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Navigating a Complex Healthcare System

As Nir Barzilai & I discussed in podcast episode #204, one of the foundational lessons we can take away from studying centenarians — those who have lived to the age of 100+ — is that if you want to live longer, you have to live longer without chronic disease, not live longer with chronic disease.

Unfortunately, this is not how our current healthcare system is structured. Our current healthcare system is primarily geared toward helping you live longer once you develop chronic disease. As Allan Sniderman and I discussed, even the tactics geared toward prevention — such as the 10-year risk assessment for cardiovascular disease — are simply implemented much too late.

This, of course, is the opposite of the approach I take with my patients. Below is a collection of content discussing why early disease prevention is critical and how to be your own advocate in a complex healthcare system.

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How to engage with your doctor

This audio clip is from ask me anything (AMA) episode #19, originally released on January 18, 2021. If you’re not…

#317 ‒ Reforming medicine: uncovering blind spots, challenging the norm, and embracing innovation | Marty Makary, M.D., M.P.H.

One of the most important qualities of a physician is humility, knowing your limits, and having the self-awareness that you could be wrong.” —Marty Makary

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When it comes to medical advice, is less always more?

To the general public, the trial-and-error process of science and medicine may erode confidence, but without it, we’d have no science and medicine at all.

Why sleep is the best insurance policy for lifespan and healthspan

This video clip is from episode #58 – AMA with sleep expert, Matthew Walker, Ph.D.: Strategies for sleeping more, sleeping…

#209 ‒ Medical mistakes, patient safety, and the RaDonda Vaught case | Marty Makary, M.D., M.P.H.

People don’t just die from disease, they die from the care itself.” —Marty Makary

Lessons from centenarians: why prevention of chronic disease is critical

To me, the takeaway for us, as physicians or people who want to have an extra five years of life or 10 years of life… is nothing matters more than prevention of chronic disease. And by the way, you don’t get to prevent it once you have your heart attack. Secondary prevention is not prevention.” – Peter Attia, M.D.

Peter on the four horsemen of chronic disease

This audio clip is from AMA #14: What lab tests can (and cannot) inform us about our overall objective of…

Preventing Atherosclerosis: 2 Fatal Flaws with the “10 Year Risk” Approach

This video clip is from episode #185 – Allan Sniderman, M.D.: Cardiovascular disease and why we should change the way…

#197 – The science of obesity & how to improve nutritional epidemiology | David Allison, Ph.D.

How much does obesity kill you because it stigmatizes you and it creates some stress?”  —David Allison

#150 – Senator Bill Frist, M.D.: A modern Renaissance man’s journey through science, politics, and business

Public health has been the stepchild of health and welfare and healing. That is inverted now, and people appreciate it, but are we going to actually deliver on it? Not just next year, and not just put more funding in it, but really do it over a period of time?” —Bill Frist

#145 – AMA #19: Deep dive on Zone 2 training, magnesium supplementation, and how to engage with your doctor

In this “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) episode, Peter and Bob take a deep dive into zone 2 training. They begin…

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