The Future of Medicine Podcast

The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice. Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD Last time Dr. Natalie Spradlin joined me on the podcast, we talked about the moments right after a patient finds out they might have cancer. We covered important topics like protecting your mental energy, getting a second opinion, and how to walk into that first oncology appointment as prepared as possible. If you missed it, When You Hear the Word “Cancer” is worth a read. As an assistant professor of hematology and oncology at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, a co-director of Vanderbilt’s Internal Medicine Miller Society, and a board-certified hematologist and oncologist with more than 14 years of clinical experience, Dr. Spradlin brings a unique perspective to topics that weigh on many people’s minds. In our latest discussion, we take a look at evidence-backed ways to reduce cancer risk and detect cancer early, as well as the major types of cancer treatments and the role of clinical trials if you do receive a cancer diagnosis. Chapters (00:00:01) - Interview(00:01:41) - Lifestyle risk factors to prevent cancer(00:04:41) - Cancer Screening and Genetic Testing(00:10:11) - Wonders of the World: Whole Body MRIs(00:16:02) - AI in breast cancer diagnostics(00:19:13) - Talking About Cancer Therapeutics(00:19:51) - Treatment of cancer with three modalities(00:26:41) - Immunity Therapy: What is it?(00:30:08) - Clinical Trials(00:35:30) - Phase 1 cancer trials(00:38:35) - Screening for colorectal cancer options(00:41:07) - How to connect with your doctor about cancer at Vanderbilt(00:41:57) - Brentwood MD: A Celebration of the Podcast

The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice. Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD Most of us would rather not think about cancer. We’d prefer to scroll past the videos, skip the podcasts, and maybe set this blog post aside right now. Conversations about cancer are legitimately challenging. But they’re also some of the most important conversations we can have, because knowledge is what turns fear into forward motion. My hope is that what follows will help you feel empowered, whether cancer becomes your story someday or the story of someone you love.

The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice. Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD The nutrition world has a noise problem. Dr. Tiff recently returned to our Future of Medicine podcast for a second conversation. In our first episode together, we covered her Fuel, Sweat, and Science framework, the importance of macronutrients, and how hormonal shifts in midlife affect body composition. This time, we went deeper into the lifestyle factors that shape nutrition outcomes and tackled some of the most common myths in the performance nutrition space.

The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice. Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD Food is the most constant variable in your health. You make decisions about it multiple times a day, every day, for your entire life. And yet, for so many of us, those decisions are more often influenced by the noise of trending diets, friends’ recommendations, social media posts than by a clear understanding of what our bodies actually need. This is exactly the space in which Dr. Tiffany Watson works. Known widely as Dr. Tiff, she holds a PhD in health and human performance and is a certified strength and conditioning specialist, fitness nutrition specialist, and intuitive eating counselor. She serves as nutrition director at MPOWER Physical Therapy in Nashville, Tennessee, and works with clients both in person and virtually across the country. Dr. Tiff’s background bridges sports psychology and applied nutrition, a combination that gives her a uniquely complete view of what it takes to change how people perform and feel. She recently joined me on our Future of Medicine podcast to talk about performance nutrition: what it is, how it works, and what most people get wrong. At Brentwood MD, we consider nutrition a core part of a member’s overall health plan. This conversation with Dr. Tiff reinforces exactly why that matters and offers a framework that anyone, regardless of their starting point, can begin applying.

The Future of Medicine Podcast, where we believe in promoting overall health and prevention over just treating sickness. Join us for the latest in medical advancements and expert advice. Subscribe and explore: https://youtube.com/@BrentwoodMD Seven months in, and I keep catching myself thinking: how did we get so lucky? Dr. William Pierce joined our team at Brentwood MD not long ago, and while his current members know him well, I wanted to take the opportunity to introduce him more broadly here and on my podcast. Because the story of how William Pierce became a doctor, found his way to concierge medicine, and landed in our practice is one worth telling.