What a family it's episode 118 of the Genius Life.

What up, what up, what up, what up. Greetings everybody from Santa Monica, California.

My name is Max Lugovier. I'm a filmmaker, health and science journalist in the author of

the New York Times bestselling book, Genius Foods and the Genius Life. On this episode

of the show I'm super excited to introduce you to my very good friend, James Maskel.

James is a super cool guy. He spent the past decade of his life innovating at the cross

section between functional medicine and community. He also created the functional forum, which

is the world's largest integrative medicine conference with record setting online participation

and a growing physician community around the world. He is the bestselling author of a book

called the Evolution of Medicine. Really his mission, since I've known him, has been to

prepare health professionals for this new era of predictive and preventative medicine,

which you know is super, super important to me. He's a highly in demand speaker. He's

been featured on Ted Med, on Huff Post Live. He's a TEDx speaker. Over the course of the

next hour, we're going to talk about a concept that really underlies all of James' work.

That is how community, specifically group medical visits, can help us solve grand healthcare

challenges like chronic disease, escalating costs, physician shortages, care access,

and affordability, physician burnout, loneliness, and mental health. Imagine how community

can solve all of those problems. Community admittedly can be a somewhat abstract concept.

It's a, you know, pretty vague term. So James is going to get into the nitty gritty of how

he sees this as really being the key that's going to open up a whole new era of possibility

in terms of medicine and healthcare in general. And he generally speaks to healthcare providers.

That is his core audience. But of course, I help James break it down and we make it really

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