Category: Updates

Because humans spend 90% of their time in buildings, where their health and lives are shaped – my year as a concept advisor for the WELL Building Standard

I am in a group of doctors that I’d say practice “boundless medicine,” meaning, we go to the places where health is produced. It’s what the people we serve expect of us, even if the greater health system doesn’t expect it of us.

My rationale for joining the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) (@WELLCertified) Global Network of Concept Advisors is laid out in this blog post I wrote when I joined.

See: Joining the IWBI Global Network of Concept Advisories | International WELL Building Institute – WELL Community Concept advisory – Ted Eytan, MD

Slide Update: If you’re tied to dogma, what’s your interest in data?

Time for another slide update….

I have always been fascinated by the topic of conflict of interest, maybe because my generation of physicians was trained in an environment that was chock-a-block full of conflict, with no balance.

We now live in an era where there is more disclosure, however, it still happens in the background of discourse that is clearly influenced by it (the conflict).

These are some examples, along with some sage advice from Salim Yusuf, OC FRSC, Distinguished University Professor of Medicine, McMaster University, lead investigator of the PURE study.

Photo Friday: Low(er) Carb, Health(ier) fat Spring Rolls & Exploding myths about what an LCHF diet is

These wonderful morsels of real food were handcrafted in the Thrive Kitchen at Kaiser Permanente Mission Bay in San Francisco (itself a LEED Platinum building) under the guidance of Chef Linda Shiue, MD (@SpiceBoxTravels).

Linda brought us her culinary skills, her medical acumen, and her creativity and enjoyment of the beauty of food as we made these, in lower carbohydrate and higher carbohydrate (with rice paper and whole grain rice) versions.