247: Chris Kresser - Unconventional Medicine • Cultivating More Joy And Pleasure • The Future of Healthcare
The Jesse Chappus Show
Jesse Chappus
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Chris Kresser, M.S., L.Ac is a globally recognized leader in the fields of ancestral health, paleo nutrition, and functional and integrative medicine. He is the creator of ChrisKresser.com, one of the top 25 natural health sites in the world, and the author of the New York Times best seller, The Paleo Cure.
In this episode, we discuss:
- A decade long journey back to health
- Discovering the paleo diet
- Functional medicine combines conventional & traditional approaches
- Focusing on the root cause of disease
- Cultivating more pleasure and joy
- His latest book, Unconventional Medicine
- Taking back your individual health
- Training healthcare practitioners to make a bigger impact
- High statistics of children suffering with behavioural issues
- Access and cost of functional medicine needs to be looked at differently
- Conventional medicine subsidizes a certain type of treatment
- Impact functional medicine could have on society
- 2/3rds of all medical research is sponsored by pharmaceutical companies
- The definition of functional medicine
- The 3 aspects of the ADAPT process
- Traditional cultures around the world
- The future of medicine
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| 0:00.0 | The clinicians, most of the ones that I met, want to see changes in the system as well. |
| 0:04.8 | It's just they have to follow a certain standard of care that they're actually legally required to follow. |
| 0:12.4 | The deep roots of this problem and it's not going to be |
| 0:15.1 | solved overnight but at the same time there there are lots of really positive |
| 0:19.1 | signs that we're moving in the right direction. Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 247. |
| 0:31.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman, and we are here on a weekly basis to take |
| 0:35.8 | your health to the next level. |
| 0:37.9 | This week our featured guest is Chris Kresser. |
| 0:40.0 | He's a globally recognized leader in the fields of ancestral health, paleo-nutrition, and functional |
| 0:45.1 | and integrative medicine. |
| 0:46.6 | He's the creator of ChrisCrester.com, one of the top 25 natural health sites in the world, |
| 0:51.6 | and author of the New York Times Best Seller, Your Personal Paleo Code. |
| 0:55.6 | Before we get into the details on our show with Chris, just want to let you guys know that |
| 0:59.2 | Jesse and I are now husband and wife. We got married on July 15th. |
| 1:03.0 | We had such a perfect day, perfect wedding, |
| 1:06.0 | and a perfect mini moon afterwards. |
| 1:08.0 | We went to Bayfield, Ontario for a few days, |
| 1:11.0 | and just got away the two of us, |
| 1:12.0 | had a beautiful time, slowed down, relaxed and enjoyed married life. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah and you guys can definitely see a lot of our details and photos over on Instagram at Ultimate Health Podcast we're posting there and even on our Facebook page, |
| 1:24.4 | so just look for the Ultimate Health Podcast and you guys can keep up with what we are up to. |
| 1:29.2 | All right, so now let's get back to the details of our show with Chris. |
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