Integrative Healing: Bridging Ancient Traditions with Modern Regenerative Medicine
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Integrative Healing: Bridging Ancient Traditions with Modern Regenerative Medicine

Dr. Alfred Alessi and Matt Tack explore the intersection of regenerative medicine and biohacking, contrasting modern and ancient medical practices. They discuss the role of systems thinking in addressing chronic illness through functional medicine and highlight how ancient medical traditions can be validated with modern science. The episode delves into the rise of regenerative medicine, focusing on biohacking techniques like peptide and soft wave therapy. The conversation emphasizes the integration of ancient and modern healing methods, considering the future of integrative and longevity medicine. They also discuss diagnostics and the evolving trajectory of health care, concluding with a call to action and sharing resources for further exploration. (0:00) Introduction to regenerative medicine and biohacking (0:20) Welcome and overview of modern vs. ancient medical practices (4:05) Chronic illness and systems thinking in functional medicine (7:37) Validating ancient medical traditions with modern science (13:17) Sponsor: Functional Medicine Starter System (14:23) Biohacking and the rise of regenerative medicine (16:26) Exploring peptide and soft wave therapy (18:33) Integrating ancient and modern healing techniques (24:08) The future of integrative and longevity medicine (25:53) Diagnostics and the trajectory of health care (27:06) Call to action and podcast support (27:44) Outro, resources, and contact information

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We've actually entered an era of medicine that honestly would have seemed unimaginable.

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We now have tools that allow us to directly influence biological signals inside the body.

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And these tools fall into what many people call the world biohacking or regenerative medicine.

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The goal is not hacking the body.

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It's stimulating the body's natural healing mechanisms that already exist.

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Welcome to Health Decoded, your number one source for real health information with your

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host, doctor Alessi and Matt Tack.

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Hey there.

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Welcome back to Health Decoded.

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I'm your host, doctor Alessi.

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And today, we're gonna talk about something that I believe represents the true future of

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medicine.

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And it may not look exactly like what most people expect.

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When people think about the future of medicine, they often imagine more technology, more

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diagnostics, more drugs, machines.

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And technology absolutely plays an important role.

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We now have incredible tools like regenerative peptides, soft wave therapy, PEMF technology,

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advanced functional lab testing, precision nutraceuticals and vitamins.

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These are powerful innovations that allow us to stimulate healing pathways inside the body in

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ways that weren't possible twenty years ago.

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But here's the interesting thing, at the same time that medicine is becoming more high-tech,

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it's also rediscovering something incredibly old.

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Ancient healing traditions, practices like Ayurvedic medicine, traditional Chinese

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medicine, herbal medicine, breath work, circadian living, and energy based therapies.

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These are systems that have been around for thousands of years.

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And what's fascinating is that when we look at the science today, many of those ancient

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practices were actually describing real biological processes long before we had the

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technology to measure them.

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So the future of medicine may not be purely modern, and it may not be purely ancient.

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The future of medicine may actually be the intelligent integration of both.

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Today we're going to explore how these two worlds, modern regenerative medicine and

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ancient healing systems, can combine to create dramatic results in human health.

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So let's get right into it.

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First off, let's talk about what the problem is with modern medicine.

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So let's begin with an honest assessment of the current health care model.

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Modern Western medicine is an incredible achievement of human science.

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Nobody's taking that away.

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It has saved countless lives.

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And when it comes to acute care, it is arguably the most powerful medicine system humanity has

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ever developed.

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If someone experiences a traumatic injury or a severe infection or a heart attack or some type

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of surgical emergency, there's no question that modern medicine is extraordinary.

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The development of antibiotics, advanced surgical techniques, and trauma care has

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dramatically increased survival rates across the globe.

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For example, the mortality rate from a bacterial infection like pneumonia or sepsis

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used to be devastatingly high before antibiotics.

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Today, thanks to advances in pharmacology and emergency medicine, survival rates have

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improved.

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The same is true in trauma care.

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So according to research according to research published in the Journal of Trauma and Acute

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Care Surgery, improvements in trauma systems and surgical protocols have reduced mortality

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from severe injuries by thirty percent in many developed countries.

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So again, to be clear, modern medicine is incredibly powerful.

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But here's the key distinction.

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The modern health care model was designed primarily for one thing, to treat acute

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disease.

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It was not designed to solve or prevent chronic illness.

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And chronic illness is now the dominant health challenge of our time.

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According to the CDC, at the cent according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention,

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roughly six out of ten adults in The United States now live with at least one chronic

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disease, and four out of ten live with two or more.

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These are things like metabolic syndrome, type two diabetes, autoimmune disease,

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cardiovascular disease, chronic fatigue syndromes, hormonal disorders, and

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neurodegenerative disease.

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These are not conditions that appear overnight.

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They slowly develop, often ten, twenty, or thirty years in the making, and they rarely

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have a single cause.

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Instead, they're gonna emerge from complex interactions between your genetics and your

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environment, your nutrition, your gut health, inflammation, stress, exposure to toxins, and

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the way that your sleep and circadian rhythm gets disrupted.

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In other words, these are systems problems, And systems problems require systems thinking.

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But historically, the dominant approach in modern medicine has been much more linear.

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The model often looks like this: patient develops a symptom, symptom leads to a

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diagnosis, diagnosis leads to a medication, and sometimes that medication works very well at

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reducing the symptom.

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But reducing a symptom is not always the same as restoring health.

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For example, if someone has high blood pressure, a medication may lower that number,

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but the medication does not necessarily address why the blood pressure rose in the first place.

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Was it from chronic inflammation or insulin resistance?

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Was it from stress physiology?

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Was it endothelial dysfunction or a nutrient deficiency?

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Those questions are often left unexplored.

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Another example is autoimmune disease.

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In autoimmune conditions, the immune system mistakenly attacks the body's own tissue.

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Conventional treatment often involves suppressing the immune system to reduce the

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symptoms.

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Sometimes that's necessary for short term, but suppression alone doesn't always answer the

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deeper question.

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Why did the immune system become dysregulated in the first place?

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Was it triggered by gut permeability, or a microbial imbalance, or a chronic infection?

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Was there some type of toxin, chronic stress, or deficiency in a nutrient?

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Those upstream drivers are rarely addressed within a symptom based model.

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And so this is where the conversation around functional medicine begins to emerge.

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Functional medicine asks a different set of questions.

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Instead of asking what drug treats this disease, it asks what physiological imbalance

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created this condition, and more importantly, what can we do to restore the body's natural

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regulatory systems?

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This approach is often described as looking at the terrain of the body.

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The terrain includes things like your gut microbiome, your immune system, your hormone

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signaling, mitochondrial energy production, detox pathways, and nervous system balance.

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When the terrain becomes disrupted, disease often follows.

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And what's fascinating is that this idea of biological terrain is not new.

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In fact, it's been central to many ancient medical traditions for thousands of years.

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Systems like Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine were built around the concept that

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health depends on maintaining balance within the body.

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They didn't frame it in terms of cytokines, mitochondrial function, or microbiome diversity

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because they didn't have the tools to measure that yet.

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But they were observing patterns.

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They recognized that your lifestyle, diet, stress, environmental exposure, they all shaped

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the body's internal balance.

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And they focused heavily on restoring that balance before disease became severe.

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In many ways, these ancient systems were practicing preventative systems medicine long

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before modern science had the technology to measure what was actually happening.

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So today we're beginning to see these worlds converge.

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Modern medicine and modern research is increasingly validating the importance of

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things like your microbiome health, inflammation, circadian rhythm alignment and

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nutrient sufficiency, as well as the physiology of stress, all of which were emphasized in

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traditional healing systems, and that realization led us to an important conclusion.

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The future of medicine may not lie exclusively in modern tech, and it may not lie exclusively

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in ancient tradition.

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Instead, I believe the most powerful approach may be the intelligent integration of both,

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using modern science to understand the biology while applying the wisdom of ancient systems

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that recognize the importance of balance, lifestyle, and daily health maintenance.

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And that intersection, where cutting edge regenerative therapies meet time tested healing

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principles, is exactly where medicine is headed next.

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So let's get into ancient medicine, thousands of years of observational biology, and how that

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has affected the way we approach things nowadays.

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So if modern medicine, as we said, is excelling at acute intervention but struggles with

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chronic disease, it's going to raise an interesting question.

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What systems of medicine were designed to manage long term health imbalance?

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When we look back through history, we find several traditions were built exactly for that

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purpose.

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Two of the most influential and two that I practice are Ayurvedic medicine, which

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originated back in India over three thousand years ago, and traditional Chinese medicine,

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which dates back more than twenty five hundred years.

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Now at first glance, these systems may seem completely different from modern Western

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medicine because they're gonna talk about concepts like qi or life energy, meridian

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pathways, doshas, yin and yang balance.

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And understandably, those concepts are abstract and can sound woo woo to most people.

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But when modern science began studying these practices more closely, something fascinating

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emerged.

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Many of these ancient frameworks were actually describing real biological processes just using

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a different language.

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So for example, take the practice of acupuncture.

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For centuries, acupuncture was explained through the movement of qi along meridian

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pathways.

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Modern research now shows that acupuncture can influence nervous system signaling,

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inflammation pathways, the release of endorphins, and blood flow regulation.

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And there's a review published in the Journal of Pain that found that acupuncture

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significantly reduces chronic pain conditions such as osteoarthritis, lower back pain

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compared to standard care.

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There's even functional MRI studies that have demonstrated that acupuncture can alter

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activity in the brain regions that are involved in pain perception.

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So another, awesome example is herbal medicine.

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Traditional Chinese medicine has used botanical compounds for thousands of years, many of which

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modern pharmacology has been based on.

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And so modern pharmacology has begun studying these herbs and identifying the compounds that

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influence physiological pathways.

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Great example, one that we use all the time, is berberine.

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Berberine is found in plants like coptus and goldenseal and has been shown in studies to

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significantly improve insulin sensitivity and blood sugar regulation.

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In fact, several studies found berberine to perform similarly, if not better, to the drug

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metformin in certain metabolic markers.

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Ayurvedic medicine offers another great example.

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It places an enormous emphasis on digestive health, something they refer to as agni or

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digestive fire.

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Modern medicine is now discovering that the gut microbiome plays a central role in immune

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regulation, inflammation, hormone metabolism, and brain function.

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And research published in Nature Reviews of Gastroenterology showed that disturbances in

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the gut microbiome are associated with conditions ranging from autoimmune disease to

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depression.

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So when Ayurvedic practitioners spent centuries focusing on digestion as the foundation of

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health, they were actually observing something very real, they just didn't yet have the tools

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to measure the gut microbiome.

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Another awesome principle that modern science has rediscovered is the importance of circadian

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rhythms.

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Traditional healing systems always long recommended aligning your daily routines with

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the natural cycles.

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Wake with the sunlight, eating during daylight hours, and sleeping shortly after sunset.

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Today, we know that the circadian rhythm can regulate hormones, metabolism, immune function,

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mitochondrial function.

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There is great research from the Salk Institute and Harvard Medical School that showed that

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circadian disruption, such as irregular sleep schedules or late night eating, significantly

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increases the risk of metabolic disease.

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So when we take a step back and look, something remarkable is aligned.

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Ancient medicine, through centuries of observation, recognized patterns that modern

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science is now beginning to understand through testing.

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And so these traditions were built around a central principle.

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Health is not the absence of disease.

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Health is the presence of balance within the body's systems.

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Maintaining that balance then requires daily practice that supports the body's natural and

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regulatory mechanisms.

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But while ancient medicine excelled at understanding patterns of health, it lacked

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what modern medicine excels at.

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Powerful technology.

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And that brings us to now the other side of this conversation.

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Alright.

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Welcome back.

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So let's get into the other side of the coin here, modern biohacking, regenerative medicine,

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high-tech interventions for influencing health.

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And over the last two decades, we've actually entered an era of medicine that honestly would

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have seemed unimaginable.

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We now have tools that allow us to directly influence biological signals inside the body.

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And these tools fall into what many people call the world of biohacking or regenerative

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medicine, but the goal is not hacking the body, it's stimulating the body's natural healing

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mechanisms that already exist.

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One of the most exciting developments is actually something called peptide therapy.

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And if you're not familiar, peptides are short chains of amino acids that act as signaling

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molecules throughout the body.

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Think of them as biological messengers.

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They're going to tell cells when to repair tissue, when to reduce inflammation, produce

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growth factors or growth hormone, or activate immune responses.

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Certain peptides have become particularly well known in regenerative medicine.

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For example, one of the most popular is BPC 157.

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This is a peptide originally derived from gastric proteins in the gut, has been studied

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for the ability to support the healing of tendons and ligaments and connective tissue.

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Animal studies in the Journal of Current Pharmaceutical Design and Peptides showed that

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BPC-one hundred fifty seven can accelerate healing in damaged muscle and tendon by

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enhancing angiogenesis, which is the formation of new blood vessels.

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Another awesome peptide is TB 500.

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This works by influencing protein called thymosin beta four, which plays a role in

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cellular migration and tissue repair.

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So these peptides aren't replacing your body's healing processes, your body is going to do

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that.

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They just amplify them and speed that process up.

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Then we have technology like soft wave therapy, something we work with a lot within our clinic,

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which is a form of acoustic wave therapy, similar to an ultrasound.

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Soft wave uses high energy sound waves to stimulate tissue repair.

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When these waves interact with the tissue, they create a biological response that is going to

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increase blood flow, increase stem cell activation, collagen production, and reduce

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inflammatory signaling.

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Clinical studies have also shown that acoustic wave therapy improves conditions such as

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plantar fasciitis, chronic tendon injuries, and joint pain.

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Another cool technology, something we use a lot as well, is PEMF or pulsed electromagnetic

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field therapy.

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So PEMF works by applying low frequency electromagnetic pulse to the body.

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These pulses, they influence cellular electrical activity and mitochondrial function.

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And there's research from the journal Bioelectromagnetics and Orthopedic Research

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shown PMF therapy improves bone healing, tissue regeneration, and inflammation reduction.

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In fact, PMF is FDA approved for bone fracture healing for the last decade.

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And what all these technologies have in common is that they aim to stimulate regenerative

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biology, so the body's ability to repair.

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They activate pathways that the body already possesses, but the critical point people miss

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is that they work best when the biological terrain is healthy.

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And so if someone has nutrient deficiencies, gut inflammation, metabolic dysfunction, they

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are having poor sleep or a high toxicity, a high burden of toxins in the body, their

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ability to respond to regenerative therapy is gonna be limited.

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So you can stimulate healing pathways, but if you lack the resources or the raw ingredients

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to execute those repairs, your progress will still be slow.

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This is often where we find that patients are missing when they're going through some type of

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healing journey.

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They have back pain, joint pain, knee pain, whatever it may be.

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They've been to chiropractors, physical therapists, all kind of stuff, massage therapy,

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and they get temporary relief but nothing's actually working.

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And that's because their internal system is not allowing their body to integrate that healing.

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And so the integration comes from using the wisdom of ancient systems to support the body's

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foundational balance, that's the internal, while using modern regenerative technology to

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accelerate that healing and recovery.

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When those two worlds come together, we see something remarkable.

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We move beyond treating disease and begin engineering resilience.

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And that is a term we use in our clinic all the time.

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We are trying to improve the body's resilience.

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How do we make it so that you don't need to do these things forever?

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Your body can then operate, manage, and do what it needs to do for a long period of time.

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And so the integration is where the future of medicine really lives, right?

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So now this is the most important idea of this entire episode, so if you take away nothing

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else, if ancient medicine provides wisdom about balanced lifestyle and prevention, and modern

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medicine provides powerful tools to stimulate healing and regeneration, then really the real

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breakthrough happens when these two systems are combined.

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Because one each because each one solves a problem that the other can't.

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Pause Kyle, let me redo that.

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Because each one solves a problem that the other cannot solve alone.

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Ancient healing traditions are going to excel at creating the right environment for health,

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focusing on things like sleep and circadian rhythm, breath and nervous system regulation,

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nutritional and digestive strength, using herbal compounds that support your physiology,

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movement practices, seasonal environmental alignment.

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In other words, they support what we call the biological terrain, the internal environment in

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which your cells live and operate.

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If that terrain is healthy, healing happens more easily.

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Think of it like this.

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You're trying to build a house or you're renovating a house, but the foundation, the the

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ground on which that house is built on is not appropriate.

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It's there's dysfunction to it.

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It's not healthy.

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You need to you need to basically work down to the the bones, and you need to reset that.

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You need to rebuild the foundation so that then your reno, your your build can be ideal.

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Because if the terrain is inflamed or toxic or metabolically dysfunctional, healing becomes

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difficult.

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This concept is actually supported by a lot of research too.

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And so, for example, I pulled this study published in Nature Reviews Immunology.

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It showed that chronic systemic inflammation disrupts nearly every major biological system

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in the body, including your hormones, your mitochondria, immune system, and tissue repair.

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So even if we introduce powerful therapies, things like soft wave, peptides, if the terrain

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is not prepared, they are not going to work as optimal.

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And this is where ancient medicine has enormous value because ancient systems, you know, they

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also had limitations.

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They lacked the ability to intervene quickly and precisely when the body needed stronger

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stimulation, and this is where then the modern regenerative medicine comes in.

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So here's a real world example, right?

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Imagine a patient dealing with chronic knee pain.

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We see this all the time.

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In a purely conventional model, the treatment pathway probably looks like this.

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They have pain, so they get an anti inflammatory medication, maybe an injection,

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they do some physical therapy, and they possibly have surgery.

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But in an integrative model, the thinking becomes much broader.

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First, I'm going ask some questions.

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Number one, is there structural damage in the joint?

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Number two, what is the inflammatory environment of the body?

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Number three, what is the regenerative capacity of the tissue?

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And number four: What lifestyle factors are possibly preventing healing?

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Now in an integrative model the treatment might look like this: Softwave therapy to stimulate

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tissue regeneration and stem cell activation.

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PEMF therapy to improve mitochondrial function and cellular signaling.

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Collagen and amino acid support to provide building blocks for connective tissue.

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Anti inflammatory nutrition to reduce systemic inflammation.

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Some powerful herbal compounds like curcumin or boswellia supporting that inflammatory balance,

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and then movement and mobility practice to restore biomechanics.

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Each of these interventions supports a different part of the healing process.

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The technology stimulates that regeneration, whereas the lifestyle and nutritional practices

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support the body's ability to execute that repair.

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Together then, the effect becomes much more powerful.

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Another example comes more in the let's think more on metabolic health.

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Somebody with metabolic syndrome, maybe they have insulin resistance, chronic inflammation,

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disrupted gut microbiome, poor sleep quality.

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In the conventional model, treatment might involve medications for blood sugar or

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cholesterol, but in an integrative model, we look at the entire system.

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We would probably combine advanced lab testing to understand metabolic signaling, targeted

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nutraceuticals to improve insulin sensitivity, gut restoration, circadian rhythm alignment,

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resistance training to improve glucose metabolism, and in some cases we may even use

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peptide therapies to support metabolic signaling and tissue repair.

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When these approaches are combined, the body begins to move back toward metabolic stability.

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What we often see in these cases is not just symptom relief, but a true shift in the

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underlying physiology.

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And we've seen it in our clinic, people go from type two diabetic diagnosed to non diagnosed.

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And this is what I believe is the future of medicine.

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It's going to look like this, not just pharmaceuticals, not just natural medicine, but

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precise integration where we use the best available science from every discipline to

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support the body's natural intelligence.

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Because the human body is not a machine with replaceable parts, although some may think

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that.

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It's an incredibly complex biological ecosystem, And ecosystems thrive when the right

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conditions are created.

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The concept is sometimes referred to as systems medicine or integrative longevity medicine.

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The goal is not simply to extend lifespan, the goal is to extend health span.

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And this is where the mental shift needs to happen.

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We don't just want to live longer if living longer means we're going to be in a chair and

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indolent, but we want to be healthy longer.

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Even if we don't live as long, can we live as well as we can into those older years?

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And to help people maintain physical strength and metabolic resilience, cognitive clarity,

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structural integrity, and emotional balance for as long as possible.

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And so when we zoom out, what we can see is something remarkable happening in health care

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right now, and I do believe that at Ascend Functional Health we are on the forefront of

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this, because modern science is beginning to validate what ancient traditions already knew.

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Health is not just about treating disease, it's about maintaining balance across systems of the

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body.

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And so what we do is we combine modern diagnostics, regenerative technology,

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nutritional biochemistry with the ancient lifestyle principles.

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We create a model of medicine that is far more powerful than either system alone.

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And this is where we're headed.

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In many ways, we're we're only at the beginning of this transition because the more we learn

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about the human biology, the clearer it becomes that the body already possesses incredible

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healing capabilities.

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And we are learning every single day.

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Our job is simply to remove the obstacles and provide the right signals.

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When we do that consistently, the body often responds in ways that can be remarkable.

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And so in closing, that was a lot of depth to that that episode, and and I hope this is

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something that can help change the way that you're thinking, help give you a shift in your

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mindset as to how you approach your health and your balance of your systems.

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And if we zoom out and look at the trajectory over the next twenty or thirty years, the

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systems that will dominate are those that combine advanced diagnostics, regenerative

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tech, and personalized nutrition with the ancient healing principles.

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And not just because it's trendy, but because it works.

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And the future of medicine is not just about treating your disease, but again, about

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engineering resilience, helping your body maintain strength, clarity, musculoskeletal

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integrity, and immune intelligence for as long as possible.

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