Pulmonary Wellness - How to Live Better With Pulmonary Fibrosis

We were very fortunate to have Dr. Noah Greenspan of the Pulmonary Wellness and Rehabilitation Center in NYC join us at our N. Texas PF Warriors support group meeting this morning.

Dr. Greenspan did not talk about progression of disease, prognosis, genetics, or even much about the future of treatments.  What Dr. Greenspan did talk about was how to live life to the fullest with pulmonary fibrosis.  He talked about exercise, supplemental oxygen, diet, infection control and the importance of pulmonary rehabilitation. Dr. Greenspan gave us all the time we wanted, and was still going strong answering questions when I have to leave.

Here are two vids of today's program.  We had to break it up into two parts due to all the time he spent with us.

If you have pulmonary fibrosis, are helping someone with PF, or even if you are involved as rehabilitation provider for folks in the PF community, you should take the time to watch these videos.

Pulmonary Wellness with Dr. Noah Greenspan, Part 1

Pulmonary Wellness with Dr. Noah Greenspan, Part 2

I can personally attest that the ideas that Dr. Greenspan shares in these videos will help folks to live better with pulmonary fibrosis.

Thanks to Baylor Health for providing the meeting space for our event today.

Thoughts on Calorie Counting

One of the great things about following the Primal Blueprint or a Paleo lifestyle is that counting calories is not necessary, or even recommended. Following the Primal Blueprint is supposed to be simple. Eat lots of wholesome foods including animals, insects and plants. Avoid grains, beans and other legumes, most vegetable and seed oils, processed sugars and most processed foods in general. Do this and you will see improvements in health and energy. Heck, you may even lose some weight.

When you look at the big picture, your individual daily calorie or macro nutrient intake really does not matter much in the long run. What is important is your average intake of nutrients and activity level. If you want to keep an eye on calories and macro nutrients, I feel that looking at your daily average over a week is a good minimum time frame to use to see how you are doing. When I was in the weight loss phase of my journey I would log my food intake once or twice a week just to verify that my carbohydrate intake was staying under 100 grams of carbs per day.

 Why less than 100 grams of carbs for weight loss?

 Let's take a look at the Primal Blueprint Carbohydrate Curve: