City of Cupertino, CA / Cupertino Library Wellness Series

Learn strategies for success by improving your understanding of your own strengths and personality. Dr. Andrew Wen guides attendees through a variation of the Myers-Briggs personality test, teaching easy to remember themes to help you have more successful interactions at school and work.

Recorded January 12, 2020 at the Cupertino Community Hall.

Medicinal plants can play a powerful role in preventive care, as well as providing relief for many common challenges like anxiety, depression, digestive pain, skin inflammation, sleeplessness and more. In this workshop, Finn Oakes, a writer, educator and clinical herbalist, will explain the ways that common herbs can support your mental, emotional and physical well being. Recorded November 24, 2019

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Wellness: 21st Century Nutrition - A Modern Approach to Personalized Nutrition to Prevent and Reverse Disease

Low fat, low-carb, Paleo, Keto, Vegetarian, Mediterranean...which diet works? Dr. Ronesh Sinha understands the tremendous confusion behind the myriad of diets flooding the market place. In this lecture--recorded September 29, 2019 at the Cupertino Community Hall--Dr. Sinha helps you find the right way to eat as he discusses personalized eating plans; key principles behind an optimal eating strategy; how to replace caloric confusion with hormonal balance; and the usefulness of intermittent fasting and effective meal timing.

This is another educational program in the on-going Cupertino Library and Cupertino Library Foundation Wellness program.

Rafael Pelayo, MD is a clinical professor at Stanford University School of Medicine in the division of Sleep Medicine. In this video, Dr. Pelayo presents an informative talk on the current knowledge about sleep, what can go wrong, and how to fix it.

This video presentation is part of the Cupertino Library's and Cupertino Library Foundation's on-going Wellness Series, and was recorded July 28, 2019 at the Cupertino Community Hall.

Living with stress and anxiety has become an inherent part of modern day life. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are widely recognized by healthcare providers as effective and low cost means of addressing many ailments.

Experienced meditator Sunil Nethisinghe examines the practice of mindfulness, the concepts behind the practice, the many benefits of mindfulness meditation, and how you can start practicing to reap the benefits and lead a happier, stress-free life.

This is one of a series of programs in the Cupertino Library's Wellness Series. Recorded May 26, 2019.

Do you have chronic neck and shoulder stiffness and low back pain? In this workshop Li Yang, a California board licensed acupuncturist, looks into possible root causes and easy-to-learn pain relief techniques. She also explains how posture changes may not only may relieve your pain immediately, but how they can make you look taller, slimmer and younger. This is the fourth televised program of the Cupertino Library's Wellness Series. Recorded March 24, 2019.

Dr. Elna Tymes, a local gerontologist with a specialty in seniors and Alzheimer's, discusses the latest developments in the identification and early treatment of Alzheimer's and related dementia. Alzheimer's has no cure, but there are promising treatments for the symptoms that take over a person's life in its middle and later stages. Recorded January 27, 2019 at the Cupertino Community Hall. (90 min.)

This is the fourth program in the 2018 Cupertino Library Foundation Wellness program series!

Dr. Ronesh Sinha, an expert on diabetes, cholesterol and heart disease prevention, has been seeing a local surge in the amount of individuals with cholesterol and heart disease issues at an early age. Our modern lifestyle habits are a primary cause. Dr. Sinha focuses on some of the following areas in his talk:

Cutting Edge: Latest science behind cholesterol and heart disease

Quantify You: Important labs and metrics to assess your own risk
Prescription Foods: Nutritional approaches that lower cholesterol and heart disease risk

Exercise Science: Time-efficient exercises and movements to improve heart health and lower risk

Sleep/Stress: The role of sleep and stress in heart disease and some simple tools and apps to help you find balance

Resources: High-tech tools and resources to help optimize health will be shared.

Recorded September 23, 2018 at the Cupertino Community Hall.

Suffering from knee pain or foot pain? Looking for ways to prevent their onsets? At this workshop, Dr. Li Yang, a California board licensed acupuncturist, reviews and discusses the amazing design of our knees and feet, and how to relieve pain with techniques such as acupressure points, trigger points, stretching, and more importantly, how to reduce wear and tear and prevent pain recurrence. This is the second installment of the Cupertino Library's and Cupertino Library Foundation's 2018 Wellness Series, recorded March 25, 2018 at the Cupertino Community Hall. (1 hr. 40 min.)