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Choosing Your Path: Sick Care vs. Health Optimization - Episode 334 · Gladden Longevity Podcast

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  Is this practitioner practicing sick care where they're basically focused on my symptoms and my problems and they're trying to get me back towards baseline or close to baseline?
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  Or is this person really in healthcare?
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  And healthcare, the way we see it is health optimization.
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  It's the idea of the 30-year-old body, no matter what your age is.
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  The 300-year-old mind, no matter what your age is.
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  He went from saving hearts as a cardiologist to rewriting the entire aging playbook.
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  Dr.
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  Jeffrey Gladden believes 100 is the new 30 and he's got the science to back it up.
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  This is the Gladden Longevity Podcast.
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  One of the pain points that people come to me with is that they've been to a physician or practitioner and they're not happy with the results they've gotten.
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  And I think part of it is related to some confusion around what different kinds of practitioners or doctors are capable of doing.
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  For example, I was trained as an allopathic physician.
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  I'm an M.D.
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  by training.
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  And yet when I got sick, you know, back in the 2000s, it wasn't allopathic medicine that enabled me to get better at all.
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  I had to go into the functional medicine space and that's how I figured out my issue.
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  So what is functional medicine?
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  Well, functional medicine is actually looking at what I would call the root cause of the symptoms that you're having.
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  So in traditional allopathic medicine, which would be an MD or a DO, you're trained to basically see the symptom.
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  You're there to basically treat the symptom, treat the symptomatology, but not the underlying disorder.
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  You may have a little bit of preventative kind of thought process going on, but not a lot.
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  In functional medicine, you're actually looking deeper.
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  You're looking at the root cause of what caused the plaque in the artery, what caused the cancer to develop, right?
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  What caused the GI distress?
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  And so it's a deeper look.
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  That's very important.
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  In naturopathic medicine, they're looking at people that come in that are sick.
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  and they're looking at it through their own lens related to supplements and foods and not so much medications that are being involved.
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  And they can be very, very helpful.
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  There's some very, very smart naturopathic positions out there.
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  People that practice Ayurvedic medicine or Chinese medicine, they look at it through another lens.
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  They're constructing the body through other systems and they're using different herbs and spices and tinctures to basically bring the body into balance.
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  And then there's homeopathy, which is basically the science of using small amounts of things to actually scooch the body back towards equilibrium.
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  This can also be very effective.
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  We've seen people get good results with that as well.
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  Then there's integrative medicine.
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  Integrative medicine is saying, look, nobody has a corner on the market on wisdom, knowledge or efficacy.
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  And so let's take the best of each situation, each medicine, each practice, if you will, and apply it to the individual in a smart way.
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  That's more the camp that we fall into when it think about sick care.
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  In addition to that, there's actually longevity medicine.
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  So what is longevity medicine?
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  Well, the easiest way to think about it is that traditional medicine and many of the other medicines or practices are focused on the disease, the discomfort, the problem.
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  Functional medicine and many of these other disciplines, we're now starting to look at the root cause.
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  But in longevity medicine, we actually understand that aging is the root cause.
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  of all the problems that are occurring for the most part.
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  And so with that, we're looking at the 12 hallmarks of aging.
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  We actually think there's about 16.
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  And these are the actual biological processes that are driving aging forward.
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  And the really important thing to understand about that is that all of these processes, whether it's mitochondrial dysfunction, shortened telomeres, senescent cell formation, gut
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  dysbiosis, lack of autophagy and proteostasis, all these different things
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  They play off each other.
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  And so as we go through life chronologically, when one thing starts to go bad, it affects two or three others.
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  When they start to go bad, they affect two or three others.
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  And when those start to go bad, they cycle back around.
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  And so all of a sudden you have this tornado of hallmarks spinning up and accelerating aging.
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  It's the reason that aging is exponential and not linear.
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  It's actually exponential.
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  So in longevity medicine,
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  We say, let's take the functional approach.
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  Let's look at the root cause.
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  Let's treat the symptom, but let's also go at the root cause of the root cause.
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  Let's look at what's going on with those hallmarks of aging and develop strategies and plans to measure them, which we can do, and then also to actually treat them.
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  And we're not really done until we're able to actually move somebody back in time, if you will, relative to where the hallmarks of aging are located.
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  So this is a really, really important distinction.
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  The thing about it is that there are new technologies coming all the time that give us more leverage on those hallmarks of aging.
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  And when you have greater precision and you can basically layer together different technologies to address them, it's really remarkable the results you can get.
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  It's one of the reasons that born in 1954, February 28th, I can run, can mountain bike, I can surf, I can do anything I want, right?
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  And that's what we're going for.
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  So when you think about these different kinds of medicines, ask yourself, is this sick care?
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  Is it sick care wrapped up with a different toolkit?
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  Are people here really going for optimization?
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  In our world, longevity is a 30 year old body and a 300 year old mind.
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  And the reason that 300 year old mind is so important is because when you take stress out of your system from all that perspective and transcendence, all of a sudden you slow down
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  aging itself.
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  You actually heal better and rejuvenate and regenerate better.
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  So having a very holistic approach to this, where it's life energy, where it's longevity, where it's health, where it's performance, and where it's the environments we reside in,
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  when you put all that together, it becomes a very, very powerful tool that's difficult for any of these other disciplines to actually replicate.
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  And when you combine that with an integrative approach, curiosity, and the ability to take in new insights from any direction, it really sets gladden longevity apart.
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  There's nothing like it that I've come across.
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  I think when you're thinking about medicine for yourself, I think the most important distinction you need to make is, is this practitioner practicing sick care where they're
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  basically focused on my symptoms and my problems and they're trying to get me back towards baseline or close to baseline?
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  Or is this person really in health care?
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  And health care, the way we see it is health optimization.
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  It's the idea of the 30 year old body, no matter what your age is, the 300 year old mind, no matter what your age is.
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  And when you actually focus on optimization,
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  you start asking a different set of questions.
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  And what drives real results is what questions are your practitioner asking?
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  So if they're asking, well, geez, he's got this, he's got that, he's got that.
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  I just need to get him back to here.
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  If we can get the gut fixed, everything will be okay.
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  We'll let him go.
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  That's one set of questions.
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  But if you're asking, how do we actually make him more resilient?
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  How do we make him bulletproof?
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  How do we actually give him more capacity and more capability, make him more athletic, be sharper mentally?
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  How do we actually improve?
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  improve over what his baseline was.
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  That's optimization medicine.
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  And that's what we practice at Glide and Longevity.
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  That's true longevity medicine.
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  And in order to get that done, you really have to focus on the hallmarks of aging.
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  You really have to focus on the five circles, life, energy, longevity, health, performance and the environments we reside in.
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  When you talk to a practitioner that's focused on optimization as opposed to sick care, health care instead of sick care, that's where you'll find your best answers.
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  That's where you'll really make the progress that you're dreaming about.
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