Elements of Nature Podcast

About Elements of Nature

“Elements of Nature” is a monthly podcast series about how natural forces shape and influence our health and wellness. and affects our flourishing. Each episode is focused on an element of nature - earth, water, wind, fire, thunder, ice, force, time, flower, trees, shadow, light, and moon - and how they regulate the rhythms of our lives and enhance wellness, health, and resilience. We discuss how sleep and sunlight regulate our mood and fitness, how air pollution of natural domains impairs our health and increases the risk of chronic disease, and how green spaces and vegetation affect our moods, attention, and immunity. We will explore the many and sometimes magical mysterious nuances of nature and learn how, if we pay attention to nature, we can all live a more healthy and harmonious life. Each month we talk to an accomplished scientist, a professor, or a renowned author with expertise in studying the relationship of each element of nature with human health and wellness.

Host: Dr. Aruni Bhatnagar

Dr. Aruni Bhatnagar has a PhD degree in Chemistry from Kanpur University in India. He has worked for many decades to identify and understand environmental factors that impact the risk of heart disease. His work has led to the identification of specific metabolic pathways that contribute to secondary complications of diabetes and atherosclerosis. He is Professor of Medicine at the University of Louisville and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. He is currently the Director of the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute at the University of Louisville and Co-Director of the American Heart Association Tobacco Regulation Center. He has been widely for his work in the field of environmental cardiology. In 2015, he received the outstanding mentor award from Conference of Southern Graduate School and in 2015 he won the Norman Alpert Award from the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences. His work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration and the American Heart Association. He has published more than 375 original articles and 25 book chapters and has edited the monograph - Environmental Cardiology.