Dr. Jeffrey GladdenFounder & CEO of Gladden Longevity

Optimize Digestion: The Foundation of Health!

21 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment Dr. Jeffrey Gladden argues that digestion—encompassing proper hydration—is the foundational "crust" of health. He contends that no matter how "healthy" a food appears, its benefits are moot unless the body can efficiently break it down, absorb usable nutrients, and eliminate waste. Consequently, he advises that the primary focus of health optimization should be on improving digestive function rather than merely selecting "good" foods.

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Our digestion is our crust. Like we cannot have a pizza. We can't have anything that's going to be delicious to us. That's going to hold up. That's going to do if your digestion, which I include hydration in that, if that's suboptimal, that's where we have to invest our efforts. And the reason for that is that we give a lot of credit, especially in my world, we give a lot of credit for foods being healthy or foods being unhealthy. But your body actually doesn't say whether or not something was healthy or good for it until it actually is able to break it down and then have usable nutrients reach where they're supposed to go, right? And that or eliminate the, you know, the waste products. So, you know, that the healthiness of something is really is very much the the end result. And so our digestion really needs to be optimized and.