DrRic Lecture Nature Therapy from The Morton Arboretum

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DrRic Lecture from the Morton Arboretum

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Nature Therapy

We didn’t invent the practice of medicine…. we’re just changing the way it’s provided.

Enrique Saguil, M.D.

The First Health Approach

We didn’t invent the practice of medicine…. we’re just changing the way it’s provided.

Thinking

Eating

Activity

DrRic

We didn’t invent the practice of medicine…. we’re just changing the way it’s provided.

First Health Associates

2010 S. Arlington Heights RdLL Suites

Arlington Heights, IL

Your Community of Care

Ric Saguil, MDJason Gruss, MDTom Jordan, RD

Katrina Christie, LCPCJennifer Green, NDJoe Musolino, DC

Emery Paredes, PTAimee Weber, EPLori Szczupaj, MAYu Zhu, MD China

You

Why Listen to DrRic?

• Healthcare collapse eminent• Those that depend on it – sink• Those that are free – swim• Those that swim – support the sinkers• Nature offers an alternative solution to health

Why I Went Green?

• 10 years of 50 hour work weeks• 4-5 hours of sleep• 3-4 large coffees a day• 2-6 beers a night• McDonalds value meals 2xdaily• Weight training and redbull • ICU at CDH

• Cardio calories endorphin sweat• Weights muscle “induced” endorphin

We didn’t invent the practice of medicine…. we’re just changing the way it’s provided.

Activity

Exercise’ Feel Good Hormones

• Endorphine Enkephalin• Serotonin Oxytocin

-done in 30-60minutes

-lasts for hours!!!!

Why not just take a Hike!?

• Most people believe exercise = sweating• ACSM says 1-3% of Americans are Weekend Warriors• Is being a W.W. better than nothing?

-not if you are injured

So you wanna sweat?

• Back packs• Weight vest• Walking Sticks• Elevation change• Speed

• How about Activity and Thinking together• Benefits of relaxation = exercise for disease

modification• Markers of inflammation (oxidative stress)• Working the lungs/heart with breath will

prepare you for vigorous workout later

The Anti Inflammatory Diet

The Anti Inflammatory Lifestyle

Thinking

• Americans aren’t taught to meditate • Slow down/pay attention• Practice Practice Practice • Calendar daisy chain to “going deep”

The Plan

• 10 minutes twice a day for 21 days• Google Earth -Your Town -Look for green

unplug

• When you make 21 days, prepare for the next level…..(find a course, coach, counselor)

Eating

• Mostly plant based, whole food diet Green is obvious/Fiber is not Fat Zebra? Catch the Rainbow EWG By thinking Plant, you will avoid Processed

Nature at its best

• Smell (olfactory sense is one of the fastest stimulators)

• Sight (the speed of nature slows the brain)• Sound (birds, waves, crickets, rain, wind)• Feel (soft trail, leaves, snow, gravel, twigs)• Taste (low glycemic index foods)

You Got Prozac’d

QUESTIONS?

COMMENTS?CONCERNS?

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