Speaker 3
Great. We're proud of you. Yeah.
Speaker 1
Thank you, Amy. I made a promise to my dad before he passed away that makes me emotional, but I made a promise to my dad if my if my if I got a little bit worse health wise that I would downshift a little bit and take a pause. And so just do a little bit of that, you know, bag social media for a while, a little bit less speaking, strategic in my businesses and everything will be just great. So anyway, guys, excited
Speaker 2
to add, let me also add to this, you've been dealt with some genetics from your parents who are lovely and they hand a diesel cars and you've dealt with those beautifully throughout your lifetime. And we know that stress, which is sort of being an environment for which you don't have a sense of control over can can actually cause oxidative stress and inflammation in the arteries. And with your genetic predisposition to arterial disease, having this just overhang of stress and workload. And Gabriel, what did you say 300? Ed, you told me this to 300? Yeah, he travels 321 days a year. And you know
Speaker 3
how I know this? Because well, number one, I'm his doctor. I keep track of him. And number two, I will see him, again, we are at mutual events with mutual friends. I will see him one day in Las Vegas, then going to Dubai. We're not talking about to Ohio, we're talking about to Dubai the next day. And then back again. And this, this, I think, reaches out to the listeners and the viewers as well, is that also community and being with family
Speaker 1
is really important. And this community here is like an extension of my family. So I have the two most brilliant people that I know in my life right here with you today, guys. So we're going to talk about your health a little bit and just some things. And by the way, this is every single age, because what Amy referenced about genetics is really important. And so we're going to talk a little bit about that today. Let's start out just talking about something that most people don't do, but they should. So Gabriel, I'll go to you first. What's the importance of getting your labs drawn on a regular basis? And is there an age of any age that you recommend somebody begins to do that? How often should they
Speaker 3
do it? I'll mention four adults. Children are on a pretty rigorous schedule as to when they're being checked for anemia or lead, even vitamin D nowadays. For an adult, after individuals go to college, it seems as if things fall away. I definitely recommend individuals at 18. If you are listening to this and you are inspired by Ed and you just happen to have a leg up and are involved in the entrepreneurial world, 18. Great. We can get a baseline testosterone. We can get just baseline even, as Amy will mention, LP little a baseline cholesterol screening. And I know it sounds early. However, diseases of aging and metabolic diseases like Alzheimer's, like cardiovascular disease, they begin decades earlier. And those are things that people don't recognize. Typically, individuals will wait until I've never been to a doctor. Now I'm hitting 30. Maybe I should go. The best time to start was yesterday, but the second best time to start is today and getting not even yearly labs. The younger you are, and if everything is metabolically healthy, every six months to a year would be okay. But as individuals mature, that window of opportunity to correct things from an underlying perspective that can do damage over time. This could be quarterly labs. It's very challenging for people, but quarterly labs, in my opinion, and I think Amy's opinion at some point is really ideal.
Speaker 1
I got to tell you, and also everybody, you know, is why I care about you all so much. Just because you feel good doesn't mean it's great under the hood, right? Because this river of life is your blood and you can feel good. In fact, when I met Amy, I don't know what was I mean, 10, 15 years ago. I didn't really feel that bad, but I had known that there's a genetic history. I didn't have the test yet, but I knew there was a genetic history in my family of different things. My dad's brother died very, very young. And so when I went to see Amy, I was very shocked by what was going on in my blood. And there are markers, everybody that I think Amy, most people do generic lipid panel, but things have advanced significantly that should be tested for now the last 10 years, even five years. What are some things? This is going to be so good for all of you, everybody. What are some things that most like markers people should be getting tested for Amy? And what why, what they indicate and what we're looking for in those markers that probably most people don't get tested for.
Speaker 2
Yeah, absolutely. One of the things to remember is that arterial disease, whether it be the small vessels that leads to things like memory loss, decision changes, kidney disease, decreased blood flow to the toes is the same disease state that also drives your risk of heart attack and stroke. So the little vessels and the big vessels are telling the same story. So part of the most critical thing that is not the things that aren't done is looking for inflammation. So if if we are able to monitor inflammation, some of the inflammatory labs have what we call bio variability, and those can be thrown off if you've hurt your back, if you're, you know, have an infection and so forth. But some are very, very specific for arterial wall health, and they're not skewed by things that life can throw at us. So those are things that I want to be specific. There's one called LPPLA2 that is indicative of stroke risk. There's one called myeloproxidase. There's some simple things that are out there for everyone. One is called HSCRP. These labs are easy to get. They're very cost effective. And if there's inflammation, we want to pause and ask why. And when we look at in Gabrielle, at all the root causes of arterial disease, the ones that are just kind of touched on right now that we hear about our blood pressure, cholesterol, and if you smoke stop, you know, if you're exposed to nicotine, stop, those are the three that were evaluated with matter of fact, we take our age, our gender, we smoke, or not, or blood pressure, and cholesterol. And that's it. But in the in reality, there's so many others, there's genetically inherited lipids like lipoprotein A, there's a lipid that everyone needs to know about called able B, which is like a collection of all the bad guys. We need to know Gabrielle, you touched on this metabolic health, so prediabetes, which is the fasting growing condition in young adults. It's terrifying. So doing glucose tolerance testing and in oral health, Ed, you and I have talked about oral health and sleep and stress management over the years. And those may not seem quite as tangible, but they're equally important as everything else.
Speaker 1
Okay, can we go back for second, Amy, and then I'll throw it back over to Gabrielle. I want you to talk about the LP little a, it's something that you and I've talked about forever. And then why, I know why, and I get tested for regularly. Wow, I'm behind. I need to get tested again. But why dental health is correlated?