Food as Medicine: the first tool in our health journey
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Join the Rice Lake Area Free Clinic at the Moose lodge on Saturday, April 29th from 9-4pm. Our speakers for this event will be: Dr. Matthew Dawson, MD; Linda Black Elk, Indigenous Ethnobotanist; Dr. Cornelia Cho, MD; and wild edible plant expert Samuel Thayer.
See below to read their bios and lecture descriptions.
To top off the day Alan Bergo, Forager Chef, will be preparing us a theme appropriate lunch.
If you'd like to attend the conference for FREE, we are offering to refund the cost of your ticket after the successfully volunteering 6 or more hours at the Free Clinic.
Contact: volunteers@rlafc.org for more information.
See below to read their bios and lecture descriptions.
To top off the day Alan Bergo, Forager Chef, will be preparing us a theme appropriate lunch.
If you'd like to attend the conference for FREE, we are offering to refund the cost of your ticket after the successfully volunteering 6 or more hours at the Free Clinic.
Contact: volunteers@rlafc.org for more information.
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Truly Personalized Medicine for Full Health Optimization -
The world's first AI driven algorithms to combine genomics, blood work, microbiome, and wearables to truly optimize health and prevent disease. Intermittent fasting, precision nutrition, sleep optimization, and more based on your specific DNA and biomarkers.
Dr. Matt Dawson is a physician who really wants to be a farmer and forager when he grows up. He has been obsessed with health and health optimization for as long as he can remember. He received scholarships to play two sports in college even with “minimal talent” because of his voracious reading and implementation of any fitness or nutritional techniques that would give him an edge. He continued that obsession in medical school and, as a physician, he has won numerous national awards for education, innovation, and leadership. He has lectured in over 20 countries and trained thousands of other physicians through live lectures, online education, two textbooks, and even an educational app. He combines his training in genomics and functional medicine to give personalized, precise medical guidance. He is currently the CEO of Wild Health, a genomics based precision medicine company that is in all 50 states and takes care of thousands of patients delivering true personalized medicine.
Whether it's a professional athlete or a grandparent optimizing their mental clarity and mobility to keep up with their grandkids, Dr. Dawson is passionate about helping everyone perform at their absolute peak. He lives with his wife, 4 children, and 2 dogs in the woods of Kentucky. www.wildhealth.com
The world's first AI driven algorithms to combine genomics, blood work, microbiome, and wearables to truly optimize health and prevent disease. Intermittent fasting, precision nutrition, sleep optimization, and more based on your specific DNA and biomarkers.
Dr. Matt Dawson is a physician who really wants to be a farmer and forager when he grows up. He has been obsessed with health and health optimization for as long as he can remember. He received scholarships to play two sports in college even with “minimal talent” because of his voracious reading and implementation of any fitness or nutritional techniques that would give him an edge. He continued that obsession in medical school and, as a physician, he has won numerous national awards for education, innovation, and leadership. He has lectured in over 20 countries and trained thousands of other physicians through live lectures, online education, two textbooks, and even an educational app. He combines his training in genomics and functional medicine to give personalized, precise medical guidance. He is currently the CEO of Wild Health, a genomics based precision medicine company that is in all 50 states and takes care of thousands of patients delivering true personalized medicine.
Whether it's a professional athlete or a grandparent optimizing their mental clarity and mobility to keep up with their grandkids, Dr. Dawson is passionate about helping everyone perform at their absolute peak. He lives with his wife, 4 children, and 2 dogs in the woods of Kentucky. www.wildhealth.com
Food Really Is Medicine
“Food is Medicine” has become a really common phrase these days, but how many of us take these words literally? Sure, the food we eat can provide much need vitamins and minerals that allow our bodies to function normally, but what about foods that actually prevent disease and heal us physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually? Join Linda Black Elk as she highlights some of her favorite “medicinal foods,” and discusses ways we can incorporate them in to our lives every day.
Linda Black Elk is an ethnobotanist and food sovereignty activist specializing in teaching about culturally important plants and their uses as food and medicine. She is eternally grateful for the intergenerational knowledge of elders and other knowledge holders, who have shared their understandings of the world with her, and she has dedicated her life to giving back to these peoples and their communities. Linda works to build ways of thinking that will promote and protect food sovereignty, traditional plant knowledge, and environmental quality as an extension of her work as a gardener, forager, fisher, hunter, and gatherer. Linda and her family have also been spearheading a grassroots effort to provide organic, traditional, shelf stable food and traditional Indigenous medicines to elders and others in need. Thus far, they have fed and healed thousands of people. She has written numerous articles, book chapters, and papers, and is the author of “Watoto Unyutapi”, a field guide to edible wild plants of the Dakota people. Linda proudly serves as the Food Sovereignty Coordinator at United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, North Dakota, where she passes ethnobotanical and food systems knowledge on to her amazing students. She also sits on the board of Makoce Ikikcupi, a Reparative Justice project on Dakota lands in Minnesota. When she isn’t teaching, Linda spends her time foraging, hiking, hunting, and fishing on the prairies and waters of the northern Great Plains with her husband and three sons, who are all members of the Oceti Sakowin, the Seven Council Fires of the Lakota.
“Food is Medicine” has become a really common phrase these days, but how many of us take these words literally? Sure, the food we eat can provide much need vitamins and minerals that allow our bodies to function normally, but what about foods that actually prevent disease and heal us physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually? Join Linda Black Elk as she highlights some of her favorite “medicinal foods,” and discusses ways we can incorporate them in to our lives every day.
Linda Black Elk is an ethnobotanist and food sovereignty activist specializing in teaching about culturally important plants and their uses as food and medicine. She is eternally grateful for the intergenerational knowledge of elders and other knowledge holders, who have shared their understandings of the world with her, and she has dedicated her life to giving back to these peoples and their communities. Linda works to build ways of thinking that will promote and protect food sovereignty, traditional plant knowledge, and environmental quality as an extension of her work as a gardener, forager, fisher, hunter, and gatherer. Linda and her family have also been spearheading a grassroots effort to provide organic, traditional, shelf stable food and traditional Indigenous medicines to elders and others in need. Thus far, they have fed and healed thousands of people. She has written numerous articles, book chapters, and papers, and is the author of “Watoto Unyutapi”, a field guide to edible wild plants of the Dakota people. Linda proudly serves as the Food Sovereignty Coordinator at United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, North Dakota, where she passes ethnobotanical and food systems knowledge on to her amazing students. She also sits on the board of Makoce Ikikcupi, a Reparative Justice project on Dakota lands in Minnesota. When she isn’t teaching, Linda spends her time foraging, hiking, hunting, and fishing on the prairies and waters of the northern Great Plains with her husband and three sons, who are all members of the Oceti Sakowin, the Seven Council Fires of the Lakota.
Mushrooms as Food and Medicine
Mushrooms can be powerful allies in our quest for wellness. Many people in this country know the common button mushroom, but are not as familiar with the array of edible medicinal mushrooms historically consumed for millennia and commonly used elsewhere in the world.
We'll get to know a number of these traditionally consumed fungi and discuss case studies of people who have used mushrooms to address a variety of conditions---significant spinal damage, coronary artery blockage, various cancers, traumatic brain injury, addiction, major depression, cluster headaches, and more.
Dr. Cornelia Cho, M.D. is both a practicing pediatrician and a mushroom club president. This combination has inspired her to dive deeply into the topic of Medicinal Mushrooms. In addition to her Pharmacology fellowship and Pediatric Emergency Room experience, she has trained in Mind/Body and Brain sciences, drug-free therapies for treating trauma, and wilderness medicine preparedness. Her Korean heritage has given her a head start on a pro- and prebiotic-rich diet and early experience collecting wild foods. She loves growing, preserving, fermenting, foraging, cooking and eating food; as well as finding waste solutions, learning and teaching about regenerative agriculture, reclaiming traditional foodways, and advocating for food justice. She's thrilled to add "Food as Medicine" to her speaking engagements and keynotes that allow her many different worlds to complement and inform one another, while at the same time helping others.
Mushrooms can be powerful allies in our quest for wellness. Many people in this country know the common button mushroom, but are not as familiar with the array of edible medicinal mushrooms historically consumed for millennia and commonly used elsewhere in the world.
We'll get to know a number of these traditionally consumed fungi and discuss case studies of people who have used mushrooms to address a variety of conditions---significant spinal damage, coronary artery blockage, various cancers, traumatic brain injury, addiction, major depression, cluster headaches, and more.
Dr. Cornelia Cho, M.D. is both a practicing pediatrician and a mushroom club president. This combination has inspired her to dive deeply into the topic of Medicinal Mushrooms. In addition to her Pharmacology fellowship and Pediatric Emergency Room experience, she has trained in Mind/Body and Brain sciences, drug-free therapies for treating trauma, and wilderness medicine preparedness. Her Korean heritage has given her a head start on a pro- and prebiotic-rich diet and early experience collecting wild foods. She loves growing, preserving, fermenting, foraging, cooking and eating food; as well as finding waste solutions, learning and teaching about regenerative agriculture, reclaiming traditional foodways, and advocating for food justice. She's thrilled to add "Food as Medicine" to her speaking engagements and keynotes that allow her many different worlds to complement and inform one another, while at the same time helping others.
The Wild Truth About the Mediterranean Diet
The Mediterranean Diet has been shown to have positive effects on longevity associated with reduced rates of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and other common "diseases of affluence." However, as the Mediterranean diet was promoted to American audiences, one key component was left out because the health establishment deemed it either unacceptable or unattainable: wild leafy vegetables. Wild leafy greens are the most nutritionally dense category of foods--but they are both attainable and acceptable. I argue that one of the reasons that the so-called Mediterranean diet has not resulted in the expected health benefits when adopted in other regions has been the exclusion of this core element. I will talk about some of the easy traditional ways to save money, have fun, and incorporate healthy green vegetables into everyday meals.
Samuel Thayer is an award-winning author of three books on edible wild plants and an internationally recognized authority on foraging. He has been teaching people to gather and use wild edibles for more than two decades. In addition to wild food foraging, Sam is an all-around naturalist with particular interest in reptiles, amphibians, bird watching, botany, and mammals. His passion for wild food extends to studying the origin of cultivated plants and the socio-economic history of the human diet. Other favorite activities include running, bicycling, archery, fishing, cliff diving, swimming, photography, cooking, growing fruit trees, using scythes and other old hand tools, hunting, and anything with the family. He lives in NW Wisconsin with his wife and 3 children. www.foragersharvest.com
The Mediterranean Diet has been shown to have positive effects on longevity associated with reduced rates of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and other common "diseases of affluence." However, as the Mediterranean diet was promoted to American audiences, one key component was left out because the health establishment deemed it either unacceptable or unattainable: wild leafy vegetables. Wild leafy greens are the most nutritionally dense category of foods--but they are both attainable and acceptable. I argue that one of the reasons that the so-called Mediterranean diet has not resulted in the expected health benefits when adopted in other regions has been the exclusion of this core element. I will talk about some of the easy traditional ways to save money, have fun, and incorporate healthy green vegetables into everyday meals.
Samuel Thayer is an award-winning author of three books on edible wild plants and an internationally recognized authority on foraging. He has been teaching people to gather and use wild edibles for more than two decades. In addition to wild food foraging, Sam is an all-around naturalist with particular interest in reptiles, amphibians, bird watching, botany, and mammals. His passion for wild food extends to studying the origin of cultivated plants and the socio-economic history of the human diet. Other favorite activities include running, bicycling, archery, fishing, cliff diving, swimming, photography, cooking, growing fruit trees, using scythes and other old hand tools, hunting, and anything with the family. He lives in NW Wisconsin with his wife and 3 children. www.foragersharvest.com
Chef Alan Bergo A respected voice in the foraging world, Chef Alan Bergo was Executive chef of Lucia’s Restaurant and The Salt Cellar. After 15 years in the Culinary industry, he decided to pursue a career writing and foraging. He’s the author of the Forager Chef’s Book of Flora, his website foragerchef.com, and Host of the James Beard Award-winning show Field Forest Feast.
