Ep. 67 - A Stanford Medical School graduate now Integrating Food based Interventions into Healthcare. Treat, Prevent and Reverse Chronic Conditions with Medically Tailored Meals.

On this episode we are grateful to have Dr Steven Chen, a board-certified family medicine physician and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University and Stanford School of Medicine.  Steven is currently the Chief Medical Officer at Recipe4Health at Alameda County Health, outside of Oakland, CA.  Recipe4Health is a nationally recognized, award-winning "Food as Medicine" initiative that brings together healthcare, agriculture, food systems, and community to integrate food-based interventions into healthcare settings.    Steven and I met from a mutual friend, Jeff Tkach, CEO of the Rodale Institute. And we have a mutual friend in Ismail Samad.    #eatbetterfoodtoday #localingredients #longevity #health #foodasmedicine #recipe4health #ismailsamad #reversechronicconditions    Please visit our website https://eatbetterfoodtoday.com  for this week's recipe, interviews, books, research, videos.   Look for information on Steven Chen at https://recipe4health.acgov.org/our-staff-story-partners/    Other Mentions:  Andrew Weil School for Integrative Medicine https://awcim.arizona.edu, Paul Berg https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2023/02/nobel-paul-berg-obit.html, Farm Fresh to You https://www.farmfreshtoyou.com   What's In Season https://www.seasonalfoodguide.org/   Cleveland Kitchen: https://www.clevelandkitchen.com/   Segment Notes:   Breakfast: None – Intermittent Fast  2:49 Relationships in the Regenerative, Community Spaces  3:41 Journey to Recipe4Health  5:08 -        After Paraguay trip relaxed there's a lot to be done on the US -        Integrating Social Justice into Medicine -        Putting a Teaching Kitchen into a Clinic  Chronic Health Conditions  10:00 -        Every Time we Eat, we're Giving Information to our Body, our DNA  -        Food Choices influenced by where you live, what you have access to -        Currently 73% of Our Food System Being Ultra-processed Food -        Paul Berg of Stanford in 1996 said in 30yrs, the future of medicine will be nutrition What is Food is Medicine  13:26 -        Discussion of What is Ultra-Processed Food -        Medically Tailored Meals, Groceries, Produce Boxes – Treat, Prevent, Reverse Chronic Conditions  Designing Food-as-Medicine through Local Programs  19:24 -        Recipe for Health is Integrated into Healthcare  -        Always asking: Where did the Food come from, How was it Grown, Who Grew it? -        The Health Multiplier Effect: Human Health, Economic Health, Climate/Soil Health (organic/regenerative) -        Rockefeller Foundation Support The Five Ingredient Recipe  25:52 -        Safety Net Health Centers -        Food Farmacy – partnered with Farm Fresh to You (95 farms) -        Behavioral Farmacy – Group Sessions on movement, food education, social support, mindfulness  -        Financial Support for the most vulnerable -        Recipe4Health Team as a Resource, Platform to make this all Easy on the back end Biggest Challenges  33:29 -        Food as Medicine Funding, Healthcare Spending $4.5T with 90% for Chronic Conditions   Teaching Kitchens  38:58 -        Teach because No home economics anymore -        Community-as-Medicine – support for Food as Medicine – learning from each other Healthy Hearts  42:32 -        Need a System Solution to Be metabolically healthy: managing insulin and inflammation   o        Impacts your weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, fatty liver Success Stories  - An Over 60 Diabetes Patient – from 72 insulin units to near Zero – Over Nine Mths 44:08 Take the First Step  48:35 The Recipe: Chia Seed Pudding  52:04   This Podcast is a production of Sante Strategies, LLC.   Sante translated is - Health Means Everything.   This is the company I have started to begin this health and longevity journey, focused on food.   Disclaimer: We are sharing our experiences on this Podcast. Please be sure to consult a medical professional.