January 2013 Lecture at Whole Foods Market Schaumburg

1. Creating a
Template for
Change
Enrique Saguil, M.D.
We didn’t invent the practice of medicine….
we’re just changing the way it’s provided.

2. We didn’t invent the practice of medicine….
we’re just changing the way it’s provided.

3. The First Health Approach
We didn’t invent the practice of medicine….
we’re just changing the way it’s provided.

4. Your Community
of Care
Ric Saguil, MD
Jason Gruss, MD
Debbie Stamm, NP
Tom Jordan, RD
Katrina Christie, LCPC
Jennifer Green, ND
Joe Musolino, DC
Emery Paredes, PT
Aimee Weber, EP
Yu Zhu, MD China
You

5. • More than ½ that try, quit before 1 month
• Less than ½ that continue make it to 6months
We didn’t invent the practice of medicine….
we’re just changing the way it’s provided.

7. Increase the odds for
success!!!

8. “..don’t know why I get sick-I’m healthy”
Mama Nora
Yul Brynner
Tony

9. The Saguil Approach
• The Screen
• Listen to your Inner Doctor
• Re-start an Exercise Program
• Get Nutrition Education
• Choosing a daily supplement
• Be Ready to “Hit the Wall”
(all blogs available online)

10. The Screen
• Need a clean bill of health for moderate to
extreme exercise
• Need to make sure the medicine wont
interfere with the exercise (BB pulse, histamine bike, diuretic Bikram)
• A good doc will have a repertoire of people
that help change lives
• May need to prevent injury first (PT, pulm tx, couchtime)
http://herbal411.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-screen.html

11. Listen to Your Inner Doctor
• No money - No honey (ok to start out slow/mild)
• If provider/healer/trainer doesn’t make
sense, question; if they hurt you….RUN
AWAY!!!
• Sculpt a lifestyle as you go (feedback to the 3 party is imperative)
rd
http://herbal411.blogspot.com/2012/10/listen-to-your-inner-doctor.html

12. Re-Starting your Exercise Program
Design on a Dime
• Know pain, Know gain (watch for push/crash)
• Think outside your box with a 3rd party
• List what you have done in the last 10 years
with cost, copays, visits to IC/ER, presciption
meds, medical premiums
• List price for an exercise physiologist (4 weeks 2xweek)
http://herbal411faqs.blogspot.com/2012/12/re-restarting-exercise-program.html

13. Get Nutrition Education
• Know thy enemy (Sun Tzu)
• Macronutrients micronutrients (oldschool)
• Glycemic index
• Hormonal waves
• Understand modern day food allergies (intolerances)
• Understand IBS, Fatigue, Eating Disorders….
http://herbal411faqs.blogspot.com/2013/01/get-nutrition-education.html

14. Choosing a Daily Supplement
• Overexploitation/overharvesting
• Overfishing
• Pollution/global warming
• The 8th deadly sin -Social Media
• Vitamin G
http://herbal411review.blogspot.com/2013/01/choosing-daily-vitamin.html

15. INTERMISSION
 For high (BP, Chol, Insomnia, Reflux, food craving)
 Meditative Breathwork
 Yoga/Tai Chi
 Parasympathetic nervous system training
 Deepak Chopra/ Davidji / Andrew Weil

16. Hitting the Wall
• Expect to attain a plateau
• Watch caloric restrictions (review with RD)
• Work on success and don’t repeat failures
• Design exercise/overload time frames (vs push/crash)
• Compress the timeframe of healing (prehabilitation)
http://sportsinjury411.blogspot.com/2013/01/hitting-wall.html

17. Specific goals for disease
• High blood pressure – DASH, vit G, weight
• Diabetes – GI, muscle bypass, fiber, cardio
• Leaky GUT – probiotic, relax, food allergy, walk
• Asthma – valsalva, oil, food allergy, GUT
• PCOS – Naturopathy, botanical, GI, cardio
• Arthritis – Antinfla diet, ROM/non wt, pain
• Fibromyalgia – slow, emotional stb, tolerance

18. Using your insurance
• Get an HSA/Flexben
• Start with seeing doc for “knee or back pain”
• Get into PT/rehab-dovetail into HEP
• Ask for and RD for disease specific education
• Gym/Wellness Center/PT for membership
• Use meds (or botanicals from ND) for “jump”
• Chiropractor for flare up
• Switch back in 12 months

19. Is a Heart Attack in Your Future
February 16th, 3-4pm
WFM Schaumburg
2010 South Arlington Heights Road
Arlington Heights, IL
Phone: 847-593-3330
www.FirstHealthAssociates.com