What if a key to addressing America's health crisis isn't found in the emergency room, but in our own kitchens? 🧑🍳
This week, Mike Krause and Dr. Helena Fowler, DCN welcome emergency room doctor Dr. Amy Baruch, MD to discuss her evolving journey with nearly three decades of emergency medicine, some of the trends Dr. Baruch’s been seeing, the role of integrative medicine, and how she uses her Teaching Kitchen to improve health outcomes and empower individuals.
In this Episode
🎧 The role of Culinary Medicine (and what even is it?)
🎧 Concept of a Teach Kitchen
🎧 The dramatic increase in patients presenting with multiple chronic diseases, extensive medication lists, and a constellation of health issues that are interconnected and largely preventable (aka “lifestyle” diseases)
🎧 Integrative medicine and its ability to better understand the connection among nutrition, lifestyle, and health outcomes
🎧 Fear of medical shaming and how it prevents patients from seeking care or being honest about their health habits
🎧 The need to emphasize the importance of compassionate care and techniques like motivational interviewing that meet patients where they are
🎧 Approaching behavior change in “small bites”
🎧 Reliable, unbiased health information sources (See below)
RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
ABOUT AMY
Amy Baruch is from New York and has lived in Boise, Idaho since 1997. She is an emergency medicine physician, expecting to retire from clinical practice in 2026. She has culinary training from the French Culinary Institute in NYC and is fellowship- trained in integrative medicine from the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine. She started Amy’s Teaching Kitchen in her home in January 2025.
Website: tweakedrecipes.com
Email: Amystkboise@gmail.com
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