DrRic Lecture from the Morton Arboretum

1. We didn’t invent the practice of medicine….
we’re just changing the way it’s provided.
Enrique Saguil, M.D.

2. The First Health Approach
We didn’t invent the practice of medicine….
we’re just changing the way it’s provided.

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

4. Your Community
of Care
Ric Saguil, MD
Jason Gruss, MD
Tom Jordan, RD
Katrina Christie, LCPC
Jennifer Green, ND
Joe Musolino, DC
Emery Paredes, PT
Aimee Weber, EP
Lori Szczupaj, MA
Yu Zhu, MD China
You

5. 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

6. 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

7. • 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

8. Exercise’ Feel Good Hormones
• Endorphine Enkephalin
• Serotonin Oxytocin

9. 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

10. So you wanna sweat?
• Back packs
• Weight vest
• Walking Sticks
• Elevation change
• Speed

11. • 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

12. The Anti Inflammatory Diet
The Anti Inflammatory Lifestyle

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

14. 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)

15. 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

16. 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)

17. High Anxiety!
Foods, Supplements and Practice
Whole Foods Market
Schaumburg
3-4pm Saturday August 10th
847 585-5800