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Vail Health provides direction to those overwhelmed by modern health care options for longevity
The future of medicine has arrived, and it brings with it a lot of confusion. From tests to supplements, dietary and exercise advice, it is often difficult to know how to use new medical information and technology to live a longer and healthier life.
Vail Health is trying to help answer some of those questions.
The health care system hosted an event on the future of medical prevention Thursday morning at the Singletree Pavilion. The event, part of the health care system’s wellness speaker series, brought together three of its experts — primary care physician Dr. Melissa O’Meara, interventional cardiologist Dr. Kate Schuetze and Vail Health Behavioral Health Executive Director Chris Lindley — to share the actual steps everyone should be taking to live long and healthy lives.
Before looking to the wide variety of medical interventions available in the modern age, from testing to supplements and medications, Lindley advised the audience to start with the basics.
“Think about the healthiest 80-year-old you know,” Lindley said. “They exercise, they sleep, the probably lift weights, they have some type of purpose, they have friends, community, and they play.”
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