Topic
Who to Trust With Your Health.
Separating credible expertise from the influencer industrial complex. How to evaluate a longevity claim, and where to find guidance you can use. The theme runs through The Great Healthcare Disruption and continues into the forthcoming book on epigenetic clocks.
The theme
Every American interacts with the healthcare system, and the system frustrates nearly every one of them. A "Who to Trust" theme runs through The Great Healthcare Disruption alongside that frustration: how a reader should weigh a longevity claim, a wellness influencer, or a new health technology product before acting on it.
The forthcoming book on epigenetic clocks carries the same question further, with a chapter on the longevity-influencer industrial complex and what to filter out. The Longevity Switch Substack is planned as a regular dispatch separating biology from influencer hype: what daily choices actually do, through epigenetic regulation, to shift biological age.
The question, as the book puts it
"The 'Who to Trust' theme runs through the book. How do you evaluate a longevity claim, a wellness influencer, or a new health tech product?"
It is one of the eight discussion questions that close The Great Healthcare Disruption, used in lifelong-learning institutes, healthcare leadership cohorts, and classroom settings.
Where to read and listen
- The Great Healthcare Disruption, where the theme runs →
- The forthcoming book on epigenetic clocks →
- People's Pharmacy, Show 1461: how patients are using technology to heal healthcare →
- Next Avenue (PBS / TPT): how older adults research medical topics online →
- What Dr. Runge is reading →
- Full press archive →
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