Brigham Buhler
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard 27 Feb
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But if we stay healthy and we stay active, we can prevent it. We can live to be healthy, happy centenarians. We really can with AI algorithms and large language models. Like the vision of the future for me is we're monitoring you 24 seven. Like at Ways to Well, we tie into wearables. We monitor your REM sleep, your deep sleep.
If I have your VO2 max and a DEXA combined with your blood work, I can literally algorithm out the risk of all major chronic diseases and where you fall on that scale. And we can get strategic. Think of it like a report card. I need to assess your overall health because I know where you're going to trend, Alex.
I know after the age of 60, as a petite woman, you're going to have a bone mineral density decline. That's just common fact, but I can slow that BMD decline. Why is that important? One of the biggest risk factors for petite women over the age of 65 is a bone fracture. If you get a bone fracture like a hip or a vertebrae, it limits your ability to work out, stay active and stay healthy.
Step by step, we can methodically eliminate each of these risk factors, indirectly driving healthspan and then buying time as we innovate and create, you know, in 20 years, imagine how different healthcare will be. In my mind, you will never go to a doctor again. Everything will be from the comfort of your own home.
Exactly what I said. I tell them view it as car insurance. It's there if something catastrophic happens, like you need insurance. If you get if you have a heart attack, if you like, there's big expenditures that come up where you need that catastrophic care. But I personally don't use insurance at all for preventative because they don't do prevent it.
I would tell people choose a plan that's there for catastrophic care, but budget allowing, you should at least try to take yourself out of the matrix once a year, like at minimal. Go somewhere where you can pay a cash pay clinic and it should be under $500.
You know, for a comprehensive blood panel, an hour on the phone with a clinician, deep diving into everything at the biological level, it'll blow your mind. how much more data and information you will get when you're not at a regular primary. And it's not your primary care's fault. They are in a system that restricts their ability to do anything.
On average, a primary care in America has six minutes with you. Six minutes. They can't do anything in six minutes.
Yes.
They prescribe you a drug and they push you out the door because that's what they were taught to do.
Well, what's tough is they're all not good. Right. Because they're all for profit.
But they're unfortunately like a necessity because of something catastrophic, right? The average person can't afford a million dollar spine surgery. Like there's an event that could happen where you need these insurance companies. And that's where they obstruct and try and prevent your accessibility to care. I don't know what the future holds for that. It's pretty terrifying.
If you look at how much money is being made off the federal government, like Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, what a lot of people don't understand is those aren't governmental payer programs anymore. The government outsourced those to who? The big five insurance companies. So even the governmental institutions are getting price gouged.
And how they negotiate those rates and show the government they're saving them money is they just, so they set the drug price of every drug in America. People don't understand that. UnitedHealthcare, Cigna, Aetna set the drug price. So when people go, why in the hell are these weight loss drugs so expensive? Your insurance company set the price.
They negotiated the average wholesale price. Then they show the federal government, hey, federal government, this drug's costing the average employer a thousand a month. But because you're the federal government, we'll sell it to you for $900 a month.
I do think those are better approaches. And I do think that it's nuanced and, you know, the devil's in the details. And that's why I'm not trying to dodge your question. But like even Blue Cross literally has thousands of plans.
So I could tell you Blue Cross has got a good plan, but you got to look at it's unique to you, your family, how old are your kids, how old are you, what chronic diseases are in your family, what kind of catastrophic events could be in your future, you know, and then does that plan have big out of, like if I'm a 20 year old kid, I may be a lot more comfortable with a big out of pocket expense because I'm not planning on a surgery.
Right. But if I'm a 55 year old woman, you know, with osteoporosis, you know, osteopenia in the early phases, I may want to have better surgical protection because I'm probably headed towards that, unfortunately. But my main thing is don't trust any of these guys.
Like, you know how you know where you're at health wise is you pay cash with a clinician that is not tied to an insurance company that can guide you and have honesty and integrity with no conflicts that can take the time to sit down and dive deep into your unique genetic makeup, epigenetics, blood work, all of these variables and truly develop a game plan to get predictive and proactive.
Yeah. The main thing is, well, we're in Arizona. So for your listener base here, there's a lot of great clinics throughout Arizona. This is one of the states that does practice a lot of preventative medicine. So does California. So does Colorado. Um, ways to well, our practice is, uh, I think in 37 States, we're working diligently to go nationwide.
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