Episode 299: Is the Medical System Broken? The Future of Preventative Medicine with Megan Swan

Oct 22

Is our medical system truly designed to keep us healthy… or just to treat us when we're sick?

Personally, I’m going through a fertility journey, my husband is dealing with ongoing health challenges, and we’ve both hit wall after wall trying to find real answers in traditional care.

If you’ve ever felt dismissed by a doctor, told your labs are “normal” when you know something’s off, or can’t get ahead of autoimmune issues and hormone imbalances before they snowball into bigger problems, this conversation will open your eyes.

Integrative wellness coach Megan Swan, alum of the Empowered AF 5X Certification program, is joining the podcast for the third time, and we’re talking about why “Medicine 2.0” isn’t serving us – and that’s where Medicine 3.0 comes in.

Discover what it really means to take your health into your own hands and the power of tracking your biomarkers and optimizing your lifestyle metrics to shift your energy and longevity.

Megan and her partner are bringing this beautiful vision to life in November at Altavita, an advanced diagnostics and personalized healthcare retreat in Chiapas, Mexico. I’ll be there with my husband, and you can join us.

Use code EUPHORICAF for $500 off your Altavita retreat.

IN THIS EPISODE:

The radical shift from "Medicine 2.0" (sick care) to "Medicine 3.0,” which is all about empowering people with preventative strategies and personalized data
Why “normal” lab results often mean “not sick yet” but NOT actually healthy, and how women especially get overlooked when it comes to diagnostics, research, and treatment
Megan’s insider scoop on Altavita, the diagnostic health retreat she and her husband are hosting in Mexico
Biomarkers, wearable tech, and gut health, plus, what tests could be missing from your doctor’s routine (hint: sleep, vitamin deficiencies, and lung capacity matter more than you think!)

REFLECTION QUESTION

What does it look like for you to become your own health advocate, proactively pursuing wellness and prevention?

“The reality is, both in Canada and the US, medicine 2.0 is really sick care. It's not healthcare. You're going to a specialist that's been educated decades back how medical school works. They're largely educated in siloed specialties on how to deal with disease, specifically when you're at the worst range of that disease. So even just looking at what the medical system considers in normal range, that's not what one outside of the medical system would consider healthy. It's just like you're not sick yet.” - Megan Swan

“The medical lens is extremely powerful and important. It'd be silly to discredit it and not utilize it. And at the same time, one of its weaknesses is not really empowering patients to be like, here are all the things that are in your hands that you could do dramatically differently today. And it's gonna not only change your current experience of all of these things that are going on for you health-wise, but it's really gonna improve your trajectory in the long run.” - Megan Swan

LINKS/RESOURCES MENTIONED

In this episode, Megan mentioned the book Outlive by Dr. Peter Attia, and she talked about the retreat she and her husband are hosting, Altavita, a wellness travel experience that addresses health from every angle in Chiapas, Mexico, this November. Use the code EUPHORICAF for $500 off and I’ll see you there!

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