Dr. Jeff Bland

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The Dr. Hyman Show · How Jeff Bland Reversed His Biological Age at 79 (Part 1) · 28 May 2025 podcast

It has a different effect than does polyflavin-3-ols like quercetin, which then influences a different collection of immunological principles. So it's the combination of this portfolio that gives rise to the harmony that we call the orchestra of our biology.

So how do we... I think about these phytochemicals in that way, and I think... Can I just say, I want to celebrate that for a moment. That's a drop the mic. What you just said, I hope everybody who's listening to this podcast is picking up. This is a seminal change in thinking in nutrition, what you just stated. Bruce Ames, God rest his soul, he just recently passed away, our

extraordinary contributor to our field, had this triage theory. The triage theory is just like what you're saying, that there are different levels of insufficiency. A triage is like the worst on the battlefield is the person dying and you immediately need something to keep them alive. Then there is the people that are on the road to dying, but still kind of maybe second tier.

Then there are the people that are early on that are just maybe suffering minor injuries. That is the way that nutrition can be seen. Depending on where that person's status is, if you want to get to a completely well person, you want to be off the triage system.

You know, my first real job was an academic position in 1970 on Earth Day. The University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, was in search of a chemist that would be in their department, but they wanted to start an environmental science department. And so they hired this kid, me. I was 25 years of age, just finished my postdoc.

I was to start in an environmental science program as well as being... an organic nutritional biochemist. Over the years, that ultimately got me to meet some extraordinary people.

Because of my speaking in the environmental science side, I was involved with ecology, I was involved with soil health, I was involved with environmental pollution studies that we were doing on air pollution-related sulfur oxides in the largest copper smelter in the Pacific Northwest, the so-called Osarco smelter, which we eventually were able to get shut down in Tacoma, Washington.

And so all of this together then ultimately got me introduced to a wide variety of different people. And it reminded me that I need to learn across multiple disciplines if I'm going to be involved in this field.

What happened to me was one of those moments, and you've had these in your life, I know, a seismic unexpected event. I had, by that time, gotten a second job in the night. I was a clinical director of a medical laboratory. I was a part owner of the Bellevue Redmond Medical Lab that was serving the only nutrition-focused physician in Seattle, Washington, Lee Bowles.

I was in our laboratory one day in Bellevue, Washington, and our receptionist came back into the lab and she said, so Jeff, we have a visitor, actually two visitors, Dr. Linus Pauling and Dr. Emile Zuckerkandl, who is the director of the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine in Palo Alto. And it just blew me away.

Was he ever. Orthomolecular medicine is what he discovered or he founded. Much to my surprise, he said, you know, Jeff, I've listened to a couple of your lectures. I've read your research papers. I'd really like to maybe have you come and spend a sabbatical year or two with us at our institute and to run some research projects. down at our facility near Stanford.

That was a life-changing experience. That was 1981. Meeting he and his wife, Eva Helen, really was a life changer because I recognized that there was much more to this than just the science. These were stewards of the universe. They were broad thinkers. They had friends.

You can imagine the dignitaries that came in, artists and politicians and poets and all sorts of people visited the Institute that I had a vicarious opportunity to meet. So it changed my whole thing.

And so what happened to me at that point, and I think this set me on the path and ultimately led into the functional medicine model, was on my way home, after I finished my two years, my family was in the car. I had my box with my stuff from my office, which was next to his office in the Pauling Institute. And as I was walking out, he said, so Jeff, do you think your classroom is big enough?

And I thought, wow, what does that mean? And I got in the car now to drive 1,100 miles home, and I finally recognized what he was asking me. I went in. My parents had been very kind to look at our house and keep watch over it while we were gone over the two years. We sat down, and I said, so I just have some news that I want to relate to you.

And by the way, my father kind of lived vicariously with me as a professor because I think he would always have liked to have been a professor himself. So he kind of liked me in that position. I said, so I've come to a conclusion, and that is I'm giving up my tenured faculty position to start an adventure to help doctors understand how to apply nutritional medicine in their practice. Crazy.

You could have heard a pin drop.

It was like a total silence. Then my mother broke the silence. She said, Jeff is very impetuous, but when he makes up his mind, I think he's probably serious. So my dad then said, if you're going to do this, it sounds like you are, then I better come out of retirement because I do have an accounting background. I know something about business. You know nothing about business.

And, you know, you're giving up the security, college education being paid for for your kids, your mortgage, your house and everything. So, you know, you're going to have to make a living. Away we went. My dad was my business manager. My mother was a copy editor. My wife was corporate development. And we started down the road.

to have me going out and start to help docs understand how this all fits together, really spreading the news from Linus Pauling Orthomolecular Medicine and then ultimately into the functional medicine model.

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