Today I am in San Diego at the 17th International Symposium on Functional Medicine, on Confronting Cancer as a Chronic Disease.  I want to encourage you to watch a lecture on line on a revolutionary approach to cancer by one of the greatest medical thinkers of the 21st century, my mentor, Jeffrey Bland tomorrow morning at 8:30 am pacific time.

You can log on at www.functionmedicine.org to register for the webinar.

Donna Karan and Deepak Chopra At ABC Carpet & Home

Hosted by T Magazine, The New York Times Style Magazine
In Moroso Mafrique on the Mezzanine at ABC Carpet & Home
Featuring a taste from abckitchen with Jean-George

“As Deepak said, the world is one; we are interdependent,” Donna Karan told an audience on May 17 at ABC Carpet & Home. The company, in honor of Design Week, invited Donna to be the special guest for “Design, beauty & commerce; serving as a tool for social evolution” with Deepak Chopra.

The event was an intimate gathering hosted by T Magazine, the New York Times Style Magazine, with many familiar faces in the audience including Hugh Jackman, Lucy Liu, Russell James, Richard Zimmerman, and Tara Stiles.

In Moroso Mafrique on the Mezzanine of ABC Carpet & Home, Donna shared her philosophy of design and stewardship: “Through my travels to India, Africa and Bali, I can tell you there is a connection and purity in the world - a mind, body and spirit that ties each of us together as a global community. It is through my travels where I find the spark and magic flame of inspiration. At Urban Zen, the greatest honor is to first capture, then celebrate the worlds creativity and artistic spirit. At Urban Zen, we call this Preservation of Culture.”

This intention of global connectedness runs through Donna’s entire work. She also shared her thoughts that ultimately, “The way we decorate our lives is changing and that the conscious consumer is the new steward of change. This new commerce, ethical consumers, is making the choice to recognize the fine arts and the artistic community. These artists are a broad category of creators, those who bring beauty and design forth to heal the world.“

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"The way we think about medicine is all wrong." Mark Hyman told participants at a half day seminar he offered last week at the Urban Zen Center in downtown New York-- where Donna Karan's Urban Zen Foundation holds a series of health seminars

"We used to have acute diseases and infectious diseases, but now we have long-latency deficiency diseases. If you don't have adequate minerals for thirty years, ultimately you get osteoporosis," he said. "But why wait that long? Shouldn't we do something now?"

Hyman questions why conventional doctors fail to offer immediate nutritional interventions that could stem a full blow disease before it happens. Instead "They tell patients, let's wait and watch. Why wait until you're sick, and then place you on a costly medication--often with side effects--for life? It doesn't make sense."

May 4^th was a gala celebration and a milestone for both Urban Zen Foundation and the Continuum Center for Health and Healing (CCHH) as Donna Karan was honored for her generosity and steadfast dedication to well-being, patients and integrative medicine and the CCHH celebrated its 10^th anniversary.

Donna stood before hundreds of guests as she shared her personal experiences as the “loved one” of several cancer patients, including her late husband Stephan Weiss. Her moving remarks touched upon the universal nature of caring and loss, reminding the audience that in our lifetime, we will all become a patient or the loved one of a patient. By addressing the needs of the patient as well as the disease by integrating eastern healing techniques with western science, hospital care will not only treat the disease but guide patients and their loved ones towards well-being through the simple practices these modalities offer.

The evening’s presentation opened with chair yoga led by Shana Kuhn-Siegel, a UZIT and the UZ yoga coordinator at BIMC, creating an atmosphere of calm and openness. After Donna’s moving acceptance remarks, guests were treated to a live performance of soulful and inspiring music performed by Elvis Costello.

The evening was a defining moment for Urban Zen. Our well-being programs, inspired and guided by Donna, have gained significant momentum. Last year, Dr. Woodson Merrell, founder of CCHH and Chairman of Integrative Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center, partnered with Donna and Urban Zen to introduce an Optimum Healing Environment. This pilot program has several components, including research, the renovation of hospital space to create The Sanctuary, a serene space for patients, loved ones and staff as well as the introduction of Urban Zen Integrative Therapists on 9 Dazian, where UZITS have cared for oncology patients.

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The day that Haiti was struck by a massive earthquake is one that will never be forgotten. On February 8, 2010, the campaign, Hope Help & Relief Haiti, was launched at the Urban Zen Center, a collaboration between Donna Karan, Andre Harrell, Mary J. Blige and Andre Balazs, the campaign provides for the distribution of tents as temporary homes and a means of survival for those who were displaced. Our Map of Hope shows the location of the tents distributed in Haiti as a result of this ongoing campaign. To date we have purchased tents which will provide shelter for up to 7,160 displaced Haitians.

After sending 200 tents to Yele Haiti to provide Shelter for up to 2000 people, Hope Help Relief Haiti is pleased to be able to send 356 Shelter survival kits to Partners In Health which will provide shelter for up to 3,560 individuals, along with water purification tablets and other critical supplies. With and additional 160 tents for an additional 1,600 people being distributed in the most critical need areas within Haiti.

Most recently Hope Help Relief Haiti sent shelter tents to the settlement camp at Parc Jean Marie Vincent in Port au Prince. This is a camp of over 40,000 people in which PIH is providing daily clinical services. Dr. Lambert, a Haitian physician who works for PIH in Haiti, reported that there are many children and families living in deplorable conditions, sleeping on the muddy ground. He is confident that working with the settlement committee they can identify the families most in need, targeting pregnant women and prioritizing those with children.

The locations are identified in the Map of Hope. Thank you to our donors who made this possible.