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Published June 5, 2023, 2:20 p.m. by Violet Harris


food As medicine is a documentary film that follows the growing movement of using food to heal chronic illness and disease.

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so i'm an academic internal medicine

dac so i'm a professor of medicine at

the university of iowa

and i absolutely believe in science

in drugs and technology

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when i was diagnosed with relapsing

remitting multiple sclerosis in 2000

i sought out the best ms center in the

cleveland clinic

saw their best people took the newest

drugs and treated my disease very

aggressively

still within three years i had converted

from relapsing remitting to progressive

and it was very apparent that i was

headed towards becoming bedridden and

quite possibly demented by my illness

and

i redesign my diet

the magic begins

within three months my fatigue is gone

my brain fog is gone

i can stop modafinil or pro vigil in six

months i'm walking around without my

walking sticks or canes i no longer need

my tilt recline wheelchair in nine

months i bike around the block for the

first time in 12 months i do a 18 mile

bike ride with my family

this really changes how i understand

disease and health

and i'm discovering that people are

responding really very very well

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chronic disease and autoimmune disease

has reached epidemic proportions

by some estimates autoimmune disease

affects about one in five when you add

in other chronic illnesses about 75

percent of us are unhealthy

and that's not the way it's supposed to

be

we're clearly in a epidemic because the

quality of our diets is steadily

declining

these are day-to-day hour-to-hour

diseases that create a serious burden on

individuals and families so

i think we're all having a different

level of motivation

at this point to do something different

the media chooses to

look at these feared outbreaks on other

continents when really we should be

screaming from the rooftop that hey

chronic diseases are on the rise and yet

we have the ability to change that

if you

look at cdc data

you will find that the health of

americans has been worsening over the

last 20 years

and i think because the primary driver

is diet it's also the way in which we

need to

find a way out

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yeah the inspiration is the theme of

this year's tedx mount hood is the road

less traveled which is what we're

talking about is how do we go to new

places that we've never seen before so

i'm sabina and i live in portland and

this is my studio i'm an artist i make

installations and paintings i also teach

at portland state in the art department

i turned 40 this year in august and i

got

what they call ultra colitis the lower

left side of my colon 50 feet so it was

pretty mild but mild is like a relative

germ

when you've sort of lived your life

carefree and all of a sudden you're

running to the bathroom

and having bleeding and stuff like that

so a lot of my work is about taking

things that have symbols of conflict and

you know transforming them the idea of

transformative

power of beauty and how do we connect

past that

it really gets to you after a while and

i think that a lot of people don't

realize i didn't realize what i was

doing to my own body

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my famous trick what's my famous drink

try to make it knock down

i'm adam and i live in tigard oregon and

i'm 31 years old

and i live here with my wife and i have

two boys

and i work as a

site manager for intel

with our fridge here so these things

here

my older sister lives with us and

she drinks these kind of things we don't

normally drink these kind of things but

um

yeah we'll have like juice probably

a much higher intake of juice than

than we should be having

our vegetable drawer is usually pretty

light

in this context hopefully that will

change

i've always been

reasonably healthy i've

gone back and forth between

like a higher weight and a lower weight

you know my cholesterol is

kind of low on the good cholesterol and

high on the bad cholesterol blood

pressure is in

is

in control with medication and

most recently when i had my last weight

gain i developed

gastro reflux you know

acid reflux and

pvac's you know premature ventricular

contractions with my heart which are

kind of hereditary but

they've been very much exacerbated

since you know i had a weight gain

five days you could have a new stomach

lining

it's always trying to rebuild itself

my name is amanda and i'm a nanny and i

live in bend oregon

i consider myself a pretty healthy eater

um

just already i've always been a pretty

healthy eater that's why it's so

frustrating that

this happened to me

i

was

diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis

about

four years ago so most of my pain is in

my wrists

and my ankle

and

wrists i'm very limited in

in activities

simple activities like yoga i was a huge

yoga person and now i can't put any

weight on my wrists

being a nanny i have to be really picky

about

my family is about the ages because i i

am unable to it's hard for me to

pick up kids because my wrists um they

don't bend

really very far anymore and it's funny

you wouldn't think you'd need your

wrists to hold a child but

you really do

um so it's it's kind of affecting my my

work

um recently about two and a half months

ago i started actimra

which is also biologic um and that's an

injection i give myself once a week

it's pretty scary looking

it's it's working ish

the inflammation levels are back down to

normal

everything looks good on paper

um according to the rheumatologist but

um i'm feeling a little bit better

but definitely not 100 i still have a

lot of pain

after hearing a lot of success stories

um

i am gonna give it a try and i'm gonna

really put my all into it because it's

kind of like my last

ditch effort that one's called crater

but then there's all this plant life

so when i first got diagnosed i

basically ignored

you know my body for the first two

months and i was like i'm this is not

happening you know i was having bleeding

and then finally i got really frustrated

and i was like looking for answers

and

then i found this diet

even besides the medications like i want

to be i want to be a good role model for

my boys

for me i'm starting to realize more and

more that it's it's an investment that

you have to make or else you end up with

with this right

i think

if i were able to be well again i would

be i would never take anything for

granted again

because

that's just

that's all i want it's all i want out of

anything in the world it's i want to

feel better i want this to go away

i want to be the old me back when i

did take everything for granted

the conventional approach for chronic

disease

is to diagnose and then immediately

treat with the medication

and so

we also

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compartmentalize diseases so you treat

by organ systems so

as people accumulate more and more

chronic diseases they have more and more

physicians on more and more different

drugs

it turns out that among people in the

medical world

there's not a long tradition of

appreciating nutrition

most medical schools have not included

it to any great degree in their

curriculum

in terms of the conventional

medical model conventional physicians

aren't trained in nutrition

they have so much other education that

they focus on most medical doctors

receive four hours or less in nutrition

the traditional nutrition information

that has been included in medical school

curriculums has been very

biochemically based

historically students do learn about

you know how does vitamin a or vitamin d

interact within

you know a human system

what we have to do is to help physicians

understand the concept of nutritional

therapy

which means that good nutrients can

reverse many kinds of chronic diseases

in a way that's very positive for the

patient without the use of drugs and

other things and i don't object to the

use of drugs but there are ways in which

physicians can help their patients by

helping the patient know how important

nutrition is in their own management of

their conditions

what medical students aren't being

taught is

if you fix the root cause

which is diet lifestyle you could roll

back these progressive diseases

my name is v capaldi

and i am i

consider myself a miracle

i have a secondary progressive ms and

have been legally disabled

august 5th it was 15 years

and that

translated into a bilateral loss of the

use of my hands

and inability to swallow and to

basically take care of myself which

resulted in full-time care and i'm going

to try

and guide

my hand

to apply

a little eyeliner

and then

i started doing the protocol and within

30 days my body started responding

miracles started happening and it

continues to happen even to this day and

i actually am pretty close to gainful

employment i wasn't able to drive for

many years i actually bought a new car

got a little red fiat

i'm thriving even better than i was

before i was ever diagnosed with

multiple sclerosis

in this journey you have to find meaning

in your circumstances right now

so that there is purpose and value in

their circumstances

and with good fortune diet and lifestyle

changes will stop the decline and quite

potentially restore function reduce

symptoms allow them to reduce and even

eliminate some if not all of their

medicines

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it's going to be

you know

really difficult giving up all the foods

you know that you're used to eating and

you know

especially like foods that you know

you know are you know have high fat or

high salt those kind of foods i feel

like my palate is geared toward you know

the typical american diet

i think everyone has that moment where

they have to have the aha and like they

have to commit and i don't think that

that had ever happened until

i was like huh i'm eating this chocolate

and probably in the next hour i'm gonna

be in the bathroom with severe symptoms

and that kind of like

like

behavior mechanism like it's an electric

shock

it really gets to you after all the

hardest thing

will definitely be i think

the social aspect because my friends are

very social they're every day they're

out doing something and that usually you

know after some sort of outdoor activity

like a bike ride or a hike or

you know a long walk with the dog

they'll meet up at brother john's or 10

barrel or you know

and have a couple beers and eat pizza um

so

that's going to be probably the hardest

thing for me

all right are we ready

yeah we called earlier about some

chicken livers

chicken livers down here

cool

there you go anything else for you do

you know a little information about

where the livers are from or

i have heard that it's a huge component

of the

diet

emphasis on meat and vegetables but also

the organ meats because there are some

things in organ meats that you can't get

anywhere else some organic food uh

they're on a non-gmo project uh things

like that so that's cool

we actually switched to them because of

that okay

let's hope it's good

because liver sounds a little

hard to stomach

hmm

interesting

most people know

they they want to or they should

eat better eat healthier and if they had

access to whole foods there really is a

genuine concern that the food won't

taste good and if the food doesn't taste

good people are likely not to eat it and

so this goes back to having a little bit

of inspiration motivation and risk in

the kitchen

to cook again it's it's hard to make

dietary changes when you've been eating

a poor diet for your whole life and

nobody's told you hey this is actually

putting you at increased risk of disease

and so we're not really there to tell

people they're doing something wrong or

that it's even their fault we are just

providing the information and giving

them some guiding principles so that

when they do start to make the changes

it can come from within so we really

want to highlight this half plate of

veggies and including uh healthy fats

with your meal

my colleague dr julie briley and i

developed the food as medicine every day

series almost five years ago so it's a

12 week hands-on whole foods cooking and

nutrition series that is actually taught

by naturopathic physicians

and every week we build on our nutrition

knowledge women should have no more than

six teaspoons

of added sugar a day

and men should have no more than nine

teaspoons

we need time to integrate that

information in order to lead to

long-term habits

and then the incorporation of cooking

meals together is really important

getting people to touch food seafood

smell food really helps to develop a

healthy relationship with food

we have a wide range of socio-economic

and educational backgrounds in terms of

the participants who come into these

food as medicine every day and in terms

of label reading and nutrition knowledge

it's it's an equal playing field we've

been teaching this program in very

diverse communities in portland for the

last five years and most recently we've

been in coffee creek correctional

facility and so this is a women's

correctional facility located south of

portland

in addition a lot of these women are

dealing with worsening diabetes weight

gain and other health issues while

incarcerated and in reality these are

women that are going home they're going

home to their families and they want to

be rehabilitated they want to cook well

for their family and their other family

members that might have diseases

so they they truly really need this

information

so when you look on your label you'll

see a section called nutrition facts

with all the numbers listed

i'm going to tell you why we don't

actually want to look at that part of

the label

the most important part to look at first

is actually the ingredient list

and it's such an important crucial skill

that people need to learn and then we go

through and we actually read some of

these labels and we see that one soda is

double or triple the amount of sugar

that you should have in one day this is

like mind-blowing for people then we

look at yogurt labels and processed food

labels i mean it's truly such an

eye-opening experience

these are vanilla

so these are this is 18 grams of sugar

15 grams of sugar

17 grams of sugar

so it has some maltodextrin in it

this one's actually pretty good on sugar

content for

ketchup only two grams of sugar

in a tablespoon

it's good

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it's like sweet

not very healthy

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my blood pressure is pretty high i think

the last time that

i took it it was

125 over 85 or something like that it's

elevated so

um

i take a beta blocker for that it's

called the metropole and so

you know my goal with this project is to

get off that medication and a couple of

the tools are 100 pomegranate juice and

hibiscus tea

which uh both work to naturally lower

blood pressure in place of a beta

blocker what are the ingredients is it

100 pomegranate juice you know just

juice from

ripe perfect that's exactly what i'm

looking for absolutely awesome just

nothing with no added sugar or cherry

juice in it

okay perfect all right thank you so much

what physicians we get very

uncomfortable when a simple solution

fixes many disease states

but it turns out that the simple

solution of

a nutrient-dense diet filled with

vegetables getting rid of the toxic

stuff

is the simplest solution for nearly

every chronic disease state it may not

cure you but it'll certainly reduce

symptoms reduce the need for meds

often to the point where you if you stay

with it you can get off medication after

medication after medication

so when i was at my sickest i was pretty

much bedridden i had lost my job i had

been in the hospital three times in six

weeks i was diagnosed with hashimoto's

disease which is an autoimmune thyroid

disease

and celiac disease about three and a

half years ago

after about a year of

declining health

and when i got my diagnosis they just

told me to go gluten-free and that

everything would change and i would feel

totally better

and i didn't i actually felt a lot worse

and i started to think well maybe

there's something about my diet that's

really not supporting me

and i did a lot of research and i really

came across

dietary modification for people with

autoimmune disease

and

what i found was totally shocking so

i had been living off of all of the

foods that the experts were now

recommending that people with autoimmune

don't eat and so those were things like

grains

legumes

soy

and that was like all i was eating so

i decided to do an elimination diet

and i removed all of the

gut triggers so i did the autoimmune

protocol and it totally transformed my

life in six months i was back to good

health and i wouldn't say everything was

perfect but it was the thing that really

jump-started me on the road to recovery

what

we have come to accept as normal is the

steady decline from the age of 18 with

worsening blood pressure

worsening clogging of the artery

worsening mental capacities

when we quit eating all these vegetables

and started eating sugar and white flour

we decreased the fiber content and we

used to have

100 150 grams of fiber in our diet and

now we have maybe 15 to 20 grams so

we're starving the health promoting

bacteria

so we've done a lot of things

that switched us from

having a healthy disease resistant body

for which our dna programmed us

to an inflamed sickly disease prone body

by having micronutrient deficiencies by

having our gene expression changed and

by shifting which bacteria and viruses

live in and on

the microbiome is all of the

microorganisms that live on and within

our bodies and so there's about 10 times

as many microorganisms that live in our

bodies as there are cells of our own

bodies and one of the things that we

understand is that we have this

symbiotic relationship with them we

provide a lovely home for all these

microorganisms and then they directly

influence our health

one of the things that is the most

important property of a healthy gut

microbiome is diversity so we want

something like 500 to 1000 different

species of microorganisms growing in

there in healthy relative quantities

there's certain things that can actually

make the wrong types of bacteria grow

then you have a system that's out of

balance then you have the lack of

variety that is one of the biggest risks

for chronic illness

so we need to feed them vegetables

and fruit and

nuts and seeds and these great sources

of nutrient dense fiber lots of plant

phytochemicals and then we can have this

healthy robust variety of microorganisms

living within our digestive tracts

living within our bodies that are then

providing us with all of these great

benefits like regulating the immune

system

so the gut microbiome

beyond

influencing the immune system influences

things like brain health influences how

our neurotransmitters are regulating

themselves

they can change our hormones and

influence our hormones and we understand

just the tip of the iceberg when it

comes to the gut microbiome we are

starting to understand how profound

and far-reaching their effects are

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you want a story can you store it for me

sophia is into cooking herself

she's really good at telling me what i'm

supposed to eat and not eat right sophia

okay you're like mommy are you sure

you're supposed to eat that

like yeah you're right

it's actually pretty simple people think

that yogurt is really complicated but

it only takes 15 minutes not like you're

chopping

3 000 vegetables

i know it's a lot easier than making

like vegetable soup

sophia look at this this is what makes

the yogurt

it's called the culture

just like those uh my science kids yeah

your science kids

like when i started with this

um healthy way of eating

my inflammation was like

60

which is really high

and now it's gone down to normal levels

like at the end of the day i would come

home from work and my lower back would

be paining and i have bleeding

and now i can you know have a really

energetic day like i can go to the zoo

with my kids i can go in the evening

so i can resume a normal life which last

year

was

not possible

so that has been a major victory

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and then we're just gonna put this on

top

and it will be ready in 24 hours

so when you start doing a

dietary approach and a lifestyle

approach you're providing the resources

that your body needs to heal and the

opportunity to heal which you get

through sleep and you get through the

hormone regulation that comes with

stress management and activity so you

get resources and opportunity

and then you don't have to place a

band-aid on the situation right the body

has the most amazing capacity to heal

itself when you actually give it the

resources and the opportunity

and so when we give our bodies that

chance to be healthy our bodies take it

we don't need to just drug ourselves up

to not feel bad we can actually feel

amazing

so i used to be morbidly obese

i had over a dozen different diagnosed

health conditions including three

autoimmune diseases

and i was sick

i was in pain all the time i had

migraines i had depression and anxiety

i

didn't have any energy

and i had two young daughters

and i was right at the cusp of this

really high profile academic career

without the energy

to be a career mom and without the

energy to try to balance

what's necessary to run a successful

academic lab in the current funding

environment

and

be the best mom that i wanted to be for

my children

and so i had to take time off of my

career in order to just do one thing at

a time and it i was not surviving

motherhood i was getting sicker and

sicker i was not getting enough sleep

um you know i i was a wreck and i needed

a solution

so i started to apply my scientific

background to my own health and

experienced absolutely you know what

some people would call miraculous health

turnaround so within two weeks of

changing my diet i was able to

discontinue six prescription medications

and it gave me back something that i

didn't even

understand i could have again

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i'm feeling better i'm sleeping really

well at night i sleep i used to wake up

like four or five times a night and just

toss and turn and be uncomfortable for

the position i was in with my joints and

now i sleep i'll sleep the whole way

until the morning and maybe only wake up

one time it's really really awesome i've

that's the biggest

change that i've noticed

so um but yeah

um energy levels are higher definitely

um that is definitely energy and sleep

and i think overall mood too

i feel

i feel really empowered and really

excited to

to get up every day

and

try new things and cook new things

here goes

it's definitely not something that

happens overnight as i'm sure you guys

the know heart association has shown

that in 2014

we spend about one billion dollars every

day on cardiac related disease health

care costs and they're expecting that to

double in another 14 or 15 years so that

if around 25 26

then there's going to be the cost will

be twice as much and we'll be spending 2

billion a day taking care of someone who

has chronic heart failure for example or

coronary artery disease can be very

expensive in terms of

surgeries or procedures

and therefore

my view is that we will not be able to

sustain caring for everyone who has it

that's what we'll have that's the

compromise we'll have to make and we'll

have to give people the best medical

treatment we can without undergoing all

the procedures that might be life-saving

because i don't think we could afford to

do it

if that many people in our population

had the problem

so when you look at the statistics

for something like autoimmune disease

you've got roughly

50 to 60 million americans who are

affected which is twice the number of

americans that are affected by

cardiovascular disease and four times

the number of americans that are

affected by cancer the cdc projects that

one in three people will have type 2

diabetes by the year 2050.

if we stay on this trajectory that we're

on right now

and that means we can't stay on that

trajectory because if that were to

happen it would it would bankrupt our

medical system and the decreased worker

productivity

is

two to three times the cost of the

medical care

another sidebar is that the lack of

healthy workers will devastate our

economy even if you decide we're not

going to cover any of those healthcare

costs that people you're on your own for

that

we can't afford the drain on the economy

from lack of healthy workers

what the moore institute wants to do is

to help people understand

the process by which four diets actually

lead to disease and that brings up the

word epigenetics

so epigenetics is the modification of

genes by what we call the environment in

this case i'm referring to nutrition

the science that i was talking about

that we want to share

is based on discoveries that have only

been known for the last decade or two

and that is that the nutrition that a a

person gets when they're developing

is what determines their likelihood of

having diseases when they're older

so now let me explain the hundred year

effect how it works

i'm in my 60s

my mother is in her 90s

and the egg that made me

was made in my 92 year old now mother

when she was a fetus in my grandmother's

womb and the egg that made me was almost

exactly a hundred years ago

so i'm a hundred

and that hundred year life i've had has

been dependent on my grandmother's

nutrition on my mother's nutrition on my

childhood nutrition and now on my

nutrition as an adult

if i can just give you an example the

way

you get nutrients while you're

developing before you're born

will tell a growing body how to turn on

genes or turn off genes

and if there is not enough nutrients to

grow well then what will happen is

some of the genes that should be turned

on and operating will be turned down

like a dimmer switch on a light they'll

be gradually turned down by a mechanism

called epigenetics

and then

later in life those genes will make a

person more vulnerable for having

disease

now many people have said the problem

with

emphasizing this

is that it somehow blames mothers for

all the disease that we have and that's

really not true

the truth is

that the food environment we all live is

where we auto is the problem

and if we have to blame something we

should blame the fact that the american

population has allowed food industries

to determine our taste preferences

and somehow keep us from eating the

kinds of food that would be healthy

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last time i was

making

goat yogurt and i was really enjoying

that and

i was still having problems with some

digestion and

so right now i'm not doing any dairy

yogurt included

and

i've also sort of started puring my

vegetables

and

it seems like it's going better

with

a more pureed

dairy-free diet so

i don't know i may have to sort of like

go this route for a while

until my body's like totally

more healed

like a typical artist mentalities

i start sort of like getting i start

speeding up and i become

more manic and

every couple of days like i'd have to go

in for a yoga or i have to go in for

acupuncture or something to like

somebody to jolt me back to like my

baseline

which in turn helps me make better

choices with my food

just trying out things like that to

manage my energy level

i love the big picture

the details are excruciating right now

i'm in the midst of that and then i have

to switch hats and sort of

sort of think about my big idea where

it's spreading

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i think this is the beginning of a new

movement in the prepared foods industry

in the restaurant industry one that

really says we need trust and we need a

maximum amount of transparency people

need to feel safe i do think it comes

from people being increasingly ill and

realizing for the first time that their

relationship to food might participate

in their health

but also i think because of the health

care system and the rewards that are

going into preventative care people are

taking more initiative for their health

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we're at dick's kitchen named after me

and functioning originally as my kitchen

as i lived upstairs

for a while and

was able to experiment on this kind of a

new idea

i've got a couple of genetic dice

rolling against me having both a

methylation defect and a tendency toward

either pre-diabetes or diabetes or

something like that so i don't manage

blood sugar very well and therefore what

i eat is crucial

my health concerns are not unique to me

um i've got probably a double or triple

whammy going but

many folks have issues that will be made

better by

much more conscious eating dick's

kitchen is really

an effort to promote

not just healthier eating but a

healthier approach to how we source our

food the rest of our menu is intended to

create

food that people recognize as their

favorite their favorite

food hamburgers and and side dishes and

potatoes

but done with much more thought and much

more balance in mind

i

feel like i interact with people every

day that are suffering needlessly

because of choices they're making

because of convenience they don't know

how to help themselves things aren't

available for them to help themselves

and they feel trapped

by what products are available to them

in the grocery store

food is something that can affect us

immediately and so what's really amazing

is to give people that experience of

just having a cup of broth and noticing

that they don't have a sour stomach in

the morning

and it's just interesting to see parents

saying they've never seen their children

so calm

or they've never felt like they slept so

well after a meal and not a deep vacant

sleep a restorative healthy sleep the

kind you should be having it's amazing

how quickly the body responds when it

has the tools it needs and i think the

tools that are the most accessible for

the body come in food form

yeah so the brooklyn house is

we call it european style comfort food

so um this lady would like

the pork chop special but she's on the

sibo protocol

okay so we have the parsley puree that

we can do with her for

and there's no garlic chunks in there no

garlic chunks it's all strained so we're

all good to go thank you and i often

accidentally say that our patients

need this or that when really i mean our

customers um and it's because there are

a lot of

naturopathic doctors and nutritional

therapists

in this city who trust us they've been

here they've talked to us they know

why we're doing what we're doing we know

they know how they have that

transparency

and so they

trust giving us as a resource to their

patients

so what we provide here is

a truly holistic

food as medicine experience you get both

the foods that are healthy for you and

the treatment that is healthy for you

you get to invite your whole family and

the family member who likes the steak

and potatoes and the family members

vegan and the family member who has

celiac disease are all going to be fine

and you with your sibo-specific diet can

feel like you just ordered a meal and so

those patients those customers

are

the most invested in this restaurant

they are personally invested in the

health of this restaurant because it

allows them a place to go where they

don't feel like a social outcast for

trying to heal their body through food

the hardest thing to do when you're

introducing this lifestyle to people is

to get them out of their heads

people are actually i think very

instinctive eaters and when their body

responds positively to a food regardless

of whether their brain is telling them

it's going to be kind of weird or

unusual they will naturally gravitate

toward it as a delicious experience

again that doesn't necessarily mean

they're ready to jump into eating a

whole piece of liver but if we can

prepare it in a way that makes it more

accessible

we'll be able to offer them a way to

participate

in the food business first and foremost

it's just got to be a satisfying meal no

matter how healthy you think you are if

you're not enjoying it you're not likely

to return so we have we have to balance

creating a great environment and a

welcoming environment for folks of

various nutritional orientations

but in the end anybody who has

um an interest in healthy food should be

intrigued enough to dig deeper and that

we hope we can do that without annoying

people

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our fears all our far away unknowns

boxes in i ask you to step out of your

box climb over those walls and look out

of your window and enter into the space

of the unknown

volunteer at that

sorry i'm going to start again sorry

okay

our fears i um

have been

not sleeping enough

so that's having a little impact

on my bowels

but i'm still holding on to

my diet i haven't really

gone and gotten a chocolate bar so i

think what's good is i'm shifting away

from

emotional eating

and now i just need to like

still manage that stress so it's like in

the middle of like

trying to like find the time to like

you know

be like this is gonna help me think

better

and let me get this centered

be aware of tedx which is coming up this

weekend at revolution hall we have the

artist in residence of that program

right now

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yeah the whole thing's going to be

amazing how are you doing i'm doing fine

you know

my talk

have you heard about the talk thing

okay so my time was 15 with the

animation on the 17th and now they're

like oh we're three minutes off with our

whole thing well i'm like then you can

be like shorter like you can be 50

seconds

yeah we might have to make it a little

higher i don't know okay what's going on

with this

oh be careful

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hi maria listen you're picking up the

children okay

just bring them over here to

i'm gonna send you the actress okay it's

14th and start

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okay hold on where's my

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maybe i should take one away

he's pulled it back i'm just gonna chill

out

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we have to change the food culture

people have to realize that it's just

not their own discipline for eating

better food which is important but we

need to find ways in which eating

healthy foods is really the the cultural

norm and we have long ways to go to do

that

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i'm really glad that you asked about

food culture because i think that that's

the important piece that's been missed

we talk about individual responsibility

and we talk about you know why people

aren't doing what they're doing but we

fail to really

give credit to the fact that we live

within a culture that is telling us how

we should

think and feel and

act

in regards to

health and wellness

our society doesn't really support

our choices to be healthy and well

corporate work environment every place

i've ever heard about the break room is

full of junk i mean

can we bring in a fruit platter

are you kidding no bringing donuts in

what are we having for dinner at the

potluck

pizza obviously like oh my gosh can we

get salad sure what do you end up with

white lettuce and croutons and cheese

caesar salad like yeah great white

lettuce plain iceberg lettuce it's like

of effort to actually do anything

healthy in the corporate world in the in

the work world which is where most of us

spend so much of our day

if there's not a lot of support there

that's gonna be tough to make change

diet wise

they're they're still a challenge

there's i still have

uh unfortunately like

uh incredible levels of stress in my

life my brother has been staying with us

for the past two months and that's a a

really

big source of tension for me

and then we were trying to buy a second

house and we pulled out of that

and so it's just been a very very busy

and challenging time on top of things

with work

um

and other things in in tyler's school

i've been able to you know like i've

told you before i've been able to go for

like a week like two weeks but then like

when i fall off like i fall off really

hard it's it's difficult especially

with the boys and we seem to eat out

quite a bit because of our schedules and

things like that i would say that that

has been the biggest barrier to being

able to successfully implement these

things is eating out you know

so i'm still i'm still

working on on the day-to-day choices

like i'm trying to have at least

one paleo meal a day and two paleo

snacks a day um

uh

and that i've been successful with and

i just you know i tend to feel

a whole lot better when i'm adhering to

to that type of you know diet

you know it feels like it feels like

every time we meet

i say this but it you know

it seems like things are going to start

slowing down i'm hoping um you know

kind of

letting my brother stay with us and in

trying to get into this you know this by

the second house and things like that

we're kind of just kind of shooting

myself in the foot for

for being successful with this

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it really is these chronic

lifestyle-based diseases that are really

taking the greatest toll on our health

and

the united states is actually one of the

greatest sufferers of these chronic

diseases so

despite the fact that we have access to

incredible

modern medicine

we're ranking pretty poorly compared to

our

fellow countries in terms of how we're

managing

the load the burden of chronic disease

so it's pretty serious i'd say

what

we have come to accept as normal is the

steady decline from the age of 18

with worsening blood pressure

worsening clogging of the artery

worsening

mental capacities

when in fact what is normal is

fully robust health physical

capacities mental capacities

uh into our 90s your diet actually has

to be a lifestyle choice

and so

what we need to look at when we're

giving individual recommendations to

patients is

we need to look at their stage of life

and their disease process and their

health goals we need to look at if they

have a food sensitivity or a food

allergy but in addition we also need to

think about their cultural upbringing

their ethical choices around food and

then

also and very importantly their access

do they actually have access to this

healthy healing food and so all of those

things need to be taken into account

when you're working with a patient and

trying to get them on the right path

we are all individuals and what is

optimal for each of us is going to be a

little bit different and is probably

going to be a moving target because how

our bodies respond to food is dependent

on how much sleep we got it's dependent

on our stress it's dependent on exactly

what our gut microbiome is doing it's

dependent on the last time we were

exposed to a virus or bacteria there are

so many things that influence how we

respond to foods so creating a diet

right and it's here's your rules here's

your yes and your nose isn't really the

goal it's creating the scientific

foundation for understanding

how to choose a food

and then providing a framework from

which people can start

and then experiment to figure out what

is really optimal for them what makes

them feel the best

three

four

i

have gotten off track for sure and so

um

i've just been dealing with that i guess

i've been

not i can definitely tell a difference

in how my body feels when i was on track

versus to now that i'm off track

things were better little things that i

think affect

um

the condition like sleep i was sleeping

a lot better and energy and

you know not even not even the specifics

of the actual disease or the condition

it was just those little things that

like i noticed a lot and you know the

big one is pain

it's back

so unfortunately i haven't been back to

my functional medicine doctor because

for a while there i was paying out of

pocket my insurance doesn't cover

functional medicine and so i was paying

out of pocket

and at some point it just got to be too

expensive because i was paying hundreds

of dollars in vitamins and supplements

and every time i went it was

more tests and insurance wouldn't cover

this test or that test and so it was

definitely starting to add up

right now what's holding me up is

i'm getting lots of information from

just which diet to follow because now

i'm hearing that meat is

not good for arthritic conditions and i

went to an eredologist

in town

and she was amazing and she's a

recovering um

because she's not recovering she's in

remission from her rheumatoid arthritis

and she

is very adamant about following a strict

vegan diet

i definitely felt like i

was confused i'm still confused that's

another one of the big reasons why i'm

struggling right now i'm

i'm confused and especially when you

yourself are googling

that's the worst

oh those are vegan ones

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you can still find good information on

the internet but it takes a skilled eye

to be able to sift through all the

information and pull out the pieces

so i do think you can get some

information from the media but if it's

specifically related to your disease

state and you're thinking about making a

big change i think you do need to seek

out a healthcare professional that has

that training and that can work with you

along the way i think you often do need

support and guidance and practical

information

to be successful

right and what

what do you understand what's keeping

you from getting to the

between the altri and icann

you know i've made a huge amount of

changes in this year

so i mean i do feel like i feel like i'm

doing my best

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and that's still not good enough and

that's what is so upsetting me you know

and it's like you know what i don't know

there's something there's something

right now

that

and i think it's just also kind of i

think the thing is like you said like

you have to accept that you're not gonna

be able to go back to that lifestyle and

so you have to like accept that like you

know

okay you've done all this stuff and this

is part of what you're doing but it's

not gonna get you back to eating ice

cream

no i guess that you want to eat ice

cream for the first place

so well that's that's where you have to

go and you know what everybody goes

through a mourning process

everyone does

and you you have to go through it you

have to let yourself go through it and

you have to be angry about what you're

giving up because you aren't giving up

yeah

and then

once you get past that you'll be to the

next point where you'll realize what

amazing things you gained from this

sure

i mean you you will i know you will

even with a restricted diet your

lifestyle is actually going to be opened

up because you're going to be healthier

you will be able to eat an immense

amount of variety once we get you you

know your inflammation down

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basically like i was just laying there i

was putting my 18 month old down and

it's like it wasn't vertigo but it was

just like i heard like a pop and then

like just everything like shifted 90

degrees like

it was really strange like it's like not

like my viewing angle or anything like

that but it just felt like

kind of your center of balance was

totally shifted

but i mean i think it was more of like a

situation where

they really wanted to just rule

everything out because the way that the

symptoms were a little bit all over the

place and could have aligned with

something that was worse which also kind

of like fueled the anxiety and the not

knowing and i think

going through that process and then

eliminating things like

in the end helped because then it

gets you realizing like it wasn't these

things where it could have been so i was

pretty much in the emergency room all

day

that saturday and i had a cat a scan i

had you know where they

inject you with iodine and things like

that and

not a pleasant feeling

you know you don't want to get obviously

a bad prognosis but i was

you know hoping that he would tell me

you know

you gotta start doing this we gotta

start doing that because this is you

know so but it's definitely a motivator

absolutely

it's been

kind of night and day as far as the

heart palpitations and

and really good

as far as

the reflux but when i do go off and i'm

not eating paleo then the reflux kind of

comes roaring back so

and

i think the night that i had the

heart palpitation

um

i was having some reflux symptoms as

well so

you know it's kind of

maybe related to that

i think i was a little naive on how you

know how big of an adjustment or a

change it would be especially with

things like my work schedule and stuff

like that so

um

yeah i've got i've got to learn some

some strategies when for when things

don't go according to plan how to you

know

how to keep it all together

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we need to both change

the education when it comes to food and

change the food supply and change how

our food is grown and change our access

to food and change the cost of food so

that healthful foods are the ones that

are subsidized

not the other way around

and so it's it's a problem with so many

different moving parts and it requires

us as a community

to really demand that all of these

different moving parts are addressed

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the truth is that we now have people in

oregon and across the country are

suffering what we call high-calorie

malnutrition and i feel sorry for people

who are in this condition i don't blame

them

because our food culture

has driven us to the place where

the only access of affordable food for

many people are high calorie foods that

don't have nutrients

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the prevailing wisdom is that

we have an obesity epidemic and a lot of

people are having trouble managing

chronic conditions and that that is

largely due to high calorie malnutrition

or someone's getting a whole lot of fat

and sugar but not the nutrients they

need really to stay healthy and so in

that case

prescribing vegetables might be

appropriate in other cases when

someone's having stalled healing

due to malnutrition

especially if they're low income the

problem might be protein in their diet

that they're just not getting enough

protein to grow new skin and therefore

they can't heal so that's that's where

we started our first program was in what

we now call curative nutrition dosing um

so we're finding folks who have stalled

healing with um wounds or burns or uh

surgical incisions

who aren't able to get better because

their their body just doesn't have the

nutrients to do it and so we prescribe

them a limited course of nutritious food

that is

tailored to them specifically right

amount of grams of protein and calories

for each meal

and they eat it and get better

the social determinants of health

make up about 70 to 75 percent of what

is a person's personal health picture

that's something that ordinarily

a physician can't

impact very much for his patients

but

they can impact

the nutritional picture in the home

by addressing food security

in the clinic

providence has adopted a particularly

deep set of interventions and so they

screen for food insecurity because it's

quick and simple but then if a person is

food insecure they're matched up with a

health navigator who assesses their full

situation that has patients walking out

of a clinic with some new resources to

help improve their diet

when i started in april of 2014

there was one clinic screening in oregon

and now they're over 200.

a lot of my patients who've done it so

far have really found that they've um

that things have improved yes so um

let me know how it goes but i think that

it's it's been really helpful and thanks

again for being honest

so um from from the top down our medical

decision makers um

really have kind of a blind spot here so

it's really important for programs like

this to fill that blind spot and to

inform our system of what what could be

and what should be

it's pretty exciting we we got this idea

when we learned about my street grocery

we got this idea to write a grant

through our

good samaritan foundation which is the

foundation here at our hospital

so we decided we wanted to write a grant

to get vouchers to help people shop for

healthier food options because what we

were finding was is our physicians would

go into the exam room and talk to

someone with congestive heart failure or

diabetes

and we would the physicians would say

you need to be eating healthier eat more

vegetables

and the patients would look at them like

you're crazy

you know i get 180 a month in food

stamps and i can't afford

that kind of

diet

upon coming here i had a very unique

experience with the patient and was

counseling them on dietary choices for

their diabetes and she looked at me and

said are you crazy that's a rich man's

diet i can't eat those things and pay

for them and she went to the canned food

stores and things like that so that kind

of started me on my quest to do a

project like this

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basically it's it's not only

bringing the food to a population that

really needs to have better access but

it's a more well-rounded approach to

access because it means relationships

that are already built in and that trust

between patient and provider and social

worker and

it's also financial access it's

dietary information

specific to medical conditions so it's i

like to say that bringing the food into

the community is not the end of our work

it's the beginning of our work so we

bring the food and now with this

partnership we provide more resources

that truly make it accessible

all the patients have to do is show up

they don't have to have an appointment

on tuesdays so usually they're told by

their physician

or

they're referred off the good sam campus

they don't have to jump through any

hoops we've made it as simple as

possible

and they come and meet either scott or i

the social worker eye and they get 15 a

week five three five dollar vouchers

weekly

and by bringing my street in we bring in

what we know is a healthier food

selection if we just gave them

you know 15 a week to go shop at safeway

they might go buy you know processed

pre-packaged foods and you know the the

inexpensive stuff that they're used to

buying because that's what they can

afford so here we know they're getting

fresher

organic

healthier food items in their shopping

so these food programs are important

because they are treating the immediate

needs of patients they're improving

lives first that's why they're important

and secondly they're important because

they're making a case for

for food to be used as medicine i mean

they're helping insurers and regulators

understand

the role that food can play

how we can save money and reduce

suffering

with a small resource that's already

available by just applying it in an

innovative way

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has been around since 2002

and

we started out

first with our education programs

and one thing that we were seeing over

the last 10 now 12 13 years

is that the

the mujeres the women that we see in the

program

their health has changed a lot over that

generation of students

because most of our patients come from

mexico their basic diet is really

healthy they eat beans and rice and and

tortillas and delicious mole and they do

a lot of physical work they walk places

they exercise on a regular basis and

then they come to this country and

there's a wealth of options but the

majority of those options

are

really not healthy and so um a couple

years ago adelante mujeres really wanted

to make

a concerted effort to not only address

food but exercise stress

stress relief

all sorts of holistic parts of health

one of those initiatives that we're

doing is this great collaboration

between adelante mujeres and virginia

garcia this prescription program

involves the provider being able to say

hey you've got a family member who's at

risk either because they have diabetes

or they have hypertension or they have

obesity um would your family be

interested in getting some education

around healthy eating learning how to

prepare healthy food and then getting a

voucher to go to the farmer's market and

so i have several of my families that

have participated now for second year

and they're really making great strides

in um making healthier choices and

having access to that fresh local

produce

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we are with virginia garcia

and dr uh recommend

the patient

with us

so we are in this in this group where we

have the classes

and we these classes

is every month one time every month

and

they receive a

six dollar per person in the house per

week

so and they can spend that money at the

forestry farmers market another part of

the structure of our program has been to

have

consistent relationships so the folks

that they're seeing in these monthly

meetings are the same staff that are at

the farmers market that can help them

navigate once they get there okay we did

that thing in class how are we going to

find it in the market or

i'm searching for this type of chile or

something or do you know a farmer that

has this or that and so feeling

confident that they're going to when

they arrive at the farmers market have

someone to also be there to kind of

um be a support when they're when

they're

trying to find whatever or feel more

welcome when they come to the market

they're enjoying eating more vegetables

and then we can also follow their

metrics you know when they come into the

clinic we you know we weigh them we

check their blood pressure we check

their blood sugar and we're able to see

small but steady improvements uh in

their health and again they're we're

getting the whole family involved

because if even if it's a mom who has

diabetes or is overweight we know that

their kids are at risk as well and so

the more vegetables and fruit that's

brought into the household the healthier

they're gonna get used to eating so that

works really well

i think with the community there's

really nothing worse than feeling

really isolated and alone and like

you're the only person doing something

and when you have a community you're

really motivated to stay on track so

when i was really sick i had a very

small community maybe three or four

people that i was talking to almost

every day

and when they had successes even if i

wasn't experiencing success i was so

motivated to keep doing what i was doing

so starting the blog was

basically my outlet to start talking

about what i was going through with

people that

also had personal experience with it

because as much as my husband loves me

and he's interested in what i was doing

he didn't want to hear about it day in

and day out and he didn't really

understand what it felt like to be going

through what i was going through so

that was a really big outlet for me as

far as

just sharing what i was going through

and then being able to connect with

other people who were in the similar

boat and

also just kind of figure out what they

were doing and if it was working for

them and

try and refine

what i was doing and what i was learning

in addition to that

i do try to do a lot of community

building because i really believe that

the people that are able to be

successful find community and have

friends that can keep them accountable

and can have like social gatherings with

and kind of commiserate and collaborate

with so

i try to share a lot of that on my blog

too to help people connect with each

other

environment is super important and that

translates to the house home wherever

that might be whatever that looks like

for someone if the people in your

household your immediate

nuclear family whatever that might look

like if there's not a lot of support

there that's gonna be tough to make

change

so that's tough and then the environment

that you are in socially outside of work

what are those people doing where are

they going how do they support you

hey that's really hard so

if we had a culture of support for

everyone do the best that they could

rather than this judgment that continues

to happen almost all the time be a lot

easier so what people have said about

the groups that i run the food story

groups that i run is that these groups

are the only place in their entire lives

where they can have the conversation

about food and food story and body image

and fitness and wellness where they know

that people understand what they're

saying without them having to explain it

in great detail like they just because

they get it they're living the same sort

of stuff but it's really helped you the

dive

yeah it has if when i'm on it

and i'm doing it religiously it's been a

struggle for sure

yeah so adam hopefully will make it but

he may not make it his life has just got

crazy busy this morning with work and he

had to take off so to work unfortunately

you need community you need your tribe

who really get what you're going through

that's so necessary for people to

succeed because so often they feel like

again like i'm the only one who can't

get my act to get together i'm the only

one who doesn't have the smarts or the

information or the wherewithal or the

motivation or the willpower to make this

work then you go sit in a group of six

people and they'll go oh yeah i totally

get that i'm the same way and you go oh

wait oh oh i'm totally normal there are

people who get what i'm going through

you're going through what i'm going

through okay

i think the best thing

and this is the hardest thing is like

the empathy for yourself when you do

fall off the wagon and you do screw up

like where the empathy for that like

nobody's really there to be like

hey you know what because they don't

even get it they don't even realize it's

really hard to be in your shoes and like

my shoes

having a supportive community actually

directly improves our health

so having a supportive community

actually changes

our hormones so it changes things like

cortisol it changes how our bodies are

responding to stress

it changes things like oxytocin it's

called the love hormone so when we are

feeling connected and supported we're

producing more oxytocin which is

anti-inflammatory it helps regulate the

immune system it helps

set up this situation in our bodies

where our bodies can heal

so having a sense of community and

support has been well established in the

scientific literature to improve health

outcomes

and so when we have that we know we

don't just have the practical part of

this person who understands what i'm

going through this person who's a who's

a cheerleader or a shoulder i can cry on

but then we get this wonderful hormonal

response to having that community that

by itself helps speed up our healing and

promotes better health so it's

absolutely fundamental

that's awesome

i i was super secluded in the beginning

and it made me really bummed so i just

was like put myself out there

and it's so funny because i had met you

before

at mickey truscott's um

book talk at natural grocers we sat

beside each other because i recognized

you

i had really fast success with it by

november 2013 was my last ms flare

and i made it a year and a half with no

flares at all until i accidentally ate

one bite of gluten at a restaurant and i

lost feeling in my leg for three months

and it is just now coming back it's

definitely

comforting to feel that you're not

alone in this

beth has definitely inspired me i love

her story and it's it's like real it's

real evidence i mean i haven't had

an actual like huge flare up so i

haven't been able to experience that but

she has and you know

i it's a real thing this whole thing

with diet and body it's real and so

i love that i found someone so close

to me that

has put themselves in remission through

diet

that's so inspiring because it's a long

road and it's so frustrating and

you are definitely

i've been tempted to give up but you

know when you have a friend and a

success story it's definitely

keeps you going you know i really have

to think about it of how much joy do i

get from being in a restaurant to how

much joy do i get chasing my kids at a

park right i get way more joy chasing my

kids at a park than i do eating in a

restaurant

um

yeah so

i i was on prednisone for three and a

half years ten milligrams a day for the

first two years and then the last year

was five milligrams a day and then like

the last half year i was just going down

every month

um five milligrams four milligrams three

milligrams two milligrams one milligram

and now i'm completely off of it

yay

so that's a good feeling because i was

really nervous about the long-term

effects of prednisone so

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i like them too

i think i'm used to the tartness and the

natural sweetness i feel like we really

do we really

there's so much effort that we put

we're like hard workers

as people with

disease and and dietary restrictions

we're like the hardest workers

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um

you know

the net gain from the

having more energy and in in feeling

healthier has really been

a plus for us and had a positive effect

on our lifestyle yeah so i mean it's

been about two months now of um cutting

out sugar where before i mean my husband

can tell you i had sugar right yeah i

still have it over here this is this is

kind of probably bare minimum she used

to have

the big syrup pumps yeah every morning

and this is more now on hand like for

guests or something or just kind of left

over

i've seen a real difference in my energy

level

and i think that now when i do have some

sugar

i appreciate it a lot more you know you

know she's lost you know almost 10

pounds and

i've lost almost 10 pounds but she's

lost a lot of inches and things like

that because of sugar and when we sat

down and talked about how can we make a

lifestyle change for our family versus

how can like you make a change and how

can i make a change that it made all the

difference because before

you know he would be doing something and

i would i would you know half do it or

this sort of thing but once we sat down

and said like well what will work for us

like how can we meal plan together so

that it makes sense for both of us or

how can we encourage each other it made

all the difference

you know once she's kind of been on

board and

kind of eating the same lifestyle as me

it's helped tremendously

so a little a little bit of an update

for me on the medical side

so i have been able to discontinue

seeing

my specialty cardiologist

so my heart palpitations have decreased

to the amount where it's

usually about once a week maybe

once every eight to nine days whereas i

used to have them

multiple times a day

and my blood pressure is in control now

it was

high on the systolic range i believe and

now it's it's under on both

adam can you say hi to the camera

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good morning

i made all this

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identity is like a window that frames

our view of the world

we can handle something sub-optimal

better if we have all the nutrients

available to help process that so we can

handle a stressful event we can handle a

late night we can handle

exposure to a food that normally

would be really inflammatory for our

bodies we recover faster and so having

an overall nutrient density focus in the

diet becomes the foundation of a diet

that supports health the inflammation

has gone down a ton and so i don't have

as much pain

in all of my body yeah so it's been

making my mobility better it's making my

energy levels go up just my my mood my

sleep everything has gotten so much

better

i would say i'm down about 15 pounds

and then you know

just like little things like my skin has

cleared up a lot

and other things like i'm not as anxious

things are better and things are

improving and we're working with the

slightly

modified treatment plan which is more of

the same like staying with my diet and

staying with my healthy yoga people are

stating we want time with our physicians

we want more office time we want

education about prevention we want

education about food as medicine i think

that the medical community has a lot to

learn about how important nutrition is

and by the way i keep meeting people who

are senior level

doctors in medical institutions who are

like me who have come to realize how

important nutrition is and are actually

using it now just working with my doctor

test results really seeing how these you

know the foods impact my body and my

blood pressure and my a1c and those type

of things you know i'm glad that i i

worked on the first diet and failed

because it's given me a lot more drive

and a lot more incentive it's just

trying to keep on track and you know

trying to not diverge off of that

and the process

was not linear i think these stories are

like windows into our past

and i need to share this knowledge with

my children and i ask you to do the same

and this will become a source of

learning for generations to come

i want to be playing soccer playing

music

with my

children grandchildren

great-grandchildren in my 80s and 90s

and preferably when i'm 100. i'm getting

my health under control and

and

that is what was the step i wanted to

take before i could move on to the next

step which would be

having a family you know once you start

to see success then you know it's you

start to get the motivation and it's

easy to keep it going you know but in

the beginning it's hard right so um

yeah you know i think that you know i

have a lot of hope for my journey going

forward i can still have a fulfilling

life

and actually make these changes and i

don't have to go back to that old

that you know that wasn't like that's

not the goal of getting healthy in the

meantime i say go home and cook a

healthy meal in your home with your

family because that's what you can do

today what you can do now and this isn't

like

a cute portlandia joke this is this is

real and it matters it's really

changed my life for the better it's like

almost saved my life

i'm still on my journey this is you know

maybe the end of the film but it's not

the end of my journey for me

we can all find our path forward

by breaking out of our boxes

by painting and reclaiming our cities

and recording the lost stories in our

communities

because when we look out of our window

of identity

we are all under the same blue sky

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we need the public to share

the message that they're learning as

well so that we can affect as many

people as possible

and i do believe that that compounds on

an exponential level on a community

scale that if we can heal ourselves if

we can feel good in our bodies then we

want to share that with our friends our

family our community

this is a lifestyle this is a lifelong

commitment to health and it is a journey

but we all have to come to this place

in our own way you'll have to come to it

at our own pace the future of healthcare

is teaching people how to create more

and more health in their lives

that is the future of healthcare and

whatever profession will best deliver

that will be the healthcare profession

of the future

then we don't have to wrestle so much

with what we're going to do with all

these people who are going to get

chronic disease because

chronic disease will disappear and i

think it's possible for us to do if we

have the will to do it

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