This site is about how to increase your chances of living a long healthy life, or how to improve what I call your life odds.
The basic premise of this site is simple: Your health is your most important asset.
Make that statement to a group of people, and you’ll usually see them start quietly nodding their heads in agreement. Everyone seems to believe it, but few digest it and vigorously apply the implications of that statement to their lives. Most don’t seem to understand that good health is essentially a prerequisite for happiness. Without your health, all Bill Gates’ money wouldn’t make you very happy.
Many people with good health take it for granted. They spend the vast majority of their time and energy pursuing other things – careers, finances, romance, hobbies, etc. Maintaining their health gets pushed to the bottom of their to-do lists. Until they get sick.
As a practicing Internal Medicine Physician, I spend my days encouraging patients to proactively maintain their health. Some seem startled when I suggest certain tests or procedures because they “feel fine”. These are the same folks who would never dream of skipping an oil change on their car just because the engine is “running fine” currently.
Just like oil changes prolong the life of your car’s engine, medical technology now has proven ways of increasing your odds of enjoying a longer, healthier, and therefore happier life. No one can honestly promise you a quick fix, a pill, or a potion that’ll be your fountain of youth. I’m not selling snake oil on this website. What I hope to do is provide information regarding relatively simple, proven steps anyone can take to improve their average expected longevity.
After all, enhancing your longevity is all about simply doing what you can to improve the probability that you’ll avoid death and disease. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard patients say “Well, my grampa smoked 2 packs per day his whole life and ate ice cream every night, and he lived to be 93″. While I’m happy for grampa, the truth is he just happened to beat the odds. For every “grampa,” there’s a dozen others with similar lifestyles to his who die unfortunate and unnecessary premature deaths. Since there are proven, off-the-shelf medical technologies available today that can dramatically improve your chances of making it to 93, why make yourself a longshot like grampa?
The fundamental purpose of this blog is to answer medical questions and address topics that come up in my practice regularly, in order to hopefully help people live longer, healthier lives. I plan to cover a wide range of topics, but with this narrow focus in mind. Remember, keep your priorities straight and maintain your health!
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