The Mountain Life
Wednesday, 9-10 AM
The Mountain Life hosts Lynn Ware Peek & David Wintzer explore a wide variety of topics from health, fitness, and nutrition to parenting, lifestyle, and education. Lynn Ware Peek and David Wintzer are lovers of the mountain lifestyle.
For inquiries and guests and content, contact Lynn directly at lynn@kpcw.org or David directly at dwintzer@kpcw.org.
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Local resident Amy McDonald, founder and director of Brolly Arts discusses how a movement called Illusion of Abundance (IOA), a grassroots racial, social and climate justice project, exposes a climate and culture in crisis due to the declining Great Salt Lake.
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Dr. Carrie Jaworski, a sports medicine physician at Intermountain Park City Hospital’s sports performance center, previews a speaker series Tuesday, April 30 at 6 p.m. at the Blair Education Center. The three-part speaker series focuses on helping young female athletes thrive.
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Award-winning adventure journalist Will Cockrell discusses his book, "Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World." It is a survey of mountaineering culture, from entrepreneurial Sherpas to the journalists who write about the world’s most famous peak.
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Owner, editor, and publisher Mike Rogge of the Mountain Gazette discusses his purchase of the magazine in 2020 and how it has evolved back to its roots and shows that readers enjoy long-form journalism and high photographic art in a publication they can hold in their hands — and will pay to support that. This is the first part in our series on publications that take a deep dive into mountain living.
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Long days of sunlight mean lots of UV rays. Dermatologist Dr. Jen Haley tells how you can increase sun protection from the inside out, and provides more insights about our largest organ, the skin.
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Leading nutrition researcher and New York Times bestselling author Dr. Neal Barnard discusses his new book, "The Power Foods Diet." Dr. Barnard has led numerous research studies investigating the effects of diet on diabetes, body weight, hormonal symptoms, and chronic pain.
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Local chiropractor Dr. Jake Shores of Neuro Performance Integration (NPI) talks about Chiropractic BioPhysics® used to correct undiagnosed spinal abnormalities linked to pain, migraines, fatigue and more.
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Cognitive scientist Andy Norman outlines a new approach to our world’s misinformation problem: one centered on the idea that minds have “immune systems” of their own, an evolved mechanism for spotting and shedding problematic information.
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Gastroenterologist Dr. Holly Clark from Intermountain Health talks about the colorectal cancer public awareness campaign called, “Let’s Get to the Bottom of Colon Cancer.”
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Three-time NCAA champion and two-time Olympic runner Kara Goucher [Gow-chur] speaks out about one of the biggest scandals in running in her new book.