The Livelong Podcast
“The doctor-patient relationship is really what's missing.”
Health innovation is moving fast. Wearables, biological age tests, inflammation scores, and genetic insights all promise to make longevity more measurable. And more controllable.
But beneath the optimization is an important question…Are we actually getting better at knowing what matters for our health?
In this conversation, Dr. Krista Ramonas, a double-board-certified physician and founder of LabXMD, a female longevity company, argues that modern medicine is not short on tools. It is short on clarity, time, and resource distribution.
Much of today’s health conversation, she suggests, is happening before we’ve met basic foundational health care needs, and that that mismatch shows up everywhere: in how lab values are defined, how risk is communicated, and how patients move through a health care system that is spread too thin.
Yet, it’s foundational care that is really where all of health care needs to be better. There’s a lot more to the conversation.
They explore:
How biased medicine shapes “normal” lab ranges
Evidence-based medicine and evidence-informed decision-making
The health toll of caregiving
How midlife biology and lifestyle factors increase dementia risk
What makes a new diagnostic tool useful?
Why estrogen is a menopause medicine
The basic genetic and cancer risk assessments you should be doing
Continuous glucose monitoring
How physicians change their behavior
This conversation will have you reflecting on your own health choices. Are you optimizing for what is new—or for what is actually useful right now?
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