The Human Zoo, Real Root Causes, and Why Treating Disease is Not The Same As Creating Health with Dr. James Chestnut

The Energy Blueprint Podcast

Ari Whitten

Chronicfatigue, Energy, Hypothyroidism, Fatigue, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Chronicfatiguesyndrome, Adrenalfatigue, Howtoincreaseenergy, Adrenals, Hashimotos

4.7 • 751 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I am speaking with Dr. James Chestnut for the third time, we talk about why healthspan is, by far, more important than lifespan and the biggest keys to optimizing healthspan.

In this podcast, Dr. Chestnut and I discuss:

Lifespan vs healthspan (what is the difference and how do they matter?)
The shocking lack of evidence for medication extending the lifespan of older adults
The reasons why modern medicine doesn’t work for chronic disease
How most practitioners within the Functional Medicine movement miss the root causes of illness
Keys to making effective lifestyle changes (despite the natural resistance)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Dr. Chestnut, welcome back for part three.
0:11.3	Thank you.
0:12.1	Good to be here.
0:13.1	It's not often that I do a part three with anyone.
0:16.8	So I think you're in a very small minority of people here who have been on the show for three episodes.
0:23.5	The truth is, I have so much respect for your work. I'm sure we could do 10 or 15.
0:28.6	It would be great to have just an ongoing monthly episode with you to get your commentary
0:32.6	on sort of the latest happenings in health.
0:36.9	I want to talk about a lot of practical things here, but there's a
0:42.0	couple topics in particular that I want to get to that I think are important for people to
0:47.6	understand before we get to some of the practical specifics. One that I've been thinking a lot about and actually learning more about, I did another
0:59.2	sort of deep dive in the literature recently, is lifespan and health span.
1:04.8	And we've made quite a bit of progress in terms of lifespan over the last couple centuries.
1:16.4	And some of that, roughly 35% or so, depending on the study that you look at, is attributable to modern medicine.
1:25.0	And specific breakthroughs and things like antibiotics in particular for treatment
1:31.1	of infections that used to be life-threatening, some breakthroughs in treatments that extend
1:37.6	people's lives who have certain diseases like HIV and several other diseases.
1:44.8	But health span has been relatively stuck.
1:51.1	Health span hasn't moved much.
1:53.7	The average age at which people get diseased and their health declines has remained
1:59.6	pretty much the same.
2:01.6	I'm wondering if you have any thoughts on this overall topic of extending lifespan and extending
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