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Concierge medicine or longevity
medicine are becoming more prevalent
in the health and Wellness world.
Practices like LX Medical in Edina
are focused on helping people live
healthier for longer and offer
treatments that pursue that goal,
whatever treatments they may be.
And they do house calls,
so they come to you and do it,
which is a pretty well.
It's an old thing, but it's coming back.
Doctor Jim Reagan is the CEO,
the cofounder of LX Medical and member
of the American Academy of Anti-aging.
Medicine Doctor Jim,
thanks for being here,
man is a absolute pleasure to
be here this morning chatting
with you. Yeah. Appreciate it.
So let's explain.
What is longevity medicine?
It's not like we're not
trying to make you live till
you're 180, but what is
it? You got it. Yeah.
I think a lot of people here,
longevity medicine and they
assume it's oh, this is great.
A couple easy things I can do to.
Yeah. Live past 100.
It's really more about living as well
as possible for as long as possible.
When people come see us either in
our clinic or, as you mentioned, we,
we go visit people in their homes.
You when they start their longevity
medicine journey, we like to frame
it with a couple of different curves.
We'll show them side by side
a couple of different graphs.
One is the traditional healthcare
average American lifespan curve, right?
So you have your essence,
your natural health and
Wellness peaks in your early,
sorry, late teens, early 20s.
As soon as you're on the
other side of that hill,
steady decline for several decades
until you hit the bottom.
You're pushing off aging ailments.
You got it right.
Yeah, yeah.
Never go as far as to say
we're not at the point of.
Reversing aging yet?
But there are absolutely ways.
When you when you make aging,
you think about it as a disease
process that happens much earlier than
a lot of people give it credit for,
pushing that curve as far
to the right as possible.
OK. And one of the not supplements,
but one of the treatments that
you have are called peptides.
What are peptides and how do you
administer them? What do they
do? Great question.
So there's thousands of them
naturally occurring in our bodies.
They're like the building
blocks of proteins, right?
You got it. You got it. Yep.
Short chains of amino acids,
which amino acids make up proteins.
You put enough amino acids together,
peptides get released
from one part of the body,
they travel to a different part of the body,
they plug into receptors.
And when that happens there's a
bunch of pathways that get activated,
a bunch of cascading things that occur.
And over a lifetime these pathways,
they are they they become dysfunctional,
the body stops signaling in the ways that
it was able to do in our teenage years,
20s and 30s.
And So what that a big part
of longevity medicine,
one of the advanced therapeutics
and longevity.
Listen, you can now inject these peptides.
Yeah and signal these pathways
throughout either day-to-day or some
of them last a little bit longer.
You can do a once weekly injection
and what is the data show
so well, how does it help? Yeah.
So one of the most popular peptides right now
on the market are these GLP one agonists.
These are have been all over the new
social media's blowing up about them.
These are Glucagon like peptides
and again depending on the
peptide you put in your body,
depending on your underlying.
Health status, your age,
what your goals are.
They're all going to do
very different things. But
do they make you digest better?
Do they make you feel better?
Less inflammation. Like,
what's the ultimate result? Very, very
variable depending on the peptide.
Yeah. Some peptides are engineered just
to reduce inflammation in the body.
Some of them are engineered to
try to put your body in a state
where it looks for inflammation and
things that it can repair. Yeah.
Other peptides curve your appetite.
They help you to become more
insulin sensitive.
These are the ones that have
become very, very popular.
There's also this.
Thank you for the answer, by the way.
There's this pyramid of longevity
medicine that you put up of like more
or less a hierarchy of importance,
a triage of things you need to do to,
you know, push off ailments.
You want to talk about this
a little bit and sort of.
Yeah, what it means,
yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
This is something that our team
at Alex Medical, we reference a
lot the the pyramid of longevity.
Yep. Go ahead. I've got about a minute
left. OK. So yes, at the foundation
is all of the individual pieces.
These are basic pieces that are really,
really important that people they
maintain throughout a lifetime.
We build the foundation and
everything we do up the pyramid
is to enhance the foundation,
including the injectable peptides
that can help with chronic obesity,
type 2 diabetes.
And it can also, yeah,
just help the an individual's
insulin sensitivity,
which becomes very important
over the course of a lifetime
when you talk about.
Longevity
medicine. Yeah.
And I guess we gotta wrap right now,
but this is not something people
should be really doing on their own.
This is, this is stuff that needs.
Yeah, medical use.
These need to be prescribed therapeutics.
They need medical supervision to
make sure you're the right profile,
to make sure that that we're getting
the right results off of these peptides
have to have professionals involved.
Well, I'll tell you what,
it's fascinating to talk to you.
I think we should do it in a longer format,
maybe podcast format because this
is a huge topic some people are
interested in right now to do it.
Thank you, doctor. Appreciate it.
LX medical is. Located on 77th St.
It's in Adina and we got a
link to them at care11.com.
Thank you doctor.