The Dr. and Dad Healthcast Louis and Dr. Nicole Ascanio

In The Art of War, Sun Tzu wrote “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles”. In the battle for our physical and emotional wellbeing, the enemy is the the disconnect between our modern environment and our evolutionary biology.

Amare e Crescere (To Love and To Grow): Our Common Purpose is “The Dad’s” new Substack publication exploring love and growth as the path to meaning and happiness.

We are in (the beginning stage of) the artificial intelligence (AI) era.  Ever since ChatGPT was released to the public in December 2020, this technology has captivated us with its possibilities, for better and for worse.  AI will undoubtedly affect our lives in profound and, as of now, inestimable ways.  This includes our economy - how we work to produce goods and services.  The healthcare sector is no exception, and because of the size of this industry, seeing target many efforts to use AI to lower costs and improve outcomes.

There were 153,000 new cases of colorectal cancer diagnosed in the US in 2023 and 52,500 people died due to the disease with another 1.4 million Americans living with it. However, colorectal cancer is also a disease which is almost assuredly avoidable - with proper screening.

Resistance training (RT) associated with various health benefits that are under-appreciated compared with the perceived benefits of aerobic-based exercise. For example, RT participation is associated with reduced all-cause mortality and reduced incidence of cardiovascular disease, cancer, hypertension, and symptoms of both anxiety and depression.

It was a year filled with amazing new treatments addressing some of the most challenging medical conditions as well as the continued battle against several intractable diseases.