280: Unconventional Medicine: Reverse Chronic Disease, Take Your Health Back, And Create A Life You Love With Chris Kresser
Legendary Life | Transform Your Body, Upgrade Your Health & Live Your Best Life
Ted Ryce
4.8 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2017
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Did you know that chronic disease is shortening our lifespan, destroying our quality of life, and bankrupting governments? On top of that chronic disease is threatening the health of our future generations. The kids growing up today aren't expected to live as long as their parents because of the threat chronic diseases pose. After learning all these alarming stats I decided to bring New York Times Bestselling author Chris Kresser on the show, to help us understand how to reverse this dangerous trend, take control of our health and live a legendary life. Listen Now!
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| 0:16.7 | Welcome back to another episode of the Legendary Life Podcast. This is the show that's all about taking your health, your body, and your life to that next level. I'm your host Ted Rice and I've got to tell you this is one of the most important |
| 0:21.1 | interviews you will ever hear. Why? Because it's about a problem |
| 0:26.2 | that you may not even know about. What is that problem? Well the world is facing |
| 0:31.9 | the greatest health care crisis it has ever seen. |
| 0:35.8 | One in two Americans has a chronic disease and one in four has multiple chronic diseases. |
| 0:42.4 | 27% of kids now have has multiple chronic diseases. |
| 0:43.0 | 27% of kids now have a chronic disease, |
| 0:46.2 | up from just 13% in 1994. |
| 0:50.1 | Chronic disease is responsible for seven out of every 10 deaths. |
| 0:55.4 | I mean, chronic disease is shortening our lifespans, destroying our quality of life, |
| 1:00.3 | bankrupting governments and threatening the health of future generations. |
| 1:04.0 | And the sad part is that conventional medicine, the doctors who we go to with their focus on managing symptoms, |
| 1:12.0 | they're failing to address the challenge and it's not all |
| 1:14.6 | about them and their failure but it's the failure of the system and the system isn't |
| 1:20.1 | working and the result is burnout physicians a secure population and a |
| 1:25.0 | broken health care system and if you think politicians are going to save you it's |
| 1:29.4 | not going to happen even if we all get free health care, in other words, health care paid for by the government, |
| 1:35.8 | it's still going to bankrupt the system because there's just too many of us that have chronic diseases. The good news, though though is that the epidemic of chronic illness can be stopped if patients and practitioners can adapt and that's why I'm super excited to have on my guest today. His name is Chris Kresser. |
| 1:56.6 | He is the CEO of Kresser Institute and the co-director of the California Center for Functional Medicine. |
| 2:02.6 | He's also the creator of ChrisCresser.com |
| 2:05.1 | and he's a New York Times best-selling author of the Paleocure. |
| 2:09.0 | Chris was named one of the most influential people in health and fitness by greatest |
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