Dr Magan is a serious doctor who understands the limitations of his profession, and the need to balance the science of medicine and the art of medicine. Understanding that medicine should be about making an individual functionable in their day-to-day life, he wants to expand the myopic lens of standard medicine and encourage people to make things simpler and look for environmental changes before popping a pill.

Dr Alkesh Magan is a healthcare practitioner specialising as an endocrinologist for a decade in Bryanston, Sandton, South Africa.

Join us as we explore:

Everything you need to know about vitamin D, optimal levels, if you can take too much, what to do with the kids and how Africa is on the cusp of a convergence of vitamin d deficiency, obesity and diabetes.

Why the concept that the absence of disease is health is NOT correct and needs to be revised as we are seeing a world increasingly overwhelmed with disease and illness.

The danger of excess information and medical testing, the power of the placebo, how there is a price to pay for every pharmaceutical you take and why it’s critical to safe guard against orthorexia.

Why it is clear that the excess amount and types of diseases that have exploded in the past 80 years is a consequence of our environments and lifestyles aka epigenetics NOT genetics!

Precocious puberty, xenoestrogens and why the goal has to be to avoid and limit exposure to environmental hormonal toxins.

Holistic advice on supplements for both adults and children, why absorbing vitamins is not the same as activating and methylating, the critical importance of dosage and why it is not always the best first step to start taking supplements.

The absolute necessity of health coaches in this environmentally challenging world and why we have to also leverage the power of health technology like CGM.

Mentions:

Person - Michael Holick, Vitamin D

Podcast – Dr Steven Gundry, https://youtu.be/ovbUGAn5OMc

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