Making 100 the New 30
About This Episode:
In this episode, Lance Edwards’ guest is Dr. Jeffrey Gladden. Dr. Gladden is currently the Director of Heart Attack and Stroke Prevention and Cardiac Rehabilitation at The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano, which he co-founded in 2004. He is CEO Board Chair, Principle and CMO for Product Development at Scientia Cardio Access and a board member at Scientia Vascular. Tune in to learn the secrets to longevity and what’s making Lance so healthy – and why “100 is the new 30.”
Guest Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Gladden
Dr. Jeffrey Gladden is a Board certified interventional cardiologist and the founder of Gladden Longevity, Human Performance & Longevity Optimization. Over the years, he has specialized in many areas of cardiology, including interventional, diagnostic, preventative and programmatic.
Dr. Gladden is currently the Director of Heart Attack and Stroke Prevention and Cardiac Rehabilitation at The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano, which he co-founded in 2004. He is CEO Board Chair, Principle and CMO for Product Development at Scientia Cardio Access and a board member at Scientia Vascular. He is currently licensed in three states, his work is published in multiple medical journals, and he is a consultant for multiple cardiovascular projects, programs and medical device development. He is also the co-host of the “Living Beyond 120™” Podcast.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
- Dr. Gladden’s background is in interventional cardiology, which he practiced in Dallas for 25 years. When he got sick in his 50’s it was a big wake up call for the active mountain biker, runner, surfer and snowboarder. It took him two and a half years to crack the code going down a functional, integrative, age managed medicine pathway. He realized he had been practicing sick care, not health care.
- Asking “How do you make 100 the new 30?” empowers everything he does at Gladden Longevity. The other questions he and his team address are: How good can you be? How do you live well beyond 120? And how do you make 100 the new 30? Those are the questions that fuel his passion. He believes mindset changes everything.
- The big problem we’re faced with is the fact that aging is normalized and we adjust our activities based on that. From a mindset perspective, we embrace getting older. When you imagine retiring and kicking back, it’s like embracing death and decline. If you think your best years are behind you, that’s where you’ll end up.
- The questions you ask set your mindset. If you’re going to wake up like you’re 34 every day, that’s a mindset. The question of how you make that happen is what drives the activity. When your mind is given a question, it actually works to answer it. Whereas if you give it an answer it has to defend and rationalize it.
- The questions we should be asking: How do I live my best life? How do I make 100 the new 30 and feel that good when I’m 100. You’ll feel your mind expand into that? Be married to the questions, not the answers.
- Lance affirms what Dr. Gladden taught him: “Imagine what you want to be doing when you’re 90? Imagine it and go into training for it.”
- Dr. Gladden says, you have to be doing things differently from your peer group to make the mindset shift happen. Whatever age you want to set your mind to, ask the bigger questions and realize that in order to actualize that, it’s going to take a different strategy.
- When people get their executive health physicals, even from top institutions, they questions they ask – Are you sick? Do you have heart disease? Are you pretty good for your age? – are sick care questions. They’re not asking, How good can you be? People leave these physicals feeling they’re okay, when all they’ve done is chronicle their decline.
- The problem Dr. Gladden has with the term “wellness” is that it means the absence of identifiable disease. His organization is about health optimization – health, human performance and longevity. The sick care system is not there to keep you healthy, but to take care of you if you’re ill. You don’t have health insurance, you have sick insurance. He says, “If you’re going to be an astronaut, or if you’re going to make 100 the new 30, you’re going to have to step outside that sick care system.”
- Dr. Gladden says, We all have a chronological age, but we’re actually all a mosaic of ages – brain age, heart age, blood vessel age, liver age, kidney age, cardiovascular system age, immune system age, DNA age, brain age. You can take years off any of these ages with the new strategies he is using.
- In a sick care system, you get an EKG, treadmill test, chest X-ray, blood work, cholesterol, hormone level check. They’re looking for disease. Dr. Gladden does a “super deep dive,” doing genetic testing with different companies and sending samples around the world to get genetics reports. They also do a deep drive on the cardiovascular system, looking at it through eight different lenses. They measure brain function with TEGs. They collaborate with the Amen Clinic to do a SPECT scan. They analyze all the patient’s assets and liabilities.
- Dr. Gladden gives people confidence to move forward through clarity about the right diet and exercise based on these results. He also specializes in pre-emptive testing for everything from cancer to heat disease and brain malfunction.
- The right strategy comes down to things you can control – how you sleep, how you exercise, what foods you eat, how you manage stress, what supplements you take, what medications you need. High stress in particular will shorten your life, so it’s important to find strategies to mitigate stress. Psychology is as important as biochemistry.
- Dr. Gladden encourages entrepreneurial minded people to set up a new “company” devoted to taking care of their health, devoting time, resources and attention to it like they would any other business. One option is to just hang on till you get across the finish line of retirement. The other is, why don’t I become the CEO of this new company and whip this thing into shape and become 30 again and have a much bigger future than I ever realized?
- Dr. Gladden says to imagine three circles around a human figure. The inner circle is a circle of longevity. The next is a circle of health. Then a circle of performance. The first two don’t get big emotional responses. The third, performance, lights people up. There are different levers on those circles that need to be pulled in order to actuate longevity, health and performance. They are all interrelated.
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