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Welcome to the MedEvidence Monday Minute Radio Show hosted by Kevin Gettings of WSOS St Augustine Radio and powered by Angkor Research Group. Each Monday morning, dr Michael Coran calls in to bring you the latest medical updates with insightful discussions. Medevidence is where we help you navigate the real truth behind medical research, with both a clinical and research perspective. So sit back, relax and get ready to learn about the truth behind the data in medicine and healthcare. This is MedEvidence 1039 WSOS.
Speaker 2:
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Dr Michael Coran is with me. He's a big music enthusiast, a musician himself. Have you ever seen the knack in concert, Dr?
Speaker 3:
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I haven't, but I certainly like that song. That's a classic, so I do enjoy it.
Speaker 2:
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Yeah, I like that song too. Yeah, I'm not sure I'm a huge fan of all of their music, but that stuff's pretty good. Dr Michael Coran is with us and of course he is part of the team, leads the team at Encore Docks and they do clinical research work throughout Northeast Florida and have a facility right here in St John's County in St Augustine near UF Flagler Hospital. Go to EncoreDockscom to learn how you can participate in leading edge clinical research. And indeed some of that research may have to do with aging, a particular concern of mine as I celebrate my 59th birthday today.
Speaker 3:
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So Well, happy birthday. Well, thank you, Dr Coran.
Speaker 2:
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I appreciate that and so when we start looking at 60, 65, 70, we definitely start embracing the notion of, yeah, what can I do to live a good life in retirement, a healthy life? Because we all see people around us, right, Dr, that are in this slow decline that sometimes goes on for years, if not decades.
Speaker 3:
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Yeah, as you can imagine, Kevin, there's been a lot of research about aging, both from a biological standpoint as well as more global, epidemiological, social standpoint, and really what it comes down to is four key elements that help you live a long, healthy life and fulfilling life. By the way, one is having a stable social structure. It's quite important and highly correlated with longevity. Physical activity doing some exercise on a regular basis is really key to populations that live longer. Having a diet that's sort of free of toxins and, as I've mentioned before, more fish consumption seems to be associated very, very strongly with living longer. Societies that eat a lot of fish. In fact, data suggests that eating fish five times per week is maybe the key to living longer. And then, finally, you have to avoid, or at least minimize, identifiable risks, and those identifiable risks could be accidents. So don't get up on ladders after you hit your 59th birthday. That's some advice for you. There you go and other things that you can do or it would be hard to wear your seatbelts and to not drink and drive and, of course, to protect yourself against viruses and other things that are identifiable risks, particularly if you have the unfortunate situation of being exposed to them frequently or you're vulnerable because of your medical condition. So those are really the four secrets and if you dig into that, we are very excited about the fact that we actually help people with all those things. So in our clinical research centers it's a wonderful social structure we have fabulous people that spend a lot of time with you, understanding your medical conditions, understanding who you are and, in many cases, understanding your family members, since a lot of the diseases that we address actually run families. We're constantly running around ourselves and certainly supporting exercise. We have multiple nutritionists on staff that help people with their diet, and then, finally, we actually test products that help you avoid identifiable risks.
Speaker 2:
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There's been some items in the media, dr Corn, about how we could potentially even turn off the aging machine. I mean, is there something in our bodies that make us age? Is it possible for the human body to continue to kind of regrow itself and regenerate itself to where we could potentially live, I don't know? 200 years instead of 88.6 years?
Speaker 3:
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Yeah, it's an interesting question. Obviously, a lot of people have been studying this for a while and no one has found the magic bullet. To be honest, there are some really interesting theories, but I'll share one crazy situation with you. When I was in college, I worked in a chemistry, a biochemistry lab at New York University and Clint Eastwood actually visited the lab, because the fellow who was running the lab was a little bit of a wild man who was claiming that he discovered the secret to aging and he was able to extract some money from Clint Eastwood and his agent in order to promote his research. And that really came down to this pre-radical concept that you have radicals, which are extra electrons on oxygen that are responsible for cellular damage and that causes aging. And that's one of the theories, and a lot of people still promote that with supplements and other things that are supposedly anti-oxidants. But, the truth is, we don't know exactly. What we do know is that there are certain telltale signs of aging that we're working to try to reverse, but no one's really come up with that magic bullet as of yet.
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That's Dr Michael Coran, once again with Encore Docks. He joins us here on Monday morning. He's a big part of our family and we encourage you to check out the website EncoreDockscom so that you can learn about different ways. You can participate in leading-edge clinical research. You may even be compensated. You're definitely going to get some of the best healthcare you've ever had attentive people listening to you as you participate in this research. There's also another great place you can go to get just good information about all this healthcare stuff that swirls around us all the time and you don't know what's true, what isn't. Go to MedEvidencecom, dr Coran. When they go to that website, what do they get? A fine.
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Well, medevidence is our way of looking at the truth behind the data. That's our logo and slogan, and there's so many competing healthcare claims out there that we hope that this website helps people understand what's real, what's not real, what's being discovered as we speak, and how you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family Right.
Speaker 2:
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Well, once again, check out that website. Lots of good information there and, of course, other podcasts and some other great data that Dr Coran has shared with the general public that you can find. So we encourage you to do that, dr Coran. We hope you have a good rest of the day. Thank you very much for calling in.
Speaker 3:
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It's my pleasure. Happy birthday, my friend.
Speaker 1:
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All right, thank you. Thanks for joining the MedEvidence podcast. To learn more, head over to MedEvidencecom or subscribe to our podcast on your favorite podcast platform.
