Joy Kong, MDRegenerative Medicine Physician, Educator, and Entrepreneur

Are We Aging Faster Because of Modern Medicine?

4 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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Transcript excerpt of a discussion where two speakers argue that medical education traditionally focuses on treating illness rather than preventing it, and that hormonal decline (e.g., testosterone) accelerates aging. They debate natural lifestyle methods to boost hormones versus hormone replacement, with Speaker B emphasizing that lifestyle changes (sleep, exercise, nutrition) can substantially raise testosterone even in young men.

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As doctors we were not trained to help people stay healthy. That's never been important in the medical education. All we were trained on is to wait until people get sick. Now let's rent test a lot of the aging process and the decline is because the hormones when they're declining then that really accelerates the aging process. So what are your thoughts on using natural methods to boost hormone levels versus replacing hormone self?
Lifestyle goes a long ways no matter what age you are. I mean here's a good example. Low testosterone in young men is maybe epidemic. There's young men with testosterone levels in their 20s and they have testosterone levels of 200 to 300. Part of that is his sedentary lifestyle. You get him sleeping well, moving during the day, lifting heavy things and eating good food and all of a sudden his testosterone goes up, you know two 300 points. So lifestyle is very important when it comes to that and even when we age.