When you’ve left your corporate job of 25 years with hundreds of colleagues across the world you work with daily, it can be a lonely road to start out on your own.
Writing is an isolating sport. Even with the independent consulting work I now do, I tend to be the only one in the room that looks at the world as it truly is, based on clear scientific evidence as well as a deep uncompromising faith.
So it boosted my morale no end to hear from Dr Ben Rall, a clinician in Florida, helping his patients reclaim their health one by one, and speaking out on his wonderfully named podcast: Designed to Heal.
Chatting with Dr Ben felt like connecting with an old friend rather than a recorded interview but hopefully you’ll find some helpful nuggets to take away.
We meander all over from my background as an actuary working in corporate healthcare and how the system would look entirely different if only everyone took a rigorous data-driven approach to health, all the way to the normalization of ill health, the illusion that modern medicine has increased life spans, and optimism for the future in the proliferation of new health solutions aimed at reversing disease rather than managing it. We even get into a bit of my faith journey at the end.
Have a listen and let me know what you think.
If either the apple link (title image) or spotify link (below) don’t work you can access the mp3 directly on my website blog.
About the author: Emma Tekstra is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, an independent health researcher, and author of “How to Be a Healthy Human; What Your Doctor Doesn’t Know About Health and Longevity.” With a 30-year background in employee benefits and corporate health and wellbeing, she consults with employers looking for real solutions to runaway health care costs, and to startup companies bringing health solutions to market. Read more at About page.
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Hmm thanks for the feedback. I don't have an apple account and it seems to play fine for me. Here's a link to the spotify version. I'll see if I can get an mp3 file to load up directly.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6GBsAQD1woGX9ZVAf3oKrk
I got back to this today and was able to listen to the whole interview. Well worth the time!