Health Hacker Life

Dr. Trevor Cates is founder and owner of The Spa Dr. and author of the bestselling book Clean Skin From Within. She was the first woman licensed as a naturopathic doctor in California and currently lives in Park City, Utah where she helps patients from around the world achieve graceful aging and glowing skin. Dr. Cates is host of The Spa Dr. weekly podcast and has her own PBS special, Younger Skin From Within. She believes the key to healthy skin is inner and outer nourishment with non-toxic ingredients. If you want to focus on healthy aging and creating a smarter approach to healthy skin, you'll definitely want to tune in!

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12:18 - “there is this misbelief that whatever we put on our skin just stays on the surface of our bodies”

35:30 - “look at the four boxes [for good skincare] and how you can do those every day”

36:05 - “it’s those daily practices that we have that count rather than waiting until you feel sick”

Erica Jain is the CEO of Healthie, the practice management and telehealth platform for nutrition and wellness professionals. Prior, Erica worked in the healthcare practice of the Boston Consulting Group and on the nutrition team of the Clinton Health Access Initiative in East Africa. Erica completed her undergraduate degree with honors in Health Disparities at Duke University and her MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

She comes on the show to talk about the evolution of nutritional care in America, the reactive to proactive shift happening and what this means for each individual consumer of the healthcare system. 

Show notes:

Ever wonder how our western medicine doctors think about our approach to healthcare in the US? Tune in to hear one doctor's story of how he left Western Medicine for Integrative Medicine after changes he made in his own personal health journey. You'll leave feeling inspired to cultivate your own practices of mindfulness and intention in your own health journey. 

Dr. Andrew Nish is an Integrative Medicine Specialist, Interventional Radiologist, Medical director of the John Stoddard Cancer Center in Des Moines, Iowa, adjunct clinical professor at Des Moines University and fellow in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona.

Show Notes:

6:58 - changing the trajectory of a disease someone has and

10:22 - pathogenesis vs. salutogenesis - what this means and why it’s important

11:48 - why you need to understand how your healthcare team is trained and what they are doing for you

18:10 - the corporatization of health

20:14 - tips for health professionals that want to change the conversation around healthcare

21:57 - top 3 key lifestyle changes Andrew made and can say from experience make the largest difference in health

34:45 - productivity goals in healthcare and how the metrics of healthcare systems work

41:33 - stat on the 3rd leading cause of death that you probably don’t know (medical errors)

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Quotes:

“Health is up to you. You can change the trajectory of your health. Your doctor’s probably not going to do it, their going to manage the disease… but you can change the trajectory of that disease.” - 8:32-8:44

“Change your reality. Everyone can do it. You can project and you can make the reality you want.” - 29:06 -  29:14

“It’s so fundamentally important that people understand that the best thing they can do is take control of their own health.” - 40:43-40:52

“Healthcare as we know it today may not be there for you tomorrow.” - 41:17-41:21

Bill (William K.) Appelgate believes that inspiring improved personal health behaviors is the change-the-world strategy required for the future of healthcare in America. He is the Executive Director of the Iowa Chronic Care Consortium and Founder of the Clinical Health Coach® training. His professional work has included service as a director of a university research center, a college foundation director, a college president, CEO of two comprehensive, innovative healthcare systems as well as vice-president and clinical professor at a leading graduate health sciences university and medical school.

Dr. Appelgate also happens to be one of my mentors whom I interviewed for my book, The Art of Health Hacking, and worked with on the Clinical Health Coach Training team or a few years. If you want to understand HOW and WHY people change, and how you might consider approaching behavior change in your life, definitely tune in. You’ll leave feeling more empowered and activated in your own health journey!

Show Notes:

3:15 - Bill’s Background in healthcare field and his realization around the link between chronic conditions and the high costs of healthcare

10:10 - the three things/behaviors his programs focused on to make impactful changes in people’s health

15:41 - moving from “Do, Teach + Tell” to “Ask Listen + Inspire” to transform the conversation and way communication happens in the field of healthcare

22:10 - guidance and top tips on ‘self-care’ and how to use health coaching skills in your own life

35:08 - why prevention and health risk reduction is something to put more focus on and why YOU are an architect for good health

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Quotes:

“If people just took a little more responsibility for their health that has the greatest potential  of anything to change the healthcare in America.” - 12:56-13:06

“If you are going to take some responsibility for your patients you gotta get to that 98-99% that happens outside your office.” — 17:07-17:13

“Behaviors are pivotal in the business of healthcare.” — 17:30 - 17:34

“Our job as individuals and the opportunity we have is to become an architect for good health, and we can’t really rely on others to do that.” - 36:48 - 37:02

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Quotes:

20:58 - 21:01 “You have to protect yourself because the world’s not going to do it.”

20:45 - 20:58 “The way we looked at healthcare 10 years ago is archaic. You can’t do it anymore because you will develop a disease. You have to have a much bigger picture view to protect yourself and to protect your family.”

51:29 - 51:34 “We have to think differently than the generation before thought”

51:35 - 51:45 - “The problems we’ve created today can not be solved with the same thinking that created the problem. - Einstein

57:03 - 57:06 “You have to be comfortable being uncomfortable to change the planet.”

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Quotes:

“If the things that happen day to day stop with you then you are a bottle neck an more importantly a liability [to your business].”

“Taking control of the information is probably the biggest first step.”

“If you look at email as a matrix as an opportunity to be better at decisions in general, it’s a really good tool.”

“Everything lives in a place and there is nothing lost. So I don’t have to worry…”

“Changes for them to be sustainable need to come intrinsically from yourself.”

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“What started as a very organic thing that was as much as much spiritual healing as it was physical blossomed into a passion to help other people at any walk of life figure out how they can optimize their health journey so they can be in it for the long game and help their family do the same”

“It’s never ‘easy’, and the path reveals itself as you walk forward.”

“If we want to have something that is actually going to stick for the long haul we need to always be thinking about what kind of habit do I need to create that is going to cause the least amount of friction in your life.”

“It’s very possible to get massive results with  small hinges.”

“The things that worked for you five years ago, might not be the things that will work for you five years from now, might not be the things that help you stay healthy in your 90’s… this is the fun of this evolving journey is that we stay fluid, we listen to our bodies and continue to update our methods.”

Welcome to Episode #000 of The Elevate Your State Show! In this episode I provide a brief 10 minute overview of what you can expect with this new health hacking for high performance podcast. Tune in to learn why I started this podcast, why you might want to listen, and understand the types of shows you can expect. And to grab the other episodes and show notes head on over to http://www.elevateyourstate.co/podcast-1/