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Finding Genius Podcast

A Holistic Approach To Healthcare | Invaluable Insight From A 102-Year-Old Doctor

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Leading by example is an extraordinary way to share wisdom and insight. In the case of Dr. Gladys McGarey, she has been doing this for the past 60 years – pioneering a new way of thinking about disease and health…

Dr. McGarey is internationally recognized as the "102-year-old Mother of Holistic Medicine". As the author of The Well-Lived Life: A 102-Year-Old Doctor's Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age, she wants to create a healthier and more joyful future by reframing how we approach healthcare and self-care. 

Dr. McGarey has an ongoing life coaching practice, maintains a healthy diet, and continues to share her knowledge with everyone she can. What will you learn from her in this discussion? Click play to find out!

Join in now to discover:

  • Why Dr. Gladys sees disease as a teacher to learn from. 
  • What the "5 L's of healing" are. 
  • Why some doctors can be cold and "unloving". 
  • The importance of listening to your inner being. 

To learn more about Dr. Gladys McGarey and her work, you can visit her website here!

Episode also available on Apple Podcast: http://apple.co/30PvU9C

Transcript

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0:00.0

Forget frequently asked questions common sense common knowledge or Google how about advice from a real genius

0:06.6

95% of people in any profession are good enough to be qualified and licensed 5% go above beyond. They become very good at what they do.

0:15.0

But only 0.1 percent are real Jesus.

0:18.2

Richard Jacobs has made it his life's mission to find them for you. He hunts down and interviews geniuses in every field,

0:25.0

sleep science, cancer, stem cells, ketogenic diets, and more. Here come the geniuses.

0:30.0

This is the Finding Genius Podcast.

0:33.0

That is Richard Jacobs.

0:35.0

Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast, now part of the Finding Genius Foundation.

0:43.4

My guest today is Dr. Gladys McGarry, MD.

0:46.2

She's the author of The Well Lived Life, 102-year-old Doctors, Six Secrets to Health and

0:51.5

Happiness at every age. And I guess of Gladys is

0:53.8

102 or more than she's my oldest guest that I've ever had in the podcast. I had one

0:58.2

fellow that was I believe 94 95 so you beat up. Welcomeys. Well, thank you. I'm happy to be this old and being asked. Well, just for a quick intro tell me your whole life story I'm just kidding but tell me a bit about your background

1:16.0

beginning how you got to where you are yeah in the beginning so no I'm in Scottsdale, Arizona, and I retired from the practice of medicine 20 years ago or something like that.

1:30.5

But decades, they tell, they telescope for me. They get one decade gets mixed up with another.

1:38.0

Anyway, I still do consulting, but that's, you know, I'm not licensed to practice at this point so okay well

1:46.1

tell me a bit about you know maybe some of the really amazing or cool events you

1:51.1

know in your in your career as a doctor that led you to write the book?

1:54.0

Well you know I was born and raised in India. My parents were medical

1:59.1

missionaries they were both osteopaths And so I grew up watching them take care

2:05.7

of the village people out in the jungles of North India.

2:09.7

And I, when I was two, I let them know that I was a doctor too because my dolls got sick and stuff so it was

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