Eric Novack

MD orthopedic surgeon. Health care policy. Circadian solutions to bone and joint conditions. Be for something bigger than yourself. Trauma-ortho 22 +years

[Eric Novack @eric_novack]

Morning sunlight (the wavelengths you cannot see are the ones who will help sustain and heal you
Morning mindset (the internal belief in yourself will set the stage for fulfillment and contentment)
Morning breathwork (the training of your parasympathetic system will protect you against the emotional challenges of the day)
Our connections to the world around us and each other form the real bonds we cannot see
@AlpacaAurelius @FitFounder @mimikmorgan @MaxGulhaneMD @DrJackKruse @richardgordon22 @_AshleyRichmond @Mangan150 @RyanHoliday

[Mimi @mimikmorgan]

The most powerful gym you own is the one inside your skull. And unlike every other gym it never closes.

Your brain builds new pathways every time you do something unfamiliar. Here are some of the best and most enjoyable ways to give it exactly that.

Gratitude journaling-Write down three specific things you are grateful for each day. Not general but specific. The brain responds to detail. Specific gratitude activates the prefrontal cortex and releases dopamine. Do it with pen and paper, not a screen.

Cooking something new-Following new instructions, handling unfamiliar ingredients, smelling new spices, tasting something unexpected. Cooking engages all five senses simultaneously and multi-sensory engagement is neuroplasticity at its best. One new recipe a week is enough.

Walking a new route-Your brain works harder navigating unfamiliar terrain. New visual input, new spatial reasoning, new decisions. The route you've walked a hundred times is almost automatic. The new one requires genuine neural engagement.

Conversation with someone new-Social connection and novel conversation activate language, empathy, memory and emotional regulation all at once. Call someone you haven't spoken to in a while. Ask a question you genuinely don't know the answer to.

Games. Bridge, canasta, mahjong, pool. Strategy, memory, spatial reasoning, social engagement. These are not pastimes. They are brain training disguised as fun. Play more of them.

And then there is this one, which many of my clients do- Create an obstacle course with your grandkids. Dots, pool noodles, cones, whatever you have. Navigate it forwards then backwards. Count backwards from 100 while you do it. And do it barefoot on soft grass. The nerve endings in your feet send rich sensory signals directly to the brain. Bonus neuroplasticity with every step and probably the best afternoon you will have all week.

Your brain is waiting to be challenged. The gym is open. 🧠💪

[Eric Novack @eric_novack]

@SBakerMD Shawn- yep
Noted this yesterday after @agingdoc1 posted an article on calorie restriction and time restricted diets

[Robert Scoble @Scobleizer]

Manufacturing might not be sexy. It might not get hits.

But I loved talking to @raechanjeong, founder of https://t.co/CUrT5Ro2Lx about how AI is changing manufacturing.

He used to work in AI research at Google Deepmind, but now works with bringing AI into factories.

One thing I came away with?

His attitude. He doesn't come across as a Silicon Valley nerd that is gonna push technology down people's throats.

It's how you gain trust with people who don't know what an OpenClaw is.

As always, if you don't have time to watch an hour conversation I'll post a link to what Grok learned by watching this.

It's fitting that AI is now my first viewer (it watches the video as I upload it).

[Eric Novack @eric_novack]

@biohacker So that is the Lens through which I look at things today. And why I think about it in those three tears that I have posted about before.

And we are nowhere near getting any real answers to the third tier at this point.

[Eric Novack @eric_novack]

As in so many areas
Generations of excellent sci-fi writers have taken this on in different ways

Ranging from -
Genetic modification at the start of life
To ‘treatments’ that start young or older and have varying effects
To ‘body part replacement’
To transferring consciousness to new body
To sustaining consciousness in barely functioning body/mechanical/computer interface

And I’m probably missing some too

The common thread is consciousness plus capacity

And they are inseparable

@sam_soete

[Eric Novack @eric_novack]

It appears the form factor is being solved with @MentraGlass and Vuzio — as a surgeon- the AR in the OR explosion will come when the sensor package is game changing

Which will happen simultaneously with semi-autonomous truly robotic surgery
Which are both not that far away

Regulation and incumbent blocking will be the issue

[Eric Novack @eric_novack]

@agingdoc1 “Fasting mimetic drug” to obviate actual work

Somehow that undermines the entire thing

[Eric Novack @eric_novack]

It’s part of the great lies of health care policy

Outsource costs to other parts of government
Pretend imposed costs of regulation are not real costs
Make everyone a felon for not following 100,000s pages of often internally contradictory rules- bc that’s cheap bc they cannot afford to defend themselves
Never enforce or punish fraud for the big abusers who get huge dollars - bc that’s very expensive bc they will spend heavily to defend and lobby and influence

[Robert Berry, DO @txsportsdoc]

It’s hard to win a match when some get to play by different rules.

[Dr Sam Soete @sam_soete]

Conventional medicine is oblivious to subclinicwl bacterial endotoxicosis / LPS as a key driver in many modern chronic disease processes like insulin resistance & chronic inflammation.

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

I don’t know @MidwesternDoc or
@VigilantFox but I am thankful they posted on this essential topic to a whole group of people I’d never reach.

Physicians ownership leads to lower health insurance costs and higher quality outcomes.

Remember felons can own hospitals, MBAs can own hospitals, but the people doing the work may not.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Any American Jew who votes for Zohran Mamdani to be NYC mayor is suicidal and stupid.

This jihadist in a suit has no problem with over 50 Muslim countries, but has a problem with one Jewish state.

[Robert Berry, DO @txsportsdoc]

@eric_novack @CMSGov @DrOzCMS 💯 Common sense and should be no objection to this unless someone trying to cheat

[Eric Novack @eric_novack]

@JohnGoldman awesome

[Eric Novack @eric_novack]

@gregmushen its deeply disturbing -- the whole country should be enthusiastically behind celebrating the 250th... the silence and then joy at process failures (musical acts) and derision and obfuscation (reflecting pool, arch etc) -- stunning ...

[Eric Novack @eric_novack]

see my 3 step discussion with @sam_soete today ... imo we can always be more 'optimized' in the sense that the best we can do is become asymptotic with optimal health... and even at our best, we are likely further than we think ... but for a given pathway/ or say 'pathways system' it seems very likely at some point, the 'juice is not worth the squeeze, and the probability of actually materializing the downside risk increases...

doesn't mean there are not other levers to try in different 'pathways systems'...

[Eric Novack @eric_novack]

@gregmushen yepppp

[Eric Novack @eric_novack]

@sam_soete @HalCranmer @mimikmorgan I think most would agree... modern western medicine and government policy have made the 'quickly and gracefully' sadly a rarity.
The alternative government policy of MAID, however, as it has become in Canada -- is an abomination

[Eric Novack @eric_novack]

There are imo
Reduced to 3 things:

1- Fix deficiency/toxin
2- Optimize genetic/epigenetic capacity
3 ‘Turn back clock’

For one- for most , multiple approaches can get a person there with some universal features

For 2- again multiple pathways with some ‘universal’ features

For 3- no one has any idea yet — the biological age clocks turning back - most likely they are, at best, a momentary signal of optimization state

@biohacker
@PathfinderEq
@AbudBakri
@PGC1a_RB

[Dr Sam Soete @sam_soete]

Metabolic disease is solvable, dont let anyone tell you otherwise.