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The mindbodygreen Podcast

407: The future of personalized medicine & how to test for longevity | Precision medicine physician Matt Dawson, M.D.

The mindbodygreen Podcast

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.52.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Matt Dawson, M.D.: “Talking about nutrition is almost like talking about religion; people are convinced their diet is the best.”  Dawson, a precision medicine physician and co-founder and CEO of Wild Health, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to track your longevity progress, plus: - How to optimize your HRV (~13:28) - How to tell if you're living with purpose (~15:58) - Why your genes are not your destiny (~25:42) - The best way to exercise for your brain (~26:57) - Why sleep is the No. 1 way to support brain health (~30:11) Referenced in the episode: - Learn more about Wild Health. - A study on access to greenery & recovering from gallbladder surgery. - Study showing effects of prolonged isolation equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. - The End of Alzheimer's, by Dale Bredesen. Take 25% off vitamin D3 potency+ with code D3POD. Cannot combine with gift cards or other discount codes. Apply code at checkout. Enjoy this episode! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.

0:08.0

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Performance is not guaranteed. Dr. Matt Dawson is a precision medicine physician and the CEO

0:53.2

of wild health. He combines his training in genomics and functional medicine to give personalized

1:00.0

precise medical guidance as it ladders up to health span and longevity. Which is what we're

1:06.8

going to chat about today. Matt, welcome. Thank you. Excited to be here. Great to have you on and

1:16.8

like I do so so often on the show. We have to start with your own personal journey and how

1:23.6

it played a significant role into where you are today and what you do professionally. Sure,

1:28.5

for sure. Yeah, happy to dive into that. I'm a physician and Mike, my co-founder and I,

1:35.1

we were physicians in an academic center. We were treating patients in the regular medical system

1:40.0

and like most people who have either worked in or been treated in our medical system,

1:45.2

we saw that it was broken. It wasn't working. We were putting band-aids on things, not really

1:51.1

treating root calls and just weren't seeing patients get all that better. While we were doing that

1:58.0

and we kind of frustrated, we also saw that a lot of science coming out around precision medicine

2:03.6

and genomics and personalized medicine and there's been a lot of talk for the last decade on that.

2:09.0

But we started seeing a lot of evidence and studies that actually maybe we could start doing this

2:14.0

now, delivering personalized medicine. So being curious, we dove in, we sequenced our own DNA,

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