How Our Environment Shapes Our Health

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Jan 2, 2023

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In an insightful discussion, Dan Buettner, a National Geographic Fellow and Blue Zones expert, highlights how food and community contribute to longevity. Tawny Jones, a Cleveland Clinic administrator, emphasizes the importance of personalized healthcare through functional medicine. Dr. Gabor Maté dives deep into the effects of social disconnection and childhood trauma on health. Together, they explore how collective experiences and traditional diets significantly shape our well-being, challenging the notion of health as solely an individual responsibility.

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ADVICE

Environmental Impact

Shape your environment to improve your health, rather than relying on willpower.
Blue Zones' inhabitants don't have superior discipline; their surroundings promote healthy choices.

INSIGHT

Power of Simple Changes

Simple lifestyle changes have a significant impact on longevity.
Purpose, social connections, and a whole-foods, plant-based diet can add years to your life.

ANECDOTE

Shift in Food Culture

In the 1950s, home cooking and gardening were common practices promoted by federal extension workers.
The food industry shifted this with processed food convenience marketing, exemplified by the Betty Crocker cookbook.

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Heart disease, cancer, and stroke are the leading causes of death in the US. These diseases all have several risk factors in common, like smoking, physical inactivity, and poor diet, which policymakers often view simply as personal choices. Yet there are many reasons we need to begin looking at health beyond the individual.

In today’s episode, I talk with Dan Buettner, James Maskell, Tawny Jones, and Dr. Gabor Maté about how our environment shapes our health and why community is vital to healing.

Dan Buettner is an explorer, National Geographic Fellow, award-winning journalist and producer, and New York Times bestselling author. He discovered the five places in the world—dubbed Blue Zones—where people live the longest, healthiest lives.

James Maskell has spent the past decade innovating at the intersection of Functional Medicine and community, where he created the Functional Forum, the world’s largest Functional Medicine conference, with record-setting participation. His organization and first book of the same name, The Evolution of Medicine, prepares health professionals for this new era of preventive medicine.

Tawny Jones has been an accomplished administrator at the Cleveland Clinic for 19 years. She leads clinical operations at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, sharing the efficacy of Functional Medicine and demonstrating its cost-effectiveness and ability to improve health. The Functioning for Life shared medical program for chronic disease management is her brainchild.

A renowned speaker and bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics including addiction, stress, and childhood development. Dr. Maté has written several bestselling books. His latest book, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture, was just released.

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Dan Buettner

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