Olivier Sanchez, ND

Naturopathy and your Health

Aired On: Sep 27, 2024

Show Notes

Naturopathy is a healthcare system that recognises the healing power of nature present in all living things. As a holistic system, it aims to promote and restore health by employing various natural treatment approaches that may include: naturopathic nutrition, lifestyle advice, hydrotherapy, physical therapy, naturopathic psychosocial support and other appropriate techniques. Naturopathic practitioners interpret presenting symptoms as the individual’s unique response to physical, emotional, environmental or genetic stress factors which can be identified by examining family medical history and various test results. The practitioner’s role is to identify underlying causes and to promote the inherent self-healing power within the individual. Naturopathy is also a way of life and the naturopath will help empower each individual through education about lifestyle, diet and exercise, and self-care. Naturopathic medicine and nutrition provide invaluable methods to identify the root causes of dysfunction in your body, the provision of essential nutrients to support life, and your ability to absorb them. Current research suggests that many of the common and chronic health conditions may be prevented and possibly reversed with a healthy diet and lifestyle, and stress management (e.g., mindfulness, gratefulness and journaling). He discusses diet, nutrition and their relationship with health both physical and mental.

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Naturopathy and your Health with Olivier Sanchez, ND

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Books

  • Energise: 30 Days of Vitality
    • Described the interconnection of systems and organs andall that can interfere with good functioning including food, sleep and stress
  • Detox before Energize

Opening Points

  • Body will do the healing if we let it
  • Naturopathy gives ways to look at body and take steps to improve our health
  • Do not eat when stressed or distracted
  • Need to maximize fiber 25 g fiber per day
  • Eat as many vegetables of as many colours
  • Recommends cooking from scratch and reconnecting with food

Naturopathy

  • Is the science to work with the body to reestablish hits balanceand avoid interfering
    • For example, pharmaceutical drugs only address the symptoms not the cause
  • We need to know where we are before we can get better
    • Then we can take responsibility for our actions and feel/ be in better health
    • Understanding the environment and how everything connects in their lives
    • Addresses every part of one’s life

How do you tell if something is wrong?

  • Something is wrong if we are taking two or more tablets per day for health v using food nutrition, andlifestyle
  • Hard to pull yourself out of bed
  • At 10 am, are “crashing;’ After lunch are crashing
    • Indicates we are not properly controlling our energy properly, poor sleep, our eating is not agreeing with us
  • If we are sleepy after digesting food, body
  • We need to listen to our bodies

His approaches

  • Diet if they wish to lose weight
    • Look at food sensitivities and health the gut
  • To improve fitness
    • Looks at diet to insure food they use benefits them
    • Looks at genetic profile
  • If stressed/ burn out
    • Looks at all modalities, stress management, energy management (blood sugar management), where and how they eat
      • Help them to reconnect with food  and understand what food is doing to their bodies

His assessment tools

  • Liver, kidney function, HbA1c, fasting blood sugar, thyroid testing,
  • Genetic testing
  • Stool testing
    • Health of the gut must be restored

Compared to functional medicine

  • They have particularpatterns
  • In Naturopathy it is an individual approach

Naturopathy in Mental Health

  • Considers stress

Stress

  • Stress is a major problem and can be a trigger
  • Stress leads to inflammation, poor cognitive ability
  • Can contribute to depression and anxiety leading to more inflammation and can contribute to neurodegeneration in the long term
  • Stress makes any condition worse, increasing cortisol, inflammation and oxidative stress
  • Stressed people might become bloated an reflux especially if they overeat and consume high caloric foods
    • They may feel irritable, have brain fog and chronic fatigue from the blood sugar variation

Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP)

  • A way to understand our language, fears, and deal with them
  • A way to develop new habits
  • Their words help understand where they are coming from
  • The words they use are linked to their emotions, behaviour, and recovery
  • It looks at types of processing (auditory, visual, kinesthetic)
  • Must feel image inside and it resonates
    • For example in picturing being healthy, use five senses for vision visualize, feel it (goose bumps)

Health Projections

  • 20 % of US are on calorie restricted diet at any time
  • 9/10 US women not happy with appearance.
  • 80 % women age 10 fear being fat and have been on a diet
  • 98 % of those who diet gain back the weight within one year
    • What we are doing is not working
  • We have increasing rates of metabolic disorders such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and neurodegenerative conditions all of which are on a frightening trajectory
    • 67 % of US population will have diabetes by 2030
    • Globally, an estimated 2.16 billion adults will be overweight and 1.4 billion will be obese by 2030.
    • By 2050, there will be 152 million with dementia.Currently, it is 6 million people worldwide.

Lifestyle

  • We need to go back to basics and look at all aspects of our life and nutrition.
  • We need to address every part of our health
  • We need to respect and nurture our bodies
  • We are each biochemically unique
  • Sleep
    • Regenerate and Detox overnight
  • Exercise
    • Correlated with mental health and most diseases
    • Increases BDNF
  • Reduce stress
  • Good diet
    • Go back to basics
    • As we each are unique, there is not a universal diet for everyone, but there is a diet right for you; have work for the person
    • We have problem if we feel weight is our fault leading to stress
    • We need to remove the fear associated with food
    • Hard to know which information to trust
    • We need to look at digestion, nutrient absorption, metabolism and other bodily functions.
    • We are disconnected from nature: we buy plastic foods.  We need to reconnect with the body and become mindful eaters
    • Bloating, reflux, chronic constipation, joint pain are not indicators of pharmaceutical deficiencies
      • Gut health is important
    • A healthy diet provides all the nutrients our bodies need
      • Including all food groups: fruits, vegetables, lean protein, healthy fats, also dietary fibers and antioxidants
      • Remove foods don’t agree with or are hypersensitive to or intolerant to and enjoy the rest
      • Eat as many colours of fruits and vegetables as possible
    • Plant based
      • Term has little meaning.  If food is wrapped in plastic, it is unlikely to contain plant products
        • it is processed so much that body cannot recognize it or assimilate nutrients from it
    • stay away from seed oils.
    • If eat meat, make sure grass fed as meat often receives antibiotics, hormones and insecticides
    • A lot of the foods in America have ingredients that are not allowed in Europe
      • For example Heinz ketchup has high fructose corn syrup but not in Europe

Nutrients

  • Nutrients are essential for healing and repair
  • Many are cofactors for enzymatic reactions such as magnesium, calcium and zinc
    • Magnesium
      • When stress, body relies on magnesium
      • Digestion of sugar uses excessive sugar
      • Is in hundreds of enzymatic pathways
  • Compounding this problem, mono agriculture mono crops has depleted our soil of nutrients so our produce has fewer nutrients.

What impacts Nutrition

  • Age, sex, activity levels, health conditions and dietary preference, environment
    • Mindfulness, chewing food
      • Eat in relaxed state
      • If eat under stress, body diverts resources to other parts of body and not to digestion.
        • Turn off computer etc
        • For example, can impact release of stomach acid and digestive enzymes need to break food down into tiny molecules needed to absorb its nutrients

Sugar

  • High sugar diets may disturb gut resulting in inflammatory conditions, may result in pain
    • Such symptoms are the only way body can tell you something is wrong
    • When blood sugar levels drop too low, body produces stress hormones leading to indigestion and a continuation of this cycle
  • when bacteria process sugar, they produce gas, distension, alcohol, endotoxin
    • endotoxins are part of gram negative bacteria membrane
      • these tend to inflame the liver leading to liver disease
      • leads to inflammation

Fiber

  • slows down gut transition time, sugar assimilation and cholesterol reuptake
  • without fiber, nearly all cholesterol returns to body

Recommendations in eating

  • We need to chew our food
  • He recommends doing our own cooking
  • We need to eat according to our genetic make up
  • Eat according to season
    • During the winter,
      • the body benefits from pre digested food such as warming foods and soup
        • should be eating less because less food growing
  • gut health is important (to have healthy bacteria in gut instead of pathogenic microbes)

Ultra processed foods

  • highly industrialized
  • includes
    • additives, preservatives, chlorine, fluorine, texturizers, emulsifiers,
    • unhealthy fats
    • for example breakfast sugars, packaged knees, dried fruit, soft drinks
    • high levels of sugar, salt
    • a good diet produces products that support the gut lining and are anti inflammatory
    • produces short chain fatty acids which are
      •  essential to keep the gut lining tight
      • Used as fuel source of gut lining, impacts brain function and inflammation
      • Good gut bacteria release feel good neurotransmitters such as tryptophan and serotonin            
      • Serotonin produced in the gut cannot cross the blood brain barrier
      • If too little serotonin produced in gut, can have brain fog, memory problems

How to eat well on low income

  • You can make small changes. Add fiber
  • Eat more vegetable, less packed snack
  • Buy free range meat directly from farmer
  • Can eat small fish mackerel, sardines, herring
  • Avoid premade sauces even if they contain olive oil, are refined

Mental and Emotional Wellbeing

  • in addition to non physical factors such as mental state, emotions and lifestyle choices
  • Our thoughts, our feelings, Stress levels, our ability to relax, capacity for pleasure our awareness significantly impact our body process and metabolismand how effectively we deal with nutrients and energy from the food that we eat.
  • Minimize toxins

Breathe work/ body work

  • Can bring to relaxed state
    • Inhaled count to five, exhale count to five and repeat
    • Uses vagus brain so feel safe and out of danger
  • Butterfly
    • Link thumbs to gether like butterfly
    • Place palms on chest with thumb on bones on top of rib cage
    • Tap from the right to left
    • This relaxes nervous system
    • Helps with oxytocin as involves touching