A cardiac surgeon explains why he added nutrition and genetics to medical school curricula. Diet and genetics are the two most influential factors for health and longevity, yet surgical training historically ignored them. His work reflects a shift in surgery from procedures alone toward prevention and personalized medicine.
I think it's so interesting that you had the foresight to initiate all these changes. You're not a functional medicine doctor. You're. You're a cardiac surgeon. A lot of surgeons dismiss the role of literature.
It's a changing profession. And as I say, they just didn't immediately recognize the connection. And there was nobody who was calling their attention to it because it wasn't part of any of our education.
And now you've initiated it into medical education. So do you want to talk about some of the changes that you made there?
You know, there's a couple of things that we tried to introduce into the medical school. One, we, we wanted to get some education about diet, and secondly, we wanted some education about genetics. And if you stop and think about those, probably the two most important things that affect a person's health and longevity.
Are diet and genetics.
I'm thinking about, you know, you're born with a set of genes. A lot of those are immutable. So you take of that the set of genes that you're given and how you treat those, the body after you're born, what those are really the things that are major influencers of health.
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