Dr. Michelle Seguin is a board-certified Family Medicine physician, community health advocate, educator, and Functional Medicine practitioner. She believes in a lifestyle-driven approach to health that focuses on supporting the individual, family, and community.
Dr. Michelle attended medical school at Michigan State College of Human Medicine in the Rural Physician Program and completed residency at the Marquette Family Medicine Residency Program. She has spent the last 5 years practicing rural family medicine in Upper Michigan and recently transitioned into a new role as a community health director for a local community health foundation. Her passion is to connect food systems and health systems through innovative initiatives such as produce prescription programs.
Additionally, she is opening a consultative lifestyle and functional medicine practice in her community. By combining the latest functional medicine principles with conventional medical training, she aims to assist patients in identifying key imbalances and root causes of disease and dysfunction. Her goal is to accompany each patient on their individual journey to co-create a plan for health, wellness, and healing.
As an Upper Michigan native, she embraces the health benefits of seasonal living in the beautiful Keweenaw Peninsula. From the shores of Lake Superior to the surrounding boreal forests, this community is rich in natural beauty and strong in “Sisu”. As an avid gardener, nature lover, and home cook, she’s discovered a “Soil to Soul” approach to living that she embraces and openly shares with her patients and community. The health benefits of eating seasonally, hikes in the woods, and reflective moments by the Lake cannot be understated. Through reconnecting with nature, we reconnect with ourselves and health abounds.
“Food is Medicine” is a term which was originally coined by Hippocrates, also known as the father of Western medicine. He taught that to prevent and treat diseases, one should start by eating a nutrient-dense diet.
If food has the power to prevent much of the chronic illness we experience today, then why aren’t we using it as medicine?
When you choose to put the right foods in your body, they truly do act like medicine once consumed having an effect on inflammation levels, blood sugar, energy, hormones, brain and heart health. There are as many research articles supporting the consumption of dairy products as there are against consuming them. The same can be said for consuming meat, grains etc. One aspect of consumption that can't be argued, however, is that we'd all benefit from consuming more raw, colorful foods in the form of vegetables.
Dr. Deanna Minich is the genius behind the Rainbow Diet, a colorful, intelligent and intuitive system for putting together your eating and living in a holistic way that brings you vitality, energy, and peace of mind. In this episode, not only will Dr. Michelle explain what the Rainbow Diet is, she'll provide insight into the miraculous science behind the colors of each food and the tremendous, beneficial effects they have on dis-ease within the body.
The Rainbow Diet by Dr. Deanna Minich: https://www.deannaminich.com/the-rainbow-diet/
We'll also talk about Dr. Michelle's Food Prescription pilot program along with why she chose doTERRA essential oils, our of hundreds of companies out there, as one of the many tools she'll be launching in her consultative-style practice opening in 2020.
