Original Air Date Wednesday, June 28, 2017

During this week's radio show you will learn about:

• Bridging the willpower gap
• How the brain blocks weight loss
• Making diet changes in 40's and beyond
• Libido & sexual function as we age

Sharon Bergquist, MD, FACP is a board-certified internal medicine doctor, researcher, teacher, and speaker specializing in preventive medicine and healthy aging. She is a Rollins Distinguished Clinician on the faculty of Emory School of Medicine and the medical director of Emory’s Executive Health center, a state-of-the-art evidence-based lifestyle prevention program. Dr. Bergquist is on the team leading Emory’s Healthy Aging Study, the largest clinical study ever done in Atlanta with the aim of finding early biomarkers of chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Bergquist graduated from Yale University and completed her medical education and training at Harvard Medical School. More here.

Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D., is an Adjunct Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester, the President of the Institute for Sustainable Weight Loss, and the Founder and CEO of Bright Line Eating Solutions, a company dedicated to helping people achieve long-term, sustainable weight loss.  Her program utilizes cutting-edge research to explain how the brain blocks weight loss and every day she teaches people how to undo that damage so they can live Happy, Thin, and Free. More here.