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Moving Beyond Frustration: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Learned to Love Medicine (Again)
Jeffrey Galvin, MD Medical Director and Founder Vitality Medical Wellness Institute
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The Hero Story
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The State of Medicine Today
Us Them Reason to Listen: Net Worth is dependent on your Health Worth… ID health risks, reverse chronic disease, optimize health and wellness…
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The Ideal Us Our Patients Reason to Listen:
Net Worth is dependent on your Health Worth… ID health risks, reverse chronic disease, optimize health and wellness…
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This is a Problem
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HOOK: where you tell your personal story
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Unfortunately, We are Nowhere Close to That Ideal…..
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Trend of Obesity Among US Adults
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Diabetes Tracks With Obesity
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Sobering Numbers 500,000 40% 80 Million
Number of Americans Who Die Each Year From Sudden Cardiac Death 40% Had No Pre-existing Risk Factors 80 Million Number of Americans with Metabolic Syndrome Main Point 2 We’re all gonna die someday… Cardiac disease number 1 killer 500,000 Americans will die of sudden cardiac death – 40% ZERO risk factors Risk of Alzheimbers – ranges from 9-75% Epidemic of Diabestiy in the U.S> We are basically given platitudes and scientifically questionable therapies that have done nothing to stem the tide How will a debilitating illness or untimely death affect your business and family
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Sobering Numbers 1,685,210 9-75% 16,000,000 New Cancer Cases in 2016
Your Personal Risk of Developing Alzheimer’s 16,000,000 Projected Number of Alzheimer’s Cases by 2050 Main Point 2 We’re all gonna die someday… Cardiac disease number 1 killer 500,000 Americans will die of sudden cardiac death – 40% ZERO risk factors Risk of Alzheimbers – ranges from 9-75% Epidemic of Diabestiy in the U.S> We are basically given platitudes and scientifically questionable therapies that have done nothing to stem the tide How will a debilitating illness or untimely death affect your business and family
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Are We Part of the Problem?
Obesity
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Preventing and Reversing Disease
Changes to Optimize Health Metabolic Fitness Stress Sleep Hormonal Diet Brain Function Main Point 3 – Heart attacks, strokes and dementia We can detect these problems early State of the art technology can ID chronic disease and reverse it Can prevent and reverse Alzheimers Comprehensive assessment required Must make lifestyle changes: Metabolic Fitness Stress Sleep Hormonal Diet Brain Function
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Case In Point Main Point 3 – Heart attacks, strokes and dementia
We can detect these problems early State of the art technology can ID chronic disease and reverse it Can prevent and reverse Alzheimers Comprehensive assessment required Must make lifestyle changes: Metabolic Fitness Stress Sleep Hormonal Diet Brain Function
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Dementia Main Point 3 – Heart attacks, strokes and dementia
We can detect these problems early State of the art technology can ID chronic disease and reverse it Can prevent and reverse Alzheimers Comprehensive assessment required Must make lifestyle changes: Metabolic Fitness Stress Sleep Hormonal Diet Brain Function
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The Causes of Alzheimer’s
Increase α-cleavage Increase ADNP Increase autophagy Improve axoplasmic transport Increase BDNF Increase cAMP Increase GABA Increase glutathione Increase IDE Increase insulin sensitivity Improve LTP Increase NGF Increase microglial clearance of Aβ Increase netrin-1 Increase neprilysin Increase PPAR-γ Increase phagocytosis index Increase PP2A Increase resolvins Increase telomere length Improve vascularization Increase VIP Increase vitamin D signaling Optimize all metals Optimize cholinergic neurotransmission Optimize cortisol Optimize detoxification Optimize DHEA Optimize E2:P (estradiol to progesterone) ratio Optimize estradiol Optimize free T3 Optimize free T4 Optimize insulin secretion and signaling Optimize leptin Optimize mitochondrial function and biogenesis Optimize pregnenolone Optimize progesterone Optimize stem-cell-mediated brain repair Optimize synaptic components Optimize testosterone Optimize TSH Reduce amyloid-beta oligomerization Reduce APPβ-cleavage Reduce caspase-6 cleavage Reduce caspase-3 cleavage Reduce γ-cleavage Reduce glial scarring Reduce homocysteine Reduce inflammation Reduce mTOR activation R Reduce NF-κB Reduce phospho-tau Reduce oxidative damage and optimize ROS Reduce synaptoclastic signaling
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What Works?
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Health and Personal Performance are Linked
Main Point 3 – Heart attacks, strokes and dementia We can detect these problems early State of the art technology can ID chronic disease and reverse it Can prevent and reverse Alzheimers Comprehensive assessment required Must make lifestyle changes: Metabolic Fitness Stress Sleep Hormonal Diet Brain Function Personal Health Personal Performance
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Good Versus Great Where Do You Want To Be?
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We Have Control Over Own Destiny
“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.” -Jim Collins Good to Great Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t
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A Different Practice Model
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Things You’ll Love No Insurance Completely Independent
HIGH Level of Customer Service Lots of Time with Patients Rewarding Relationships With Patients
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Things You Might Not Love
No Insurance Completely Independent HIGH Level of Customer Service Lots of Time with Patients Rewarding Relationships With Patients
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Thank You! VitalityMWI.com
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