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The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Slow medicine with Dr Christine Walker

The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Brooke McAlary

Education, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.6525 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Can we incorporate the philosophy of ‘slow’ into modern medicine? Today’s guest, Dr Christine Walker believes so.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Slow Home podcast. This is episode number 62 and I'm Brooke McCallory.

0:06.9

And I'm Ben McCallory. How are you? Very good. That's good. So, number 62, who is going to grace our ears?

0:20.1

Dr. Christine Walker. Dr. Christine Walker.

0:22.3

Dr. Christine Walker.

0:23.4

You've had a couple of doctors on before.

0:26.4

I have.

0:27.3

Yeah, I've spoken with a neuroscientist.

0:30.0

What's Dr. Christine Walker a doctor of?

0:33.2

She's a physical therapist, a PT.

0:35.5

Okay.

0:36.0

And she's based in one of the Carolinas.

0:38.7

And she actually reached out to me on Twitter a couple of months ago

0:43.7

and was asking me about, you know, the idea of slow medicine

0:46.3

and if I had any thoughts on it.

0:49.1

And she was just an awesome, fascinating, interesting person to talk to, to read about.

0:53.2

And then, you know, obviously it was a no-brainer to sit down and chat to her.

0:56.5

So what is, how does that play into the sort of slow living, intentional living?

1:02.3

Well, in this instance, we talk a lot about what it means to adopt slow lifestyle changes.

1:14.5

For example, mindfulness, yoga, nutrition, that kind of stuff,

1:21.9

into a hectic, stressed kind of life and what impact that has on people physically, and then what also impact that has on them mentally.

1:24.7

So it's really fascinating.

1:25.9

I mean, Christine talks about her personal story. And,

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