Cura LifeLines Newsletter 2021

Music touches us socially, emotionally and spiritually. Music becomes therapeutic when we’re able to harness its potential in a way that improves life, health and wellbeing.

Sheri L. Robb, PhD Professor, Indiana University School of Nursing

Music can actually change the balance between two opposing sides of the nervous system – the sympathetic and the parasympathetic.

Peter Libby, MD Cardiovascular Specialist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Food is the most powerful drug on the planet; it has a capacity to cure most of the chronic illnesses that we’re suffering from. When we take out the harmful foods and we add in protective ones, the body has a chance to reverse all sorts of chronic illnesses that are now affecting millions of people around the world.

Mark Hyman, MD Head of Strategy and Innovation, Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine

We have a legacy food system that was created over 70 years ago to do exactly what it was meant to do: give cheap calories fortified with vitamins to prevent mass starvation. What we need to do now is shift toward understanding nourishment, prevention of chronic diseases and optimal processing of food.

Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPH Dean, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University

The key thing about food and health, it’s not just about the food; it’s about how our body responds to what we put inside of it. And the great news is that so many foods, more than 200 foods actually, have been shown scientifically to activate our body’s hardwired health defenses and these can be fruits and vegetables, nuts and legumes, healthy oils and seafoods.

WilliamW. Li, MD President, Medical Director and CEO, The Angiogenesis Foundation

Instead of trying to change everything all at once, I try to make one positive change a year. When we try to change 10 things all at one time, it’s overwhelming and that’s when we give up.

Cindy Crawford Model and Entrepreneur

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