A surgeon who has treated nearly 100,000 patients argues most people are just fine because they skip basic health practices. Before chasing longevity hacks, get the fundamentals right: exercise, mobility, sleep. Only then explore emerging technologies.
Biohacking, longevity space, whatever you want to call it. People are looking for that magic pill. You know, what is the secret to life extension?
As a practicing surgeon, they come to me in what I call fine. How are you today? I'm just tired and fine. Having taken care of nearly 100,000 people in my career, I've come to understand that if I take you from fine to doing all the things that we know work and have known work, and we optimize your health, and then when you're at peak performance, I'm going to reach into the longevity world, do all the secrets, sauce things that we're just discovering.
When they say that they're fine, usually what they'll do is chalk it up to a consequence of aging or a consequence of their environment. It's usually not any of those things. It's usually the absence of a lot of the basics. Exercise, mobility, those things that we have big data on, we really just can't overlook.