Pursuing Health

“I call that integrative health. Integrative health is a little different than complementary medicine, is different than integrative medicine. Integrative health is the merger of conventional care like I learned, and you learned in your own medical training. Evidence-based complementary practices, non-drug approaches, … Continued The post Ep 116 – How Healing Works with Dr. Wayne Jonas appeared first on Julie Foucher | Reebok CrossFit Games Athlete.

“I didn’t start CrossFit to be competitive, and I didn’t get into the competitive side until several years later. And, I would say, I didn’t start getting competitive until 3… 3-4 years ago. And then I was like, ‘Oh, this … Continued The post Ep 115 – Becoming a CrossFit Games Athlete: Rookies Fee Saghafi & Erin Vandendriessche appeared first on Julie Foucher | Reebok CrossFit Games Athlete.

“I really just… kind of wanted to get more into the CrossFit community. More interested in sort of where things were going, especially as we were moving, CrossFit as an organization, is moving away from the sort of Games mentality … Continued The post Ep 114 – Practicing CrossFit for Health with Dr. Maude Dull appeared first on Julie Foucher | Reebok CrossFit Games Athlete.

“It was awesome [her first CrossFit Games experience in 2008]… There were no expectations and there was only one Games so nobody really knew what they were doing, and it was like, we really just wanted to see if what … Continued The post Ep 113 – 2009 CrossFit Games Champion Tanya Wagner on Training through all Seasons of Life appeared first on Julie Foucher | Reebok CrossFit Games Athlete.

“I always say, if you cut yourself, within a couple weeks the repair is perfect and you go back to normal. How is it possible that inside the body we don’t have any of this? Right? So, we just developed … Continued The post Ep 112 – Eating for Longevity with Dr. Valter Longo appeared first on Julie Foucher | Reebok CrossFit Games Athlete.

“Well, the one thing was the change in family medicine, and we started seeing family physicians being pushed out of the hospital systems in place of hospitalists. And you had the decision to make whether you wanted to stay inpatient … Continued The post Ep 111 – A New Model for Primary Care with Dr. Ken Rictor appeared first on Julie Foucher | Reebok CrossFit Games Athlete.

“But I had been working very closely on- holistically- on keeping my hormones and all those types of things- that’s always been really important to me- on keeping those kinds of things where they should be. And so, then I … Continued The post Ep 110 – Kara Saunders on CrossFit and Expecting Baby She-Bear appeared first on Julie Foucher | Reebok CrossFit Games Athlete.

Dr. Elizabeth Bradley, Medical Director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, discusses the approach of functional medicine to chronic diseases and the importance of lifestyle factors. The podcast covers the speaker's background, challenges and successes of implementing functional medicine, the role of research, and the significance of functional medicine in primary care and population health. The benefits of shared medical appointments and the impact of functional medicine on patients' health are also explored.

“I think it’s, too, just getting people used to what physical therapy means to us, and I think that’s a little bit different than what they’ve seen in the past, where, it’s their grandma had a hip replacement, and that’s … Continued The post Ep 108 – Training Smarter, not Harder: Prevention and Recovery from Injury with Pure Physio appeared first on Julie Foucher | Reebok CrossFit Games Athlete.

“I had seen all these different elements come into play of how fitness can impact your life and how CrossFit was working for some people and how bodybuilding was working for some and now even the [Tough Mudder] races. And … Continued The post Ep 107 – Play the Hand You’re Dealt: Choosing to Thrive Despite a Rare Genetic Condition and Congenital Heart Defect with Stephen Douglas appeared first on Julie Foucher | Reebok CrossFit Games Athlete.