Many feel stuck in a rut with daily aches and pains.

Not at active as they want to be. Maybe even giving up activities like hiking, or not being able to get down on the ground with grand-kids.

Just feeling frustrated and limited by their joint pain.

Sometimes they take an over-the-counter anti-inflammatory. Or the latest supplement. Never really sure what's working and what's not.

You see where it is all heading, and you want to avoid that fate.
Let's avoid it together.

Join me, Dr. Angela, for this 5-day boot camp challenge. FREE.

Give me 5 days, and I will show you:

👉  How to incorporate simple, yet targeted therapies
👉  Immediate strategies you can use
👉  Sustainable lifestyle medicine hacks to get joints healing
👉  What to track and how to track your improvements
👉  Includes daily videos, worksheets, resources & more


Did I mention it's all free? Starts this Monday!

Stop feeling stuck.
Join us and together we will get going and stay going on our path towards joint regeneration, rather than degeneration.

Hop on over to this page >>> to sign up and join in.

📖 book club time! 📖
This is going down Friday evenings for the next 6 weeks.
Join in to find out:
👉 my top tips for getting a good diagnosis
👉 then what to actually do about it
👉 my take on diets
👉 my top supplements I like (& those I don't)
👉 who to see for what (it can be so confusing!)
👉 plus Q&A time with the author Fridays, 5 pm (PDT), starting this week.

If you've been curious about what I talk about in Younger Joints Today, join us.
Now's your chance to ask those 🔥 burning questions.
Click here >>> to sign up to join live & get all the recordings.

I just saw this press release 👀 from Physician Family Media
Younger Joints Today is in its launch week, and the word is getting out!
As of last count, it's topped 3 Amazon New Release categories and 9 Best Seller categories!!! 😲
ebook & print available now, just click here.

The wait is over 🙌🙌🙌⁠
Younger Joints Today launches today, so get your copy now on Amazon!

At $2.99 you don't just get the Younger Joints Today, you also get the Toolkit, nearly 50 pages of additional meal plan, recipe and other great resources.
If you have chronic joint pain, this book was written for you.⁠

Join me all this week for IG lives:⁠
Launch Day celebration - today @ 11am PDT/ 2pm EST⁠
Are your hormones causing your pain? Tues. 7/28 @ 11am PDT/ 2 pm EST⁠
Virtual Book Launch Party 🎉⁠ Weds. 7/29 @ 6pm PDT/ 9pm EST⁠
Bonus material beyond the book - Thurs. 7/30 @ 11am PDT/ 2pm EST⁠
What's next for your path to joint healing - Fri 7/31 @ 11am PDT/ 2pm EST⁠

🚀📖 One. Week. Away. 📖🚀

Next Monday my book Younger Joints Today comes out on the shelves.
Virtual bookshelves, that is. Coming to a kindle reader near you.

And if you're like me, and still prefer paper books, it'll be out in print as well.

Starting today at 11 am (PDT), join me for pre-launch and launch week lives (IG & FB). Today we're talking:
- My story of doctor-turned-author
- What's in this book anyway
- And why I dare to say that joint degeneration can be reversed

In future lives, we'll be chatting about:
- Nutrition for joint pain
- How to exercise to improve pain, how to exercise while still experiencing pain
- What do hormones have to do with any of this?
- Which injection therapies are really worth it
... and more

In the lives I'll be collecting questions for the Q&A during the Virtual Book Launch Party so join us!
IG/FB lives happening:
Mon. 7/20 @ 11am PDT/ 2pm EST
Fri. 7/24 @ noon PDT/ 3pm EST
Mon. 7/27 @ 11am PDT/ 2pm EST
Tues. 7/28 @ 11am PDT/ 2 pm EST
Weds. 7/29 @ 6pm PDT/ 9pm EST <-- Virtual Book Launch Party 🎉 find the link on my facebook page.
Thurs. 7/30 @ 11am PDT/ 2pm EST
Fri 7/31 @ 11am PDT/ 2pm EST

Available now for preorder on Amazon.

🌟Join our 15x5 Challenge🌟

👉 All next week, Monday-Friday we will be live-streaming 15 minute movement segments in our "Take Good Care of Yourself" facebook group.

👀 Tune in each morning at 8:00 am (PDT) - or whatever time is convenient for you to view it later- and get inspiration and ideas on how to keep moving while you're staying home.

🚶 Fifteen minutes a day, five days in a row. That's it!

❓ Do you need accountability and motivation to move? Join us!

As an added bonus, Taylor Harris will be joining us for a few wind-down evening sessions.

Everything about this challenge, and this facebook group in general, is 100% free of charge.

Click the Facebook group link above to join.
If you're already in, then you don't need to do anything!
Just join in the fun.

This is my crash course on how we're going to get through this:

• Think like a medical professional
  
• Use a little common sense
  
• Act on behalf of the most vulnerable, not the most resilient
  

That's it.  Everything else is icing on the cake. (or does nothing)
So here we go.

This is the idea of acting as if a surface is contaminated or a person is infected.

As of the time of this writing, here in Oregon, the actions being recommended are:

• Washing your hands frequently
• Avoiding unnecessary social contact outside of the home (called Social Distancing), which includes our public school systems being on a 2 week closure.
  

These 2 precautions are what we all need to be doing right now.
[Edit: within an hour of originally posting, I received a Google alert on my phone to Do The 5, so I'm including that here]

It doesn't matter if you feel fine.
It doesn't matter if you think you'll be ok (I think I'll be ok, too)
It doesn't matter if you read about the fatalities only being 0.2% in some country and 0.7% in another.

What matters is that our hospitals and emergency medical professionals are able to continue to perform their jobs with medical supplies and equipment reserved for those who need it most.

What is happening in many places globally, and as close to me as the Seattle area, is the ERs are being overwhelmed with very sick individuals, to the point of having to choose who gets to be intubated, and who doesn't.

I don't want my local Salem hospital to be put in that position.

The measures listed above are those that will give our medical systems the best chance.
That's the whole idea of the "flattening the curve."
I'm sure you've heard this concept by now. I'm not going to go into detail on it, but you can read more here.

In my 7 years of medical practice (and decades of life prior), I have seen novel viral infections going around.  Pig flu, bird flu, we've all seen our share.

But have you ever heard about any of these causing medical supply and staff shortage?
I haven't.

Seattle is a few hours' drive down an interstate freeway from me, and is struggling to care for those infected. 

That's why it doesn't ultimately matter whether the death rate is 0.2% or 3%- there are far more infected, suffering the complications, who are also crowding hospital beds and emergency care.

Thousands make the trip down from Seattle on a daily basis. 
Whatever is there will come here.

Now is the time to get serious and to the extent possible prevent our region from becoming the next place hit hard.

First things first, do the above.

Don't disregard your general health in respect to nutrition, sleep, physical activity and stress reduction.
Yes those are all good things. 
Don't stop doing them now.

Above and beyond that, we're all just not sure.

I have seen a lot of unsubstantiated health claims out there.
Those with medical licenses should be practicing with utmost responsibility right now.

Just because an herb, vitamin or supplement has "antiviral properties" doesn't mean we know whether or not it will work for the coronavirus.

The amount we don't know, compared to what we do know, is astounding.

I have seen a lot of misinformation out there, so be careful.
Some of it is misguided.
Some is flat-out wrong.

Evidence-informed Naturopathic colleagues of mine are sharing accurate health information using the hashtag #NDHealth so check that out.

Remember that devastating tsunami that hit Indonesia in 2004 and killed hundreds of thousands of people?

The coronavirus' medical complications could hit our hospitals like a tidal wave, like they currently are in Italy.

Picture this, we just got report of a tidal wave starting a few miles off our coast.
We're just now seeing the first few drops.

Some out there will say, "it's just sprinkling, I don't see any tidal wave, I'm healthy, I can swim.  There's nothing to worry about."

I am saying, "all the experts are telling us to get to high ground NOW. Many of the loved ones around us need our help because they are too ill to swim.  What about this are you not understanding???"

Like with any disaster, you will find the helpers (credit: Mr. Rogers) and those profiteering.

It is happening with hand sanitizer price gauging and it is happening in the medical field.

I've now seen many overnight "experts" hawking their plan that "keeps their patients safe" for a low, low price of whatever it is (I'm not linking it here.  I don't need more enemies.  Please believe that I've seen this).

Because it is public news, one example I can share is the televangelist currently being sued for selling colloidal silver that he purported would kill the coronavirus.

Anyone trying to sell you their surefire plan of proprietary herbs and supplements to keep you safe are selling pool noodles during a tsunami.

Sure their pool noodles have worked before in water to keep people's heads above water.
But with all due respect, they don't know what they're talking about.  It's too new for any of us to have any experience with this.
(Ok fine, no due respect. I'm pissed, if you can't tell.)

At the end of the day, take whatever herbs and supplements are prescribed to you by your Naturopathic Doctor.
But these should be taken ALONG WITH the universal precautions above.
Don't think you are now 100% protected and safe and can disregard the precautions in place because you are taking supplements.  They may help, but are no replacement for common sense.

I'm basically at the lowest risk there is for infection complications.  Only kids are lower risk than I.
Maybe you are low risk, too.

For all us low-risk people, now is not the time to be cavalier, to poo-poo all the precautions and cancellations taking place right now.

Would your actions or perspective change if your friend were on drugs that would put them at a high risk for complications? (such as immunosuppressive medication)

I'm acting as if everyone has a frail 89-year old grandmother at home.

I might be as low risk as it gets, but my 89-year old grandmother Meme is another situation.  Her assisted living facility is doing all it can to minimize risk, and for us, right now, that means not visiting.

We are all one person away from spreading disease to a high-risk individual.
Please act accordingly.

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Again, I am a Naturopathic Doctor.
I'm not an epidemiologist, nor immunologist, but taking best case stats (I can find), an overall mortality rate of 0.2% for a US population of 330 million = 660,000 potential fatalities. 
So over weeks and months to come as the virus moves through our population, if those numbers are significantly lower, I believe we've done the best job we can do.

Ultimately it comes down to, "what's the worse that could happen?"

The worst that could happen with societal inaction is us repeating Italy.
You don't want that to happen.  It's bad over there.

The worst that could happen with too much societal intervention is that people like me are called Chicken Littles ("the sky is falling"), which is funny in its own right because if you know me personally, you know that I am about as non-neurotic as it gets.  I personally have a high risk tolerance (otherwise I would've never started my own business nor drank from river streams on multiple occasions :D). 
But this situation is about all of us, not just me.

If the death rate stays very low then it will seem like we made way too much out of this situation.

I can live with that.
How about you?