Brigham Buhler
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5 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 27 Feb
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Again, what he did, crazy, zero justification for it. I'm not supporting or condoning it in any way. It's tragic and it's terrible. Anytime somebody, the loss of human life.
Right now, more Americans are dying every year of chronic disease than every war America's fought combined. In every war America's ever fought, we've lost around 1.2 million lives. We lose 1.7 million Americans a year to chronic disease. It's at an all-time high. Like we said earlier, chronically ill, chronically depressed, chronically obese.
Everyone is being profiteered off of their death and destruction and diseases. And all the while, UnitedHealthcare doubled their stock price, $373 billion in revenue last year, printing money off the backs of Americans. And even Luigi's an example. Let's look at that, a spine injury. This spine injury is debilitating. The exact injury you had can cause like shooting pain into the extremities.
It feels like your hands are on fire. In men, it can shoot into the genitals and cause sexual dysfunction where you literally feel like your genitals are on fire. On average, it takes three months to get in with the primary care. And so if I walk you through a typical patient with that injury, I'm begging the insurance. I'm trying to get into a primary.
Well, I have to go to the primary that's approved by my insurance and that's on the plan. Now I get in with the primary. The primary says, oh, sorry, I don't do, you know, orthopedics. I'm going to have to refer you to a specialist. Takes you another three months to get in with a specialist. Now you get in with a specialist. They go, I can't really do anything without the insurance's approval.
And I don't really know what to do without an MRI. So now you battle to get an MRI. Typically, you're going to have a huge out-of-pocket expense on that.
Correct. And so it's six to nine months on average before you ever get an answer if you're even going to be able to get into the surgery. And now you go into the surgery and you're finally going to get your day of relief. And the insurance company goes, no, you're not allowed to go to that surgeon. They're not on our plan. We want you to go to this surgeon.
And so then they tell you what surgeon to go to. And then you're left with another huge out-of-pocket expense of a mega co-payer deductible, oftentimes north of $10,000 that you, the patient, are left on the hook with. And then you don't even get to choose your clinician.
And then if that surgeon botches the surgery, which is apparently what happened in his instance, it can cause lifelong erectile dysfunction. It can cause lifelong phantom pain into the limbs, a cascade of issues. So you're miserable, you're angry, you're suffering, and you've been jacked around by the insurance company for a year.
And that's unfortunately the story of so many Americans that people are frustrated and they're angry and rightfully so. Again, all-time profits for big insurance, but at the same time, all-time fatalities in the United States of chronic disease. You know, people dying of chronic disease, 1.7 trillion Americans died.
Well, what I tell people is you have to change. You have to paradigm shift. And I hate to say this, but you've got to look at the insurance company like you look at your car insurance. It's there if you wreck the car.
It's there in the event of something catastrophic. But if you're expecting your car insurance to rotate your tires, change the oil, look under the hood, and maintain the vehicle, you're going to be sorely disappointed when you blow the motor out. And this system is not built to prevent chronic disease and to drive healthspan and longevity.
I can't go to that doctor.
And the challenge with that is you're putting, I try to say this as politely as possible. If you put yourself in the hands of the average insurance company and you go to the average primary care, don't be surprised when you die of the average chronic American disease. Because the system is built to fail you. And you can wish in one hand and s*** in the other and see what fills up first.
But I promise you, you're going to get screwed. The system is not built to prevent chronic disease to drive health span. But the beauty is... It doesn't cost that much. It really doesn't. In the grand scheme of life, if you could even get a comprehensive blood test like you did once a year, ideally quarterly in a dream world, but everyone's budget's different. How much do you spend on a car?
How much do you spend on a mattress? How much do you spend on your house? You are only in those things a few hours a day. This is it. You get one body your whole life. This is our one chance to live our dreams, you know, retire healthy, go on adventures. Like, let's protect this.
And I'm sure you've had clinicians on your show that will talk about, you know, we have genetics and we have epigenetics. Yes. Epigenetics are the gun. Your diet, lifestyle, and choices are the bullets. You don't have to put the bullets in the gun. And if we run a workup on you and look at your biomarkers, we can guide you to avoid putting the bullets in the gun because we know your epigenetics.
We know your family history. We know your genetics. We know your biomarkers and your trends. We know where you're headed and we can get truly proactive and predictive. Like I'm an example, brother's diabetic, sister's diabetic, dad's diabetic, mom's diabetic. Everyone in my family is chronically ill and obese.
Yeah.
My dad just says, I'm going to die fat and happy. Yes. And I hate to say it, like, my dad, now he's, what, 67? And he's not fat and happy. He's fat and miserable. He's in and out of the hospital, kidney failure, chronic disease. You know, you always think it's not going to happen to you, but it is. It's coming. death is coming for all of us.
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