Rachel Carlton Abrams, MD: Listening To Your Body’s Intelligence

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 6 February 2017

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

We are all innately gifted with something called body intelligence — an intuitive sense of what best serves our mental, physical and emotional well-being. However, most of us disconnect from our bodies' persistent efforts to communicate, muting it out to favor the breakneck pace of our modern lives. Left unchecked, this leaves us at serious risk of what this week's guest calls chronic body depletion – a crisis of mind, body and spirit that can lead to everything from weight gain and chronic pain to high blood pressure, heart disease, depression, autoimmune disease and more. This week Rachel Carlton Abrams, MD, MHS, ABIHM joins the podcast to help us better cultivate our body intelligence, so that we can begin to properly treat the cause of what ails us and set a better trajectory for optimum healing and lifelong health. Dr. Abrams is a board-certified primary care, family practice physician, integrative health expert and author with over two decades of experience in preventive and comprehensive care medicine. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University, received her medical degree from UC San Francisco, earned her master’s degree in Holistic Health and Medical Sciences from UC Berkeley, and has been voted the “Best Doctor” in Santa Cruz County every year from 2010 to 2016. In the scope of her dynamic practice, she works with many of the world’s most influential people, from CEOs to billionaire entrepreneurs to Nobel Peace laureates, and has spent countless hours addressing everyday patients with chronic health conditions. The author of several books on holistic health, relationships and sexuality, her latest offering, BodyWise: Discovering Your Body’s Intelligence for Lifelong Health and Healing*, skillfully and accessibly guides the reader on a journey of discovery towards creating the vibrant, balanced, healthy life you have always deserved. This is a fun and super informative conversation packed with knowledge nuggets and practical wisdom takeaways all designed to cultivate your own body intelligence. An intelligence that will help you take better responsibility for yourself, your environment, your behaviors, your relationships, and your health so that you can fuel your body’s natural predisposition to heal and thrive. Specific topics covered include: * the concept of chronic body depletion * reconnecting with our bodies/nature * mind, body & spirit connection * taking responsibility for yourself * the business of healthcare * sense, feel & discernment * the body’s natural predisposition to heal * the benefits of integrative medicine * link inflammation and disease * the importance of positive feedback loops * adaptogenic herbs & essential oils It was an absolute joy talking to Dr. Abrams and I'm delighted to bring you our conversation. I sincerely hope you enjoy it. Peace + Plants, Rich

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0:00.0	You know, I talk about this explicitly in the book, but I feel like once you're really
0:05.1	actually connected to and listening to your body and you get a sense of being in touch
0:10.2	with your own nature, that it is a natural extension to realize how connected you are
0:14.5	to other people and how connected you are to the earth.
0:18.4	Because there really is no separation, it's a crazy idea that we're separate from the
0:23.3	earth we live on, right?
0:25.2	Everything we are comes from the earth and everything we're exposed to from a health
0:29.6	point of view, all the toxins and the pesticides, things people clean their houses with, and
0:35.2	the food we eat, all deeply connect to our bodies, right?
0:38.6	The microbiome, the bacterial population of the earth, and everything we do to the earth,
0:43.8	whether it's tearing down trees and creating a loss of oxygen and global warming or it's
0:50.8	the toxins that we're using, it all impacts us directly, directly.
0:55.8	And if you look at the emerging illnesses, allergy, autoimmune, learning disorders, neurologic
1:02.7	disease cancer, it's all related to our environment, so we ourselves are an ecosystem and we're
1:09.3	intimately connected to the earth that we live on and everything we do to it.
1:14.7	That's Rachel Carlton Abrams MD and this is the Retroll Podcast.
1:25.8	Hey everybody, how are you guys doing?
1:34.2	What is going on?
1:35.3	Welcome or welcome back to the show.
1:37.3	My name is Rich Roll.
1:38.1	I am your host and this is my podcast, the show where I go deep and I go long form with
1:43.9	some of the world's most inspiring, positive, paradigm breaking change makers all across
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