In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Baron interviews Dr. Adelola Ashaye, board-certified family and lifestyle medicine physician and founder of InTouch Primary Care in Sugar Land, Texas. After nearly a decade in traditional healthcare, Dr. Ashaye saw firsthand how preventable conditions spiral into devastating complications — and made it her mission to offer something different: longer visits, direct access, and truly personalized whole-person care.

Key Takeaways:

• Prevention Over Management: A patient she cared for in residency had gone from borderline pre-diabetes to complicated, debilitating disease over 11 years. That moment crystallized Dr. Ashaye's passion — catching health issues early when they're still easy to reverse is everything.
• The Membership Model Advantage: By removing insurance constraints and offering extended visits, Dr. Ashaye gives patients something rare in modern medicine — time. More time means better listening, deeper understanding, and faster results.
• Listening Is a Clinical Tool: Dr. Ashaye has had patients reveal vital health information years into their care — simply because no one had ever taken the time to ask. Listening is not a soft skill; it's a diagnostic one.

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In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Baron interviews Dr. Erin Holston Singh, a pioneering naturopathic physician with over 25 years of clinical experience and founder of Options Naturopathic in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Erin bridges rigorous metabolic and emotional terrain diagnostics with mind-body medicine, viewing disease not as an error but as a messenger — and helping patients heal by reconnecting with the innate intelligence of nature and the self.

Key Takeaways:

• Emotions Become Biology: Your hormones are essentially your feelings turned into molecules that signal the entire body. Dr. Erin explains how unprocessed emotions directly shape physical health — and why learning to feel is one of the most powerful healing tools available.
• Be Willing to Feel: Her top health advice is simple but profound — stop resisting your emotions. Whether it's fear, anger, or grief, the feelings we suppress are often the root of chronic illness, and learning to sit with them is where healing truly begins.
• Disease as a Messenger: Dr. Erin's practice views symptoms not as problems to suppress, but as signals from the body and soul worth listening to. This paradigm shift changes how both patients and practitioners approach healing.
• Optimal Development Shapes Lifelong Health: Her definition of prime health centers on optimal development — from gestation through adolescence. Unprocessed traumas, surgeries, or disruptions during those formative years often layer into the chronic conditions patients face decades later.
• Nature Is the Foundation of Medicine: Dr. Erin's journey into naturopathic medicine was driven by a simple truth — humans are biology, and nature-based medicine works with the body's design rather than against it.

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In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Baron interviews Dr. Patrice High, founder and CEO of NuEmpowerment Health and dual board-certified physician in both family medicine and lifestyle medicine. After becoming short of breath running up her own stairs, Dr. High transformed her health using the very principles she now teaches — and built a practice dedicated to helping women prevent, improve, and reverse chronic disease before it takes hold.

Key Takeaways:

• Mindset Before Everything: Dr. High's practice uses 60-minute visits because you simply cannot understand a patient's "why" in 15 minutes. Knowing how someone got where they are — and where they want to go — must come before any conversation about food or exercise.
• Lifestyle First, Medication Second: Dr. High's approach puts her in the health coaching space alongside a patient's primary care provider. She handles the pieces a 15-minute visit can't — a 16-point lifestyle assessment, goal-setting, and pillar-by-pillar evaluation.
• Chronic Disease Is Not Your Destiny: Dr. High was taught that diabetics are always diabetic — until she discovered research proving otherwise. Her own transformation using lifestyle medicine principles became the foundation of her entire practice.
• Every Meal Is a Choice: Her top health advice is simple — recognize that every time you open the fridge or sit down to eat, you are choosing wellness or disease. No one is perfect, but awareness at every meal is where change begins.
• Intentional Health Is Prime Health: Dr. High defines prime health as intentional living — paying attention to how food, sleep, and stress affect how you feel, and making small conscious improvements day after day.

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In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Baron interviews Rita Brewer, physician associate, certified lifestyle medicine diplomat, and founder of the Diabetes Reversal Formula coaching program. With over 33 years of experience in internal medicine, surgery, and integrative health, Rita has made it her mission to help people with type 2 diabetes reduce medications, normalize blood sugars, and reclaim vibrant health — using lifestyle as the medicine.

Key Takeaways:

• Diabetes Can Be Reversed: Most patients have never been told reversal is possible. Rita's biggest frustration with conventional medicine is that it waits until a full diagnosis before acting — and even then, offers medication over lifestyle tools.
• The 7 Pillars of Healing: Rita's formula goes beyond the standard 6 pillars of lifestyle medicine by adding mindset as the foundation. Nutrition, movement, sleep, stress reduction, avoiding toxins, and community support all play a role in reversing chronic disease.
• Food Is Your Best Medicine: Everything on the end of your fork is either feeding good health or feeding disease. Rita's top advice for everyone — diabetic or not — is to become aware of toxic, processed foods and replace them with real, whole nutrition.
• Medications Manage, Lifestyle Reverses: Drugs can stabilize chronic conditions, but they rarely stop progression. Only true lifestyle change has the power to actually reverse type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

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In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Baron interviews Kim Downey, founder of Stand Up For Doctors, physical therapist, three-time cancer survivor, and fierce advocate for physician wellbeing. After losing her own doctor to suicide, Kim made it her mission to build connection and advocacy for healthier doctors and stronger healthcare systems. She shares powerful stories of burnout, moral injury, and what it truly takes to support the humans behind the white coats.

Key Takeaways:

• A Crisis Hidden in Plain Sight: An estimated 300–400 physicians take their own life every year — more than one a day — yet these statistics are believed to be underreported. Physician suicide is a public health crisis that demands urgent attention.
• Doctors Are Human Too: Society places doctors on a pedestal and expects them to be superhuman. Kim's book, White Coats, Courageous Hearts, features true stories of 15 doctors reclaiming their humanity in a system that constantly challenges it.
• Burnout Has Real Causes: Time constraints, loss of autonomy, moral injury, and corporate medicine pressures are driving physicians to their breaking point. The system, not the individual, is often at fault.

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In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Baron interviews Dr. Michael Kaye, chiropractor, functional medicine practitioner, and founder of the Center for Functional Health. With a career spanning since 1988, Dr. Kaye grew up overweight in Philadelphia, watched his parents suffer from preventable chronic disease, and made it his life's mission to help others avoid the same fate through lifestyle, movement, and root-cause medicine.

Key Takeaways:

• Common Is Not Normal: Just because symptoms like fatigue, bloating, or constipation are frequent doesn't make them acceptable. Dr. Kaye challenges patients to stop normalizing red flags their body is sending them.
• The Root-Cause Approach: Functional medicine looks beyond the diagnosis to find what's actually driving the problem — addressing gut health, nutrition, sleep, and movement together rather than managing symptoms in isolation.
• Your Story Matters: Spending 90 minutes with a patient instead of 11 minutes changes everything. Understanding how someone expresses their symptoms and how they live their life is critical to getting real results.
• Sleep and Movement Are Non-Negotiable: Dr. Kaye's top health advice is simple — prioritize restorative sleep and keep moving. No magic, no shortcuts. Tendons, ligaments, joints, and muscles all need consistent movement to function well.

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In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Baron interviews Erik Nelson, founder and medical director of Human Sync, a longevity medicine company focused on personalized health optimization. Starting his career as a neuro ICU nurse at Mayo Clinic, Erik built a systems-based approach to preventative medicine, guiding over 1,500 clients through advanced diagnostics, genomics, and performance science to extend not just lifespan, but peak healthspan.

Key Takeaways:

• The Real Problem with Healthcare: The US has world-class acute and emergency care, but some of the worst preventative health outcomes. Erik built Human Sync specifically to shift the focus from reactive treatment to proactive, personalized prevention.
• Nervous System Exhaustion: Most high performers are running on stress hormones constantly. The body is incredible at adapting, but without proper recovery, something eventually breaks — and that's what Erik sees behind the scenes with almost every client.
• Don't Be Obsessed with Metrics: Wearables and biomarkers are useful tools, but becoming hyper-fixated on perfection can be counterproductive. The goal is a plan that guides you without running your life.
• Simple Foundations Win: Eat real food, avoid processed options, spend time outside, and don't take things too seriously. Erik's top health advice centers on sustainable habits over complex protocols.
• Prime Health Defined: Being able to do the things you want to do after you retire — staying present for your family and enjoying life later — is the real goal, and every daily action should move toward that.

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In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Baron interviews Dr. Adrienne Towsen, an orthopedic surgeon and founder of Towsen Clinic in Westchester, Pennsylvania. After 21 years in sports medicine, Dr. Towsen left her practice following a private equity acquisition and pivoted toward proactive, preventative care focused on movement, longevity, and peak performance. She shares how her passion for keeping patients active well into midlife drives her new approach to medicine.

Key Takeaways:

• Why She Left Traditional Practice: A private equity acquisition made it impossible to practice medicine aligned with her values, pushing Dr. Towsen to start over and build a practice centered on what truly matters — keeping people healthy and moving.
• Lifespan vs. Healthspan: Dr. Towsen emphasizes optimizing the years you live with vitality and function, not just adding years to your life — a philosophy she now builds her entire practice around.
• Movement is Medicine: Whether you have an arthritic joint or an overuse injury, staying active is almost always better than being sedentary. Consistent movement paired with proper nutrition and protein intake is her top health advice.
• Muscle as a Priority: As we age, muscle naturally declines. Dr. Towsen stresses the importance of proactively maintaining muscle mass through exercise and nutrition to preserve long-term function and quality of life.
• Find Your Passion: A competitive ballroom dancer herself, Dr. Towsen believes that finding something that brings you joy is the real secret to staying healthy into midlife and beyond.

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In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Baron interviews Dr. Joseph Upton, a board-certified anti-aging and preventative medicine specialist at Levy Aesthetics. After a decade in traditional family medicine, Dr. Upton transitioned to hormone optimization and longevity medicine, helping patients who feel unwell despite "normal" lab results finally get answers.

Key Takeaways:

• Normal vs. Optimal: The normal lab range is just a bell curve. Dr. Upton works to move patients to the top of that range to resolve symptoms like brain fog and fatigue.
• The Healthspan Focus: Anti-aging medicine is about maximizing the years you live with vitality and optimal function, not just living longer.
• The Power of the Thyroid: A tech executive's career was saved not by testosterone, but by properly optimizing his thyroid to eliminate severe brain fog.
• Subjective Trumps Objective: A patient's symptoms and personal story should always guide treatment more than numbers on a page.
• Start Low and Go Slow: Hormone optimization is a long game requiring patience, especially for women entering menopause.
  
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In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Baron interviews Stephen Veals of the MRI Consulting Group. Stephen explores the growing trend of doctors and private investors taking ownership of MRI centers rather than outsourcing these services, and shares expert guidance on how to successfully enter this specialized healthcare space.

Key Takeaways:

• A Shift in Ownership: Medical professionals and investors are quietly moving toward owning MRI centers instead of renting them, recognizing the long-term value this model offers.
• The Private Investor Appeal: Stephen shares the story of a father who, after taking his daughter in for a scan, recognized the clinic's potential and reached out to learn how a private investor could enter the MRI business.
• Growing Market Interest: Various investment groups are increasingly viewing MRI center ownership as a lucrative and stable business model worth exploring.

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