In 1973, the human cadaver pro-section lab at Stanford University was housed in a small one-story building off to the side of the main campus. One of the few structures that had survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. You walked in and the smell hit you — formaldehyde, thick
Six years earlier, I had done something similar in Seattle. A program called the Cardio-metabolic Reboot through P4 Medicine (Predictive, Preventive, Personalized, and Participatory) — a full-day comprehensive workup, blood panels, imaging, specialist consultations, the works. It cost $5,200. This past March, I did it again. In El
Every time I tell a doctor I'm on zero medications, I get the same look. Eyebrows up. A pause. Then: "That's remarkable." It shouldn't be remarkable. But apparently it is. The average American over 65 is on four long-term prescription medications.