The Jesse Chappus Show 247: Chris Kresser - Unconventional Medicine • Cultivating More Joy And Pleasure • The Future of Healthcare
Chris Kresser, M.S., L.Ac is a globally recognized leader in the fields of ancestral health, paleo nutrition, and functional and integrative medicine. He is the creator of ChrisKresser.com, one of the top 25 natural health sites in the world, and the author of the New York Times best seller, The Paleo Cure.
In this episode, we discuss:
- A decade long journey back to health
- Discovering the paleo diet
- Functional medicine combines conventional & traditional approaches
- Focusing on the root cause of disease
- Cultivating more pleasure and joy
- His latest book, Unconventional Medicine
- Taking back your individual health
- Training healthcare practitioners to make a bigger impact
- High statistics of children suffering with behavioural issues
- Access and cost of functional medicine needs to be looked at differently
- Conventional medicine subsidizes a certain type of treatment
- Impact functional medicine could have on society
- 2/3rds of all medical research is sponsored by pharmaceutical companies
- The definition of functional medicine
- The 3 aspects of the ADAPT process
- Traditional cultures around the world
- The future of medicine
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