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Earth Day 4/22/2020  
According to what has been printed in recent issues of Time, Sierra Club and National Geographic magazines, expert interviews on NPR and my conservation news feeds, the single most important change we can make as an individual and community to improve the health of our planet is to enlarge our food intake to include a variety of colorful unprocessed plants as we eliminate eating animals, especially industrial grown and slaughtered animals.
 We are fortunate in Englewood to be able to obtain clean local foods at our Farmer’s Markets, local farms and our own gardens. I encourage all of us to grow our own victory gardens, as even adding simple medicinal parsley or rosemary from our yards to our teas, salads, stir-fry, and roast vegetables increases the enjoyment and nutrition value
My work the past 13 years of home office medical consultations has focused on helping patients with mostly debilitating long-term, complex digestive and energy issues often caused by indigestible contaminated inflammatory foods. These foods are usually produced, shipped and sold to us in forms contaminated with pesticides, herbicides like round-up, plastics, molds and fecal matter, stripped of essential nutrients. When patients change food intake for even 2-3 weeks to whole organic colorful plants and supplement deficiencies, we often notice a definite improvement in gut function, energy, stress management and restorative sleep. Many are able to decrease or stop taking pharmaceutical drugs when the gut microbiome is healing, reversing the processes leading to chronic diseases and death.
The best presentation connecting global warming and the causes of viral pandemics I have witnessed can be found in videos made by Michael Greger MD on his website NutritionFacts.org . He worked as Director of  Public Health in Wash. DC prior to his noncommercial nonprofit program to bring published nutritional research to us for free. Search the web site for video Takeaways from Webinar on Clovid 4/16 and his re-released 3/27/20 Pandemic History and Prevention video, also found at youtu.be/7-ppXSABYLY. Sign up for free nutrition videos on his site.
Here is an excerpt from Dr. Greger’s Clovid video. “PREVENTING FUTURE PANDEMICS: Having Our Meat and Eating It Too

• We were spared by the last pandemic: In 2009, swine flu only triggered a category 1 pandemic, killing a half million people. It did, however, reveal that industrial pork production was a new origin point for pandemic viruses.
• The emergence of H5N1 and other bird flu viruses infecting humans has been blamed on industrial poultry production.
• The CDC considers H7N9, a bird flu virus, to be our gravest pandemic flu threat, one that could kill millions of Americans. To date, H7N9 has killed about 40 percent of the people it has infected. Two in five.
• At this time, neither H5N1 nor H7N9 has acquired the capacity for easy human-to-human transmission, but neither has been eradicated. They’re still out there, still mutating.
• How can we stop the emergence of pandemic viruses in the first place? Whenever possible, treat the cause.
• The largest and oldest association of public health professionals in the world, the American Public Health Association, has called for a moratorium on factory farming for nearly two decades. Its journal published an editorial entitled “The Chickens Come Home to Roost”  calling for a deintensification of the pork and poultry industries.    “It is curious, therefore, given the pandemic threat, that changing the way humans treat animals, most basically ceasing to eat them, or at the very least, radically limiting the quantity of them that are eaten—is largely off the radar as a significant preventive measure. Such a change, if sufficiently adopted or imposed, could still reduce the chances of the much-feared influenza epidemic. It would be even more likely to prevent unknown future diseases that, in the absence of this change, may result from farming animals intensively and killing them for food.”   M. Greger MD  4/2020

Another reliable site for information on understanding the virus, your immune response, effective and safe nutrients and lifestyle changes to prevent, modulate and recover from the virus is the Institute for Functional Medicine  www.ifm.org/covid.      
                                                                                                   
As of March 23, 2020, my office is closed for consultations to prevent pandemic virus spread . Established patients may call or email for support or to pick up supplements until the danger is over. Please stay isolated, practice fitness, eat the best plant food you can find  and stay in touch with with those you cherish.

I have worked as a Family Physician in Florida since 1980, Board Certified in 1982. With a passion for teaching self care and food as medicine, I integrated a holistic approach with a full modern medical-surgical office for whole families in Venice for 25 yrs. In 2007 I moved the practice to my home office to provide  personal consultation for nutritional, herbal and preventive medicine with internet training with the Institute of Functional Medicine.

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