Lifestyle medicine

So t'sais là, so si jamais qu'à un moment donné, t'sais là, mon message s'aligne pas vraiment avec qu'est-ce que vous voulez entendre, juste sachez que je suis juste le messager.

OK. Moi, mon but ici, c'est pas de donner des opinions, c'est de partager la littérature scientifique avec vous autres sur la lifestyle medicine, la médecine des modes de vie, qui est mon expertise, pis qui est ma passion, pis qui est une grosse partie de ma vie.

Si que ça déclenche des émotions en vous, c'est probablement parce que ça veut dire vous carez.

Ça veut probablement vouloir dire que vous avez, t'sais là, appris sur les médias sociaux quelque chose de différent de qu'est-ce que je vous dis, right ? La présentation que j'ai donnée aujourd'hui était sur le vieillissement à un groupe ren-- t'sais là, une salle remplie de gens qui, euh, avaient l'air vraiment engagés avec ma présentation.

Instead of, are you hitting your calorie target? We ask, what is this meal doing for you? We take a careful food history and then use clinical metabolomics to compare the client's pattern with optimal ranges, balance what off, and measure again.

It sounds awfully like lifestyle medicine, doesn't

it? It's a different destination.

Lifestyle Medicine prescribes lifestyle to treat diseases and uses disease markers to assess progress.

Home Hope prescribes lifestyle, nutritional, and behavioral modifications to optimize health and uses health markers to assess progress.

The purpose decides what you measure.

This is your space to get cozy, get inspired, and glow from the inside out.

Around here, we talk lifestyle medicine, mindset shifts, One episode at a time.

Let's go.

Hello, and welcome back to the Green Glow Lifestyle Podcast.

You don't call the instrument bad or lazy.

You simply listen to the vibration, and you gently turn the peg until the string rings in harmony with the fork.

That is Svadhyaya in Lifestyle Medicine.

Your lab work, your blood pressure, your CGM curves, those are just external tuning forks.

He was seen on Forks Over Knives, worked for Whole Foods Market.

But over time, Matt came to recognize something deeper, that we can all eat extraordinarily well, that we can live a healthy lifestyle, get a great night's sleep, and address all of the traditional pillars of lifestyle medicine, and yet still struggle to flourish in our lives.

So today, we're going to talk about human flourishing, human emotion, emotions, and needs.

stress and vibrancy and human flourishing.

But it's contrary to everything that we have learned in this world, right? Nobody teaches these things, you know, the foundations of life.

So maybe before we go too far down this road, I want to pull us back a little bit, get a little bit of your history so people can understand the context.

Dr. Matt Letterman, how you ended up in lifestyle medicine, Forks Over Knives, New York Times bestselling author.

You know, producing incredible content for Forks Over Knives for many years, writing multiple books, and making this transition into what we're going to talk about, nonviolent communication, you know, the art of connection, meaningful human connection.

Now, let's get into today's episode.

welcome to hormones and hope a podcast where we bridge science and wellness to help transform your health i'm your host dr chaya makija or you can call me dr chaya a triple board certified endocrinologist and lifestyle medicine physician and founder of unified endocrine and diabetes care Each week we dive into the powerful intersection of clinical medicine and real-life lifestyle strategies to help you feel stronger, live longer, and show up as your most vibrant self inside and out.

So let's get empowered.

Is stress actually making you sick? Or have we started blaming cortisol for everything? Especially my Gen Z's that I hear.

I just love what she does.

She's a coach.

She's a whole person well-being educator and also a lifestyle medicine physician.

I got to know about Dr. Tiger from American College of Lifestyle Medicine.

My guest today is a friend of mine, Dr. Rakesh Jatwani, often called Dr. Rak, R-A-K, Dr. Rak.

He is a double board-certified physician in internal medicine and lifestyle medicine based here in the San Francisco Bay Area.

His podcast, The Health Feast, is available anywhere you get your podcasts.

Uh, Rakesh, welcome back to the show.

I, I never, um, introduced myself as Rak, but I, like, I got to college, and then my friend...

I made friends there, and they started calling me Rak, and same thing in medical school.

So eventually, when I became a full-time lifestyle medicine physician, I said, "I'm gonna pediatrician-style it and go by doctor and my first name."

Mm-hmm.

Dr. Aisling Farrell is one of my founding members, um, and she's, uh, uh, I've had the privilege of working with her and alongside her over the past two and a half years.

Aisling is an Irish GP with a special interest in lifestyle medicine, leading the lifestyle medicine service now at UPMC SWORD Outreach Cl- Center in Dublin.

She's also a lecturer at UCC, and is currently completing a PhD, and she also works with Tesco Ireland, as you will hear, promoting the role of nutrition in long-term health and wellbeing.

But above all the qualifications and achievements, she's genuinely one of the most driven, compassionate, and impressive people I know.

We grew up with this, so I know my granny would've been so proud to see me [laughs] do this.

But what I love about this is I met girls from all over the world, um, at that, and I'm still quite friendly with, um, s- so many of them.

Um, and what I love about that is I suppose one of the girls in particular that I met, I'm now going to be working with her in my, my new lifestyle medicine clinic.

So I think it's just so fun.