Hi, this is Nicholas Webb and welcome to another episode of The Healthcare Cure podcast. Today I have an amazing individual, Dr. David Redding, who really has inspired me to to continue my journey personally to to really live as long as I can, and he's going to talk about his, was it the hundred year club? What was the club that you were talking about?

It's called the Moses club because he was 120 years old.

120 years. That's our goal. I love that. And and I love his approach. He combines really a lot of different teachings and a lot of different ideas to be able to bring together a real focus on prevention, over gratuitous intervention, which I think is a big part of the problem. You know, 80% of healthcare costs are now estimated to be represent or 80% of healthcare costs are self inflicted chronic disease, in other words, preventable diseases. And it's not just the fact that we could save this money, we could improve the quality of lives for hundreds of millions of people. So I think that this is, is good work. And he was gracious enough to be on our on our documentary film, which will be out this November. And so Dr. Redding, why don't you share with us your amazing journey?

Well, let's go ahead and start within the very beginning because I was grew up basically in a very poor family, and I was drafted in the military during the Vietnam era. And it led to a series of opportunities that were just quite wonderful for me. When I got out of the military. I had the GI Bill, so I started going to school and I finally found out my niche was physical therapy. So I went ahead and went to Cal State Long Beach PT program, and was a physical therapist there for about 10 years I work at Casa Colina hospital. And a student came in one day after being there about eight years. And he said, Yeah, I'm going to be a physician. Now he was about 35 - 36. And I understood that once you're past about 30, that you're really not open to medical education is not really open to you. And then I talked to him about his journey. And he was saying basically that as an osteopathic physician, that they're much more open to age limitations. And so I said, Tell me a little bit about this osteopathic because I had no idea what he was talking about. And he talked about a philosophy that I absolutely love, which was to focus on the whole person kind of body mind spirit approach, and to see if you could encourage healthy, find out what the problem is, and see if you can address the problem, so not to focus so much on the symptoms, but really what is the underlying cause of their problem? And so I was so enticed by what he said that he went down there and checked it out. And then it started going through all the prerequisites. But I recognized that with my background. Once my mother, I'd come home from PT from working at Casa Colina, and my mother actually was in the process of making dinner. And she said, time for dinner and so I started walking over there. My dad started walking over to the table, and my mother passed out just as I got there. And she went on the floor, I laid her down gently, I said, Dad, call 911. And he just stood there, frozen late, my mother down, tilted her head back, got ready for CPR. I said, Dad call 911. And so finally he did and as I tilt her head back to give her initial breath of air, she started breathing in and when she started breathing in an ambulance came to the hospital and I found out that she had an overdose of a new medication that she was taking. And I realized over and over again, when you look at the statistics related to medication issues, there's over 100,000 people that die every year in the United States from properly prescribed medications, especially if you take in more than two medications at a time. If you take a look at just gi bleed, which kills about 100,000 people a year, that's related to people taking insets I'm sorry.