Solving Chronic Disease PH219

Pursuing Health

Julie Foucher MD, MS

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Healthcare practitioners and affiliate owners discuss limitations of the conventional healthcare system, the power of the CrossFit affiliate to transform health, and how we can make CrossFit more accessible to a broader population. The panel was part of a series of conversations hosted by CrossFit Health at the 2021 CrossFit Games.

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0:00.0	You know, you mentioned that some of those achievements are far richer success, right?
0:05.2	Getting the 20 pounds off the diabetic patient and I fully agree with that and I would encourage
0:11.1	trainers out there who potentially are looking to start training this population of very heavy,
0:16.5	very old chronic disease, whatever it happens to be, it can be a very intimidating population to
0:21.2	start to welcome into your gym. But in my opinion anyway, it's the most rewarding and the most
0:27.2	fulfilling, like, it's really cool. If you get the beast in your gym who already has a 475
0:33.2	pound deadlift and now it's 505, fantastic, that's great. They already have a big deadlift,
0:38.2	who cares? You get some, you know, and we had this happen in the program at the old CrossFit
0:44.7	Office in Scotts Valley, you know, a senior citizen who they were contemplating selling their
0:50.4	house because it had stairs, couldn't use the stairs and now they don't have to sell their home,
0:55.0	like, literal stories like that or having picked up my grand kid in years, now I can pick up my
0:59.9	grand kid so much cooler and more rewarding and fulfilling.
1:10.5	Hello and welcome to Pursuing Health. I'm Dr. Julie Fouche, family physician and former CrossFit
1:16.2	Kings athlete. Here I bring you information and inspiration to help bridge the gap between fitness
1:21.7	and medicine and support your journey toward your health yourself. In this week's episode,
1:26.5	I'm sharing another panel that I hosted on behalf of CrossFit Health at this year's CrossFit Games.
1:31.9	This panel was on the topic of chronic disease and CrossFit, and I was joined by an incredible
1:36.8	group of guests, including Pat Sherwood, who's a longtime CrossFit seminar staff flowmaster,
1:42.2	owner of CrossFit Linchpin, and has helped evolve a CrossFit program specifically for adults with
1:46.9	chronic disease. We also had Athena Perez, who's the affiliate owner of Scale Nation CrossFit,
1:52.1	who herself has used CrossFit to overcome chronic disease and lose over 200 pounds. Dr. Nick
1:57.7	Nuey Boise, who's a family physician working with adults with chronic disease, who do CrossFit,
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