John La Puma, MD, FACP is the New York Times best selling author of seven books, translated into 10 languages, with over a million copies sold. Co-founder of ChefMD, a consumer-health media company, he is considered the founder of culinary medicine, now taught in 40% of U.S. medical schools and worldwide. He is also Founder of EcoMedicine.org, a nature-based approach to optimal well-being and optimal aging. In this conversation Dr. La Puma talks about nature's "medicine". What is the impact that nature has on our health - physical, emotional, gut health, eye health? Is there a correlation between nature deficit and disease? What is the sufficient time we need to spend in nature for full benefit and how do we get the full benefit of the time we do get, cycling through our senses and rooting in the present moment? Dr. La Puma describes the nature deficit disorder, sharing the science and research in this field, and goes a step further, suggesting nature prescriptions. He also shares simple actionable steps of how to bring nature closer to you and experience it more fully, through either growing your own herbs, going for a walk... or tending to a farm! Tune in to learn more! This podcast is brought to you by Emory Lifestyle Medicine & Wellness. To learn more about our work, please visit https://bit.ly/EmoryLM
John La Puma, MD, FACP is the New York Times best selling author of seven books, translated into 10 languages, with over a million copies sold. Co-founder of ChefMD, a consumer-health media company, he is considered the founder of culinary medicine, now taught in 40% of U.S. medical schools and worldwide. He is also Founder of EcoMedicine.org, a nature-based approach to optimal well-being and optimal aging.
Dr. La Puma has lectured on nature therapy and culinary medicine at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, Stanford University, TEDMED and TEDx, Kaiser Permanente and aboard The World. With Leeza Gibbons and Joan Lunden, Dr. La Puma co-hosted the national cable weekly series “Health Corner”, underwritten by Walgreenʼs, for Lifetime TV for five years and 120 episodes. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers, three medical books and hundreds of other works. His first general-audience book, with Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute Founder Michael Roizen, M.D, RealAge Diet: Make Yourself Younger with What You Eat became a NYTimes bestseller, as did his ChefMD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine.
Dr. La Puma focuses on helping patients connect with nature as a way of enhancing wellness, preventing and treating medical problems, and creating more joy in their lives. He has identified Nature Deficit Disorder as a clinical problem and created ComfortNatureQuiz.com to help people identify their comforting places in nature, and SADQuiz.com as a way of detecting Seasonal Affective Disorder. He considers outdoors to be an outpatient clinic, with the ability to help people live, feel and look years younger. Dr. La Puma currently stewards a biodiverse, regenerative certified organic educational farm in Santa Barbara, California.
Resources and links:
Free RealAge recipe download, and Nature as Medicine Primer
https://www.drjohnlapuma.com/join-our-community/
Quizzes
www.SADquiz.com (to give resources for and likelihood for Seasonal Affective Disorder)
Farm website
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