#482: Prevention Over Prescription w/ Dr. Thomas Hemingway
The Jay Ferruggia Show
Jay Ferruggia
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Thomas Hemingway practices holistic and integrative medicine and is the host of the top-rated health podcast "Unshakeable Health".
He's known for distilling the latest medical knowledge and science into digestible steps and his upcoming book, "PREVENTABLE! 5 Powerful Practices to Avoid Disease and Build Unshakeable Health" describes the foundational principles for creating lifelong health.
He's wealth of knowledge, and he's here today to share some of it with you to help you optimize your health. The natural way.
- What's the most alarming issue with the current health care system? [6:05]
- Is a calorie simply a calorie? [10:23]
- 3 foods you should avoid at all costs. [16:05]
- So what can you eat? [21:25]
- Are you metabolically healthy? [27:22]
- What about fruit? Vegetables? Dairy? [43:34]
- What's the biggest risk factor for chronic diseases? [50:00]
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, guys? Welcome to the Renegade Strength Show. I am your host, Jay Farugia. I've been a fitness |
| 0:05.3 | professional for 27 years, helping build stronger fitter humans. My guest today is Dr. Thomas Hemingway. |
| 0:12.6 | He is a holistic and integrative medical doctor who lives and shares his personal and professional |
| 0:17.8 | philosophy of prevention over prescription. He's going to tell you all about his powerful practices |
| 0:25.2 | to avoid disease and build unshakeable health. We cover all kinds of topics. I threw out a bunch of |
| 0:31.0 | foods, you know, controversial subjects for him, and he shared his unbiased, unsensor opinion on |
| 0:37.5 | all those gut health, you know, all kinds of things. Red meat, grains, artificial sweeteners, |
| 0:44.5 | sugars, all the things that we are all interested in so we could live longer, healthier lives. I think |
| 0:50.0 | you're going to love today's episode. Check it out. Here is Dr. Thomas Hemingway. |
| 1:04.9 | Thomas, welcome to the show. I'm psyched to have you here. I got a bunch of questions for you. |
| 1:08.4 | Let's start with a little bit of your background kind of leading up to what you're doing now. |
| 1:14.4 | Oh, man, I'd love to. Yeah, so I'm I've always considered myself a super active kind of fitness guy, |
| 1:20.5 | but I decided as a kid that beyond, you know, just doing all the fun stuff I was into surfing. I grew up |
| 1:27.3 | as a kid in California was into the surfing skateboarding and then snowboarding when it came out |
| 1:33.9 | in the 70s and 80s and so just a super active guy, but I always loved also just the nuance about |
| 1:40.1 | the body. You know, I love to learn about how we, you know, both performed on not only a macro level, |
| 1:46.7 | you know, how muscles work, for example, but also on a sort of microscopic physiologic level, |
| 1:51.2 | like how things work that was always intriguing. I was one of those annoying kids, man. I was |
| 1:56.4 | like the nerdy geek guy that asked way too many questions that people are like, shut up already. |
| 2:01.6 | I've just been inquisitive. I've loved to learn and so early on, I decided I wanted to be a physician, |
| 2:08.0 | which in my family was a little weird at the time because I have a lot of other medical professionals |
| 2:14.4 | and not physicians that per se I have grandfather who's a radiologist. I have my dad and my brother |
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