I Get to Move: Reflections on NOURISH, Lifestyle Medicine, and the Next Generation of Family Docs
A 3+ Decade Retrospective on Becoming a Family Doc — Part 10
“Nourish” the conversation & Lifestyle Medicine: NOURISH — Six Pillars of Lifestyle Medicine + One Intervention
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“Nurses are a unique kind. They have this insatiable need to care for others, which is both their greatest strength and fatal flaw.”
—Jean Watson, American nurse theorist and nursing professor
Pari Jrakalouytz- Բարի Ճրագալոյց - Happy Armenian Christmas Eve/Epiphany (last night of the Twelve Days of Christmas) & the visit of Magi
Reason for the season- health and happiness
The Role of Doctors Is Changing Forever - Dr. @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social.’s article reminds that doctors should always be healers first.
“…a doctor’s every conversation is a chance to help patients see the value of science on and medicine in their lives.” www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...
Riding to Parker Mesa Overlook through Topanga State Park, then riding back in the dark. #jackdsart
Had fun at CicLAvia @strangerthings.bsky.social @netflix.com on Melrose - thank you @metrolosangeles.bsky.social and @lacity.bsky.social for making this happen
Interesting in my career I’ve always noticed that certain medications do hamper a patient’s weight loss journey – particularly beta blockers, benzodiazepines, and corticosteroids.
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Fascinating study which shows certain medications and their effect on the gut microbiome, sometimes long after stopping the medications. It still not clear what the long-term implications of a changed gut microbiome might have on a person‘s health so you have to be cautious interpreting the data.
Receiving this proclamation from LA Councilmember Adrin Nazarian was humbling, not only as recognition of my life in medicine, but because it came from a friend who has proven himself, time and again, to be an advocate, a pragmatist, and a true bridge-builder for our city, our county, and our state.
LA Councilmember Adrin Nazarian and I reflected on our past, but spoke mostly about the future. He shared his vision of Los Angeles as a city and county where every neighborhood thrives.
Today I was honored by LA Councilmember Adrin Nazarian with a proclamation that he had first intended for me at the close of his Assembly tenure. We finally met in his NoHo office, fittingly right next to a Kaiser Permanente clinic, where our paths first crossed.
Gen Z kids today suffered a trauma with the violence visited upon Charlie Kirk. Agree with his views or not, trauma knows no politics. Talk to your kids. This is real. It's not normal. Hear your kids. Don't shut them down. Let them unpack the emotions with you. Check your emotions first.
The Remedy, Ozzy, Family Medicine and riding the Crazy Train - a 3+ Decade Retrospective on Becoming a Family Doc – Part 9 @cafpfamilydocs.bsky.social @aafp.org www.linkedin.com/posts/drjds_...
Your mind doesn’t work as well at temperatures above mid-80°s. You don’t make the best decisions. #heatwave @kaiser-permanente.bsky.social @permanentemedicine.bsky.social
Your mind doesn’t work as well at temperatures above mid-80°s. You don’t make the best decisions. #heatwave @kaiser-permanente.bsky.social @permanentemedicine.bsky.social
Every Step Counts. 7000 steps a day was also associated with a 38% lower risk of dementia, a 22% lower risk of depressive symptoms, and a 28% lower risk of falls www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Every Step Counts. 7000 steps a day is also associated with a 25% lower risk of cardiovascular disease incidence, a 47% lower risk of cardiovascular disease mortality, a 37% lower risk of cancer mortality, a 14% lower risk of type 2 diabetes… www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Every Step Counts. Compared with 2000 steps per day, 7000 steps per day was associated with a 47% lower risk of all-cause mortality… www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Every Step Counts. For example, even 4000 steps per day compared with 2000 steps per day was associated with substantial risk reduction, such as a 36% lower risk in all-cause mortality. 7000 was best. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Summer sketches #jackdsart Strokkur geyser-Haukadalur valley, Ísafjörður, The lower countries
Karekin II, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, was elected in 1994 Catholicos of All Armenians by a National Ecclesiastical Assembly of 400 delegates as Karekin I, being the first Supreme Patriarch with that name. He passed away in 1999, succeeded by the current Catholicos Karekin II.
The Church was subsequently destroyed during the recent Syrian war. Photo by Wolfgang Kunz - Photographic Collection – Syria – 1985
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Karekin II, then Catholicos of the Armenian Church of the Great House of Cilicia, crawling on his knees to the entrance of the old Der ez-Zur chapel, where the ceremony of the laying of the foundation of the new #Armenian church was held.
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The Social Prescibing includes prescriptions for exercise, art, music, exposure to nature and volunteering, which are known to have enormous benefits to physical and mental health.
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Alan Siegel, M.D. @kaiser-permanente.bsky.social @permanentedoctors.bsky.social discusses “Social Prescribing” - lifestyle medicine in the frontlines of medicine. "He asked me what mattered to me, which I'd never been asked before by a doctor…"
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Endearing photo of Armenian Church Youth Organization members in Armenia with church leaders-the resiliency of faith, the value of culture & the importance of a safe space for our youth to experience both. Let's remember, we're all in this together, paying it forward for the coming generations.
Aparank Monastery “was a pilgrimage site for both #Armenia|ns and Kurds of Dersim, with both communities gathering for its feast day. An Armenian priest and Kurdish sayyid or pir would bless the sacrificial salt.” www.virtualani.org/aprank/index...
Seen yesterday on Wikipedia the ~ 15ft/5m tall late 12th century #Armenian Khachkars (cross stones) of Aparank Monastery, Üçpınar, Tercan in Erzincan Province, eastern Turkey. I was here in 2022. Even in ruins there was beauty. A 3rd fallen Khachkar symbolic of continued divide.
