– One of the benefits about being a member here is that you have access to a lot of educational classes here. – Yes. – So we’ve just created six classes that run in a series together. One, the first one is nutrition, dynamics of nutrition, and these are the dynamics of wellness. These all…

– One of the things that we understand here is that mindset has a lot to do with wellness. Our thoughts play a key role here. One of the things that I love to do with people is when they come to see me is we start working on mindset stuff. So they can start…

– So I think of our practice as kind of threefold. One is the lifestyle stuff, and Ron is sort of, what I like to say is he’s our care sherpa. He’s gonna guide your experience through Siskiyou, through educational resources. He teaches classes on a regular basis on the foundations of wellness or the…

– Siskiyou Vital Medicine really is a wellness clinic, and we’re primary care, but we’re focused on wellness, and we’re focused on prevention of disease and the mitigation, or the prevention, of chronic illness, so we’re not interested in people getting diabetes or cardiovascular disease or obesity or cancers or Alzheimer’s or any of those…

– With each one of your memberships you help somebody else gain access to a membership. So, even though you may not be coming in every month or you may not have a health issue at this moment your membership is allowing others in our community to experience the care here at Siskiyou. So, your…

– Every time somebody comes in for an appointment, we don’t charge them, right? – Right. – There’s no charge for an appointment. And then we’re able to text, we’re able to call, we’re able to email, and there’s no barrier to care. And I think that’s the future, right? So if we can eliminate…

– The beauties of what we have the opportunity to do with people is get to know them, understand their lifestyle, understand the way that they eat, the way that they think, the way that they feel, a bit of their history, and then based on that information, we’re able to, through each of our…

– How do we prevent all of us from being dependent on pharmaceuticals? You know, you look at people over the age of 65, a majority of them are on five or more medications. – Right, which all come with side effects. – And which are treating preventable diseases that, that we should have been…

– The magic of community based medicines is in the relationship. – Exactly. – Right, it’s forming a really strong relationship between practitioners and members or patients, and getting down to what is really important in our lives together, and what is going to best serve us health wise, and what’s the root cause of…

– Some people think that once they go on some sort of endocrine therapy, where it be heart, thyroid therapy, or adrenals or sex hormones, that they have to stay on them forever. And sometimes that’s just not the case. – Right. – Sometimes you can revive the body, and bring back some of the…

– When you look at cortisol disruptions, or long-term elevated cortisol, one of the first things that you can begin to see is blood sugar dysregulation issues where perhaps you start to get insulin resistance. – Prediabetes. – Prediabetes. You get the spare tire syndrome, so the weight gain around the midsection. – Yeah. –…