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Nei Jing Now!

Nei Jing Now is a uniquely inspiring, interdisciplinary, integrative, and international audio show about prioritizing wellbeing hosted by Dr. Jayshree Chander. It is available for free at www.neijingnow.org and on iTunes.Nei Jing is a term originating in the Chinese language that refers to the vitality that shields us from dis-ease. Nei Jing Now encourages us to examine our individual and collective values and motivates us to re-prioritize wellbeing. As all human activity impacts our health and happiness, Nei Jing Now emphasizes that one’s resilience or capacity to resist disease is in constant interaction with many factors: the environment, culture, economics, politics, history, lifestyle, community, genetics, diet, emotions, age, spirituality, and more. Nei Jing Now approaches health from the perspective that optimal wellbeing is a state requiring minimal medical services, products, interventions, medications, and supplements. The program demystifies medicine, empowers host resistance, cultivates resilience, and promotes primary prevention. Nei Jing Now takes health out of the box and revolutionizes mainstream thinking to prioritize health and happiness.

Nei Jing

Nei Jing is a Chinese word that describes the concept that one's resilience or capacity to resist disease is in constant interaction with environment, culture, lifestyle, genetics, diet, emotions, age, and context. It has been said that Nei Jing is the concept that taking medicines for an illness is like starting to dig a well after you are already thirsty. Of course, if you are ill it is important to get treatment. The idea of Nei Jing is to live life in such a way, to the best of our abilities, to prevent getting ill in the first place.

History

Nei Jing Now launched in 2006 with a three part series exploring sleep. Throughout her medical training Dr. Jayshree Chander noted the many limitations in traditional medical education. The training of allopathic medical doctors, even today, neglects the importance and impact of many topics such as sleep, nutrition, digestion, elimination, touch, water quality and access, soil quality, air quality, occupational and recreational safety and health, individual and community relationships, social capital, and the complex interaction with other life on planet earth. These missing pieces in medical education inspired her to create an educational audio/radio show to educate professionals and the general public about these topics and more. Currently most health and wellness shows limit their discussion to diet, exercise, supplements, and individual mindfulness practices. Nei Jing Now goes beyond advice to the individual to question our current value systems and examine how society and nations function and interact to impact our health and well-being.

In addition to practicing medicine, Jayshree is also a performing artist and an avid listener of radio. Often when she’d be listening to her favorite radio shows she’d feel inspired to have her own show. In 2003 she offered to develop a course for medical students at the University of California-San Francisco covering important topics such as sleep, diet, work, relationships, environment, and spirituality. The medical school thought it was a great idea but wasn't going to offer any funding. She decided to proceed with developing the course content but make it available to anyone and everyone for free by making her own radio show on the subjects. She wanted to offer the opportunity for people to take the power of knowledge into their own hands, through Nei Jing Now!

Biography

Dr. Jayshree Chander is the creator and host of Nei Jing Now. She is a practicing physician, trained in family and community medicine, and in occupational and environmental medicine from the University of California San Francisco, serving medically indigent people domestically and internationally. She conducts the interviews, edits the recordings, plays the musical interludes, writes and recites the concluding poetry, sound engineers the audio, acts as webmaster, and disseminates Nei Jing Now. In addition to a doctoral degree in medicine from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she has a graduate degree in public health with an emphasis in environmental health from the University of California-Berkeley and is a published author in the field. (International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health; New Solutions, a Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health Policy) As a dedicated meditator and practitioner of Ashiatsu, Iyengar yoga, and Vipassana meditation, she has a deep appreciation for the therapeutic and rehabilitative potential of mind-body practices. She has traveled to the East to study the principles of ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine. She has served the survivors of the Union Carbide Gas Disaster in Bhopal and has witnessed firsthand the impact of our individual and collective priorities. The breadth and depth of her experience and the interdisciplinary nature of her training has cultivated her unique perspective on wellness that makes what she offers in this program irreplaceable.

She was born in India and raised and educated in the United States and has cultivated a multicultural perspective on life. She also sees the great value and benefit offered by the healing traditions of the East and feels it is important to integrate their knowledge into the public conversation on health and well-being.

She is an effective and natural educator and has been nominated by medical students at UCSF as “Most Inspiring Teacher.” She has given many professional presentations to physicians in university settings in the USA and abroad. Her lifelong training in the performing arts has nurtured her talent as a performer and storyteller. As a health educator it is important to her that she provides high quality up-to-date content that is interdisciplinary, multicultural, inspiring, motivational, entertaining, accessible, applicable, and personal.

Mission

1. To promote primary prevention.

2. To promote the understanding that all human activity is health related.

3. To promote the understanding that quality of life is shared by all living beings.

4. To promote the understanding of the role of host resistance and resilience in disease, health, happiness, and well-being.

5. To promote the understanding that the prime determinants of health are social, political, and economic and that the priorities within those arenas depend on power relations.

6. To promote the responsible use of integrated treatment modalities and interdisciplinary social and political action for enhancing health and happiness.

Content

Nei Jing Now has covered topics such as sleep, habits and addictions, and digestion and elimination. Future topics will include waste management, water issues, soil quality, air pollution, global warming, food, nutrition, equality, freedom, creativity, social relationships, working life, and more. Episodes are one hour shows with interviews with 2-3 experts and a personal story with someone "off the street."

Shorter 8-12 minute clips, called “Shorts,” also cover various other topics with an interview with one expert. Some popular shorts include a series on doctors without health insurance and the current state of asbestos.

Nei Jing Now also contains written content exploring issues in current events, such as health insurance reform in the U.S., the implications of corporate sponsorship on the Olympic Games, and the epidemic of gun violence in America, and more.