#027: You Are What You Eat with Dr. Robert Graham

The Mark Groves Podcast

Mark Groves

Society & Culture, Relationships

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

In this episode I speak with physician, chef, and integrative medicine expert, Dr. Robert Graham. Nowadays, there is more interest and awareness of the link between what we eat and our overall mental and physical wellness. But what does it really mean? What does our gut health mean for our mental health? What are the most important factors driving our health? Is food the ultimate medicine, or is there more to it? This week I jam with my favourite physician and good friend, Dr. Robert Graham to break it all down! Episode Highlights: 8 mins - The relationship between nutrition and health. 12 mins - Evidence based medicine, what does it mean? 15 mins - The biggest medical crisis of our time? Holistic and integrative medicine? The role of the gut in overall health and wellbeing? 18 mins - The link between gut health and emotional health. How to high conflict relationships impact your overall health? 23 mins - Love and overall health. 28 mins - The most important factor in your health - who you surround yourself with. 32 mins - Fatigue - the most common illness seen today. 35 mins - The link between IBS and our mental wellness. 43 mins - Is food a kind of medicine? 5 mins - Vegetarian vs vegan. Episode Notes: Dr. Robert Graham is a Harvard trained physician, Board Certified in both Internal and Integrative Medicine and has over 15 years of clinical experience. Dr. Graham received his medical degree from the School of Medicine at Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, NY and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, where he received the Community Service Award and subsequently the prestigious “Attending of the Year” award. Dr. Graham received a Master’s of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health while completing three additional fellowships in General Internal Medicine and Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies at Harvard Medical School as well as Medical Education at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also completed course-work in Mind/Body Medicine, Positive Psychology, Lifestyle Medicine, Culinary Medicine, Botanical and Traditional Chinese Medicine. In 2018, Dr. Graham became one of less than twenty doctor/chef’s worldwide, as he obtained his culinary degree from the Natural Gourmet Institute. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Well, well, well, we are back for another episode of the Mark Gross podcast. I'm so excited that you're here, and we get to have this conversation and jam on things weekly,
0:26.1	all things relational, that just, you know, it makes my soul get excited.
0:30.4	It makes me have, you know, I think I called it a soulgasm the other day, and I was like,
0:34.7	I like that word.
0:35.9	I feel a little soulgasmic.gasmic and you know the reason I love
0:40.4	talking about these things is everything in life is relationship you know everything's relational
0:45.2	you're always in relationship to everything including self so this is such a cool part about
0:50.5	being a human being is that we are the only species that really thinks about how
0:54.6	it thinks that are aware of its awareness. You know, and if you're not aware of your awareness
1:00.2	or you're not aware of how you're feeling and what you're thinking or you disconnect from parts
1:04.1	of that because you don't like it or you pretend you don't know, you're going to experience
1:08.9	some dysfunction, right? Because they just become
1:11.6	compensatory strategies or ways that we deflect from things that we are afraid to feel or
1:18.6	don't know how to feel or we're taught not to feel. So there's so many things that go into
1:24.2	exploring our relationships. And the reason that the majority of the context of the conversations,
1:29.6	I have are romantically based, and, you know, on that subject,
1:33.4	is because whatever we're bad at, if we have bad boundaries with money
1:37.3	or bad boundaries with people, we'll have really bad boundaries in romantic relationships.
1:41.6	Everything is amplified by romantic relationships, generally
1:45.5	speaking, because it's where we, you know, we place our self-worth in. We, you know, we say, like,
1:53.5	how you respond to me, if you love me or are supposed to love me, determines whether I'm
1:59.0	lovable. So it's really a constant exploration of how we have
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