Optimizing Your Health: Diagnostic Tests, Choosing a Doctor, Sleep, Longevity, Inflammation and More with Jordan Shlain MD

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Chris Hutchins

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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#97: Physician and entrepreneur, Jordan Shlain MD, joins Chris to discuss optimizing your health. They cover the pillars of longevity, how things like sleep, diet, and exercise affect your overall health, finding a new physician, what types of diagnostic tests to consider and more. Jordan Shlain MD (@drjordanshlain) is a primary care physician and the founder of Private Medical, a concierge medical practice focused on proactive prevention. He's also the Founder of Eat REAL, a non-profit organization aimed at helping school systems improve the quality of their school lunch programs and was previously the founder of HealthLoop, a platform to monitor and communicate with patients during the recovery process. Full show notes at: https://allthehacks.com/optimizing-health-jordan-shlain Partner Deals Inside Tracker: 20% off personalized wellness & nutrition plans backed by science MasterClass: Learn from the world's best and buy one get one free Athletic Greens: Free 1 year supply of Vitamin D and 5 free travel packs Rocket Money: Easily cancel your unused subscriptions Selected Links From The Episode Dr. Jordan Shlain: LinkedIn | Podcast | Twitter Resources Mentioned: Inside Medicine Podcast: Unpacking Longevity: The Science of Feeling Young to Age 95 Jordan's Newsletter: The Physician Eat REAL Membership-Based Medicine: Private Medical | One Medical | MDVIP | ROAMD | Forward | Parsley Health Value-Based Primary Care Service: VillageMD Medical Testing: Quest Diagnostics | Ulta Lab Tests | InsideTracker | Invitae | OneOme | GRAIL | SomaLogic | Owlstone Medical Monitoring: Levels | Oura Report: U.S. Concierge Medicine Market Product: MI Paste Full Show Notes Introduction to Dr. Jordan Shlain (00:00) The current state of the US healthcare system (01:09) Affordable Care Act and Accountable Care Organization (04:52) Taking a proactive approach to keeping yourself informed and optimized (09:25) Testing (10:26) MRI and MRA (11:34) Who are you? Baseline tests and panels to run to learn the state of your health (13:13) Information about inflammageing (14:08) Cancer test: Grail (15:06) Understanding your blood pressure (15:39) Tests for those who have a family history of heart disease or high cholesterol (16:13) Inside Tracker (17:29) Other testing companies available to consumers (17:58) Looking through the lens of safety and efficacy (20:47) Unpacking longevity (24:45) Hydration (26:26) Alcohol (28:27) Sleep, cortisol levels, and the glymphatic system (29:07) Diet (30:47) Exercise (32:40) Supplements, IV drips (33:25) Sugar and Dr. Shlain’s Eat Real non-profit organization (33:56) Connecting sugar intake with fiber (36:17) Consuming sweets in moderation across time (38:28) Glucose monitoring (39:34) Dr. Shlain’s take on supplements (41:17) Combatting dental issues with toothpaste (44:21) The How Are You framework (45:42) What is your trajectory? (48:12) High Cholesterol (53:31) Interpreting data and finding the right doctor (55:44) The importance of building long-term relationships with healthcare providers (60:00) Question to ask when interviewing a potential new physician (1:01:40) The rise of membership-based medicine (1:02:24) Investing in your health (1:03:30) Where to find Dr. Shlain (1:12:17) Connect with All the Hacks All the Hacks: Newsletter | Website | Facebook | Email Chris Hutchins: Twitter | Instagram | Website | LinkedIn

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of All the Hacks, a show about upgrading your life,
0:07.1	money and travel.
0:08.7	Since it's the beginning of the year, I know many of you, myself included, are thinking
0:12.6	a lot about how we can upgrade our health this year.
0:16.0	To help make that possible, I wanted to invite Dr. Jordan Schlein on the show.
0:20.5	Jordan is a physician, entrepreneur, publisher, and healthcare systems designer.
0:24.9	He was one of the early pioneers of concierge medicine and is still a practicing primary
0:29.5	care doctor through his practice private medical.
0:32.4	I heard Jordan talk about optimizing your health at a conference last year, and I have been
0:36.3	so excited for this episode ever since he agreed to come on.
0:39.9	He is such a wealth of knowledge on health and longevity, and we're going to try to cover
0:43.9	as much of that as possible, including how you can start taking your health into your
0:48.1	own hands, what to look for in a primary care doctor, what kinds of tests and diagnostics
0:53.3	might make sense to consider, how to think about things like sleep, diet, and exercise,
0:57.7	and a lot more, including some of his best health hacks.
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