Just Performed: As guest on The Herdmates Sodcast – “You can focus on maximizing human flourishing, or minimizing human impact” – Sustainability in health care, healthy people, healthy planet, not one or the other

I’ve been to Mars and played with Elvis; I haven’t been interviewed by a real forage agronomist, until now…

Peter Ballerstedt, PhD (@Grassbased) has been a mentor to me since discovering the interconnectedness between our health, metabolic health, and the food that we produce to sustain it. The quote in the title comes from Peter, not from me, and has personally helped me frame the goals we are trying to reach when we think about sustainability, because

• Climate change is a threat to human health
• Metabolic disease is a threat to human health
• We have to take steps to mitigate both
• This is the decade of “data over dogma”

The podcast is a bit “world according to Ted.” In some circles this is entertaining 🙂 .

Or as it was once sung…

I am what I am, I am my own special creationGloria Gaynor

Watch / listen

“Meet Your Herdmates, Ted Eytan, MD”

Audio version (or wherever you get podcasts): Meet Your Herdmates – 13 – Dr. Ted Eytan, MD

Relevant Visuals

As it says in the intro, I am a visual storyteller. Here are several visuals from the stories told.

Disclaimers/Conflicts of Interest (I have none)

• Page: My disclaimers and conflict of interest disclosures (I have none)

My Calculated carbon footprint

• Post: My 2021 carbon footprint as a physician without diabetes on a Low Carbohydrate diet – More about planes, cars and carbohydrates than cows

Carbon footprint, the pharmaceutical industry

• Post: Just Read: Carbon footprint of the global pharmaceutical industry – “Significantly worse than the automotive industry”

Carbon footprint, health care

• Post: Just Read: Health Care Pollution And Public Health Damage In The United States: An Update

Physician nutrition education – it has always been there – just not from the right places

• Post: Physicians’ 20th Century Nutrition Education: via Medical Journal Advertisements (Food Has Always Been Medicine)

Remembering an era where doctors were always right and diversity was less expansive

• Post: Photo Gallery: Medical Advertising from the 20th Century – remembering an era when doctors were always right and diversity was less expansive

The food at sustainability meetings, the kind that makes health care UNsustainable

• Post: Just Read: Trends in Dietary Carbohydrate, Protein, and Fat Intake and Diet Quality Among US Adults, 1999-2016 – 83% of Carbohydrates are from low quality sources

The fat-free seasonal greek yogurt parfait with homemade granola at a sustainability conference that started a meaningful conversation (the featured image in this post)

A great illustration of the challenge that environmental advocates seem to have in understanding the science of nutrition – nothing about this photograph says “health” OR “sustainability”