Osher WISE: Well-being and Integrative Science for Everyone (Audio)

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The mission of the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Health is to nurture health and inspire well-being in all people. Our educational programming, formerly known as Osher Mini Medical School for the Public, has been reimagined as Osher WISE (Well-being and Integrative Science for Everyone). This public education program offers courses on integrative health topics that are current and compelling, providing an opportunity for community members to become active, informed participants in their own health and well-being journey.

Episode Date
The Trouble with Nutritional Supplements
Dec 17, 2025
The Benefits of HIIT Training
Nov 26, 2025
Never Do Nothing Tips To Start Exercising
Jun 30, 2025
How Do We Increase Muscle Mass?
Jun 18, 2025
Carbohydrates Are Not Your Enemy
Jun 06, 2025
Telomere Health
May 25, 2025
What Does Muscle Do For Us?
May 16, 2025
A High-Fiber Diet Boosts Health
May 09, 2025
What Does Exercise Do To The Body?
Apr 25, 2025
Sarcopenia: What You Need To Know
Apr 11, 2025
Oxidative Stress: What You Need To Know
Apr 04, 2025
Body Health = Brain Health
Jan 30, 2025
The American Diet is Critically Fiber Deficient
Jan 16, 2025
Feeding Your Microbiome: Dietary Strategies for Wellness and Disease Prevention
Nov 22, 2024
Brain Health Neuroplasticity and Aging: Supporting Cognition at Every Age
Nov 13, 2024
Movement and Strength Training to Improve Metabolic Health
Oct 31, 2024
Mind-Body Medicine to Build Stress Resilience
Oct 22, 2024
Exercise Snacks - Overcoming Barriers
May 03, 2024
Cancer Care - Exercise Guidelines and More
Mar 06, 2024
For Weight Loss: Lifestyle Change
Jan 27, 2024
Trigger Finger: Symptoms and Treatments
Jan 23, 2024
Neuroscientist: DON’T DIET DO THESE 4 HEALTHY HABITS
Jan 10, 2024
Promoting Mental Health: The Holistic Approach of Acupuncture and Consciousness
Oct 21, 2023
Psychedelic Research Psilocybin Therapy and Mental Illness
Oct 13, 2023
Eastern View of the Mind: Comparing Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda Philosophy
Oct 06, 2023
Beta Adrenergic Receptors and Their Role in Heart Function
Sep 29, 2023
Growing Health from the Soil Up: The Links Between Farms Food and Wellbeing
Sep 23, 2023
Everything Everywhere All at Once: Integrative Approaches to Working with Teens with Anxiety Depression and Chronic Pain
Sep 16, 2023
Making the Invisible Visible: Societal Influences on Health and Health Care
Sep 02, 2023
Learning Without a Brain
Aug 26, 2023
Global Health Interventions to Prevent Infectious Diseases
Aug 18, 2023
Transforming Personal and Public Health Through Precision Medicine
Aug 11, 2023
Improving Health Equity Bit by Bit
Aug 04, 2023
How To Manage Type 2 Diabetes
Jul 22, 2023
How To Manage Obesity
Jul 08, 2023
How To Manage High Blood Cholesterol
Jul 01, 2023
How To Prevent Disease With Adult Vaccines
Jun 24, 2023
Prevention and Early Detection of Common Cancers
Jun 17, 2023
How To Manage High Blood Pressure
Jun 10, 2023
Where Exactly is the Hip?
Jun 01, 2023
The Right Time for Hip Replacement
May 28, 2023
The Future of Low Back Pain Management 
May 27, 2023
Build Muscle and Lower Insulin Levels More Health Benefits
May 23, 2023
Physical Therapy for Back Pain
May 20, 2023
Surgery for Back Pain
May 12, 2023
Cancer Loves Sugar Tips to Reading Nutrition Labels
May 11, 2023
Interventions and Medications for Low Back Pain Relief
Apr 22, 2023
When is Low Back Pain Something Else? Red Flags for Serious Diseases
Apr 15, 2023
Back Pain Basics: Anatomy Physiology and the Initial Evaluation
Apr 07, 2023
Strain vs. Sprain Treatment
Apr 06, 2023
Excess Body Fat Triggers Insulin Resistance
Apr 01, 2023
Machine Preservation of the Liver
Mar 24, 2023
Sitting is the New Smoking
Mar 19, 2023
Beyond Kidney Allotransplantation: Advancements in Kidney Xenotransplantation and Artificial Kidney
Mar 18, 2023
How to Keep Cartilage Healthy
Mar 17, 2023
Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death in Heart Transplantation
Mar 09, 2023
How Important Muscle Mass is in Surviving Cancer
Mar 08, 2023
Think Twice About Fruit Juice
Mar 03, 2023
Heart Valves: What Can Go Wrong and the Latest Approaches to Making Them Right Again
Feb 25, 2023
Kidney - Liver Overlap: Recognition of Kidney Disease Impact on Symptoms and Who Needs Both Organs
Feb 18, 2023
Heart Attacks Angioplasties and Stents Oh My!
Feb 04, 2023
Heart Failure: What it Means and the Many Effective Treatments Now Available
Jan 21, 2023
Implantable Devices to Diagnose and Treat Cardiac Rhythm Disorders
Jan 20, 2023
Can I Borrow Your Kidney? National Kidney Exchange Altruistic Donors and Voucher Systems
Dec 30, 2022
Personal Insights of a Transplant Surgeon and Organ Donor
Dec 07, 2022
Atrial Fibrillation: Alcohol Caffeine Apple Watches and What They All Have To Do With the Most Common Heart Rhythm Disturbance
Dec 03, 2022
Prevention of Heart Disease: What You and Your Doctor Can Do to Minimize Risk
Dec 01, 2022
How To Bolster The Safety Net For Those Most Impacted By The Pandemic
Oct 26, 2022
Why Are People Acting So Weird? Social Disruption Stress and Substance Use During the Pandemic
Oct 21, 2022
Health Workforce Shortages in the Wake of the Pandemic
Oct 17, 2022
Seeing CLIIR-ly: Insights from UCSF's Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research
Oct 15, 2022
Is There an Off-Ramp for That? K-12 Schools and COVID-19
Sep 26, 2022
Integrative Cancer Care: Bringing Innovative Approaches into the Clinic
Sep 17, 2022
Food and Nutrition Security
Sep 03, 2022
Introduction to Integrative Palliative Cancer Care
Aug 26, 2022
Caring for Mind Body and Spirit: Coping with Cancer Care and Managing Cognitive Changes
Aug 20, 2022
Integrative Oncology 101: Empowering Us to Reduce Risk Support Treatment and Promote Health
Aug 19, 2022
Exercise and Cancer: Impact of Physical Activity
Aug 13, 2022
The Microbes Upon Us: How the Cutaneous Microbiome Promotes Skin Health
Aug 06, 2022
Nutrition and Cancer: Do’s and Don'ts
Jul 30, 2022
Microbes and Mental Health – Mood-Enhancing Effects of Gut Microbes
Jul 29, 2022
The Gut-Brain Axis - Gut Microbiome Influences on Neurological Disease
Jul 23, 2022
They Are What You Eat - How Food and Drugs Interact with the Gut Microbiome
Jul 16, 2022
Yoga for Transforming Consciousness: The Chakra System and Jungian Psychology
Jul 09, 2022
Can Big (Microbiome) Data Save the World? – Using AI and Microbiome Data to Predict Health Outcomes
Jul 08, 2022
How to Build a Microbiome – Early Life Microbiomes and Their Implications for Children’s Health
Jul 02, 2022
Cancer: What Are the Newest Developments?
Jun 17, 2022
Essential Tremor: Basal Ganglia Cerebellum and Thalamus
Jun 10, 2022
Peripheral Nerves and Difficult to Diagnose Neurological Diseases
May 27, 2022
The Science and Research on Yoga for Improving Transcendence and Spirituality
May 20, 2022
Cancer: What Happens After?
May 13, 2022
Cortex Anatomy and Alzheimer's Disease
May 07, 2022
Cultivating Compassion and Resilience: Yoga for Enhancing Mental Health
Apr 30, 2022
Yoga and Dance: Attuning to Self through Creative Movement
Apr 27, 2022
How is Cancer Treated?
Apr 23, 2022
Epilepsy and the Limbic System
Apr 22, 2022
Body Breath and Abundant Energy: Yoga for Vitalizing Physical Health
Apr 18, 2022
How is Cancer Diagnosed?
Apr 16, 2022
Multiple Sclerosis and the Spinal Cord
Apr 15, 2022
Brainstem Anatomy and Introduction to Headache Medicine
Apr 11, 2022
What is Yoga? Perspectives on its Journey from East to West
Apr 09, 2022
What Causes Cancer?
Apr 02, 2022
What is Cancer?
Mar 25, 2022
Treating Cancer Pain without Opioids
Jan 22, 2022
Anti-Racism Initiative: Fostering Institutional Change Following the Tragic Murder of George Floyd
Jan 12, 2022
Pediatric Pain Management
Jan 08, 2022
Can 70 Really Be The New 50? Living Longer and Healthier with Exercise
Jan 01, 2022
Autopilot Mode vs. Mindfulness
Dec 31, 2021
Lumps and Bumps of the Hand and Wrist
Dec 25, 2021
Educating for Equity: The Doctors Our Nation Needs
Dec 20, 2021
Ouch! My Aching Feet: Common Ailments of the Foot and Ankle
Dec 18, 2021
How to Counter Racism in Research
Dec 13, 2021
Integrative Pain Medicine: Paradigms and Possibilities
Dec 10, 2021
Technology vs. Pain and Addiction: Advances in Neuromodulation
Dec 08, 2021
COVID-19 Disparities: The Disproportionate Impact on African American and Latinx Communities
Dec 01, 2021
Hip Pain: When Your Hip Won't Let You Hop!
Nov 29, 2021
Embedding Equity in Clinical Care
Nov 26, 2021
Injuries to the Female Athlete and the Creation of the Women's Sports Medicine Center at UCSF
Nov 19, 2021
Lower Back Pain
Nov 17, 2021
Pain is a Mind-Body Experience. Now What?
Nov 16, 2021
Conservative Management of Low Back Pain
Nov 11, 2021
History of Racism and Health: The UCSF Repair Project on REParations and Anti-Institutional Racism
Nov 10, 2021
Mindfulness is Not About Bliss
Oct 17, 2021
Health is an Issue of Psychology Not Nutrition
Oct 09, 2021
Avoidance is a Trap
Oct 02, 2021
Vitamin A: The Food Label Problem
Sep 18, 2021
Vitamin D Sources and Supplements
Sep 11, 2021
Alzheimer's Disease - The Language Syndrome
Aug 30, 2021
What to Expect After Cataract Surgery
Aug 30, 2021
Alzheimer's Disease - The Frontal/Executive Syndrome
Aug 27, 2021
Delirium and COVID Hospital Stays
Aug 25, 2021
Lazy Eyes and Not So Lazy Eyes: Amblyopia Strabismus and Common Pediatric Eye Conditions
Aug 18, 2021
Understanding Glaucoma Diagnosis Treatment and Research on the Horizon
Aug 14, 2021
Long COVID Time Frame
Aug 08, 2021
Mandala Therapy: Art of Centering the Self
Aug 07, 2021
Art for Recovery
Aug 03, 2021
Bringing Clarity to the Cornea: Dry Eye Disease and Surgeries of the Cornea
Jul 31, 2021
Oculoplastics: Aesthetic Eyelid Surgery Botox and Fillers
Jul 26, 2021
Movement is Medicine
Jul 24, 2021
The Essential Role of Music Therapy in Pediatric Health Care
Jul 23, 2021
Demystifying Retinal Diseases
Jul 19, 2021
The Neuroscience of Creativity
Jul 16, 2021
Introduction to Ocular Disease and Cataract Surgery
Jul 12, 2021
The Role of Music in Dementia Caregiving Relationships
Jul 09, 2021
COVID-19 Vaccines: Science and Safety
Jun 30, 2021
COVID-19 Diagnostics: Everything You Need to Know About Tests and Variants
Jun 22, 2021
The COVID-19 Pandemic: Year One Experience of a Frontline Provider and National Advisor
Jun 14, 2021
What Do We Know about Long COVID?
Jun 12, 2021
Developmental Impact of COVID-19: Addressing Parental and Student Stress
Jun 07, 2021
COVID Therapeutics
Jun 05, 2021
The Importance of Community Engagement In the Care of COVID-19
Jun 01, 2021
Cultivating Emotion Awareness and Fierce Compassion
May 29, 2021
COVID-19: Science and the Public Health
May 28, 2021
A Call to Action: Transforming Community-Academic Partnerships to Secure Environmental Justice for All
May 24, 2021
Aging of the Immune System in Space
May 22, 2021
Environmental Injustice and Health Politics: Systems Change and Social Care
May 20, 2021
Integrative Therapy to Manage Anxiety and Reduce Stress
May 16, 2021
Space: The Spinal Frontier
May 15, 2021
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon: Technology Issues in Human Spaceflight
May 14, 2021
Effect of Spaceflight on the Skeleton
May 14, 2021