Why The Ultra-Rich Get WORSE Healthcare
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Sometimes knowing too much about your body is a recipe for disaster. In this video I explore how the promise of functional medicine--that we can test our way to optimal health--can lead to unnecessary medical procedures and, in some cases, even death. I also examine three ways that rich people shorten their lifespans by seeking out what they believe is the best care possible.
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Adam Rodman MD
Kian Modanlou MD
Rohin Francis MD @MedlifeCrisis
Alec Baldwin
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Yes, please do a video on Johnson! He's so creepy looking!😮
Please do a video on the functional Medicine. I saw several videos by Dr Mark Hyman that, like you said, sounds completely reasonable. I live in southwest Florida and googled the practices listed in his directory (located in major high income cities) and saw mixed reviews and vague certifications.
The radiation exposure from too many diagnostic exrays can cause cancer.
First rule of Dunning Kruger club: You don't know you're in Dunning Kruger club.
😂
Brian Johnson looks like Norma Desmond in "Sunset Boulevard" waiting for her close-up.
Good one. Now that you mention it I can totally see it.
It’s so funny, the older I’m getting the more I’m grateful that I was broke when younger. If I was well off, I’d had several plastic surgeries done in my twenties and I would have gone through every medical screening procedure in existence to make sure I’m okay. You bet they would find something to fix, something that possibly wouldn’t need fixing. I even regret doing the DNA testing, it’s not as accurate as one might think in predicting disease but it sure makes you scared if something looks a little off. I’m not saying go ignore it if something is wrong but a friend of mine who’s a doctor said how as students they were doing postmortems and it was not rare to find old lumps, cysts and tumours in people who died of other causes or old age but they were never diagnosed because they didn’t go to the doctor. She advised me against screenings unless symptomatic.
My 100 year old mother went to hospital with pneumonia and while there a lump in her breast was found. The decision was made not to investigate as treatment would likely kill her given her other medical problems and the fact that actuarial tables are most unkind to centenarians. I do wonder why she is on a statin though because what benefit given a short life wick she is on. That may apply to other drugs too.
It appears that the secret to a happier, healthier and longer life is to acknowledge that you will eventually die. I believe that the some people may have missed that memo as evident by their rampant greed.
100% Recognizing the reality of life is the first step to living a good one.
@@sgcarneyyou're the best!🎉😊❤
Agree completely
Yup. You can't take it with you & trying to stop the will blind you so won't enjoy today
Instructions unclear, became a lich king.
Don't be ridiculous... Johnston won't extend his life into perpetuity... these tech nerds are fantasists
Johnston looks awful.... ghoulish imo
Vampire vibes... from his teenage son's plasma 🤮
Yeah, delusion is a helluva drug... But one that those with too much money can afford - well, financially, at least.
I don't think this is what he is trying to do... He is trying to be controversial to make people listen...
I admire Johnson for not giving up, he's struggling against the cruelty of time. Taking on such a seemingly insurmountable challenge is admirable. Once we're past 25 society just expects us to give up on ourselves, be a good little work-ant for the following 40 years and then die so we don't cause any costs. He refuses to and that is admirable. I would bet it also serves him well psychologically and in turn physically. How many 46 year olds do you know that still have hope left in their hearts? He does and hope is a hell of a factor when it comes to staying alive.
I'm older than Johnson and full of hope albeit with some trepidation. Nothing but hope for myself but trepidation for my children as it's pretty obvious the next generation is going to have a much harder time of it than mine. We're heading into a distinctly two tier society where those with property wealth will be able to pass it down to their children along with the direction, motivation and knowledge to succeed. And those stuck in a rut will fail to do either and their children will have low living standards.
But for me alone I'm incredibly optimistic about the next 50 years. I aim to be running marathons when I'm 80, keeping my independence, playing golf 4 times per week, being out on my bike, watching classic movies and just having a great time. I just need to free myself of having to sit in front of a computer for 35 hours per week.
I don’t think obsessing over your health is the best way to spend your time. Being a workaholic is not the only alternative you’ve created a false dichotomy. Having an athletic hobby as a core, part of your life is a good strategy to live well though.
@@NickLopezz of all the things a person could do I think the one hobby that you could respect and leave alone is people who take care of their health. Yeah some of the things he does is extreme. But I'm glad I get to see what he's doing "to tickle my fancy," but that most of it is impractical.
I just calculated my nutrition to have 25% soluble fiber with 5 grams going to prebiotic fiber daily. I feel satisfied. And who knows it might even boost my health. I'm taking accountability so nobody has to push me in a stroller.
You already know you went too far with your health (sun damage, drugs, unprotected sex) so you're going to shun anybody who still has hope. At the end of the day dude is an "entertainer," and he's making money off it too selling you supplements (and who knows what else). I know he makes more money than you. So in my book he's the winner.
@@appleuploads972 So I will die of (checks notes) drinking coffee, having a gf and going outside 🤣
As someone with a chronic medical condition, can confirm, some doctors are dicks
As a medic I was thought by a senior that "special treatment is inferior treatment"
yes, please interview Bryan Johnson. He seems like a pretty open and transparent person. I’d be very interested in hearing you two talk about these issues!
@@alexhdw He's clearly a scam artist
@@garry8390 Scot or Bryan?
@@Gulroeg Bryan
@@garry8390 How is he "clearly" a scam artist?
@@philosopher2king He sells supplement subscriptions for 100's/month. The first rule of longevity is to stop consuming all poisons. ALL fruits & vegetables produce poisons to protect them from predation which is why we cook and breed them to be remotely edible. Meat, fish, eggs and dairy do not contain defense chemicals as they can run or swim away to avoid being eaten and meat specifically is the only food that contains all the nutrients a person needs to survive without exception while plants pale in comparison. So if you want to live long ditch the veggies and the snake oil salesmen and just stick to meat, fish, eggs and some dairy.
Perfect is the enemy of good
When medical practitioners are no longer making dramatically dreadful mistakes, there will no longer be a need for the extremely expensive insurance they currently have to carry. We have a long way to go.
they'll do much much better if they can work 40 hour weeks and have 28 days of holiday a year, not including two days off every week.
What a great video. I’m an internal medicine physician in Australia and I hadn’t thought of this vip syndrome before but it rings true. I see rich people getting a lot of profitable needless surgeries and interventions in the private system, that wouldn’t be deemed appropriate in the public system where decisions are based on need not want. Also that longevity guy from the beginning looks scary, yikes!
Glad it was helpful!
This is phenomenal. Man, the quality of your content is off the charts!
Best video yet. Lots to think about and eye opening even for people who have some behind the curtain knowledge.
Yes, please interview Bryan Johnson. Tell him about my grandfather, who lived to 104, never developed dementia or became wheelchair-bound, hardly ever got sick as child and adult. He rarely exercised, but enjoyed walks in the park, "eat anything I want, just not too much" (he was never obese or overweight). He had lots of friends (was a beloved MD) and was always friendly and cheerful. Most important, HE NEVER TOOK A SUPPLEMENT IN HIS LIFE. As a nutritionist (MS) who has kept up on the literature, I think that in the US supplements in general are doing far more harm than good. I doubt if Johnson's regimen will prove superior to Ganddaddy's non-regimen. Functional medicine is a marketing term used to peddle questionable (unproved or disproved) concepts, tests, practices, pills and panaceas. It's certainly too expensive to be applied broadly. It's a wasteful scam.
Would be nice to see that :)
I think the BIGGEST problem for people with the funds is that if you have the money, doctors will find some reason for you to give them some of it. Maybe not on a granular level, but the corporations that own the hospitals, etc. are solely focused on profit and doctors who put their patients first are risking their careers (Sean Baker was fired and his medical license challenged because he was getting results with diet and therapy over joint replacements. He got called in, was told that he wasn't there to rehabilitate, but to cut, chop and sew. When he kept using non-surgical techniques they dropped the hammer on him). My father, who at 86 feels like a reasonably healthy 86 year old who should eat better and exercise more, has great insurance. SO the hospital is constantly calling his telling him they need to test for this and that. So despite me telling him they are just soaking his insurance, he thinks he has a problem EVERY TIME, and worries, and gets tested, and everything is clear, and a few months later they do it all again. He has one of the most tested hearts on the planet, I think. At this point it's borderline fraud and/or assault.
That's an interesting point regarding the high levels of insurance among the elderly. Does the insurance create the demand? I wonder how we could test that?
That's a very interesting perspective particularly for someone who lives in a country (UK) with a socialised healthcare system. The more common stories here are people struggling to get some tests because their GP won't refer them. That's somewhat understandable because a system with finite resources needs to be led by the experts and obviously can't let the patients decide when they need scans or procedures.
In my view the huge problem with our system is the lack of focus on prevention. We have a very unhealthy population possibly because people don't care about looking after themselves. They think they can screw their own health because they'll just wander off when they get sick and the NHS will fix them for free. Except it won't most of the time, it'll help them manage their disease for 5-10 years before they die. So the onus needs to be on us to do the right things within our lifestyles.
The wider implications of this are huge. Right now we have 9.4m people who are economically inactive (not working) between 16 and 64. Many young people are students which is fine but 2.5m are too sick to work and millions more are carers. The NHS waiting list is 6.5m, about 10% of the entire population is waiting for treatment. So we support those not working, we pay for treatment of those who make themselves sick, 10% of the entire NHS budget is type 2 diabetes and social care is staggering. You can't run a functioning, growing economy in those circumstances.
I think Bryan doesn't look that much younger than his age he just looks very different from most people his age. If you look closely he looks maybe 10 years younger than he is.
On a side note: you'd think a guy who spends a fortune on all those treatments would be able to find someone who'd do a better dye job.
One key point that people miss is that Bryan is not using his face as a marker of how old he is, he is using the function and cells of his organs to determine this. He is now trying to perfect his face also, after so many people trashing his face, but it is not the main focus. And another thing, I too thought he was a silly c*nt just wasting money until I started actually watching podcasts with him and really listening to what he is saying... and there is so much more he is trying to do that just goes above people's heads. The "never die" thing is meant to be controversial and to get people thinking, but what he is actually worried is how A.I. is building its algorithm based on how destructive we are as a species, so he is trying to get people to change that. He doesn't think he or anyone can live forever, but if you act as such, your frame of mind changes and you become more mindful of your self-destructive actions and try to change them, but when you think yourself as you can die, people tend to live life as if it was your last day, not really concerned with the consequences, since you are going to die anyway...
Good that you bring this issue up. I listened to professor Sam Vaknin and he says that surgeons are oftentimes psychopaths. Came to think of that because of the movie clip.
Vakin wasn't the gift first to notice this, for sure.
My father was an ob/gyn surgeon, and he's absolutely a psychopath.
@@evaw3421 😂 work that requires so much focus and void of emotions you will always find people with psychopathic tendencies! Lawyer,surgeon, pilot, navy, firefighters, ceo,police the higher the rank and power the more people becomes a beasts 🤣! As you get older the more you realize you need to earned a decent amount of money that can help you in your older days!!! As you get weak and older you must come to realization that in this world the reality is without money the chances of you getting the best medication and high quality food required money everything is transactional in this world until people accept that truth most people will live in delusion and lalaland especially men! Real man knows in this world! Everything have a price even in nature! You want to survive as lion go hunt! You want to live earned money! People saying oh you don’t money its love etc 🤣 go in the bank in the pharmacy and say love!!! the only free thing is what you give from your heart outside of you is purely transactional!
Brian Johnson is looking like pre Escape from LA "Rich People" vibes 😶
Everyone has a responsibility to choose their own lifestyles given their conditions to address how long their lives may become. If you trust someone else to make that decision for you, you still have to decide that and live, or die, with the results.
All of us have differences and different results. Nobody is the average of everyone. The studies and math tend to treat everyone as the average of everyone else.
Love your work Scott.
Such an interesting video, thank you.
Johnson looks older (or maybe more "worn") than you do.
At least in this clip he does!
@@sgcarney He actually looks a bit scary to me, but it is just a snapshot in time :-)
@@annedelainwclark7733 yeah i don't mean to be mean but there is something a bit uncanny
He looks 60 trying to go on 20. Definitely not his current natural hair or brow color. Possibly a wig that he’s never combed.
He looks like Data from Star Trek, an android who supposedly doesn't age, but actually does.
Thank you for your investigation. In my Opinion you don't need the music in your video. and if you use music then not too loud and more descent and not cutting off in the middle. this is no hate just constructive criticism 👍
Music is tricky. I go back and forth on it a lot. Most popular youtube videos use it. But not all.
@@sgcarney Maybe the music could be dialed down a tiny bit in the mix. IMO your choice of music is good but sometimes competes with the voices.
@@sgcarneyI thought the mix was good! But different speakers make audio sound different and that’s why mastering music is so difficult.
Wealthier people have longer, healthier lives. In the US money does buy healthcare and if you're poor, in the US you don't have any.
Although money can also buy overtreatment and that has risks.
@@coweatsman I am concerned about the significant majority of impoverished and working-class individuals who lack options and endure the adverse effects of the inequitable allocation of healthcare coverage. Not a minority of affluent individuals intentionally pursue high-cost medical services primarily to obtain supplementary and often unnecessary treatments. One group is constrained by circumstance, while the other has the privilege of making detrimental choices.
@@coweatsman lol. overtreatment or undertreatment I know what I'll pick
@@joyg2526 if the rich are primarily paying for supplementary and optional treatments, why are you so concerned the “working class” can’t afford that? If it is optional and supplementary (unnecessary)?
@@msd5808 The fundamental point that seems to be overlooked is that the average individual-specifically within the United States-finds it exceedingly difficult to cover even the most essential aspects of healthcare. Consequently, one might reasonably question why I should be concerned about affluent individuals who have the financial means to intentionally subject themselves to supplementary premium treatments. The truth is that I, quite frankly, hold no regard for the challenges faced by the wealthy.
He got the youngold look that rich people with an insecurity that make them try all kind of procedures the beauty industrie can provide. The more invasive procedures the more alien looking.
Some test results show precursors, some show effects. Got to get those straight before tweaking those values. You don't want to just supplement iron if you have anemia...
Very interesting! I think medical care and research would be better with a large part (50 - 75%) coming as a state activity where employees have fix salaries, employment stability and are also rewarded for prevention and patient satisfaction! I would be curious to see what people think of that idea ?
This is such an important episode (speaking as an off and on bio hacker myself.)
Yes interview Bryan Johnson.
Not what I had expected. 👍
Who wants to be 130 yrs old when all your friends and family are dead. You won’t have a young mind so hanging out with “young” people isn’t a option because actual young people generally don’t want old people as friends. Just get a dude to paint your portrait Brian and put it in your attic, like Dorian Grey.
Totally true, but sociopaths, and many multimillionaires and billionaires are like that, don't have real friends of close family members that they love.
@@dimplesd8931 chatgpt is getting pretty good at conversations. Much better than most people. About one in seven people are as competent as the robot already is today.
I've made this comment elsewhere on one of your posts, but I think your line of thinking here coincides quite well with the issues of Bryan Johnson's ambition.
He seems to fail to understand the basics of risk assessment. The notion that you're going to find a cocktail of pills like a hundred or more a day to keep you young for the next century is patently ridiculous. First of all, how do you know that there's quality control? Second of all contaminants, third: the actual risk of swallowing 100 pills a day as you age.
And on top of that, he's doing young blood injections which involves exposing yourself to someone else's entire humoral immune system. At the very least, each infusion is dramatically increasing the risk of a transfusion reaction should you need blood in surgery or an emergency, at worst it's priming your immune system in all sorts of ways we have no understanding of.
I also thought it was very funny that one of the companies he's partnering with that has developed some sort of epigenetic biomarker. Gene, age thing has included a bunch of people their study and there's like a 50-year-old single mom who just like eats well and exercises and takes care of herself and has some friends who has like a biological age equivalent to or less than his and she spends like you know, a gym membership on her health as opposed to the millions he's spending.
I think there's a few issues here. The blood transfusion he did once, saw no benefit and stopped. It's pretty safe too since we already practice this in clinical settings without issues popping up, normally.
As for pills, you can pick up pills from brands that have had third party testing conducted to ensure quality control. You can even send your own supply to a lab for testing. As long as his team has done the research then the pills should be safe to ingest.
As for swallowing pills. They're small and a choking hazard is rare if that's the concern you're raising. If swallowing many at once is an issue, you can take them in by piecemeal. He did release his own powdered mixture of these supplements which I believe he uses instead now.
Also, it is true you can't live for an inordinate amount of time off of pills alone. He would agree. Hence his exercise, sleep, and diet routine working in unison to get the best effect. He has also done some genetic manipulation with his follistatin production and takes Rapamycin in small doses which is the best available drug that may actually have longevity benefits.
He's admitted in a video that we currently can't stop aging but he hopes to slow his enough to live long enough for when that technology is developed, he'll be alive to benefit.
@@nukenfry yeah, I've since learned he only did the young blood transfusion one time. We routinely transfuse people with blood and blood products. And they routinely must be checked for a cross-match. Repeated blood products administration increases the risk of reaction full stop.
My larger point was that he's willing to do all sorts of experiments on himself to purge himself of his mortality, without a lot of consideration as to whether they are creating other risks.
But honestly, I'm actually watching a video essay about his journey now and it's really sad. Like, not as an insult, but it makes me sad to see that it appears his entire objective is to root out his humanity.
He explicitly states it himself in his book Zeroism "Daytime Bryan was productive, and evening Bryan was sad and struggling and... So I fired evening Bryan".
His goal is to just suppress desire, wants, struggles etc.
He wants to live forever by being completely dead already
@@johnpienta4200 I think it is more fair to say he substituted his desires for late night snacks and staying up late for a new hobby, his quest for perfect health, or at least as close to perfect as possible. I honestly dont think its a big deal and if anything, it offers an interesting case study.
Best criticisms of Bryan isn't his health practices taken to an extreme, because much of it has sound science behind it and a number of his habits is common knowledge, but instead his unwillingness to use his vast wealth to fund studies on anti-aging research. He wants to find the secret sauce whilst being the one to primarily benefit from it.
He's also stated elsewhere that he thinks soon AI will become the dominate intelligence on earth and will do all the mundane tasks man otherwise would do and so we have to find a new meaning in life. He thinks that meaning should be to live for as long as possible....but.....he doesn't answer the question why? It is a rather weak philosophy and his AI prediction is more Reddit transhumanism mumbo jumbo than real science. AI that could be so advanced that it could be equivalent to Asimov's I Robot is just not likely to happen for a long time, like centuries, maybe even millennia. We'll definitely reach anti-aging long before we reach god-level AI intelligence.
Great stuff, man! I’d love for you to get deeper in the world of functional medicine. It would be really cool if you could interview James Greenblatt.
Hope the cat situation went ok for you.
lol that tmux window with cmatrix, htop and some random source code open I was already confused for a second that I've must have switched to a different workspace on my laptop :D
When I used warmed oxigen mix on ambulance at patients with,, happy hypoxia,, after SARS COV2 infection,(warming water in barbotor) ,oxigen saturation increased more and rapidly
Also if Johnson manages to extend his life by only 5 years beyond what it would have been without all these interventions he might just still be here when the fountain of youth is actually discovered. Imagine dying 5 years before the cure, now that would suck. Although I suppose one would be too dead to really care.
He could extend it by 5 years just by moving to parts of Italy or Japan
Your determination fuels achievement! - "Each setback is a step towards triumph."
This was very interesting, thank you.
If Johnson is talking about his biomarkers then this has very little to do with how he looks. I see this bizarre comment online from people who are clueless about what Johnson is trying to achieve but am very surprised that Scott has said it because I thought he was better informed.
I understand his discuss of bio markers. And I think the focus on bio markers is mostly pseudoscience.
@@sgcarney If you feel that way then invite a longevity Dr on to discuss them. I can't comment on exactly what biomarkers he's referring to but we definitely know that some have very strong correlation to reduced risk of All Cause Mortality (VO2 Max, strength, sleep quality, etc..) and some clearly show the progression of diseases which kill 80% of us (blood glucose, insulin sensitivity, inflammation, apoB, blood pressure, etc..). I imagine those are among the biomarkers he's talking about and the most important ones. So I'd far rather they were all exceptional for my age and I looked my age than the other way around. But either way I think your claim of pseudoscience is impossible to justify.
Sure. Go see my other video with Adam Rodman.
@@FlatToRentUK the longevity doctors I follow aren't convinced by anything Johnston is doing apart from eat plenty vegetables, exercise, and maybe rabomycin (but we'll see and probably not but it's good it's being tested)
@@therabbithat I've certainly seen the same thing where they're indifferent to what he's doing but that's completely understandable. He's one person doing several lifestyle changes to see a result that he believes comes from those changes. It's not a proper trial or sufficient data. But I think they're indifferent about his protocol that he uses to improve his biomarkers and this is different to the biomarkers themselves. I'm pretty certain that the ones I listed above are the ones that these Drs would agree are strongly correlated to longevity. But they're not bothered about how Johnson goes about improving them.
Others say we must eat like our hunter gatherer ancestors who never ate Doritos but still died. 🙄
Scott, thanks for one more great video!
I know it's gimmicky, but comparing faces and saying you look younger, it's not really what biomarkers means... Bryan has a very low bodyfat percentage that makes him looks older (and he has already addressed these type of comments). OTOH, you should definitely interview him!
I would love to interview him.
Biopsies can stimulate tumors to go into survival mode and expedite metastasis. Much of what doctors do is for increasing the invoice amount.
Either aging is eventually solved, or we keep up this futile battle to cure its symptoms (cancer, heart disease, dementia, etc) into eternity
Still we will die. It's the cycle of life. There is no life without death. Everything you eat used to be another form of life. Everything changes and death is one type of change. Immortalists labour under a fear of death. That is their motivation. But earth will degrade. Even if humans can leave the planet they will soon enough run of suitable planets Good planets are hard to find. Any astrological planet hunter will tell us that. One only has to look at the 5,000 exo-planets found and how few might, maybe, possibly but not certain prospects. Even the universe will die. Immortalists need to stop running. Humans are cursed by their knowledge of personal mortality.
Another obvious factor is of course over servicing and profit seeking
An interview with Brian Johnson would be awesome. You'd have to show where he's done damage to either himself or others though to make your point. Not only that, show that the harm he's done wasn't learned from and halted - so he continues to harm himself or others. My only criticism of him is he's just one test subject, so it's not easy to translate what he learned to a broader population. That said, if a person were on a mission to try to extend quality of life for everyone on earth, is it 1) a noble cause? and 2) how would Scott Carney go about it if Brian is on the wrong track? That's what I'd want to know. What exactly do you think Brian should do differently in your opinion if not follow science?
It is clear to anyone with eyes that Johnson looks unwell.
Scott. According to a study by Johns Hopkins, aka the top dawg in healthcare, notoriously arrogant and careless (thats my editorializing) are the 3rd leading cause of the death in the US, and kill or main ~750,000 Americans a year. You don't see this in other developed countries. The US has by far the most expensive healthcare in the world and yet outcomes in the US healthcare system are among the worst in the world and easily the worst the in the developed world. We have a system that's amazing for treating acute traumas and things like you said, gunshot wounds or some emergency surgery or miraculous reconstruction. But the system is totaling failing people on a daily basis for all the other things. Americans are finally starting to wake up to this reality. Took a while. I wouldn't say American healthcare is broken. I would say that like most things in this country people consider broken that it's actually working exactly as it was designed.
Interesting. Can you post a link to that study?
@@sgcarney Well I tried but youtube is filtering my comments which included links. meant to say doctors btw. As the study is concerning "medical errors." Doctors are ultimately responsible for medical errors, killing 250,000 and maiming another 500,000 Americans every single year. The best link imo is the BMJ, aja British Medical Journal, a prestigious peer reviewed medical journal. But the story was all over the media, create a big S storm in the US.
@@sgcarney bmj /content/353/bmj.i2139 last try. youtube keeps filtering any links.
There's some longevity leaderboard that Brian Johnson is on so that's where the 20 year old thingy comes from. There are 4 more people that I know of that on there that also compete. One is Siim who has a UA-cam channel. Another is a woman who's name I don't know. She maybe in her 50s or 60s. And the other is Dave Pascoe. They all have their different protocols that they do to extend their lives or look younger. Siim is already maybe in his 30s. But Dave Pascoe is in his 60s and I'm sorry to say looks wayyyy hotter than Brian Johnson yet does not follow such a strict protocol as Brian Johnson such as eating a burger and even enjoys a beer occasionally too. You definitely look better than Brian Johnson. One thing I disagree with Brian Johnson is his vegan or plant based diet. It's probably one of the most unsustainable diets. You need to supplement a lot. I have nothing against supplements but a vegan diet lacks a lot of nutrients that eating animal and dairy provides. Yes please do a video on Brian Johnson. I'd like to know your thoughts.
I've never seen a 120 year old that's into this. They all seem to be well under 80? Given that this has been popular for as long as I can remember, that makes me think most of it is down to genetics. Until people start living to 120, with a decent quality of life, I don't see the point in living like these people do. I like seeing people over 100, most don't have a great diet and like a drink of alcohol. I feel the most important factor is to enjoy life, no point living a long time if it isn't fun.
Bang on mate
Great topic to cover! Over treatment is real...
Your 20 year old bro looks like a 70 yo with a good surgeon... you're a healthy 40.
we evolved in an environment completely different than our modern world. some of these changes are beneficial and lead to longer life. some lead to shorter life. I think people underestimate how many changes shorten life. the main one being excess calories shorten life. we evolved in an environment of persistent chronic starvation. our bodies don't function properly when we are constantly feasting. cancer is a perfect example. it should really be called feasting disease. same for heart disease, diabetes, dementia, kidney disease, etc.
And life expectancy seems to have reached #PeakLifeEpectancy. Nutrition is worst than it has been for decades because of unhealthy addictive food developed by food technologists. Obesity and metabolic illness is increasing. Chronic illnesses are increasing. Cancer rates are increasing. We are now in a new health paradigm. Few people seem to notice.
Changing so many parameters at once makes his results impossible to interpret or apply. There's no way you can work out WHAT intervention caused what result
Yes, please do a video regarding Brian Johnson.
Scott suggested on doing a video on the outcomes for colonoscopy testing. Pierced colon, sepsis death. Did you know that the tube they insert in patient colon and reuse repeatedly cannot be autoclave d. So your exposed to the virus bacteria etc if all the previous patients. The outcome s do not show any effect in a patient’s overall survival rate.
Those outcomes are extremely rare and they are the reason why you shouldn't have a colonoscopy without serious symptoms.
Undiagnosed bowel cancer, crohns or colitis can kill you and these are not anything near as rare as colonoscopy harm. We all know someone with one of these conditions. I know a few people with crohns!
The alternative would be exploratory surgery, which would be much worse.
A colonoscopy is not a screening tool, it's a lifesaving test. They also do a bunch of tests first, blood test and stool test. They don't just jump in (so to speak).
While I agree with the premise that over-screening and experimental cutting edge care can *sometimes* - as it’s often stated in the video - be responsible for premature death, particularly in the populations that can afford to receive such treatments, I disagree with the overall message of the video. Rich people have, on average, significantly better health outcomes than poor people, and this phenomenon exists on a gradient, meaning the richer you get, the better your health will be. This is true within nations and across them, for instance even in developing countries the rich do better than the poor in terms of health, but a rich person in a rich country will do better on average than the rich person in the developing nation. The Health Gap by Michael Marmot illustrates this clearly.
Yeah, I went over all these points. So we are in agreement.
I'm a fan of Bryan Johnson but I appreciate this video. I'm skeptical of people with ubber fitness and longevity agendas because:
#1 They never seem to work and health gurus seem to die at a younger age than the median (Jack and Elaine Lalanne being rare exceptions) and
#2 It smacks more of a need for perfection borne out of a sickly childhood and/or sense of insecurity. It takes one to know one. I do find Bryan Johnson's take on it more scientific and rational. Nothing wrong with nerding out about your own data. To be fair, some of his treatments are weird but he acknowledges it, and often says all you need are the basics (take your diet and especially sleep seriously, etc.) but his project is to use himself as a human guinea pig to explore the outer ranges of what could soon be possible.
I take his "Don't Die" slogan to mean live a long and healthy life. If he does seriously want immortality, that'd be dangerous to me, because we have evolved with a physical and existential relationship to death, and I don't think our brains are wired to deal with a body that won't ever die.
This makes me concerned with a new ad sponsor from Chris Williamson that exactly does the “early detection for health risks.” Seems like people with resources to burn will get over-diagnosed
Are pap smears still done in the US? I know they've been scrapped in Ireland and NZ in favour of a HPV test (similar process but every 5 years and better rate of catching cervical cancer)
Very interesting. One of your guests though made a surprisingly uninformed comment. In Canada (at least in Quebec and Ontario) where we have "socialized care" your pay is absolutely not the same whether you work hard or just a bit. It is one more example of spectacularly poor education where "socialized" is understood as "socialism".
Overall you look younger (and/or more attractive) than Johnson because you look natural and normal! There’s something to be said about living a normal life and our bodies showing that-nothing to fear or be ashamed of.
Beware of doctor's who need to maximize their income to support their expensive addictions.
Wow… fascinating
Smart people aren’t stupid. Show me a meaningful stat that shows smart people would choose quacks if the standard of care actually worked. It is one dice throw v another. Smart people are all in on stuff that works and only stray when the recommended stuff doesn’t.
"Radical remission" K Turner. Often cited for this, a collection of few thousand survivors. Of course there can be bias to this, but theres a method, and though anecdotal, it's trustworthy.
Best way for a long life, avoid doctors
It seems logical that a good mix of healthy genes and a positive lifestyle is probably better than relying on constant testing and various supplements or treatments-especially since some of might end out being poison. Currently I think life, age and cancer/sickness hit us randomly. After some decades of AI , I think the rich might be able to pay for longer life. I think you look healthier and younger than Brian Johnson.
I have this persistent fantasy that I'll outlive Bryan Johnson. And by doing exactly the opposite of what he's promoting! 😁
Same question I asked my doctor before testing for osteoporosis. Screening and then what. No cures and any medication has created ultra worse outcomes for women with osteoporosis.
Right! As a woman, or anyone who's been through or is going to go through menopause, good to assume you're developing it and do everything to prevent it. Eat healthy, weight training, plenty protein
Hurbis is actually spelled hubris.
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Is Ted Kennedy, and his extended family in general, a victim of this error or did he manage his health care well?
the name of the kid with the "gene therapy" in 4:09 is probably Giuliano or Claudio Stroe - saw this face years ago in youtube
5:06 I mean…we’re organic matter. Thinking as a novice, non professional science lover… unless we figure out how every single cell in our body can continue to reproduce, without flaw & at the level of whatever the prime age is, where idunno…the genetic coding is consistently perfect, every single time for every single cell in the body, at whatever moment in maturation that it doesn’t yet begin to, essentially, die…idunno how perpetuity is possible. Or…I guess, if we figure out how to 3D print every single spec of our bodies, in order to transplant…but that’s like a whole Dr. Frankenstein thing, almost.
This is some of the most bias "journalism" I've ever seen. They only talk to one side and don't talk about the many, many positive results functional medicine has achieved. I love how at 14:08 he ALMOST said the quiet part out loud. "If you work for someone like Kaiser, where you're paid the same no matter how hard you work..." Then you're incentivized to work LESS!!!
This Johnson guy should visit a dental hygienist for a good clean-up between his teeth, invest some money for a good haircut and quit dying his hair too.
Bezos and fiancé are majorly on the live forever track.
Funny thing is, the hormones they are likely taking increase risk for an early grave.
@@JamesDecker7 I hear that. Ahnold the former govenator paid price with heart damage from da juice. Who knows with the PRP, HRT, TRT, HGH, et al. Hubris imo
The God Complex is a major problem with Western billionaires. We understand at most 1% about how the human body actually works. A single cell is more complex than an entire country. Our best tool at this point is a holistic approach based on both allopathy and diet, exercise, preventative care, etc.
MD. Medical Deity😂
Hahaha! Johnson looks 70 next to you in the comparison pictures!
You look much younger or better, he looks like he is sick🎉 He was 50 something last time I heard! Function medicine is another trap, as they do tons of very expensive testing and come to a conclusion that costs even more money and you end up not getting the right treatment anyway, as the testing just tells you what you already knew, its just about making money, I know how this thing works, you are better off keeping your money and just eating well if you can eat, which is my big problem!🎉
This seems obviously wrong over a meaningful statistical sample. Rich people live longer than poor people.
Hello Scott Carney. Just my opinion, but your background music is to loud compared to your voice.
Yeah to figure out levels.
Brian Johnson doesn’t look younger than you imo . Functional medicine seems to be a good path!
functional medicine is bs
Best way to stay healthy & live long... live healthy and stay away from the medical industry
We’re all “waiting”. Any day now. A video May appear. Who knows 🤷♂️
Bryan Johnson looks older than his age, imo. Or more like, he has that young but wrinkled look that most long term vegans get. Even if he's not 100% vegan.
Through self-observation and intuition, I've successfully navigated my health since 2016 without relying on medical tests. Listening to my body has been the key to my well-being. In just two weeks, I'll be 46, yet my vitality and looks suggest someone at least five years younger 😉
He gets infused with his kids blood plasma. Are other people gonna do that? Lol no. Yes I’d love you to interview him. But please don’t just glaze over the blood plasma infusions.
Scott do you remember when doctors told people that exercise and health life such as eating healthy etc had no effects on health outcomes. That doctor at the end needs to get a grip. Doctors look at me like I have five heads when I tell them I lead a healthy lifestyle.
What do you Think About BrianJohnson?
You appear wayyy healthier than Johnson.
Oh boy... Thank God I'm not ultra Rich.... Said nobody ever 😂😝
Just gonna leave a comment here
He does NOT look 20... not to me at least..
He looks like he's my age with messed up plastic surgery (imo).
My youngest is 21.... she looks 30 yrs younger than him.. 😂😂
Brian looks like a ghoul, probably because he is one
Johnson looks like a 47 trying very hard to look-and maybe sound-20.
It’s not over scanning that’s the problem, but how resulting data is interpreted and acted upon. It’s better to always know more than less. You advocate the opposite, for some reason.
“Never test for something you don’t want to treat”
@@sgcarney With this you throw any preventative medicine off the window! You only treat patients with symptoms, that happen to be stage 4.
No. Nor is that what I said.
Can you tell an example of an ultra wealthy who died because of over scanning? You created a straw man and you have a field day putting it down.
This is an important topic, but I think the treatment here is a conceptual mess. You name the approach of "functional medicine" but then proceed to misdefine it. You also lump together a bunch of different approaches and treat them like they are the same. The doctor who discussed Kaiser made the point that some doctors at other institutions who get paid per procedure overprescribe. That may be true. But if a doctor gets paid the same no matter how much they do, they are very likely to under-prescribe, especially if the institution can save money by not doing costly procedures. Also, all the doctors you put on had a similar viewpoint. Notably, you didn't put on any functional doctors. That is questionable journalism. There is much more to say, but I would say that you need to go back to the drawing board on this one and try to defines your hypotheses and terms better.
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