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Dr. Elizabeth Yurth on Replacing What the Body Stops Making
Description
After twenty five years as a traditional orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Elizabeth Yurth walked away from a specialty she says patches the body instead of heals it. This was a shift that eventually led her to found the Boulder Longevity Institute. In this conversation, she explains why a common knee surgery called arthroscopic debridement has been abandoned in most countries, and why cheap, decades-old lab values like creatinine and ALT are routinely misread by doctors who are misinformed on these measures. She also makes the case for treating peptides the same way we treat hormones: as naturally occurring compounds the body simply stops producing with age, not a bodybuilding shortcut or a biohacking fad. Dr. Yurth leaves listeners with a clearer, more skeptical eye for what is being marketed to them, and a working definition of healthy aging that shifts the focus from simply a lab report.
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Key Moments
"If all we're doing is patching people back up for them to fall apart again, what are we doing wrong?"
"They actually found that 80% of people worsened after this surgery, not just didn't get better."
"I don't need an $800 immune test to tell me. I can look at your neutrophil [to] lymphocyte ratio."
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