Kara Fitzgerald

Inflammation is your nemesis. Anything you can do to reduce inflammation in your life you should attempt to do.

Osteoclastogenesis, so the development of those bone breaking down cells is actually an inflammatory process. It uses the same inflammatory signals that drive maturation of macrophages.

I feel disregulated by the way he parses data and the um there's kind of an abrasiveness to the way he talks about science that I find off-putting.

I think that obesity is in part a symptom of unhealthy muscle and we're looking at body fat percentages as that meaningful marker.

The exosome actually goes into the cell and then it leaves. So, it's very polite.

We cannot treat the gut without treating the mouth and vice versa. I mean the mouth is the gut. That's the biggest take-home here.

It's like the old guy sitting on the park bench taking a nap, except he's throwing poison darts.

Melatonin is a stronger antioxidant than glutathione.

I implemented all of the pillars of lifestyle medicine and I felt a 180 in how I was feeling. A 180 in my lab work. My cholesterol improved. my blood pressure improved. my symptoms of anxiety, irritability, headaches, en

I'm not a big fan of immortality as the concept, right? I think in fact, if you take out death from the human life cycle, I mean, we're not going to be humans.

We've lost 50% of our hair before we realize that our hair is thinning and there's a huge emotional toll in that. It's very anxietyprovoking.

inflammation is a biological phenomenon that defies simple definition.

Functional medicine is longevity medicine. You know, if you're walking around the matrix and looking at all the imbalances that can occur, it's amazing how that overlaps with the quote pillars of aging.

the biological age and the chronological age are not the same and understanding that gave me this view that if that's so there's something that we can do about it.

They mapped the whole of our bitter taste receptors right down through the intestinal tract. Now, that hasn't been done before.

changing the medical paradigm you know changing this disease trajectory that we're on the you know just the breakdown of health the the the compromise of health span and lifespan uh it's an all hands on deck activity

30% of all global death are actually because of heart diseases.

It turns out only 7% of how we communicate is in the choice of words we use. 93% is non-verbal.

It's usually not your patient that brings a complaint or does a lawsuit. it's their spouse who's never really fully on board in the beginning or their adult children or sometimes their estate.

We think of biological aging as the progressive loss of integrity and resilience capacity in cells, tissues and organs that accumulates as we get older, ultimately makes us sick and kills us.