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Age Less / Live More

238: Why Slow Medicine is the Future

Age Less / Live More

Lucas Rockwood

Self-improvement, Education

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Your typical doctor's visit is less than 7 minutes long. It doesn't matter if you have a broken bone, a tonsil infection, or pancreatic cancer, most of the time you're in and out faster than seems possible. It's not the doctor's fault, it's the system's fault, and the solution is to slow down everything in our lives to achieve balance. But who wants to go slow? Not you, not me... so what to do?

On this week's show, we'll look at creative solutions to finding more quality downtime in life without compromising your goals, ambitions or excitement.
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What You´ll Learn:

  • Why community support is the linchpin for health
  • Why we need to properly define what "health" really means (it's not young and beautiful)
  • Why slowing down can be the ultimate self-care routine
  • Why quality "slow time" is more important than quality

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Dr. Michael Finkelstein practiced internal medicine and was Medical Director of a hospital for 20 years before embarking on further training in Integrative and Holistic Medicine. He went on to create a Health and Wellness Center, called SunRaven, and wrote Slow Medicine: Hope and Healing for Chronic Illness because he realized that individuals need more than what is found in typical medical institutions.

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  • Whey Protein

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Transcript

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Whenever I talk to yoga students these days about balance, they usually think I mean arm balances.

0:05.3

Hand stands, forearm stands, crane and crow pose variations have become super popular among modern yoga students, but what I'm usually talking about when I refer to balance is asymmetrical one-legged standing leg poses things like tree pose like a warrior three or a balancing stick things like a for a significant minority of people, not just on the strength and flexibility fronts,

0:34.0

but just on a simple balance level.

0:36.2

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0:42.2

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0:46.3

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site yoga body.com. So I know a lot of people are not fans of New Year's resolutions.

2:10.0

They feel like they're setting themselves up for failure and adding undue pressure on an already

2:14.8

pressured life and I can understand that and I can certainly appreciate that.

2:19.2

For me they've always been really effective and I've gotten better and better at them over the years.

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