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The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice.
Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD
One topic that’s been generating a lot of buzz in the health and fitness realms lately is Zone 2 training. Maybe you’ve heard of it.
As a physician interested in health multipliers, I’m always on the lookout for more effective ways to help members optimize their health and longevity. So, I thought it was time to document some early thoughts on the subject.
What exactly is Zone 2 training, what are its benefits, and is it relevant to you?
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The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice.
Subscribe and explore:
https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD
As a concierge doctor, I’m committed to helping my patients live their longest, healthiest lives. What that comes down to is taking every action possible to delay chronic disease, especially metabolic disease.
Why metabolic disease? Simple. This one disease leads to many of the top killers of humans today, such as heart disease, cancer, and dementia.
To prevent these chronic diseases, we need to take control of our metabolic health. One of the most important ways to do that is through our dietary habits.
Don’t worry; I’m not here to prescribe some new restrictive meal plan that takes all the joy out of life. Instead, I want to share three simple dietary habits you can implement this year to improve your metabolic health and keep chronic illness at bay.
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The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice.Subscribe and explore:https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMDNearly everyone practices a little goal-setting in January.The new year is a reasonable time to reflect on the past and set new goals for the future. Yet it’s practically a proverb that these resolutions don’t last past the first month or two as we fall back into old patterns.Why is that? Is it a lack of motivation? Of discipline? What’s the solution?The answer may surprise you.
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The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice.Subscribe and explore:https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMDAs parents, one of the greatest privileges we have is the opportunity to shape our children into the people we hope they’ll become.Recently on my podcast, I had an enlightening discussion about the core virtues I aim to impart to my two sons as they journey through childhood into adulthood. I want to share some of my reflections here in hopes that they may spark your own thinking about what truly matters most in life.
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The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice.Subscribe and explore:https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMDWe discuss a lot of cutting-edge topics on the Future of Medicine podcast. Maybe one day we’ll discuss a cure for cancer, but until then, I want to talk about the excellent and widely available screenings available right now for some of the most common cancers.Unfortunately, not everyone takes advantage of these early detection methods. Though many of us say it’s due to busyness, in reality, fear is a driving factor.You don’t know what you don’t know, and it can seem better to remain in the dark. However, my colleague Jen Justus and I want to bring to light the life-saving importance of regular cancer screenings.
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If you consume any amount of alcohol, this is a conversation about how to think about it.We’re not here to bash alcohol or suggest you become a teetotaler. We want you to be thoughtful about why you consume it and how it affects your body and mind. Because if you have health goals — and if you’re having trouble meeting them — you’re probably underestimating the effects of alcohol on your progress.
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Weight loss is one of the most frequent conversations we have in our practice. Our members are never short on questions, concerns, frustration, and confusion, and I’m here for it.
In our society, diet and fitness have almost taken on a cult-like status, with strict rules and regulations guiding the pursuit of transcendence (e.g., the beach body).
As the science of weight loss has evolved, so too has our conviction about the most important factors that facilitate weight loss. Here, we’re taking an up-to-date look at these top weight-loss factors and sharing some insights gained from personal experience. -
They say no news is good news, but that isn’t always true.When it comes to dementia, we very much want there to be news. We’ve spent the last 25–30 years searching for a cure — or even a treatment — but it continues to elude us.While we can’t treat Alzheimer’s at this time, if we can identify it early, we might be able to slow it down long enough to see a medical breakthrough on a therapeutic level. For now, our goal is to arm you with information so you and your doctor can manage your risk factors.
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As someone who’s navigating my own cardiovascular risk profile along with those of my patients, I’m excited to share with you the three cutting-edge diagnostic and therapeutic tools you need to know about in 2023 for cardiovascular risk reduction.
But first, let’s rewind: what exactly is heart disease? -
If you’ve read our blog or listened to our podcast before, you’ve heard Jen and I talk about metabolic syndrome as a significant contributor to disease and an antagonist to longevity.This topic is so significant that we’ll dedicate this entire post to it, answering questions like: What is metabolic syndrome? How do you diagnose metabolic syndrome? Can you reverse metabolic syndrome? How do you treat metabolic syndrome?
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To really make significant progress in optimizing our health, we have to learn to recover better. And by that, I mean we need to learn to sleep better. Because the most important aspect of recovery in the human experience is sleep.To be clear, this post isn’t an instruction manual on how to sleep better, though we’ve covered some best practices for sleep improvement in the past. This post is a look at sleep as the number one contributor to an optimal health journey, and why we may have been thinking about it all wrong for too long.
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This month, my podcast copilot Jen Justus and I get into part two of our three-part series, “The Three Pillars of Health.”
Part two is a subject we’re both deeply passionate about: how we need to move our bodies in the physical fitness journey toward our best self. That’s the reason we exercise: we deserve those results. -
This month, my podcast copilot Jen Justus and I cover part one of a three-part series I’m calling “The Three Pillars of Health.”
Here in part one, we discuss eating — a vitally important topic that really hits home for both Jen and I. Specifically, we take an in-depth look at how we should feed our bodies and how to optimize our diet. -
Parenting oneself is an incredibly powerful and rich concept introduced in previous episodes by this month’s podcast guest, Dr. Brian Hooper — psychotherapist, pastoral counselor extraordinaire, and dear friend of mine. Together, we dug deep to discover further application, beauty, and power in this subject.Parenting yourself may not be what you think, but it’s more than what you expect.If you’d like to learn more about Dr. Hooper and his work, be sure to check out his website.https://drbrianhooper.com/
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In today’s episode, host Dr. Aaron Wenzel sits down with his new colleague, Dr. Craig Wright. Dr. Wright recaps his medical journey and explains how his practice has changed since joining Brentwood MD.
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At Brentwood MD, we talk a lot about the latest and greatest options for health care. Here, my fantastic podcast copilot, Jen Justus, and I review the basic screening tests you need to get for three of the most common cancers: breast, prostate, and colon. These tests are readily available, inexpensive, and don’t require a fancy concierge service.
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In this month’s podcast, Jen Justus and I discuss the risks AND benefits of alcohol and how to evaluate them in relation to your health.
I want to provide you with a framework to have an honest conversation with yourself about your health goals and how alcohol factors in.
No matter how much you drink, you should know both the risks and the benefits of drinking alcohol. -
This month, my podcast copilot Jen Justus and I talk about a modern-day epidemic. It’s a disease that’s become so common in the United States that we’ve almost normalized it — a dangerous development that keeps us from talking about just how harmful this disease is.
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In this month’s podcast, Jen Justus and I aren’t helping people become dementia experts — because even the experts are still confused. Instead, we provide some framework for how to think about this important topic, information about what dementia is, and how we diagnose it using dementia diagnostic tests.
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