Living Healthy Longer: Jim Polakof’s Secrets to Longevity and Survival

Well, since nutrition is my specialty, I'll, I'll focus on that for a moment, if I may. One of the things that frustrated me as a nutritional counselor, and that's why I think I moved into setting up wellness programs at, at medical practices. The thing that frustrated me is I would have very well-intentioned clients, shall we call them, who would come to me and said, gee, Dr. Jim, I, I, I really want to lose weight and I'm motivated and it's important and I know it's important to my health. My longevity. So what should I do? And then you, you would find out how to individualize or tailor a plan to what their specific needs were. So we'd do that. And for the first couple of weeks, it went great. And I'm just giving you a, a typical example. But after that, I noticed that oftentimes the patients would, shall we say, postpone a session. Uh-huh. Uh, or they would come in and they would be very honest at times and say, you know, I tried, but I kind of slipped back into my old habits.