Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast. The weekly podcast where Dr. G gives you the tools you need to boost your health and live your healthiest life.

Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast. You know, people are always asking me for recommendations on how to live longer, healthier lives.

Because one thing that can dramatically boost your health span and even your life span is something called a five-day vegan fast.

In fact, this simple technique is like taking your mitochondria on a five-day spa retreat.

And my guess today is one of the biggest proponents of this type of fasting mimicking diets Dr. Joseph Antun.

He's the CEO of El Nutra and works hand in hand closely with my good friend, Dr. Walter Longo, who many of you have read about in my books and we've even had him on our podcast.

This focuses on providing people with the knowledge and products to live to 110 and beyond.

So, on today's episode, Dr. Antun and I are going to talk about shifting away from sick care, how a fasting mimicking diet can help you live your longest flowing life, full of life.

And why most of the foods we're eating these days are actually less nutritious than they used to be.

We've got a lot of exciting things in store for you today on today's episode. So stay tuned. We'll be right back.

Dr. Antun, good to see you again. It's a pleasure to have you on the show.

Thank you for hosting me and I look forward to a great session. I think the audience will learn a lot today about fasting and improving the healthy aging.

Yeah, I'm really excited about this. As you know, I've been a big fan of your guys' work from the beginning.

So, yeah, you've got a big fan here. So, let's start with your background.

So, when did you first realize that our healthcare system in the United States was actually a sick care system?

You know, I'm a physician by training. That was my first degree before I went and specialized in health policy and public health and exactly the reason why you're learning about the sick care system.

So, actually, during my rotations, you know, I started seeing patients and as a medical student trying to learn about how to practice medicine.

And I was starting to be fascinated is how come the first time I interact with an individual is when an individual has already a symptom or is already sick?

I was like, we did even better for our cars. You know, we did insurance for every car. We checked that once a year.

We have a dashboard that tells us, you know, the temperature is increasing or not before the smoke is getting out of the engine.

So, I was fascinated that we were just the starting point of our action was a symptom and a disease.

And the number two, the other fascinating thing is like, I thought we're not solving the biggest diseases.

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