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Happy Hump Day. How do the wealthy get wealthier? What strategies can we learn from their practices to extend our own healthspan and longevity? I only have a brief rant in my latest piece on insurance-gated healthcare, so read on for more!

In today's edition:

🌿 Breaking Free for Longevity

🎙️ The Longevity Show Podcast

⚕️ News from

- Hillary Lin, MD

Breaking Free From Insurance-Gated Healthcare: Reimagining Longevity Medicine Through the Lens of Wealth Management

If you have an account with Fidelity, Schwab, Vanguard, or another financial institution, you likely chose them because of their easy-to-use digital tools for managing stocks and ETFs. What is somewhat more mysterious to many users is their marketplace of financial advisors and wealth management services. I have spoken to such financial advisors before and always left wondering how they managed to have a job when I consistently outperformed them with my extremely simplistic strategy: “buy index funds as much and as early as possible, and hold for decades.”

What I have more recently discovered is that you can only get so far with diversified stocks and ETFs. It’s still a great foundational strategy for people wondering what to do with their excess savings, but it turns out that to reach egregious levels of wealth, like eight- or nine-figure USD, one probably needs to lean on some savvy experts (or spend a lot of time becoming one themselves).

Healthcare is similar. Much of the conversation about what healthcare “should” be, what insurance “should” cover, or what type of healthcare is a “right” ends up hotly debated, simply because the overall concept is oversimplified. As a physician who has worked in diverse settings—from free clinics to cash-pay concierge clinics—I believe we need a more nuanced understanding of each type of healthcare in order to fix the entire broken, confused system.

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Some research, news, and more from around the longevity landscape.

• Eli Lilly is selling Zepbound for $399 a month - a race to the bottom for GLP-1 agonists?
• A newly designed "brain clock" shows brains age faster in women, countries with more inequality, and Latin America.
• COVID leads to accelerated biological aging, confirmed by another study.

As always, if you have a specific question you'd like me to address, don't hesitate to send me a message by hitting "reply." My goal is to read every message and to make sure this content continues to be valuable to you.

Thanks for reading, and cheers to your health!

Hillary Lin, MD

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www.hillarylinmd.com

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