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🗓️ 22 May 2019
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Real health is more than just food and exercise. The key elements we often overlook are love, support, community, and stress management. These factors are so much more difficult to manage but potentially even more important than nailing the perfect diet or workout routine. My guest on this week’s podcast has an incredible track record for reversing and healing heart disease through lifestyle interventions, and he shares his very simple four-pronged approach to health and wellness for life.
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Dean Ornish, M.D., is the founder and president of the non-profit Preventive Medicine Research Institute. He is the Clinical Professor of Medicine at both UCSF and UCSD. He was recognized as "one of the 125 most extraordinary University of Texas alumni in the past 125 years;" as a "TIME 100 Innovator" by TIME magazine; as "one of the 50 most influential members of his generation” by LIFE magazine; as "one of the most interesting people of the year" by People magazine; and as "one of the world's seven most powerful teachers" by Forbes magazine. His most recent book, Undo It, is available on his website or Amazon.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Lucas Rockwood show. I am a yoga teacher, a trainer, a nutritional coach. |
0:07.0 | I'm a father, I'm an entrepreneur, but first and foremost I am a student and I love learning and this show is really about scratching my own |
0:14.0 | itch to learn. I bring on experts, authors, medical doctors, movement specialists, |
0:19.2 | meditation teachers, really anyone I can find who's doing cutting-edge work in health and wellness, to help |
0:25.2 | you live a better life with their best information, their best research, and their latest thinking. |
0:30.4 | On this week's show, we'll be talking about health and wellness, but from a holistic lifestyle |
0:35.0 | perspective, when we talk about health and wellness, at least for me I often just default to food |
0:39.3 | and exercise, which of course are so so powerful, but we often forget two things one is stress management which is absolutely crucial |
0:46.6 | and number two is love and connection community support family and I guess the reason that I jump to Food and Fitness is because right now I can walk out to the store and I can buy a healthy meal. |
0:58.0 | And right now I can go down the street to a yoga studio or a gym and I can get a fix and I can really make choices that impact me possible. a I've lost touch with repairing damaged friendships from years ago that's a little |
1:14.7 | bit harder that's not an instant fix I can't do that alone it requires social |
1:18.2 | interaction finding purpose in life that's a really challenging one and so you know managing your stress again |
1:25.2 | how do you do that some of us live in very very real stressful situations that are |
1:29.6 | out of our control maybe listening are in a in a government situation that causes you stress every day. |
1:35.0 | Some of you are in hostile work or home environments that you can't just walk down the street |
1:39.5 | and pay to escape from. So when we think about health and wellness we really need to broaden |
1:44.9 | the picture and if you look at comprehensive really successful health regimes, |
1:50.9 | whether it's things like our guest today, Dr Dean Ornish, has implemented, |
1:55.0 | whether it's things like that happened at Saddleback Church or with Seventh Day Adventists |
1:59.3 | or with all kinds of different isolated and even big groups of people around the world. |
2:04.8 | The recurring factor is not whether they're vegan or paleo or whether they're doing yoga or |
2:10.6 | cross-fit. |
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