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245: Simple Steps for Lasting Impact: The Path to Health Optimization with Boomer Anderson
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Boomer Anderson
Optimization here is a process. And so it's a process and it's a moving target. So once you get to one level, you keep wanting to go higher and higher and higher. And it's a continuous process. It's not like when you're trying to remove, let's say, a disease factor that it goes away and that's it. It's more just you're continually optimizing to get better. And it's something that the curriculum I'm very proud of what we've done there. And you know, the practitioners that do practice Home Hope are getting incredible results with their clients.
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Mallory Erickson
He My name is Mallory and I'm obsessed with helping leaders in the nonprofit space raise money and run their organizations differently. What the Fundraising is a space for real and raw conversations to both challenge and inspire you. Not too long ago, I was in your shoes, uncomfortable with fundraising and unsure of my place in this sector. It wasn't until I started to listen to other experts outside of the fundraising space that I was able to shift my mindset and ultimately shift the way I show up as a leader. This podcast is my way of blending professional and personal development so we, as a collective inside the nonprofit sector, can feel good about the work we are doing. Join me every week as I interview some of the brightest minds in the personal and professional development space to help you fundamentally change the way you lead and fundraise. I hope you enjoy this episode. So let's dive in. Welcome everyone.
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Unknown
I am so excited to be here today with Boomer Anderson. Boomer, welcome to what the fundraising Mallory.
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Boomer Anderson
It'S so good to be here. I'm really excited to have this conversation and to interact with you in this manner.
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Unknown
Same here, and there's so much that we could talk about. But why don't we start with you just introducing yourself to everyone and telling folks a little bit about what brings you to our conversation today, and then we'll dive in.
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Boomer Anderson
Sure. So it's funny because I use my family reunions as sort of a gauge as to, you know, how much my parents understand or my cousins understand what's going on in my life and what I'm doing. And, you know, we're progressing, let's say that. But I serve as the chief executive officer of an organization called Smarter, Not Harder. For those listening. The most popular thing that we've done out of that entity is something called troscriptions, where we provide formulations in the form of a buccal trochee. We say formal formulations because we're looking to solve nutraceutical problems with an effect. So things like sleep, so stress focus all common issues of this modern day age, we provide solutions, elegant solutions to that. Now, the probably more germane aspect of my roles to this conversation is I also am the chief executive officer of Health Optimization Medicine and Practice. And there at Health Optimization Medicine and Practice, what we're doing is we're educating doctors and non doctor healthcare practitioners on how to optimize for health rather than treat disease. And I say that because it is a nonprofit and it's deliberately structured as a nonprofit because none of us at the education side of it draw a salary at all from the organization. And we want to. The mission there is really to change the healthcare system. And maybe it's worth Mallory, if it's okay with you, just going in a little bit of a story background on me to educate why that's to me a very important mission to have. I think there's some obvious factors and things wrong with our healthcare system. You know, it costs $12,000 a year on average for a person to get healthcare in this country. And this is, we're talking the United States. I've also lived in the Netherlands, Singapore, and can say that there's pluses and minuses of every system. Physician burnout is a real thing because a lot of being a physician now is administrative work. And you know, all of these issues of course, are very, very important to deal. And our healthcare system does certain things very well. Like if you have an injury, you go, you get fixed. If you have a situation where you need a hospital, there's something there for you. But when I was 20 years old, I knew I had a future health issue waiting for me. My grandfather was obese. He died of a stroke slash heart attack well before the age of 70. My father is overweight. He has also some substance abuse issues. And I sought like ways to proactively address this. I was fortunate enough to get an annual physical every year. That's not something that's available to everybody, but every year the doctor kept saying to me, you're okay, you're okay, you're okay. And you look at things like cholesterol and my cholesterol is fine. But inside I kind of was wondering, why do I have brain fog? Why do I not feel a zest for life every day? Why do I not wake up using an old Wall street saying of wanting to bite the ass off a bear? And you can see where this is going. But at the age of 30, I got diagnosed with a heart condition. And kind of caught me for a little bit of a. Threw me for a loop, if you will, because I was doing everything right according to Men's Health and everything else. Like, why did I get diagnosed with this issue? And instead I had a 95% risk factor or chance of having a heart attack in my lifetime. I was 30 years old, had, you know, six pack abs, everything. So went on a little bit of a mission to dissect the human body myself, but along the way, found some doctors that were much further along in that process than me. And Dr. Ted Achicoso, who's a mentor, friend, pioneer of health optimization medicine and practice, introduced me to his framework. And what I loved about it was the elegance of the framework. How sleep, how just analytical testing, how your environment, how your mitochondria really impact your health. It all goes into this system, and we can balance that system and you can thrive today and hopefully avoid all of those issues that I was trying to avoid as well down the line.
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Unknown
Okay, gosh, there's so much here I gave you.
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Boomer Anderson
I gave you a little bit of it. That was just like the full buffet. Now you have to decide where you want to start.
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Unknown
Well, I'm like, oh, do I tell you about my recent health issues? No, I. I'll say that. So I have an autoimmune disease that I got diagnosed with a few years ago. Before that diagnosis, I could tell that something was going on. And I had been going to my doctors for a long time, since I had my first daughter, saying some, my hormones are different, something is different. Like, I just can't tell what's going on. And, you know, nobody was really. Everybody was like, you're fine, you're fine, you're fine on all these tests. And I started to investigate a lot of sort of alternative diagnostic programs that could help me try to understand the interconnection of different things. So I took like a food sensitivity test and started to just get really curious about my body, about how it was responding to different things and reacting to different things. And then it wasn't until many years later when I was actually going through IVF for my second. I hadn't done IVF with my first. They do a very comprehensive health analysis before you go through ivf. And it was that doctor, actually that found the autoimmune disease. And then all of a sudden, all these things started to make a little bit more sense. But once again, they told me, oh, there's nothing you can do. This is just going to be where you're at One day you'll go on medicine. You'll be on it for the rest of your life. And I was just like, no, like, there's. What do you mean? There's nothing I can do. And so I ended up changing my life, changing everything that I put inside my body, and changing how I, you know, focus on sleep and stress and all of these different things. And I technically put it into remission, my autoimmune disease, which they told me was, you know, completely impossible. And so I have a lot of, like, respect for taking a step back and being like, okay, something isn't working here, and a lot of things aren't working here. Right. And I think, you know, so many people are doing the best they can with the access and the information that they have to try to keep themselves and their loved ones healthy or run a medical practice, but so many people are suffering because of it.
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Boomer Anderson
Yeah. And first, good on you for taking the bull by the horns. Right. Because we like to refer to that as empowered responsibility. And I think there is an element of that with anybody who has a health issue that you're going to have to find that, at least for now, you're going to have to take the bull by the horns and do a little bit of research yourself just to kind of piggyback a little bit off of that. So. And just to kind of add a little bit about how, you know, health optimization, medicine and practice, we work things. So let's say you meet with a Home Hope practitioner, and we've trained over a hundred of these people now around the world. And what we like to say is that the universal common denominator is that the cell, the basic cell. And so at Home Hope, what we're trying to do is optimize your cellular level function. Yes. It's important to know where your symptoms are coming from. In your case, your. Your hormones feeling off, et cetera. But the hypothesis with Home Hope is that if you get the cel, meaning you balance the nutrients, you balance the hormones, if you're working with a doctor, a lot of these things that we'll call symptom symptomology tend to fall away. So, you know, people that have adverse blood sugar levels, they tend to fall away when your nutrients and hormones are balanced. And with that, you also see things like that zest, that brain fog fall away, all of those energy levels that, you know, in this age of distraction we all value so much, it's. They tend to come back and you see that people again, Optimization here is a process. And so It's a process and it's a moving target. So once you get to one level, you keep wanting to go higher and higher and higher. And it's a continuous process. It's not like when you're trying to remove, let's say, a disease factor, that it goes away and that's it. It's more just you're continually optimizing to get better. And it's something that the curriculum. I'm very proud of what we've done there. And, you know, the practitioners that do practice home hope are getting incredible results with their cl.
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Unknown
Like, it was so interesting, like, when I was going through my process. So now I have to, like, get. Give everyone my medical information. But, you know, like, I don't eat gluten or dairy or soy. Like, I have. I. There are all these things that have been. And so, you know, people will hear things like that and they'll be like, oh my gosh, I'm so sad for you. Like, you know, you can't just go out the same way you used to and things like that. And for me, like, I'm not sad for me. Like, I'm like, I feel so much better. Like, I'm very happy for me. Even though. Yes. Do I miss, like, pizza once in a while? Well, totally. But so many people's reaction was like, but why don't you just want to take the medicine that they're, like, giving you? And so how do you like. It feels like we are in this society of quick wins or, you know, whack a mole games, where we just kind of want the fastest solution that requires the least energy on our part, perhaps. Which I think as we become more and more overwhelmed by all the stimuli, as you mentioned, that makes a lot of sense. Right? We're just so overwhelmed. We're like, just tell me what to do. Give me the thing that we need. How do you find, like, how do you all help folks stay committed to something that is about small steps and optimization over time?
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Boomer Anderson
Such a good question, and thank you for asking it. Now, let me address the first part, overwhelm, and then we'll talk about the committed part afterwards. So the overwhelm in particular, in this day and age of ChatGPT or whatever, Google influencers, all of this stuff is a very real thing, particularly in health. And I would know when I tried to go and dissect this all myself, I went and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to figure it all out. But what if we could start you down a path where you put A filter on all of that information, because that filter is your own biochemistry. What every home hope practitioner does with their clients is they come in, they have a certain level of test that they do. They do metabolomic testing, they measure over 300 different markers to determine what nutritional supplements you need. You'll do gut immune system function testing, a three day stool test, because a one day stool test, I have yet to meet anybody who empties their small intestine in one day or one bathroom visit. But you do a three day stool test that tells you your balance of bacteria in your gut, whether or not you have maybe parasites or perhaps pathogenic bacteria. And then you look at something like a food sensitivity test that you mentioned. There's one in particular, one that's good out there in terms of replica able to ability to be replicated. But there's also several other food sensitivities tests that do a really good job of getting people to buy into the diet of you. And what I mean by the diet of you is with all of that information, which is several hundred biomarkers, I can tell you exactly what supplements Mallory needs and the doses that she needs, that I can tell you if you need a probiotic or not. I can tell you whether or not that technology that that influencer is recomm to you is beneficial based on your lifestyle. And so it allows you to put that filter on the world. So let's say you were getting a hundred pieces of health information a day and if you're like me and consuming this stuff, it's more than that. And so what are the ones that are directly relevant for Mallory? Well, it could be two or three of those. And then those two or three of those, you magnify and glass them and see like, how do I actually implement them in my life? So immediately what you're doing with a practitioner is you're hiring somebody to take the place and be the buffer, but you're also getting those test results to filter the world to reduce your overwhelm. Then the second part of your question, which is, how do you get people to buy in? Well, have you ever seen the movie Boiler Room? And maybe you haven't.
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Unknown
It was a long time ago, really long time ago.
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Boomer Anderson
I use this analogy with all of our students and in Boiler Room, Ben Affleck comes in and he's like, show somebody a 3% return and they'll trust you with their kids for the weekend. Right. In health optimization, medicine and practice, our goal is to get you addicted to health. And how do you do that? Well, I personally, and I only see a couple of clients now. I don't see many. In fact, anybody who gets referred to me, I usually send to some of our students. But it's mainly entrepreneurs. And with entrepreneurs, brain function is everything, right? If I can get my brain going at 120 every day, that's great. But in the case of, you know, entrepreneurs with brain fog, well, let's look at some of your markers and see, like kyanic acid, for example, is a marker of. Loosely translated, it approximates potential brain inflammation. Now, there are very elegant solutions for that. It's usually a marker of B6 deficiency. If you give an entrepreneur who has an elevated level of kyrenic acid B6 and it resolves itself, they notice, all of a sudden, the brain fog goes away. That's a very quick fix. And so now all of a sudden, they've got that 3% return, and they're like, oh, what else is this? Similar to you with your autoimmune condition, right? Begin to feel better, and then you remember, you know, what it's like. Or let's say you follow paleo diet for 30 days and you deliberately go off the wagon and you know how good you felt on that diet, or in your case, with your autoimmune condition in remission. So you felt so good, and then you go off the wagon, and then you realize how different it feels, how much worse it feels. And you want that situation, you want that feeling to come back right away.
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Unknown
Yeah, it's true. It's interesting. I also, I stopped drinking this year, and I didn't really for the same reason, inflammation. I felt like my body wasn't processing alcohol the same since my daughter was born. And I was just like, you know what? This just isn't. Every time I am having even a few sips, I'm waking up the day next, next morning, and I'm not feeling great. And especially if you have a little baby, you don't want to do anything to mess with your sleep, right? So I'm just like, my sleep is my priority. But you're right, like, I. My husband and I have jokes sometimes like, wow, now it's like the difference in how that makes us feel makes us not ever want to feel that way. Versus when we were younger, and maybe our body was processing it slightly differently, but still we were more commonly feeling that the sort of like, whatever the impact of the alcohol was. And so there was less of a distinction between what was possible without it. And now it's like exactly. To your point, I'm like, oh, why would I ever pass up feeling like my full self when I.
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Boomer Anderson
There's a lot of anxiety around giving up alcohol. I was one of those people, similar to you. I gave up alcohol a few years ago now, and there was a lot of anxiety around giving up. Like, how would I be social again? You know, how do I go out to dinner and enjoy myself when all of my friends are drinking and all that stuff? And I think those 30 day challenges certainly work initially. They give you a taste of what it's like to, you know, get good sleep without alcohol. And what the beautiful thing that I found with giving up drinking is, is on those nights where I get a short level or short amount of sleep, whether it's your baby, right, or you wake up because you're an entrepreneur and your mind's going a thousand miles a minute. On those days that I was drinking back then, the thought loop was very negative. Now it's okay, I can actually do things. I can get stuff done. And so it's a magnifier on the downside, because alcohol is depressant, right. And so getting away or removing that magnifier. There's a huge movement now for people to have more of a sober life. They're like, wine consumption is now one sixth of what it used to be for previous generations. And that's definitely a positive vote forward for society. I'm excited about it. There's numerous studies out there that show how much damage alcohol does to self and society. So I think there's a lot to be thankful for with that.
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Unknown
I'm curious, can we talk about that piece, sort of like the cultural piece to all of that? Because whether it's alcohol or what we eat or have stopped eating, or even sort of who we go to for medical advice. Right. Like, there's a lot of different types of stigma or judgment around some of those decisions. Some of it may be related to what people think about that solution, but some of it might be related to people's own discomfort. Right? So, like, I found with drinking, most of the people in my life, like, could care less if I drink or not. Like, I'm a riot sober, so. Yeah. But once in a while, somebody will get kind of uncomfortable and I can tell that it's about that they think I care about them drinking, which I don't at all. But I'm sort of like witnessing this cultural moment of like, I'm disrupting, I don't know, a perception that they wanted to hold about the situation or something like that. I don't even know exactly, but I'm curious. Like, I feel like we are in an age where people are deciding to handle their health situations or their wellness in a lot of different types of ways. And kind of like, what are some of the cultural implications of that? Like, how do we honor people using different types of providers? Or I've always done a lot of like Eastern medicine practices and, you know, some of my friends woo, woo me away and others are like, give me a recommendation. But how do you think we're going to need to, as society kind of manage this as we see such differentiation around care and wellness?
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Boomer Anderson
Yeah, it's a good, fantastic question. Right. And a lot of what you're talking about, I kind of label as social cultural programming. And you know, for. And that can play in many different elements. Right. Some of that comes from family. I grew up in a family that part Midwest, part East Coast. We had certain dynamics, certain relationships to food. My mother was also a yoga teacher. So I've totally embraced the woo in the past. And I'm one of those people that will dissolve boundaries and look at what works, works, see what the evidence is and use that to inform my decisions. Dr. Ted likes to call it evidence informed medicine. And so with other elements of social cultural programming, include co workers. And we'll get into co workers a little bit here because my previous life in finance, there's a certain stigma there. And then you also have religion. Religion can play a huge role in people's perceptions about different elements. And so, so let's take those three, because I could spend the whole podcast talking about all of these and then we'll probably put a broader element around society and some of the shifts that I think could be necessary. So if we start looking at family and the family you're raised in, there likely is some sort of perception when it comes to alcohol in your family. Either you come from maybe a religious background, now we're overlapping. Or you come from a family that doesn't drink and therefore they weren't supportive of you drinking, et cetera. That can certainly shape somebody's thinking. You can have it in religion where they're supportive of drinking alcohol, but in using substances or psychedelics, it becomes very much a poo poo thing. And then you have societal level. Right. And so societal level, right now we have an. I wouldn't call it an antiquated healthcare system because again, there's certain things we do incredibly well in our healthcare system. It's very expensive and there's a lot of administrative costs to it. And so there are a few things that need to really happen in our healthcare system in order to make some of these trends, if you will, alternative medicines more accepted but also more talked about. And health insurance in particular does not cover anything that resembles preventative medicine. And so if you look at what would be amazing is this metabolomics test that I talked about, making the metabolomics test a cornerstone health insurance and making it covered by health insurance could actually lead to lower costs for health insurance providers over time. Right. And because you're helping people preventively address their health, preventively know what nutrients they're deficient in and address them early, hopefully they can avoid situations like autoimmune conditions, et cetera, you're also encouraging them to adopt better behaviors. One of the bigger stigmas to me in society is if there's a study by David Nutt in the United Kingdom who looked at harm to self, harm to society, and mapped, I think it was like 20 different substances. And alcohol was either number one or number two. And number one, I think, was heroin. Right. Harm to self and harm to society. And then we have this stigma put into us by the Nixon administration and part of it is justified right around other substances, things like psychedelics, et cetera. And there is this movement that's somewhat of a third wave, if you will, of people that are looking at these substances for the purposes of mental health. Now, if we're talking about stigmas, one of the bigger stigmas that exists right now is around mental health and people talking about it. Right. We have issues I mentioned earlier, physician burnout, but also issues around anxiety, depression, a lot of mental health conditions. And I'm not sure that our hybrid work environment or remote work environment has made these any better. But what I am grateful for is that we are now talking about them more. And, you know, some of these substances which were kind of cast off and thrown into, you know, what I would call sort of a dark zone that nobody should talk, that nobody was meant to talk to again. They're actually bringing them back out and seeing like, hey, something like a ketamine can be useful for treatment resistant depression. Something like, you know, psilocybin can be useful for people that are looking at end of life care. So these types of things, these shifts in stigma are happening. And we're also looking at people that are willing and wanting to take a more proactive, preventative measure on their own health.
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Unknown
Yeah, thank you for sharing all of that. And I, we had, we had the Executive director from Maps on the podcast last year. Two years ago. Yeah, because I do think, I mean, MAPS has had a very interesting fundraising journey, which is pretty phenomenal to $100 million over the course of 30 or 40 years. He's raised, you know, and to fund a ton of medical research when nih, you know, without any government support, which is a really interesting way for sometimes how we have to think about doing things that are conflicting with societal norms in the moment that they're in. And so I think they're a really interesting sort of example of that. And I think one of the things that was really interesting to me when I interviewed him, Richard Doblin, is that, you know, he talked about a lot of the, like, really kind of diverse cohorts of folks that were supporting some of the research. Right. So war veterans and like all these sort of groups you wouldn't necessarily think would be working together to get. To get some of these drugs approved for things like PTSD or end of life care. And. And so I think it's a great reflection what happens when we can step back from our programming and get curious about something that maybe we've always had one lens towards because of however we learned about it or whatever our lived experience has been in relation. Like, I don't want to undercut that either. But yeah, I think what you're saying is really important when you think about, like, let's say that you're meeting with somebody who feels a lot of pressure from the culture around them or their familial structure to pursue their health in a very particular, maybe more traditional way. But they're listening to this and they're like, gosh, like, I feel this, you know, gut sense or desire to maybe take a step back. And I've been really lucky. My husband is a chemical engineer. He's a scientist, but his mother is a massage therapist and does Reiki. So he is like truly the, like, fusion of all the things. And so. But I know, like, you know, so many people deal with pressure in their environment to, I don't know, like, stay the course or be more traditional, not veer off into the quote, unquote, woo, woo. Even if there are, you know, thousands of years of evidence of certain practices being helpful, how do you help people give themselves permission to find their agency.
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Boomer Anderson
In some of that baby steps? And what I mean by that is if you're in a situation whereby, let's say, your family is not supportive, you going down this route of getting all of these metabolomics testing just because you want to optimize your health and you want to live your best life, but also you kind of view that as the path forward. So like there's baby steps and I think you can move through families along with you on those baby steps. So what do those baby steps look like? Well, there's a series of what I would call well statements Dr. Ted made a few years ago. And I think it's very pertinent here. Sleep well. So I think it's universally accepted now to look at sleep as a particularly good agent in a healthy life. And taking your family and saying maybe we introduce somewhat of a sleep routine that's not necessarily going to counteract with a lot of programming. There's eat well, eat well. I'm going to table that one. Because in certain families that could actually be very hard. Drink well hydration, taking your family and say moving them off of the Coca Colas of the world, or probably shouldn't say the brand, but like the pop or soda, depending on what part of the country you're in, moving them off of that and trying to introduce, you know, waters or different types of beverages that have less sugar in them. They're. There could be a knock on benefit there. And then you have things like relate well. Well, your family probably wants to relate with you better, right? And so having a better relationship with your kids, with your spouse, with your parents, etc. I haven't seen any sort of social, cultural programming that would object to that yet. Sunning well, our bodies are, and these are all free by the way, and that's why I'm kind of introducing them here. Sunning well, our bodies are run in a series of rhythms. There's a study of it called chronobiology or biological rhythms. And one of the main things that can sync those rhythms is sunlight. So taking your family outside and getting them introduced to sun, you know, maybe 10, 15 minutes in the morning every day if it's a Chicago winter, maybe five. But sunning well, grounding well, getting outside and putting your feet in grass if you can. And of course all of those things end up adding to your the ability, that ability to relate well, but also that ability to relate with your family and the undercurrent there is health. So if you're doing all those things well and eventually you'll introduce the eat well because eat well can be very problematic in certain families. But you can introduce the eat well again in steps. What everyone around you should notice and everyone you involve in this should notice is that they're generally feeling Better and getting that sort of feeling better moment where you say, oh, remember this time three months ago when you said you couldn't get out of bed? And now you're energized and able to do things? Well, by the way, we've been doing little microhabits along the way that have caused you to feel better. Success is addictive. Now, if you can get everybody addicted to the same feeling of success, then you're great. Right. And so that's a good way to dissolve some of those resistances in ways that people wouldn't necessarily try to fight bite initially.
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Unknown
Yeah. Okay, that's really interesting. I like that. And also recognizing that, you know there's going to be or like there's so many different entry points. Right. So if one thing is particularly hard for your family, what is one thing that's not, that's just maybe not something you haven't explored before.
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Boomer Anderson
Yeah, such a good point. Right. So, and I keep coming back to food because, you know, people want their french fries. Right. But if food is the hard vector to go into, then why don't we check out sleep? And if sleep is the hard one, why don't we check out movement? Can we get everybody to go out and exercise? That's another hard one sometimes. So can we get people to go out and put their face in the sun? That's a little bit easier. Right. And a lot of people like to go to the beach. How do you feel at the beach? You feel more relaxed, et cetera. So there's many different entry points here. And the thing about health is, you know, there's always a pointing out instruction. You just have to keep moving along those pointing out instructions until something sticks. And you know, when it sticks, you run with it.
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Unknown
Okay, so I so appreciate this and I'm wondering, what question am I not asking you that I should be asking you right now?
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Boomer Anderson
Oh. So let's talk a little bit about just health optimization medicine and practice in general. I told you my story earlier about how I came to this and how it's an elegant framework. What we're up to at health optimization medicine in practice is what we're trying to do is to introduce a new health paradigm. If you think about the healthcare world right now, what we're really focused on in healthcare is not healthcare, it's disease management. And with health optimization medicine in practice, if we achieve what we set out to achieve, there will be a new, not just framework, but a new space in the healthcare system for something that more resembles a health manager. So Think about this person really as someone who will be your coach, your morpheus, your guide along the way to keep you healthy throughout. Because remember, earlier I defined optimization or health optimization as sort of a continuous process and you're continually optimizing. So at Health Optimization Medicine and Practice, we're looking to create that health manager to guide people along that way, to get physicians, to get alternative health practitioners, to get everybody back to practicing what they originally intended to practice, which was health. And so how do we make people healthy again? It's really starting with balancing anabolic and catabolic processes in the body, bringing your nutrient levels back to when you were 21 to 30 are evolutionary optimized, and allowing you to live that young, fresh, energetic life, or what we call rejuvenity. Today, again, we're a nonprofit. All of our the money that we either raise or accept from tuition fees goes back into the education and we put it on a symposium every year that is very fun. This year it's likely going to be in Boulder, Colorado in October or November, but last year we had it in Las Vegas. And so it's a fun group of change makers that are really out there to do good in the world.
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Unknown
Okay, thank you for sharing that with us and I'll make sure that we have the links below to share with folks when this episode comes out so that they can go and check that out as well.
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Boomer Anderson
Awesome. Well, I really appreciate it.
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Unknown
Where should they go to connect with you? I know you, this is one area of what you do. But if they want to learn more and connect with you, where should they go?
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Boomer Anderson
Follow along me directly is probably best. On LinkedIn you can find me Boomer Anderson. Not that hard to find Boomers out there. I am occasionally on Instagram, although less and less, and reach out via either Home Hope or nonprofit or troscriptions that'll eventually get up, you know, and get to me. And yeah, I really appreciate the opportunity. We're always looking for change makers, people out there who are doing good in the world to both collaborate with, work with, learn from all of the above.
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Unknown
Awesome. Well, thank you so much for all your time today and your wisdom and sharing your story and the work that you do. I'm so grateful. Grateful.
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Boomer Anderson
Thank you Mallory. I really appreciate the time.
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Mallory Erickson
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