Danny Jones

And the reason I was doing it was candidly, like to paraphrase all of it, I saw that the ship was sinking

And I knew the only way to fix this was to build a life raft.

And in my mind, the life raft was to get proactive, predictive and preventative.

You've got to take yourself out of the broken health care system because under every rock I looked under in that system, there was another rattlesnake.

It was terrifying what I saw from the surgical market to the drug rep market, to the care that patients got, to the collusion of industry, to the power that they had over the hospitals.

people think that if they have insurance and they trust the system that they're going to be taken care of and it's unfortunate because i've said this before but like if you use insurance and you go to the average primary care in america and you get the average blood work and you get on the average medication don't be surprised when you die of the average chronic disease right

The system's not built to prevent, it's built to monetize and profiteer off chronic disease.

And that's just the facts.

yeah what are you talking about like but how do those people know any of this stuff when they're seeing 100 patients a day yeah and that that model shifted when i was when i started out as a drug rep that was the first thing i saw the clinicians went from seeing from knowing the mother the father the family you know traveling to that house with their little leather bag and they had a vested interest in you and they had a patient population of maybe a hundred people

and as soon as the insurance companies took over health care it went to where the average primary care has to see 40 plus patients a day on average in america they have six minutes with a patient and the reason these numbers are important is how in the hell can i ever prevent your diabetes if i can't take a look under the hood if i can't do a diagnostic workup that allows me to see where you're headed so rather than waiting for you to become diabetic

Like what we do at Waze 12 today is because we're in a cash pay model, you and I were talking right before we got on the air, for $500, we can do a comprehensive blood work.

We can do a DEXA scan.

We can do a VO2 max.

We can do a full clinical workup.

We can hook you up to an EEG and assess brain waves.

If you come in depressed, anxiety-ridden, overweight at a primary care practice, and they have six minutes with you, the first thing they're gonna do is reach for the tool in their tool belt that's available, and that tool's a prescription drug.

And that is why the average American is on four or more prescription drugs.

We are the most chronically ill developed nation in the world, in the history of the world.

But we have some of the lowest lifespan expectations, even lower healthspan expectations.

At the end of the day, you know,