Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter delivers a motivational message that it’s never too late to improve health by changing one’s mindset and adopting proactive lifestyle strategies. He contrasts a reactive medical mindset (seeking pills or procedures) with a proactive one (diet, stress reduction/mindfulness, hormone therapies when appropriate) and emphasizes combining interventions to prevent disease and extend healthy longevity.
That's the message that I want to give over and over, is that we can do something.
I think when patients can change their mind about their own health, then it really changes the conversation. Then it becomes, what else can I do? Rather than, what pill can you give me? What pill can you give me to fix my problem? What procedure can you do to make me feel better? Rather than that, it becomes, what can I do in my life to achieve my goal of living longer and being healthy and active? And that becomes a strategy that then we employ across multiple arenas. And then we don't have to. To worry about doing that single procedure to fix your pain, because we don't have that problem in the first place. We don't have to worry about treating your diabetes because you never got diabetes, right? It's never too late to start. You know, the Chinese say, you know, when's the best time to plant a tree? Well, it's 20 years ago. The second best time is today, right? And I tell my patients that, hey, if we'd started this 20 years ago, we would have been further down the road. But, hey, guess what? It's never too late to start getting healthy and to start thinking about your longevity in a critical way. That's the message that I want to give over and over, is that we can do something, and it can be as powerful and impactful as bioidentical hormone replacement therapies and really make a significant change in you very quickly. And it can be something as subtle as doing a mindfulness exercise and reducing your stress. I mean, because we're all in a very highly stressed environment. Everybody in America is highly stressed. Or it could be something a little more complex, like a more comprehensive diet program. But I think all of these things should be used together and employed as a strategy to give people the opportunity to live better and healthier.
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