How to Become an Active Participant in Creating Your Health w/ Dr. Mary Pardee

In our society, we treat our body like machines. We push them hard and only pay attention to them when they break down instead of preventing the breakdown in the first place.   For many people, the solution is investing in all the trackers, watches and monitors to know what's going on, but we completely abdicate our health to external influences in the process.   As a society, we've become so obsessed with biohacking and hitting the right numbers that we've ended up completely disconnected from our bodies.   In many ways, using the typical strategies of taking care of our health creates the very stress we're trying to avoid. The more we can connect with our bodies and pay attention to what they are telling us, the easier it is to have wellbeing. This is especially true for chronic conditions that affect the microbiome.   How do we commit to taking care of our bodies without piling on more stress? In this episode, Naturopathic Medical Doctor and a Certified Functional Medicine Doctor, Dr. Mary Pardee shares why connecting with our bodies is the key to preventing illness and expanding our healthspan.   We really need to start focusing on the preventive model where you're stopping disease from ever establishing instead of waiting until something happens. -Dr. Mary Pardee   Four Things You'll Learn In This Episode    -Death is something we should talk about The problem with the biohacking movement is that it's based in a fear of death and an unrealistic lifespan. How do we shift to focusing on healthspan instead?    -Don't delegate your health to a device The problem with fitness watches and similar devices is that they train us to put more attention on a machine than what our bodies are telling us. How do we use them without disconnecting from ourselves?    -Health awareness, not health anxiety Paying attention to our wellness should feel like a natural part of caring for ourselves, not another source of stress. How do we take care of ourselves without letting it cause more anxiety?    -CBT for gut-brain disorders is a thing Our emotional state has a lot to do with how our bodies deal with chronic conditions. How can we use whole body thinking and diaphragmatic breathing to work through the anxiety that comes with chronic illnesses?    Guest Bio Dr. Mary Pardee is a Naturopathic Medical Doctor and a Certified Functional Medicine Doctor who specializes in integrative approaches to gut health and longevity in Los Angeles, California. She is the founder of modrn med, a medical practice that provides medical and health services to patients via in-person consults as well as telemedicine. For those who can not work one-on-one with a modrn med practitioner, Dr. Mary also created a gut-health course that dives into the most common gut related complaints and natural solutions to start healing. Go to https://www.modrnmed.com/ and https://www.onecommune.com/marypardee for more information.