234: We need a COVID reality check | David Katz, M.D.

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 30 June 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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The loss we're experiencing is heartbreaking. Not to mention, we're acutely aware that the virus is disproportionately affecting impoverished and BIPOC communities. And yet, COVID-19 has become a pandemic of polarization with very little conversation in the sensible middle. Rather than coming together as a society, as a country, and more specifically as a wellness community, so many have taken the path of extremes when it comes to COVID-19. But no matter which side you’re on, preventative medicine specialist, David Katz, MD, believes it’s time for a COVID reality check. On this episode, Katz joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how we can reach middle ground (and why we should) when it comes to the coronavirus, plus: *Herd immunity & why there's no such thing as a zero-risk scenario* *Why there's no better time for a "get healthy" campaign* *Why we shouldn't wait for a vaccine before going back to the world* *Why you might have native resistance to COVID-19* *How mainstream media perpetuates our fear* To learn more about our Functional Nutrition Coaching Program, where you can get a solid foundation in nutrition from 19 of the world’s top doctors and experts, visit mindbodygreen.com/coaching. Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Additionally, if there are any anti-racism resources you wish we would cover, please let us know at: [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.
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0:51.0	intros or monologues, but since 2020 is a year of first, here we go.
0:56.1	Our handling of COVID-19 here in America has been terrible.
1:00.2	And rather than coming together as a society, as a country, and more specifically, as a wellness community,
1:06.0	so many have taken the path of extremes when it comes to COVID.
1:10.0	This is a pandemic of polarization.
1:13.0	Look, some have said we need to hunker down,
1:15.0	we need to shut down, and we need to do so until there's a vaccine.
1:18.0	I won't go outside,
1:20.0	while others refuse to wear a mask when grocery shopping and are out partying in bars.
1:24.2	And what's been missing here is a sensible, reasonable, middle path forward for us.
1:29.9	We here at My and Buddy Green wholeheartedly believe that there's no one size fits all approach to wellness and this certainly applies to our handling of COVID-19.
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