Pursuing Health

“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.

“I think that’s super important, to have just great people around you to train with, especially brothers. You can say whatever you need to say to each other, and no feelings will be hurt. But not just that but, you … Continued The post Ep 106 – Saxon & Spencer Panchik: Keeping Fitness a Family Affair appeared first on Julie Foucher | Reebok CrossFit Games Athlete.

“I mean stress is like an illness. It’s like this black box, we don’t have a lot of names for it, we should probably instead of saying stress we should… like Eskimos have 20 words for snow, we should probably … Continued The post Ep 105 – Sleep, Stress, and Brain Health with Dr. Nate Bergman appeared first on Julie Foucher | Reebok CrossFit Games Athlete.

“I love incorporating one on myself, I experiment a lot with myself. And if I can feel something myself, like, ‘I was having this knee pain, and I did this and it really worked and, you know, try it,’ I … Continued The post Ep 104 – Physical Therapist & CrossFit Games Athlete Amanda Barnhart appeared first on Julie Foucher | Reebok CrossFit Games Athlete.

“If you look at the data really carefully now, we’re not sure but we think that aging can be… we’re slowing it now, we’re doing what we call rejuvenation. Meaning, if you slow the rate of aging by physical activity, … Continued The post Ep 103 – What to Eat When with Dr. Michael Roizen appeared first on Julie Foucher | Reebok CrossFit Games Athlete.