Dr. Vishal Patel
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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Oh, sure. To describe what it is, it's a wellness retreat, but even that doesn't do justice to the place and the experience. It was a vision that our co-founders, Larry Ellison and David Agus, had. It was the passing of a close friend, Steve Jobs, that really made them realize that the world needs...
spaces where even the best and brightest can feel safe and get trusted, vetted advice about their health and wellness. And I think that's probably what you experienced at Lanai, that it feels like a place where you can let your guard down, where you can You, you can, you can feel safe.
You can have space to wander and you have experts, which are really hidden gems that a lot of people don't expect, but we have brilliant, brilliant minds and hearts on Lanai that can guide our guests to greater wellbeing. It's, it's something special.
We are now three as of last week. Yeah, we just opened our first international location in Cabo with the Ritz Carlton Reserve in Mexico.
Yeah, we call it the Optimal Wellbeing Program.
Yeah, we often describe it as like a prescription or a bootcamp or a regimen. I know I'm really familiar with, you know, maybe like the ranch in Malibu and places like that where it can feel a little, yeah, very restrictive. Yes, that's right.
That's right.
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah. And in a nutshell, it's because the scientific evidence doesn't support rules for living life. So when we looked at the scientific literature, my, my team and our co-founders for what results in say healthy eating, just as one example, you know, we focus on movement, rest, but just taking food and nourishment.
But when you take a rules-based approach to eating, where there's a certain list of foods you can eat and then a very long list of foods you can't eat, in the psychology literature, what happens inevitably with every cohort, every population, is that as soon as you're given that naughty list of foods, your mind very naturally starts wanting to eat those things.
So then you start feeling these cravings and this desire that has an emotional impact. You start feeling guilty for wanting those things. You start punishing yourself for avoiding those things. And then in a few weeks to months, you fall off the wagon. So with every diet, paleo, keto, anything that's considered healthy,
a diet where you're following a set of rules, you end up having this yo-yo behavior where people end up latching onto a diet thinking it's going to be the end all be all. They fall off and then they revert back to their old ways and old habits. And then they find the next fad diet and then they latch onto that.
and so sensei didn't want to perpetuate that not only is it an unsustainable approach to living it's not good for you you end up with a slightly disordered relationship with food where you use food as punishment and reward it's it's not healthy for us in the long run and so that's why it's open-ended it's kind of more like a choose your own adventure rather than a boot camp where we're going to tell you what to do
And I know what you mean. We get a lot of guests that show up and say, okay, so tell me what to eat. Tell me when to wake up. Tell me when to sleep. Where are my supplements? Just tell me what to do. But longevity and wellness don't work like that. It's about the choices you make and learning to teach yourself to be more intentional with those choices.
And so that's why Sensei was designed in that way.
I'm with you. Yeah, I'm a big proponent of almost food as medicine. I studied Ayurvedic medicine in India, which is, you know, that's kind of a central tenet of that system of thought. But on the flip side, telling someone what to eat removes the joy out of food, removes the sensory appreciation from food.
And what we recognize is that, no, the sensory aspect of eating is just as important as the macronutrients on your plate. It has to look pretty. It has to be presented beautifully. There's a certain pace to eating that needs to be synchronized with your gastronomy. So you actually are salivating before you eat.
And so we take all that into consideration to introduce a more intentional approach to eating.
Yeah, so that sounds like Eduardo.
Yeah.
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