John Goldman

Where does it start for you?

Where does it end?

And from there, I think we have a place to go.

Yeah, for sure.

And I think it's useful to step back and to really think about the big picture here and where even the concepts of health optimization came from and why.

In the U.S.

at least,

the healthcare system here is terrible.

All it does is it processes you through a seven minute thing with very limited diagnostic testing, very little prevention, very little forward thinking work.

They wait for you to get sick.

Odds are they're going to put you on a pill.

Say, call me in a year.

Nothing about the existing healthcare system is set up to generate health in you.

And that's a very purposeful division that happened back in the 30s in the United States with this thing called the Fleckner Report.

And what it did was it separated the treatment of disease and the generation of health into two different fields.

And so the treatment of disease is what you get from your traditional doctor here in the U.S., while the generation of health was relegated or handed off to the public health professionals.

And these are the people that are looking at the population health and trying to come up with strategies to make the population healthier.

That has been an abject failure, as evidenced by the ever-increasing obesity rates and diabetes rates in the United States, where you look around and basically like three out of four people are obese.

Varying levels of obesity.

And so there's just this horrible distortion in the market where you're going to the guy that you think is going to make you healthier, but all he is really doing is treating your disease when you come in the door and nothing else.