EP 029: 5 Easy Tips for Whole Person Health, with Dr. John Owens

Dr. John Owens is a leading health expert, workplace wellness advocate and a true believer that health comes from within. He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience back from years of working in California with Olympic gold medalists and professional football, baseball, basketball, hockey and volleyball athletes. He is passionate about giving back to the community by educating from a health and wellness perspective on how to live a healthy lifestyle. He takes this mindset into local businesses and corporations with the same goal in mind. His objective is to revolutionize health care and strengthen the vitality of the Tulsa community.

Dr. Owens believes in treating the body as a whole by looking at the cause of dysfunction and not just the symptom. He prides himself on staying current in the latest techniques and healthcare advancements in order to maintain his reputation for excellence. John strives each day to better the lives of his patients; choosing to care for the individual and not just their symptoms allows for a personal and unique experience. He grew up in Tulsa as the youngest of six children. He played college football at DePauw University and later finished his degree at the University of Arkansas. John received three undergraduate degrees (Exercise Physiology/Biomechanics, Anatomy & Physiology, Health & Wellness). After graduation, he attended Chiropractic School at Parker University in Dallas.

2:17 This week, we've managed to bring back a previous guest who went over like a very popular discussion with medical with science with health with cutting edge with holistic understanding about how the body is more than just meat. There's an emotional aspect to our life which affects our physical there's a mental aspect that affects our emotional and our physical.

6:59 So there's five different areas first, the first and foremost is to move.

7:40 It's finding an activity that you enjoy doing. And something that you're passionate about, that actually gets you moving. So it especially breaking up those times, if you a lot of people now working from home.

13:25 Number two is going to be hydration. So we talked about water, the quality of water and different things in our last episode. And so there's a lot, a lot of people don't realize the extent of dehydration, that they have that like the degree of dehydration.

17:50 Number three, that really is just overall self care. So a lot of people we we end up taking care of other people all the time, we're always looking to see you know, what we can do for other people all the time. And we failed to take care of ourselves.

26:59 Diet is a lifestyle, what you eat, day to day is your diet. Not it's not a crash course, and you know, you know, 14 days to lose 10 pounds or, you know, whatever it is, it's, it's about how you how you have a variety in your diet, it's the portion control.

43:09 Lastly, but not leastly is recover. So we kind of touched on this throughout some of these other ones, but really making it a point making it a major thing, because a lot of these overlap, but you know, sleep, in particular, getting the sleep that you need.

48:49 But clearing out the RAM. That way we can function properly, we can be better, we can be faster, we can be smarter, we can make better decisions, because when we have all these things going on all around us all the time, it can be very overwhelming.

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