jazz greats! Very cool.
 
You spoke to new author Carson Gilmore who is the author of “Boy on Fire” which is a novel that challenges the ‘ No Child Left Behind act’. Do you feel this is an issue that needs to be reevaluated and the media  needs to bring awareness too?

I think the new Obama administration will certainly make some needed changes to the No Child Left Behind act — maybe children will stop being left behind… It was enjoyable speaking to Gilmore — he seems to be a precocious and gifted young man.
  
Award winning fiddler Michael Cleveland was on the show, have you been a follower of his music?

I have listened to Michael Cleveland for years now, ever since seeing him as a little boy on a video called “Gather at the River” with some of the greats of bluegrass. There is a scene where Cleveland sits with Doc Watson and other greats of bluegrass music, and holds his own, though he was just 13 years old, a small blind boy… And now he has shared the stage with any great bluegrass musician worth mentioning! And he has so many awards he could fill up a house just with those… Truly one of the great fiddlers of our time, and he’s still only in his mid-twenties. A great honor speaking with him about his music.
 

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Interview with Dr. Marcus Wells | Sound Authors Radio

November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Dr. Kent:  Welcome to Sound Authors!  Today is Friday, July 4, 2008, Independence Day in the United States.  Everybody is outside grilling, already getting ready for the big afternoon.  Tonight are the big fireworks.  It’s an exciting day for most folks.  My first guest on the show is going to be telling us a little about barbequing and things like that.  The second guest is going to talk about politics in America, he’s a conservative asking has God stopped blessing America?  Our third guest, her name is Arupa Tesolin and she’s going to talk to us about the creative process and the spark.  My last guest on the show is going to be a good friend of min.  It’s not often that I get to have people I know on the show.  He’s a fantastic musician that lives in Serbia and we’ll listen to some of his music.  Gaion Ilishick.  On my show today the first guest is Marcus Wells.  His book is called Thermogenics: The Energy Zone, Seven Steps to Cellular Dieting, but he’s here to talk to us about barbequing, the fourth of July.  Welcome to the show.

Dr. Wells:  Thanks you very much, I appreciate it.

Dr. Kent:  Tell me something about what’s going on in your house today on the fourth of July?

Dr. Wells:  Well we’re cutting a little bit back on the barbequing I’ll say, just a little bit.  Not completely but I think the method of how we cook and what we’re cooking and how long we’re cooking it is being reanalyzed by the family household and what I mean by that is medical science and technology have looked at some of the products that we’re barbequing these days along with a lot of the fats that we’re cooking along with our barbeque, its being cooked and in the flames dirty caustic agents, carcinogens are being blown back onto our foods, which we consume.  This is coming from the fat portion of the meat but also within the meat itself.

The fats creotin that’s inside the meat, the heat that we’re cooking meats at and the length of time we’re cooking it at is creating another carcinogen.  We’re getting heterocyclic amines coming from the meats and getting what’s called poly aromatic hydrocarbons.  I call those PAHs that are coming from the fat.  So we are now having to look a little more closely at what we’re cooking, how long we’re cooking it and how much of it that we’re eating.

Dr. Kent:  So what exactly are you eating this year?

Dr. Wells:  This year its going to be a lot more fruits and vegetables because the heterocyclic amines, there was a study from the Cancer Institute that several of them are causing cancer of the breast, cancer of the prostate, and of the pancreas.  It is again the length of time that these meats are being cooked.  It could be fish, it could be beef, it could be pork, lamb; however, all of those meats do have amino acids that when they’re overly cooked that certain products, carcinogens are being produced.  All meats are susceptible to this.

I’ll give you a cool recent study done in 2006 at South Carolina University where they looked at post menopausal women who had eaten meats all of their lives.  Those who had done this were at a 47% increased risk of getting breast cancer.  To add onto that, those women in post menopause who had not eaten any fruits or vegetables were at a 74% higher increase of getting breast cancer.  So there is study and indication again from several universities and the national cancer institute that shows that the way we eat, the way we cook, and how much of the overly cooked material does affect our health and is the leading cause of cancer in our society.

Dr. Kent:  Tell me a little bit about your background, how you got into this.  You’re a doctor but this body thermo dynamics is very much your own methods.  You’ve got an attractive website with a bunch of thermo things on it.  Tell me a little bit about where you’re coming from.

Dr. Wells:  Well thank you.  as you know I’m a medical doctor but health really extends back many years and also currently there are organic sources of food we need to look at and we also need to reconsider vitamin supplements, antioxidants and again the organics.  Based on the fact that food is being overly cooked, overly processed.  We’re putting a lot of herbicides, insecticides in our food.  We’re putting a lot of not only genetically modified foods, but foods with growth hormones, foods with other kinds of hormones and so we’re being over processed with foods and we need to be very careful about that.

I think our attitudes about foods need to change.  We need to look at it as being almost a medicine that is foods do have enzymes in them.  They do have antioxidants.  We run the risk though when we overcook food to either miss a lot of these nutrients or we receive a lot of artificial things in it.  Both are putting us at risk for disease.  My interest spanned from that because I’ve seen a lot of cancer in medicine, in practice.  I’ve seen it in my research as well and this is still the number one killer if you would in our culture.  Heart disease, which are due to a lot of problems with the antioxidants.

A lot of these same things that cause cancer also cause heart disease.  So we’re looking at problems with heart disease, cancer and obesity are problems in our country today and I would say that the epidemic of poor lifestyle is the cause of all three of these things.  So developing better lifestyles can occur through better methods of cooking.  I would recommend for the fourth of July that people would marinade their meats with citrus juice and olive oil and they would boil their food a little more even before grilling it.  Certainly pre-heating food before you grill it will also help because the length of time the meat is on the grill is causing this overheating and causing the problems with the carcinogens.

Dr. Kent:  Tell us a little bit about now on the fourth of July people do all tend to overeat.  Every holiday you get together with your family, you overindulge and then you sit in front of the TV and watch sports.  What does that have to do with lifestyle cancer, all of that as well?  What does exercise do?  Will it lessen the effects of these things?  Or is that a completely different thing?

Dr. Wells:  What I’m talking about not only does exercise increase the resistance of the heart, the cardio pulmonary system, a better heartbeat and make your lungs breathe better, increase the fitness of the body but we know that by losing weight we reduce cancer, we reduce the amount of cholesterol in the body.  But there are several other things going on too.  The endorphins and the natural immune system is going to produce better and more vigorously all natural chemicals, our own biochemicals as well, so a more fit body will be able to fight against cancer and heart disease, will also fight against diabetes, reducing the sugar that’s in the blood, excess sugar.

Reducing the adopus tissue again is going to reduce obesity overweight as well but the biochemical and let’s not forget the emotional and psychological factor that exercise has for us.  So we know that resistance is going to increase.  I think we feel psychologically better when we do this so we have a better image of ourselves over all.  We’re talking about leisurely exercise.  You don’t have to go and necessarily join a gym to go out and run, play tennis, or just have a walk with a family member.

We’re talking about low intensity exercise, can be just as effective as high intensity exercise so that you can get some aerobic affect to get better oxygenation of your blood so you can get some amount of isometrics for your lifting weights or doing something that is of that affect.  But calisthenics, stretching the muscles to improve musculature, also to get better what we call the blood vessels can open up as well.  Also the effect of relaxation; these are certain kinds of exercises, simple exercises that can be done at home in your bedroom, at the office, these are all very important components of a healthy lifestyle.

Dr. Kent:  Let’s say that I were to go outside, grill up hotdogs and hamburgers and cook them to a crisp, and then afterwards indulge in potato salad, heavy in mayonnaise and whatever else and then after that eat some s’mores with Hershey’s chocolate and marshmallows.  What am I doing to myself?

Dr. Wells:  Well I would be first tempted to come over and eat with you but my nutritional and lifestyle sense would kick in.  What you’re doing to your body is bombarding it with a lot of different insults that produce carcinogens or are carcinogens themselves.  From charred hotdogs we’re getting what’s called the peroxidation process in your cells which set up free oxygen radicals that cause cancer.  This can also cause scarring on the inside of the blood vessels which is the start up your heart disease.

So if you’re eating high fat foods and you’re getting a lot of peroxidation from the oxygen free radicals you’re getting scarring and you’re getting the plak formation inside the blood vessels.  So you’ve already started two processes that increase mortality, that is cancer and heart disease.  At the same time, because the blood vessels are becoming smaller and smaller, that is their radius, their volume of what blood can go through, a pumping mechanism of the heart has to pump two or three times harder to get the same amount of blood that you normally would give to all the rest of your body.

The brain, the stomach, the bones, the muscles all need to get blood and you’re little heart has to beat that much harder to get that same amount of blood as it normally would have before you had the clotting of the arteries.  So what does that do to the heart?  Its almost like flipping a horse and what happens is your body is going to tell you, hey there’s a problem here and it usually does that with an internal ping called angina so that could lead if the clotting isn’t improved or the marring in the heart is not improved in the blood vessels it could lead to heart attack and there are other problems that lead from that.

Again, the increasing of the fatty foods can lead to Type II Diabetes.  You’re not able to regulate your sugar, your glucose in your blood so this can lead to diabetes which is related to kidney disease, blindness, having ulcerations.  Also vascular, having poor blood vessels around the body, which also is related to stroke and heart disease again.  So you’re creating a vicious cycle when you’re doing this.

I would like to say no one is saying don’t barbeque, don’t grill, but there are healthy alternatives such as poaching, baking, pan stirring and boiling, watching the amount of fat that’s in your food and getting the exercise in.  It can be low intensity exercise.  All of these things are going to help work with the nutrition aspect in a healthy lifestyle.

Dr. Kent:  The number one thing is to precook the burgers, go out and exercise, but have a good day.  I have, what I’m actually making is not hotdogs and all of that but I am part of a local farm share and I have beets that I had to prepare so I spent an hour and a half preparing and putting those beets in the salad.  So I’m not really a hot dog eater myself but what’s the value of local organic food.  Do you talk about that, think about that?

Dr. Wells:  Yeah I do in my book and organics including soy, whey, in the diet as well as more grains, more whole grains, more whole foods, you can still get protein and protein alternatives besides meats or the soys, wheys, kalene, and fermented soy in particular can be there.  Now there are healthy fats.  There is safflower oil, there’s canola, there’s sunflower oil, there’s flax and flax seed; these are healthy oils.

We’ve even found out that coconut oil actually is healthy.  It’s a saturated fat but there are some good saturated fats as well.  But it comes to carbohydrates go with more complex carbohydrates instead of simple sugar.  When it comes to sugar, there is now stadia which is there as an alternative to honey or to sugar and doesn’t have the negative effects of sugar.  So there are plenty of good dietary products that we can be using.

We should be looking at the antioxidants and vitamins because they’re being processed out and we’re not sure if we’re getting all the amount of recommended daily allowance of vitamins and antioxidants.  Just the antioxidants by the way, they’re fighting against those oxygen free radicals that cause heart disease and cause cancer.  This is Vitamin C, D, grape seed extract that we should be looking at.  Co-enzyme 2 and 10, we should be looking more at these as a daily part of our regimen.

Dr. Kent:  We don’t have much more time but tell me a little about your book and your website, where we can find out much more information about this.

Dr. Wells:  The book is Thermo Genetics and you can go to my website tgx360.com but the book is talking about a way to create a healthier lifestyle through low intensity exercise, ways that can improve your resistance, help your cardiopulmonary system create a better fit you.

We’re looking at the antioxidants, the minerals, the vitamins, and looking at organics.  We took a strong look at researching some of the alternatives, health measures that are the antioxidants that fight against cancer, that can burn fats, thermo genetic agents that help control the appetite.  Those that can help bring out the cholesterol to the liver and muscles to be burned better.  A look at some of the products, I would call them sexy scientific products.

These are natural herbs that can help with the body; some of them are natural aphrodisiacs.  Again we talked about thermogenics, the antioxidants, and the vitamins are all included in the book Thermogenics.  It’s a new way of creating a healthier attitude and relationship with food.  The human body is a natural walking, talking pharmacy.  And we need to listen more to the body and what its trying to say to us and we need to take the time to eat more organically, more naturally, and read labels a lot more.

Dr. Kent:  Where can we find the book?

Dr. Wells:  The book can be ordered through my website, that’s tgx360.com or at infinitypublishing.com is the second route.  It will be out in Barnes & Noble as well as Borders but go directly to the website at tgx360 and you’ll be able to get it first hand.  I would like to add that there are products with that too.

Dr. Kent:  It’s really been an honor speaking with you especially on the fourth of July when most folks over engorge themselves.  And even if we’re doing that we can be thinking about what we’re doing to ourselves in the process.  So it’s been a fantastic honor speaking with Dr. Marcus Wells, author of Thermogenics: The Energy Zone and his website tgx360.com.  Thank you for being on the show.

Dr. Wells:  Thank you.

Dr. Kent:  My next guest is going to be Ron Berkay; he is an author of Disturbing Questions.  Come on back for that.

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