The Surprising Truth About Longevity Medicine – with Dr. Darshan Shah
The Model Health Show
Shawn Stevenson
4.8 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
In our modern healthcare system, most people don’t realize they’ve developed a chronic illness until their quality of life is reduced by painful symptoms. But if you regularly measure and monitor your body’s biomarkers, you’re much more likely to prevent disease and extend your healthspan. On today’s show, I’m excited to share this conversation with the longevity doctor of the year.
Dr. Darshan Shah is a board-certified surgeon and the founder of Next Health, the world’s first Health Optimization and Longevity Clinic. Today, he’s back on The Model Health Show for an illuminating conversation on the world of longevity medicine and what it actually takes to live a longer, healthier life. In this interview, Dr. Shah is sharing the four main components of longevity medicine and how to take advantage of them for better health.
You’re going to learn about the main biomarkers that can affect your health and predict your risk for chronic disease, how to reduce stress and avoid heart disease, and the critical inputs your body needs more than any biohacking tool. Dr. Darshan Shah has a wealth of knowledge in the realm of optimizing health and extending your lifespan, and I know you’re going to love these powerful insights. Enjoy!
In this episode you’ll discover:
- The true definition of longevity. (9:53)
- How we can reverse the trend of chronic diseases. (12:22)
- The four verticals of longevity medicine. (15:09)
- How to measure your metabolic health. (15:47)
- What functional medicine is, and its evolving technology. (15:58)
- Why preventative medicine hasn’t been used correctly in our healthcare system. (16:53)
- The different tools that longevity medicine can provide. (17:20)
- Why lifestyle inputs are more important than biohacking tools. (17:45)
- What NAD is and how to use it. (20:16)
- The pros and cons of using nicotine. (23:29)
- Why the diagnostics of heart disease are evolving. (25:29)
- How to avoid heart disease. (26:19)
- Why regularly getting bloodwork assessed is important. (31:01)
- What it means to be the CEO of your health. (34:06)
- The three biomarkers that are negatively impacting our longevity. (37:38)
- How stress and longevity are connected. (42:13)
- A strategy for mitigating your overall stress load. (43:03)
- The link between gut health and longevity. (53:30)
- How to improve your gut health. (55:01)
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| 0:00.0 | You are now listening to The Model Health Show with Sean Stevenson. |
| 0:04.8 | For more, visit the modelhealthshow.com. |
| 0:11.5 | What are the latest innovations in longevity? |
| 0:15.8 | Well, today you're going to hear from the person who has just awarded the longevity doctor of the year by the prestigious |
| 0:23.4 | longevity doctors association. If anyone knows about the science of longevity, it is our special |
| 0:30.7 | guest today. And I'm telling me, we're going to dive into a bunch of different subject |
| 0:34.6 | matters. He's going to talk about these four important pillars when he's |
| 0:39.0 | working with his patients. And also he's going to be talking about some of the things that we might not |
| 0:44.7 | know about yet, right? Some emerging supplements and some of the signs behind. And some things were |
| 0:49.6 | pretty surprising for me and we haven't really talked about before. And so all of this in this rich |
| 0:55.7 | conversation, but this is one of the blessings of having access to information like this today |
| 1:01.5 | right at our fingertips is that we get to learn from the very best people in the world in their |
| 1:06.9 | respective fields. And it's just amazing. And it's just a matter of like, where are we |
| 1:11.9 | investing our attention? And so I'm so grateful for you being here and choosing to be here with me |
| 1:17.0 | today and to share in this knowledge. And of course, not just us taking this in ourselves, |
| 1:23.4 | but being able to express this by the way that we live our lives and to share it with the people |
| 1:27.9 | that we care about. This is important now more than ever to be a model and to also be a giver |
| 1:36.1 | and a person being of service to help to uplift the people around us. Again, we need this now |
| 1:41.6 | more than ever. So again, today we're going to be talking about |
| 1:44.2 | the emerging field of longevity medicine, supplements to keep an eye out for blood tests, and so |
| 1:50.8 | much more, very, very excited about today's episode. Now, before we get to our special guest, |
| 1:57.1 | any conversation about longevity deserves a conversation about some of the most revered |
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