Your Zip Code Has More to Do with Your Health than Your Genetics with Meagan L. Grega, MD – E160
Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience
Mastering Diabetes
4.6 • 656 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
In today's interview, we will discuss the 6 pillars of Lifestyle Medicine and the impact of Lifestyle Medicine strategies in preventing, treating, and reversing disease.
The majority of ailments that affect humans today result from daily habits that are out of sync with our physiological design. The pillars of lifestyle medicine are simply elements of being human that we are evolutionarily adapted to.
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| 0:00.0 | I love the walking concept because then you're also getting some physical activity in. |
| 0:04.3 | If you can go walk out in nature, then we got another one of the important things about, you know, kind of exposure to nature seems to decrease our stress with decreasing our cortisol and things like that. |
| 0:14.4 | But it's taking the time to schedule doing things with other people, whether that is going for a walk, whether it's making a |
| 0:22.2 | meal together, whether it's, you know, just getting a chance to sit down and play a game or |
| 0:27.7 | just talk about what's going on with life. Any of those things that become a regular habit |
| 0:33.7 | really helps because a lot of times we're like, well, when I have time, I will reconnect |
| 0:38.7 | with that friend from, you know, a couple years ago. |
| 0:41.2 | Or when I have time, I will call my brother, who I haven't talked to in a long time. |
| 0:44.9 | But then when do you ever actually have time? |
| 0:46.8 | So you have to make that one of the priorities and build other things in your life around |
| 0:52.4 | that priority of time with people who are important to you. |
| 1:06.7 | Welcome to the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience, where we teach you how to sit in the driver's seat of your diabetes health for the rest of your life. |
| 1:15.4 | We'll teach you how to reverse insulin resistance, achieve your ideal body weight, gain energy, and get your best A1C following more than 85 years of evidence-based research in the mastering diabetes program. |
| 1:28.3 | Our program teaches you how to reverse pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes, and how to simplify your life with type 1 diabetes by maximizing your insulin sensitivity using food as medicine. |
| 1:41.3 | We're on a bold mission to reverse insulin resistance in one million people. |
| 1:47.2 | We're glad to have you joining us. |
| 1:52.9 | Today, I am extremely excited to be talking with Dr. Megan Grega. |
| 1:58.3 | Now, Dr. Megan Grega is the co-founder and chief medical officer of the Kellyn Foundation, |
| 2:02.9 | which is a nonprofit organization that's dedicated to making the healthy choice, the easy choice. |
| 2:08.8 | Now, the Kellynne Foundation provides a school-based healthy lifestyle education and garden as a |
| 2:14.9 | classroom, quote unquote, to support access to nutrient dense produce |
| 2:19.0 | via the Eat Real Foods mobile market. And they provide plant-based cooking classes and community |
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