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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hiper one. This is Steve dallas On and welcome to
the week. This week's edition of CEOs you should know,
I'm thrilled to be joined by doctor Fandos, the CEO
of a Larning Age, Anti aging and Wellness Center AEGR Fanos.
Thanks for being here today.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Thank you, thank you for having us. We're very happy
to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
We're excited to jump into the conversation, learn more about
you and of course learn more about Alluring Age. I
know Aluring Age is on a mission to redefine wellness
with aesetics, taking a different approach, fixing you from the
inside out exactly.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, So my path into functional medicine and regenerative medicine
started well before we started with Alluring Age. So because
I'm at paying management specialist by trade, I've been doing
this for twenty five years wow, treating pages with chronic pain,
but also always doing the same thing, which is treating
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symptoms as opposed to looking at the root calls. And
then the eye opener for me was when I had
a health condition where I was diagnosed with diabetes and
the high blood pressure and then eventually it was told
that I would need a stent in my heart. Imagine that.
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And the worst part is that I was told that
there was nothing I could do about it, that it
just have to see it idle, wait until that time
came and get the stent. So that didn't sit right
with me, and it opened my eyes on how reactive
our health care system can be. And because of that,
now I cannot look at the healthcare system the same
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way anymore, because it's a system where we wait until
something happens to you and then we work backwards trying
to fix it. So that's at the center of what
we do now. We looked at root calls, trying to
identify what the issues are and then working on prevention
and empowering people to reclaim their health before crisis forces
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them to.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
That makes sense, It's a great approach. How did that
initially start? Like how did your perspective on patient care
evolved more focused on that root cause rather than the
way that the industry currently does it, Like you said,
like the retroactive approach.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So, like I said, I've been doing this for so
many years and I always found that even though treating
pain on someone's journey is not a small thing to do,
but it's just reading a symptom, it's not going to
the root cause of the problem. So my perspective on
patient care has completely transformed as I have shifted to
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a root cause personalized medicine. I learned. I learned that
that no two patients are the same, that everyone brings
a unique history, lifestyle, physiology, and instead of underlying factors
that shape their health. So looking at one only one
symptom or one diagnosis will never give me the full picture.
So when you focus on the whole person care, meaning
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deep diving with comprehensive diagnostics, not just standard blood work,
and utilizing specialized state testing reveals what's happening beneath the surface.
So when I understand why my patients have that symptom,
I can then treat the root cause and not utilize
the protocol which is one size feeds all that you
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see in traditional care.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
It's a great approach. I know that probably developing that
you've had to try to find the balance between evidence
space care as well as emerging therapies and different tools
to make sure that patients have that safety but also
those long term results. How did you find that balance
between those.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Two That's a very good question. So Emerging therapies are
probably the most important part of my practice. Meaning these
are new therapies, some of them really well tested, some
others not. But the industry has been shipped towards this
and now there's a lot more research going on. I
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believe that innovation and safety must co exist. They don't
have to compete. Every new tool or therapy I introduce
goes through the same process. It must be supported by
solid research, real world outcomes. I on a clear benefit
to the patient. So I start with the foundation, which
is evidence based medicine. Then we go through comprehensive diagnostics
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and a full understanding around the patient's physiology, and from
there a layer in emergent therapy is only when they
complete the science to complement the science, enhance the long
term results, and align with the individual patient's needs.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
It's a great approach. I'm sure that obviously with this
model things are a little bit different than some of
the more traditional trend based wellness approaches, right What makes
your physician led integrated model different from those that are
out there?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
So our body is a system of systems. In medical school,
unfortunately we're trained in silos. So where we go through
cardiology rotation, then GI rotation, then pulmonary rotation, and this
is how we look at medicine once we graduate. Sure
we feel that that's your the only thing that you
have to focus on, and then if a patient has
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an issue with something else, you go to a different specialist.
But in functional medicine, the nutrition, genetics, regenerative aesthetics are
interconnected systems and all of those influence how a patient
feels and how we are patient heals. So regenerita aesthetics
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is already a major part of my practice because it
aligns perfectly with root cost medicine. It focuses on cellular repair, color,
gene restoration, and supporting the body's natural healing pathways. So
by combining all these insights with genetics, metabolic data, mitochondrial testing,
we can come up with personalized a plan of care
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that really focus on that particular patient which is different
from another patient. So it's not a one size fits
all approach totally.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
And what you said is it's so true. You'll go
to like cardiologists and then only talk about this and
then you think this specialist to get this treatment. So
it's a really smart and strategic approach.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
It is because all the conditions that we suffer from,
all the illnesses, they have the same common denominator, which
is inflammation. So if we learn about inflammation and what
causes that, then you know by addressing that, you can
hit multiple different conditions. So that's why it's so important
to use a comprehensive approach that includes all these specialties.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
That's awesome. So looking ahead, obviously this is a very
strategical way to approach it. How do you see the
future personalized data driven health evolving over the next few years,
the next decade.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Data driven it's very important in any specialty and any industry.
Data it is king. Of course, we say it everywhere,
and obviously health is not separate from that. So we're
moving towards a healthcare system where prevention becomes the priority
and not anymore the side conversation. So more clinicians are
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now recognizing that waiting for chronic illness to develop is costly,
is ineffective, and emotionally drains the patients. So the next
decade will push for us to identify problems earlier and
intervene before the disease fully starts. So we're also going
to see that precision medicine becomes part of the standard
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medical education and that's that's a great hope of mine.
I am currently an assistant clinical professor at Hofstra School
of Medicine in Long Island, and we're really pushed for
pushing for a curriculum change where this holistic approach becomes
part of the day to day medicine and not alternative
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medicine anymore.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
It's a great idea and be able to train all
the future doctors to be able to incorporate it within
their best practices exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
So realistically, the next decade will bring a more integrated
model where earlier detection, more personalized interventions, better use of
genetics and biomarkers that are now available to us, and
a stronger emphasis on prevention is the true foundation of
health care.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
That's awesome. I know that we spoke a little bit
about the education piece, right, playing that piece in the
long term strategy. How else can patients participate in that? Like,
what is the patient empowerment play for their own long
term strategies.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That's a great question, and this is something that is
at the core of what we do. In traditional medicine.
You are used to go to your cardiologists, your pulmonologies,
your GI doctor, and you're giving a pill and you're
good to go. Yep, And that's it. So in functional medicine,
education and patient empowerment is absolutely central to the long
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term strategy. When a patient understands their body, their diagnostics,
and they understand the why behind the symptoms, they become
more active participants in their own healing, not just passive
recipients of care. Shift alone changes long term outcomes. So,
for me, education is not an ad on, it's the
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foundation of what we do. When I teach patients about
root caust physiology, mitochondriact health, genetics, nutrition, lifestyle patterns, they
gain clarity and confidence and they stop feeling overwhelmed and
they start feeling that they are in control. So empowerment
leads to better adherents, better decision making, and ultimately better
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long term results.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
That's awesome. And I'm sure with this different approach to
the patient strategy and to medicine sometimes there could probably
be misconceptions. What are some of those biggest misconceptions people
have about optimizing their health and their longevity.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
So the biggest one right now is believing that a
single approach will cure everything. As you might have heard,
peptides is it's like the new topic everybody. It has
been talking to gyms, in meetings, when people going out
to dinner, they all talk about peptida and the I
get this question all the time. So we can't believe
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that is supplement, a peptide or a pail is going
to fix everything. People often think that there is a shortcut,
a single product will undo what years of stress, inflammation,
poor sleep, or environmental factors have done to your body.
So supplement and peptides are really powerful tools. I use
them in my practice all the time, but they are
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only effective when the foundation is solid. Real change comes
from understanding your environment, your habits, your stressors, and the
patterns that actually drive your dysfunction. So it requires lifestyle shifts, consistency,
and willingness to address the rule cause, not just the symptoms.
So it is a job. So you have to really
get involved and understand that not one thing is going
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to fix your problems. It's a new approach to your health.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
YEP. It's looking at all those different aspects and not
just that singular lean what's one piece of advice we
give someone that wants to take a more active approach
when it comes to their health.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
That's a great question too. So in the world that
we live today, where we're always on the run. You know,
we're going to work, we have family, we have kids.
Many times you don't feel normal, but you normalize that.
So what I'm saying is, do not normalize how you feel.
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Your current symptoms are not just the way you are.
Your body is always communicating. It's always telling you something,
so when something fills off, it's usually it's because it is.
So listening to those signals it's the first step toward
taking control of your health. So get curious, ask questions,
seek real answers. A proactive approach starts by understanding what's
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happening beneath the surface through deeper blood work, comprehensive markers,
genetic testing. So by understanding all of this, we can
look at the root cause and identify the problem. So
take action. Don't wait for things to get worse or
for a diagnosis to define your next steps. The earlier
you intervene, the more power you have to change the
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trajectory of your health.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
It's great advice. So what's next? What is next for
learning age, anti aging well in the center. Is there
any exciting developments or expansions on the horizon you could
share today?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Oh god, how much time do we Yes, we have
so much going on. It's which is great and it's
daunting at the same time, because you want to make
sure that whatever you bring on it's the right thing
to do. Yes, we're preparing to integrate more advanced therapiest.
We're bringing in hyperbodic oxygen therapies, transcranial magnetic stimulation, we're
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bringing us we're actually already administering a therapy is called EBO,
which stands for extra corporeal blood ocination and oxygen oxygenation,
which is basically it's a it's an oil change to
your system. So what we do is we put an
ivy on one arm, the blood comes out, goes through
a machine, gets filtered, gets cleaned out, gets oxygenated, and
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goes back into the another vein as the brand new
So this is a great therapy that we utilize and
patients are loving it. So and all these new therapies
help us to deepen the level of care that we
can offer and continue to move toward a truly comprehensive
root cause wellness. Model.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
That's great, sounds like a lot of exciting stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
You're busy, Yes, it's like nonstoff.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Well, we covered a lot about the industry and obviously
about a learning age. But if there's one thing you
want people to take away about your mission, what would
that be?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Okay? So my mission is to show people to that
prevention is not a luxury. Okay. So prevention starts here
and starts now. Personalized medicine is not an alternative, it's
the future. So you deserve a care that looks at
the whole picture, listens to your story, and empowers you
to take action before the crisis forces you to do so.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Absolutely get ahead of it before it becomes a bigger
problem than it needs to be. Tuning in and they
want to find out more about a learning age, what
should they do?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
So you have to start with understanding that the symptoms
are not the norm, your body is not working against you.
You can rewrite your health story starting now. If you're
ready to take the next step on your health journey,
We'll love to connect with you. Follow us on Instagram
and staying inspired and informed, explore our website alluringhe dot com.
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That's Alluring a l l U r I NGH dot com,
or you can call us at six three one nine
oh nine six zero three six to speak to our
team directly.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
That's awesome, looking forward to connecting.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I always love to throw in one bonus question if
someone's tuning in that might want to get into the
field of medicine.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
And maybe it's advice you've given one of your Hofstra
students before. What advice do you wish you had when
you first first starting out that you'd love to give
to those inspiring people within the industry.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
So the advice is that you have to really want
to help people feel better, but not only that, you
can help them to look better and age better by
treating rood casts not just the surface. So empowered by
empowering patients with educational education, personalized data, and in proactive approach,
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they feel that the agent is the process of renewal,
not a decline.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
YEP, it's great advice. Thank you, doctor Fanos, Thank you
for being here today. We really appreciate you giving your
insights and your expertise and we're excited to see what's next.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Thank you so much for having us appreciate it
Speaker 1 (15:33):
And thank you all for tuning in to the next
week for next week's edition, The CEOs You Should Know