Boomer Anderson
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Podcast Appearances
I think it does some things well.
I think health as its core is something that like true health is not something that does well, but they asked me to take a statin and come back in 10 years.
And that just didn't sit well with me and actually set me off.
on this exploration for what is health.
And so that is really how the whole through line of challenging the process is kind of carried over from finance into health.
So the doctor, I was living in Singapore at the time and I've had the great fortune of living overseas for 14 years, have been to over 65 countries at this point.
And done business in many of them.
And I remember going into the doctor's office and nobody expected this to happen.
It was one of those things where I was doing CrossFit six times a week.
At that point, my goal was to really look good naked, right?
And so I had sub 10% body fat.
I wasn't really the archetype of what people think of when they think of cardiovascular disease.
And so you can imagine I'm sitting there at the doctor's office and the doctor's opening up these files.
Doctor clearly hasn't looked at it because I'm usually the patient that like a doctor can skip over because they know everything is fine.
And so he opens it up and he starts going through the test results.
OK, OK, OK.
And then that page comes up and.
So I'll bleep myself here, but his reaction, his name's Dr. Stephen Tucker.
He's still a good friend and he runs a great clinic in Singapore.