Food as Medicine: Optimizing Your Health and Well-Being

Week of July 19, 2025

Food Myths – What Should I Be Eating?
Am I getting enough protein? Should I limit carbs? What about fat?  Do I need to eat organic? Is coffee good or bad for me?  What about red wine? Which supplements should I take? Do I need to fast intermittently? Learn about the latest evidence for confusing nutrition topics.  Leave with personalized goals to help you make healthier food choices.

Gut Health: Everything You Need to Know About the Microbiome
Review the latest evidence about optimizing your microbiome through dietary choices and other pillars of Lifestyle Medicine. You will leave this session with a personalized plan to improve your overall health by increasing the diversity of your microbiome.

Optimize Your Sleep
What are the best ways to improve your sleep?  What is the role of nutrition, physical activity, mindfulness, and medication? We will review evidence-based strategies to getting a good night’s sleep. Leave with specific goals to help you sleep better.

Brain Health: Improve Your Mood and Reduce Your Risk for Dementia
Learn about how what you eat affects your brain including a discussion of the psychobiome and how nutrition and the other lifestyle medicine pillars (including physical activity, stress reduction, sleep) can help with depression, anxiety, ADHD and dementia.

 

Sarah-Anne Schumann, MD, MPH, is a physician who is board certified in both Family Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine. She graduated from Harvard College, Harvard Medical School, and Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. She previously served on the medical school faculty at the University of Chicago and University of Oklahoma-Tulsa. She completed her certificate in plant-based nutrition at eCornell and the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies and is an advanced teacher of therapeutic yoga and a certified mindfulness meditation teacher.