Full Scope Human Longevity and Performance Bill Brandenburg, MD

Live Better, Longer
A Longevity Physicians Secrets to Health and Fulfillment
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4 Amazing Ways Ketamine Will Change Your Brain

Ketamine is an amazing medication. It is an anesthetic, painkiller, mental health treatment, and entheogen all wrapped into one. We have successfully treated hundreds of patients with depression, anxiety, PTSD, OCD, suicidal ideation, and addiction using ketamine at Wonder Medicine. Greater than 90% of the people we treat get better.  But, having the right plan for therapy will greatly increase your odds of success. 
 
What is an Entheogen?
An entheogen is a mind-altering substance that helps people develop spiritually. Ketamine causes a profoundly mind-altering experience that expands consciousness, understanding, and connectivity when used with intention in the right therapeutic setting. 
 
Why do some Patients Not Respond to Ketamine? 
Some people do not respond to ketamine treatments. Most often there is an identifiable reason. Some of these reasons include:
-       Abusing substances actively while undergoing therapy (e.g. going home and drinking a bottle or two of wine after therapy)
-       Not enough treatments received (major illness requires more therapy, sometimes > 6 treatments for response)
-       Trauma or Mindset roadblocks that prevent patients from continuing therapy.
-       Some people just don’t respond. This may be due to their underlying biology (estimated 90% of Ketamine Patients Experience Benefit
Ketamine does 4 amazing things that help people get their lives back on track.

Executive Summary

          The Longevity and Performance Program at Wonder Medicine is a physician directed-proactive healthcare program for high performing individuals. Its principle aims are health optimization, disease prediction and prevention, exceptional performance, emotional wellness, and longevity.
            The program is anchored by a full day executive physical that we refer to as a program members “Biological Birthday”. On this day, program members subjective and objective biomarkers most strongly linked to health, performance, and longevity are collected and fed into a robust data structure. A report is then generated that predicts biological (functional) age and predicted death age. The report utilizes proprietary algorithms and technology to inform both patients and their care team regarding overall health status and disease risks. The Biological birthday is performed every year and information is tracked in real time so that any health issues can be identified at the earliest stage possible.
            A multidisciplinary team including a physician, longevity coach, exercise physiologist, technician, registered nurse, and member concierge execute the program. This small team is in constant communication and reviews all patients as a group multiple times a year. Patients in the program will have encounters with each team member at least 3 to 5 times a year. These team members will know you and care deeply about your success.
            Every year, program members have a 90-minute Longevity Visit with the physician. At this visit all data obtained is reviewed and a personalized longevity and performance plan is provided to be executed over the following calendar year.
            Wonder Medicine is a research-based institution that runs clinical trials on all patients at all times with the goal of discovering those inputs that deliver exceptional longevity and performance. All program members have the opportunity to enroll in additional longevity focused clinical trials that include pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, regenerative therapeutics, and lifestyle protocols. Additionally, many chronic medications can be managed through the program. But optimizing mindset, behaviors, and environment to align with program member current and future goals is Wonder Medicine’s principle aim.
            Being enrolled in the program affords members several additional benefits and add on services. These include movement therapy, behavioral change therapy, additional testing, and discounts on all Wonder Medicine services including IV infusions, ketamine therapy, and aesthetic services.
            If exceptional health, longevity, disease prevention, emotional wellness, and high performance are desired, this is the program for you. If data, research, and the advancement of knowledge in longevity are important to you, this is your Center. The Program is capped at 360 members every year so that outstanding attention, communication, and collaboration can be provided to all members. Wonder Medicine is healthcare that performs at the same level you do. Join today and become exceptional!
 
Thanks,
Bill Brandenburg, MD

Holiday Season
October 31 – January 2nd
Halloween to New Years
-       Tough time of year
-       Loved ones, memories of past loved ones, relationships gone bad, events, obligations, good memories, bad memories, and even trauma.
-       Can be the best time of the year or a time of pain.
-       Take care of yourself, set an example for loved ones, and double down on pro-longevity behaviors during this holiday season.
 
Remember
Longevity = Health over a lifetime
By striving for longevity you must become the best, most-high performing version of yourself right now.
 
Ok so 4 tips. Plus two very important bonus tips at the very end that you will not want to miss!
 
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Benjamin Franklin: “Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices”
-             Poor Richards Almanac
 
The best way to maximize longevity in 2023 is not a drug, supplement, or other high tech therapeutic; its Lifestyle medicine.
 
Wonder Medicine specializes in the translation of longevity technologies into clinical practice. This includes things like rapamycin, exosomes, and metformin. But we would be misguiding you if we did not focus, first and foremost, on lifestyle.
 
What is Lifestyle Medicine?
Per the American College of Preventative Medicine: Lifestyle medicine is a medical approach that uses evidence-based behavioral interventions to prevent, treat and manage chronic disease.
 
I would take this a step further even. For me, Lifestyle includes:
 
1.          Thoughts
2.        Behaviors
3.        Environment
4.        The People Around Us
 
With environment being particularly relevant and underappreciated in most medical settings. These 4 things drive both health and un-health. By optimizing these four things, a person can greatly extend both lifespan and health span. 
 
Focusing on behaviors alone, will not be enough. This may be why conventional medicine downplays lifestyle changes. If you only address behaviors, changes don’t happen, and as such, the strategy fails.
 
But this is a shame because lifestyle changes are the only definitively proven way to extend the length of human life in 2023. From epidemiological studies, it appears that people who live a healthy lifestyle can add approximately twelve years to their life (range: 5-15 years). 
 
Death at 88 instead of 76 years, most often accompanied by contraction of morbidity. 
 
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Dia de Los Muertos and Longevity
 
The day of the Dead. What can the dead and this Mexican cultural holiday teach us about longevity? 
 
Is there more to the story than candy, spooky witches, monsters, tricks, and treats. Let's find out
 
What is day of the Dead?
-       A holiday most often celebrated on Nov 1st or 2nd.
-       Its strongest traditions and ties are to the Mexican culture.
-       On Dia de los Muertos, people remember and honor their past loved ones.
-       Representations of human skulls, marigold flowers, home alters with pictures of passed loved ones, pan de Muertos (the sharing of alimentacion or “nourishment”), are the hallmarks of this day. 
-       The roots are debated, but this tradition may date back to Aztecs society.
-       Dia de los Muertos brings families and communities together, celebrates life, and death.
-       I encourage you to Celebrate this magical holiday, Dia de los Muertos, along with all the fun and spookiness of Halloween, and depending on your beliefs, along with Christian traditions of All hallows eve (all Saints Day and All souls day – that actually has a similar message that just isn’t really practiced in my experience)

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The 6 BIG Benefits of Longevity 
 
Be a victim or conquer longevity. You must choose!
 
Longevity
-       Longevity Definition: Long existence or service 
-       Human longevity relates to both existence (remaining alive) and service (remaining useful).
-       I strive for nothing less than long existence and long service for both my patients and myself
 
My favorite part of Avatar II, Way of the Water:
-       “Teach them our ways so they don’t have to deal with the shame of being useless”
-       It blows my mind how many people are ok with being useless to society in 2023
 
My hospitalized elderly patient: “Keep me alive doc”
Me: “what makes you want to keep living”
Patient: “I have grandkids”
 
-       But these people cannot watch their grandkids because their health is too poor. In fact, they need assistance even to perform activities of daily living (ADL)
-       Like avatars of the sea, I would find this inability to contribute meaningfully: shameful.
-       Being useful is about more than just pride. It is about service to the community.
-       Service is what life is all about. If you are unhappy with your life, I suspect this is huge part of the problem.
 
Longevity is the Key
-       By striving for longevity you are forced to become the best version of yourself right now.
-       The best version of you, right now, will be able to live, thrive, and serve the longest.
-       As such longevity, or as we call here, the Full Scope, is your best vehicle for health, extreme productivity, and service both now and in the future


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