Desert Health News - March-April 2024

. www.capcomts.com Longevity has longevity. No longer a “trend,” longevity is the new industry pillar driven by an aging population seeking a longer health span, and a medical establishment still not focused on prevention. Longevity will only ramp up in 2024, as science continues to develop personalized plans grounded in genetic, epigenetic and biomarker testing; telomere regeneration; nutrigenomics; new AI/GPT-driven health care and more. Wellness continues to emphasize recovery treatments for longevity (IV drips, cryotherapy, ozone therapy, etc.), and an influx of retreats are sprouting up globally, offering Blue Zones platforms that get guests connecting, cooking and moving like people who live the longest in the world. The home as high-tech-health-hub. Wellness-focused homes have been a megatrend for years with amenities like meditation rooms and cold plunge pools. Now homes, and even cities, are becoming multifaceted health hubs. The shift is unprecedented, involving everything from medical-grade home health-monitoring systems to smart furnishings that adjust in real-time to individual needs. The trend includes a growth in both mobile and “Home Health Care,” where homes are becoming advanced “outpatient” care centers powered by digital health services— from fully-integrated telehealth to new health monitoring and diagnostic technology, reducing reliance on in- person interactions with practitioners. Our homes will ultimately evolve into multifaceted ecosystems, merging advanced technology and empathetic architecture to create living spaces that capture our biometrics to create environments dynamically extending from our own psyches. Multisensory immersive art for wellness. Art used to be a passive experience: you stare at a painting or have lunch next to a sculpture garden. This new era features multi-sensory, wildly immersive art that engages all our senses and is designed to transform our mental well-being. Museums, hotels and spas are prioritizing wellness and incorporating more and more of these experiences into their offerings. Multisensory, immersive art is becoming incredibly widespread in public places, from installations that dot cityscapes to AI-driven art in hospitals that utilize facial screening software to deliver audio-visuals based on your emotions. In the future, as adoption of wearable technologies becomes widespread, generative artworks will become even more hyper-personalized, participatory and therapeutically effective. Adaptive art will continue to take hold and push the boundaries of what sensory immersion and art-as-wellness can mean. For more information on the Future of Wellness 2024 Trends, visit www.GlobalWellnessSummit.com . Source: 1) 2024 Wellness Trends Report and Summary from Global Wellness Summit. ModemWorks and Map Project Office’s conceptual Smart Aid Kit comes with a stethoscope, spirometer, ophthalmoscope and skin analyzer to help assess health needs at home. (Photo by GWS). Artist Krista Kim has created the immersive installation “Heart Space” in Dubai, allowing guests to connect through the universal language of the human heartbeat. (Photo by GWS). March/April 2024 www.restorehealth.me Ketogenic Weight Loss Functional Medicine Cancer Remission Anti-Aging Live Longer and Healthier — All Naturally Personalized health services offering non-pharmaceutical solutions to reverse disease. Joseph Scherger, MD, MPH Medical Director  www.deserthyperbaricmedicine.com IMMERSE YOURSELF IN HEALING Bachir Younes, MD, MPH Younes Medical 760.636.1336 Desert Hyperbaric Medi ine 760.773.3899 Roula Younes, DNP Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) is recommended for treating a variety of medical conditions including expediting wound healing. Desert Hyperbaric Medicine is now a part of Younes Medical Corporation o ering comprehensive care for patients. The practice encompasses an INFECTIOUS DISEASE clinic, a state-of-the-art WOUND CARE center and the largest independent IV INFUSION therapy facility in the valley, Desert Infusion Center. Integrative Medicine The Valley ' s Leading Resource for Health and Wellness 15 Gabrielle Lyon, MD has shifted the discussion of wellness to a focus on skeletal muscle as the key to long-term health. She is the founder of Muscle Centric Medicine and treats patients from all over the world in her New York City office. She is board certified in family medicine and geriatrics and studied nutritional sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and at the University of Illinois. Mark Hyman, MD considers her his go-to resource for all things protein and muscle. Dr. Lyon argues that skeletal muscle is the largest organ in the body and about much more than twitches and strength. Skeletal muscle is metabolically active and helps control blood sugar and body fat. The more skeletal muscle you have, the healthier you will be. In her book, she describes how gaining muscle strength will help you “burn fat, fight heart disease, reverse diabetes, stay mentally sharp, boost energy and age well.” These are large claims, and she backs them up with science. Obviously, there are other important factors as well, especially quality nutrition beyond protein. In Forever Strong , Lyon repeatedly calls for a “Mindset Reset” away fromthe focus on sugar and fat to an emphasis on protein and muscle. Protein is required to build muscle, so she recommends a 100-gram protein diet and two or more hours of exercise daily. Her patients spend a lot of time in a fitness center. Her exercise prescription is 150 minutes of aerobic exercise weekly, followed by resistance training to the upper body, core and lower body at least three days a week. She recommends getting started with a personal trainer. The book is loaded with specific training exercises and recipes for the high-protein diet depending on your food preferences. The program is adaptable to diets that are plant-based, omnivore and carnivore. Progress is measured by meeting your strength goals and improved body composition. In general, I am a convert to her way of thinking, however, I will not stop looking at visceral body fat and the importance of low carbohydrate nutrition with intermittent fasting to burn off body fat (ketogenesis). Building skeletal muscle is a synergistic complement to these elements and improves metabolic health. Since adding Forever Strong to my functional medicine library, it has become one of my most recommended books. Dr. Scherger is founder of Restore Health Disease Reversal in Indian Wells, a clinic dedicated to weight loss and reversing chronic medical conditions. To schedule a consultation, call (760) 898.9663 or visit www.restorehealth.me . Dr. Lyon’s Forever Strong Considering the role of muscle for longevity By Joseph E. Scherger, MD, MPH www.DesertHealthNews.com The Future of Wellness Continued from page 3