Healthcare + Fitness for Indigenous Communities: Roger Boyer, PhD PH261

Pursuing Health

Julie Foucher MD, MS

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Roger Boyer II, PhD, is an American citizen, Canadian citizen, and a citizen of the Anishinabek Nation, which is an Indigenous nation of 1.7 million people that stretches across parts of Canada and the American Midwest. Canadian Indigenous suffer from chronic disease at rates far higher than the national average, and Roger himself was once in danger of becoming part of this statistic. In 2017, he weighed nearly 400 lbs and was prediabetic and prehypertensive.

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0:00.0	So what about us as Indigenous people and, you know,
0:03.2	and so I've had some struggles with that just in the recent
0:06.2	six to eight months as we've been, you know, going, but, I mean,
0:09.9	ultimately it's, you know, trying to figure out, you know,
0:12.7	what your new why is Roger.
0:14.4	And so it is, it's mine, it's, it's to bring CrossFit as a
0:18.7	methodology through the vehicle of primary health care to our
0:22.3	Indigenous nations so that they can regain their lives as
0:25.8	providers and protectors to their families.
0:30.0	Hello, and welcome to Pursuing Health.
0:34.6	I'm Dr. Julie Fouche, family physician and former CrossFit
0:37.8	Games athlete. Here, I bring you information and
0:40.6	inspiration to help bridge the gap between fitness and
0:43.1	medicine and support your journey toward your healthiest
0:45.8	self. We are already well into 2022, and I hope you've
0:49.0	enjoyed the episodes so far this year as much as I have.
0:52.2	I can assure you that we have some very exciting guest
0:54.4	plan for the rest of the year and just wanted to give a
0:56.6	heads up to those of you who are keeping track.
0:58.8	You may notice that I'm going to slow down a bit further
1:01.3	from here on out from biweekly episodes to every three
1:04.2	weeks. This will allow me to continue to increase the quality
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