Healthy Longevity – Détails, épisodes et analyse

If you are a stress-aholic, you need to put more “O” in your life. The “O” in orgasm also is the “O” in oxytocin, the hormone of love and connection, says Anna Cabeca DO, an OBGYN, best-selling author, and expert in hormones and menopause known as The Girlfriend Doctor. In this episode of Healthy Longevity, Dr. Comite interviews Dr. Cabeca about how boosting oxytocin can help women counteract the stress hormone cortisol, lower risk of diabetes, supercharge sexual desire and function, and more! 

You’ll learn…  

• How Dr. Cabeca turned her life (and health) around after the tragic death of her toddler son and breakup of her marriage, which triggered early menopause. 

• Stress messes up our adaptive hormones—as cortisol goes up, oxytocin goes down.  

• 5 simple ways to boost oxytocin naturally to help your body repair itself.  

• How eating alkaline foods can rebalance your acidic physiology leading to weight loss, improved sleep and mood, and relief from brain fog and hot flashes. 

• The morning and evening routine that resets your circadian rhythm.  

• About new oxytocin-boosting treatments to combat vaginal dryness, clitoral atrophy and improve orgasm. 

Lorenzo Thione is an entrepreneur, expert in Artificial Intelligence, a celebrated storyteller. and Broadway producer four-times nominated for and twice winner of Tony Awards. For someone so busy, it’s remarkable he finds the time to stay as laser focused on his health as he appears. But is he really doing all he could to optimize his body? In this episode of Healthy Longevity, Dr. Comite analyzes Thione’s recent blood work to see if his biomarkers reveal he’s as healthy on the inside as he looks on the outside.  

You’ll learn…  

• How Thione, a technology expert and self-quantifier, uses wearable devices and other health data point to inform his lifestyle decisions.  

• How testosterone optimization therapy improved Thione’s energy, libido, and more! 

• Dr. Comite’s recommendations for improving his low levels of magnesium, a mineral that’s essential for gut and brain and plays a role in over 300 critical functions in the body.  

• Insights about homocysteine and why some people need methylated forms of vitamin B12.  

•  Why family health history has been called a poor man’s genetic test. 

When feeling stressed and overwhelmed in medical school, Poonam Desai would dance. She’d take a 15-minute break to dance to hip hop or practice her classical Indian dances. “Dance is my happy place; it’s my meditation,” says the emergency department physician, classically trained ballet and Indian dancer and private practice longevity doctor. In this episode of Healthy Longevity with Florence Comite MD, Dr. Desai shares her prescription for avoiding a visit to her E.R. and living a healthier, happier long life.  

You’ll learn… 

• That Dr. Desai’s experience treating stroke and heart attack patients in the E.R. taught her that convention medicine must become more proactive to help patients age with vitality.  

• The path to healthy longevity starts with a change of mindset. 

• Why you need to be ready to change before you can establish healthier habits.  

• Wearable devices like sleep and heart rate trackers are accelerating a major shift toward virtual healthcare.  

• Why most peoples’ definition of being healthy is wrong.  

Don’t try to manage menopause alone as your mother did. Actively seeking help and resources to comprehend and navigate perimenopause and menopause is the new plan for women to manage symptoms and improve their health. Join Dr. Comite in an open conversation about how to embrace this significant life phase with Jessica Shepherd, MD, a board-certified OB/GYN and author of the new book Generation M: Living Well in Perimenopause and Menopause.  

You’ll learn… 

• How participating in open dialogues with other women and your partner will facilitate understanding of changes, alleviate symptoms, and reduce feelings of isolation or shame.  

• Why prepping your body for perimenopause as you would train for a 10K race will help you master the marathon of menopause.  

• How hormone therapy can ease symptoms, reduce the risk of heart disease, and reverse biological aging. 

• That incorporating mindfulness through meditation, yoga, or other methods, contributes to positive health outcomes during menopause. 

Heart disease, heart attack, and stroke are the nation’s #1 killers of men and women. But these chronic disorders of aging are easily detected and cost effective to prevent.  If you want to not only live longer, but live a healthy, active, happy life to 100 and beyond, you’ll want to listen to heart surgeon David Luu, M.D. He’s founder of The Heart Fund, dedicated to democratizing access to cardiovascular care in low-income countries, and the startup Hearty.com, a service designed to detect heart disease and other age-related conditions early.  

You’ll learn… 

·         Why checking your blood pressure should be as routine as brushing your teeth.  

·         The cholesterol blood test that everyone should undergo but few people do.  

·         Why you should know your CT calcium score and consider a CT angiogram.  

·          About the skateboarding accident that became Dr. Luu’s inspiration to pursue longevity medicine.  

·         How loneliness can affect your heart.  

·         Dr. Luu’s #1 tip for achieving healthy longevity 

·         Plus, answers to listeners’ burning questions.  

Dr. Florence Comite discusses the importance of proactive healthcare and personalized approaches to health. She emphasizes the need for accurate and reliable information in the field of longevity and aims to help individuals increase their health span. Dr. Comite shares her experience as an endocrinologist and precision medicine physician, highlighting the importance of understanding the aging process and implementing targeted interventions. She explains the significance of data and biomarkers in customizing healthcare and emphasizes the need for a comprehensive approach to health that includes factors such as hormones, metabolism, and body composition. Dr. Comite also shares a case study of a client who successfully reversed the aging process through personalized interventions.

Amy B. Killen, M.D., was an emergency room doctor for more than 10 years. And she was tired of treating the same people over and over again. “I’d see the same patients with the same problems, and I thought “there has to be a better way.” In this episode of Healthy Longevity with Florence Comite, M.D., Dr. Killen describes how she came to the realization that she could prevent the chronic diseases that were bringing patients to the E.R. “if we could only get to them sooner.” She also admits that she worried she could become one of those patients in the E.R. waiting room if she didn’t change her own unhealthy lifestyle habits. Drs. Comite and Killen discuss the need to shift from conventional medicine’s reactive methods to a more proactive, personalized, preventive approach to healthcare. They explore ways individuals can play a more active role in optimizing their health for life.  

You’ll learn: 

• What Dr. Killen saw in the E.R. that drove her to switch from conventional to proactive longevity medicine.   

• Why sleep is so critical to every function in your body and brain.  

• The challenges and solutions for treating hypothyroid symptoms. 

• The #1 change you can make in your life today to be healthier tomorrow.  

• And much more!  

Want to perform better tomorrow at anything you do? Then get a good night’s sleep tonight. “Sleep plays a critical role in restoration for humans; it is the housekeeping process for our physiology that allows us to restore and start the next day,” says sleep expert Sahil Chopra, MD, today’s guest on Healthy Longevity with Florence Comite MD.

            Dr. Chopra is co-founder and chief medical officer for Empower Sleep, a virtual sleep care program that makes personalized multi-night sleep analysis and treatment accessible from home.

            Nearly 40% of adults report falling asleep during the day without meaning to at least once a month. Also, an estimated 50 to 70 million Americans have chronic, or ongoing, sleep disorders, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“If people don’t sleep well, the likelihood of having cardiovascular disease … is higher, the possibility of cancer is six-fold higher,” says Chopra. “Growth hormone levels are lower; cortisol dysregulation is higher. Circadian rhythms, if they are misaligned, result in a compromised metabolic state. REM sleep plays a critical role in emotional stability.”

            If you’re suffering from brain fog or nodding off at your desk after lunch, you’ll want to tune in to discover how to dramatically improve your health and health trajectory by improving your sleep habits.  

You’ll learn:

* Sleep debt builds slowly, so you may not recognize what it’s doing to you.

* Why a one-night sleep study is not an effective way to diagnose a sleep disorder.

* Sleep trackers like Empower Sleep’s medical-grade ring and consumer models like the Oura Ring provide patients with real-time analysis of their sleep quality in their own bed without spending a restless night in a sleep lab wired to a machine.

* Poor sleep is a gut punch, affecting the gut microbiome by disrupting the GI tract’s normal nightly slow-down, which allows its epithelial lining to repair and recover.

* Lack of sleep compromises the immune system. Studies show that sleep-deprived people (getting four to six hours of sleep) don’t respond to vaccines as well as people who get adequate sleep (seven to eight hours).

* During deep sleep stages, blood flow to the brain peaks through the glymphatic system, which clears the beta amyloid and tau proteins that are believed to play a role in Alzheimer’s dementia.

* What to do an hour before bedtime and within 15 minutes of waking to reset a healthy circadian rhythm.

* Remedies for restless leg syndrome, including new technology that stimulates nerves in the legs to make the brain think that your lower limbs are moving.

* And much more!

About Florence Comite, MD

Dr. Comite began her medical journey at Yale University School of Medicine and continued at Yale with a residency in medicine. She completed a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology (multidisciplinary training incorporating pediatrics, gynecology, and andrology) at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. She remained at the National Institutes of Health as a senior clinical research associate before joining the Yale faculty as an associate professor in endocrinology. During her 25-year faculty tenure, Dr. Comite founded and directed Women’s Health at Yale.

In 2005, she launched her bespoke medical practice, Comite Center for Precision Medicine & Healthy Longevity, in New York City and subsequently expanded offices to Palo Alto and Miami Beach.

Through her medical practice and decades of clinical research, Dr. Comite recognized that all humans have inherited a disorder of carbohydrate metabolism (a glucose disorder leading toward diabetes), which is accelerated by aging and the natural decline of the hormones testosterone and estrogen, which begins around age 30.

Dr. Comite’s podcast delivers the truth about your health—that age-related disease begins early in life at the cellular level. By slowing and even reversing the biological aging process, we can stay active and in great health for life. She interviews renowned physicians, researchers, and thought leaders offering surprising insights and practical tips that listeners can use to improve their own health trajectory.

Longevity isn’t just a roll of the genetic dice; it’s something you can actively shape. By building a plan to expand your healthspan, you’re investing in your future self, ensuring that as you age, you continue to feel strong, keep your brain sharp, and live life to the fullest. Being proactive is the point of longevity medicine, which takes the best parts of conventional healthcare and wellness and helps you play an active role in your health like never before, says Delphine Le Grand, an entrepreneur in the booming longevity space. Delphine is a bridge builder, fostering partnerships with early-stage companies and longevity physicians to bring personalized, preventative care models to market. Join my conversation with Delphine as we explore this “cultural moment” that longevity medicine is currently enjoying and how it will impact you.

You’ll learn:

·       The longevity medicine ecosystem is still in its infancy, but hang on for an explosion of technology, bioscience breakthrough, and more that will make living well beyond 100 years common.

·       The first step in building a plan to lengthen your healthspan to match your lifespan is to know your body and understand what it’s telling you at the cellular level.

·       Bio data is important but knowing what to do with that information to improve your health is essential. And that’s the piece of the puzzle that’s missing—unless you know where to look.

·       The biggest breakthrough in reducing chronic cardiometabolic disease will come from reversing the carbohydrate metabolism disorder that affects 99 percent of human beings.

·       To improve your health tomorrow, discover what’s holding you back from living in optimal health today. Is it poor sleep, unhealthy eating, insufficient exercise, or stress? Identify your nemesis and overcome it.

About Florence Comite, MD

Dr. Comite began her medical journey at Yale University School of Medicine and continued her training there with a residency in medicine. She completed a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology (multidisciplinary training incorporating pediatrics, gynecology, and andrology) at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. She remained at the National Institutes of Health as a senior clinical research associate before joining the Yale faculty as an associate professor in endocrinology. During her 25-year faculty tenure, Dr. Comite founded and directed Women’s Health at Yale.

In 2005, she launched her bespoke medical practice, Comite Center for Precision Medicine & Healthy Longevity, in New York City and, subsequently expanded offices to Palo Alto and Miami Beach.

Through her medical practice and decades of clinical research, Dr. Comite recognized that all humans have inherited a disorder of carbohydrate metabolism (a glucose disorder leading toward diabetes), which is accelerated by aging and the natural decline of the hormones testosterone and estrogen, which begins around age 30.

Dr. Comite’s podcast delivers the truth about your health—that age-related disease begins early in life at the cellular level. By slowing and even reversing the biological aging process, we can stay active and in great health for life. She interviews renowned physicians, researchers, and thought leaders, offering surprising insights and practical tips that listeners can use to improve their own health trajectory.

Next on Healthy Longevity with Florence Comite

Aug. 19:  Dean Ornish, MD, world-renowned pioneer of lifestyle medicine, on practical steps to reverse chronic disease.

Hormone optimization, often referred to as HRT or hormone replacement therapy, has the power to transform women's lives—but despite its benefits, many women remain hesitant to pursue it due to unfounded fears. In Part II of her guest appearance on Healthy Longevity, gastroenterologist and long-COVID expert Robin Rose, MD, shares real-life case studies that reveal the tangible impact of hormone optimization. Combined with insights from Dr. Comite’s decades of endocrinology experience, these patient stories demonstrate how personalized treatment, regular monitoring, and education can make all the difference in a woman’s health journey. 

You'll Learn… 

• The reasons why so many women hesitate to embrace bioidentical hormone optimization therapies yet will take synthetic hormones for birth control without thinking twice.  

• The biggest misconceptions about estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone—and what the science actually says.  

• Real-life case studies that showcase the power of personalized hormone management. 

• How long COVID (and even the COVID vaccine) can throw hormones off balance, especially in young women. 

• The critical role of tracking hormone levels and making precise adjustments over time. 

• How hormone optimization can reverse biological aging and protect your heart, brain, and bones.