Wellness and Integrative Health Coaching: Why and How - interview with Doug Newton

We'll update our previous session with Doug Newton which was our February Chat with Dr. Pat, but didn't record well.  This broadcast will occur April 22 at 9 PM as a live show then will be available online at The Dr. Synonymous Show.

Doug is an integrative health coach among other skills that help people to enhance their health.

With increasing knowledge about epigenetics and moment by moment genomic “adjustments”, Ben Lynch, ND has authored a book titled, Dirty Genes.  In it he explains how to use our daily and leisure activities and food to improve the functioning of our genes.  It comes down to Wellness, which does have many definitions and approaches.

But, should Wellness be considered to be "Medical"?  Concepts of wellness may benefit from being distanced from medical care, which has a way of increasing the price of most issues related thereto.  We'll discuss this a bit, too.

A recent editorial in JAMA poked seriously at this issue in a discussion of "Wellness Genomics" : 
"If the paternalistic emphasis of precision medicine, the essentialism of precision prevention, and the perfectionism of wellness genomics go unnoticed and unchecked, precision health risks becoming merely another step on the road towards a new eugenomics that society could come to regret."

Doug Newton who most recently was Program Director for Wellness at WSU will provide a definition and expound on wellness for individuals, colleges, businesses and communities.

Dr. Jonas, your host on the Dr. Synonymous Show and Blog,  will comment on the book by Dr. Lynch and some genomic concepts that reaffirm what Doug is saying about Wellness.  #Wellomics might be coming next!

This will be broadcast on Dr. Jonas internet radio show live and stored as a podcast on BlogTalk Radio at The Dr Synonymous Show and reachable via Dr. Jonas Blog www.DrSynonymous.blogspot.com

Healthcare Transformation: What is New That Might Help You?

Dr Jonas, aka Dr. Synonymous delivers 15-20 holistic health presentations each year, most of which are written about in blog posts on this site.  Here is part of a post on the Beavercreek Women's League web site announcing one of his talks:

"Dr. Pat Jonas, a holistic-minded family physician in Beavercreek will engage the Beavercreek Women’s League in a discussion about current trends and issues in health care. 
How might all the advances in: 

• genomics (DNA sampling),

• pharmaceuticals (direct marketing),

• medical technology (wearables & implanted monitors),

• nutriceuticals (dietary supplements), and

• individual wellbeing

add up to lower cost and higher quality health care? What role might direct pay or concierge practices play in health care transformation? "

The healthcare quadruple aim is "The Triple Aim is an approach to optimizing health system performance, proposing that health care institutions simultaneously pursue 3 dimensions of performance: improving the health of populations, enhancing the patient experience of care, and reducing the per capita cost of health care" PLUS ONE More Aim:  improving the work life of health care clinicians and staff."  from The Annals of Family Medicine Nov/Dec 2014

Forty-three percent of physicians surveyed in 2014 reported spending over 30% of their day on administrative tasks.9 Physicians spend more time on non–face-to-face activities (eg, letters, in-box management, and medication refills) than with patients.10 Even when in the exam room with patients, primary care physicians spend from 25% to 50% of the time attending to the computer.

Individual Wellbeing:  For both patient and physician with human centering instead of patient centering.

              Context is everything.  Personal values, goals and dreams make a difference.

              Stories matter

              You matter

              We Matter

              Money matters

              God matters

 Genomics from DNA to health food store or garden

                    Pharmacogenomics  e.g., Genesight test 

                    Nutrigenomics        from 23andMe, Genetic Genie, Promethius

                    Microbiomics

                    Epigenomics   

Genealogy from Ancestry.com, etc.

                    Could be a basic element of IHR that patients may store and deliver into the healthcare system for engagement.  etc,

More later      

Wellness: One Way to Clean Your Dirty Genes

Breakfast Chat with Dr. Pat, “ Wellness:  One Way to Clean Your Dirty Genes”

Guest Presenter:  Doug Newton, MS  former WSU Wellness Program Director

February 6, 2019 at 9:15 AM Hosted by The BellHOP Cafe

With increasing knowledge about epigenetics and moment by moment genomic “adjustments”, Ben Lynch, ND has authored a book titled, Dirty Genes.  In it he explains how to use our daily and leisure activities and food to improve the functioning of our genes.  It comes down to Wellness, which does have many definitions and approaches. 

Doug Newton who most recently was Program Director for Wellness at WSU will provide a definition and expound on wellness for individuals, colleges, businesses and communities.

Dr. Jonas, your host on the Dr. Synonymous Show and Blog,  will comment on the book by Dr. Lynch and some genomic, nutrigenomic and epigenetic concepts that reaffirm what Doug is saying about Wellness.  #Wellomics might be coming next!

This will be broadcast on Dr. Jonas internet radio show live and stored as a podcast on BlogTalk Radio at The Dr Synonymous Show.  www.BlogTalkRadio.com/DrSynonymous and reachable via Dr. Jonas Blog www.DrSynonymous.blogspot.com