Welcome to our second newsletter. We have taken many of your comments and will be doing so for a few more weeks before we broadly launch. David and Sean just spent four days at what we would dub Healthcare Week in San Francisco. Most still refer to it as the JP Morgan Healthcare conference though it has moved well beyond it. There is much to be discussed and we chose to use much of our podcast listed below to discuss issues around it. Do not forget to subscribe via email at protocols@p5hv.com or go to www.p5hv.com.
“Simple is difficult enough, but complex is f’ing impossible.”
We have a big whiteboard in our office. This quote sits atop it at the center of that wall.
“The people I feel sorry for are those who insist on continuing to do what they have always done but want the results to be different from what they have always been.” Thomas Sowell
Or Einstein’s version:
“Insanity is trying the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.”
Does anyone see any similarities to parts of the healthcare system?
While we will still be interviewing people and posting those interviews, we are beta-testing a new podcast format where we are flagging the issues and the people we think should be followed, either because they are having great results or are opening up new markets, therapies and the like. Our mission there is to use questions and logic to ferret out the possible answers or rather paths that will benefit patients, providers and ultimately payers, i.e. all key stakeholders in the healthcare system.
Excerpt from this week’s P5 Protocols Podcast:
“We are in multiple crises in this country with mental health out of control, ⅔ of the population anywhere from obese to Type I diabetic, endless new cancer cases (it was more than 45 years ago when Nixon declared the war on cancer) and even the current worst flu in a generation. By example, last week, Sean and I were in San Francisco for what I would call Healthcare Week, historically known as the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference. While hotels were gouging customers at $1 to $2,000 per night (we did an AirBnB), Sean and I saw endless homeless people, many who clearly suffer from mental illness that many of the startups want to solve. The dichotomy between the haves and haves-not was bigger than ever – on full display – in the heart of the capital of Silicon Valley – no offense to Palo Alto, Cupertino, San Jose and the like. I don’t know if the city and people of San Francisco are doing anything. In fact, they may be doing a lot, which perversely may be luring in many from out of town to take advantage of their services, but the streets felt outright creepy and unsafe; not a tenable situation. And I say this with endless empathy for those afflicted.”
For Entrepreneurs: Do you personally stay with your product / service until you fully understand how it gets into the end user’s hands? If so, can you share your experience?
- GREAT BOOK: I recently finished Becoming Leonardo, a counterpart to Walter Isaacson’s Leonardo. Perhaps of greatest value is the curiosity and humility of the author himself. Incredible style of writing.
- [Another] SHEN ZHENG GONG video: Love and Qi are very powerful – from the mouth of one of the greatest martial artists and healers to ever live on this planet…
- MIND / BODY MEDICINE: John Sarno, author of Mind Over Back Pain, The Divided Mind and many other books on the interplay between anger and the body and mind/body medicine, died in June 2017. After 20 years of debilitating back pain, he saved my dad!
- FIGHT FOR OUR KIDS’ MINDS: Jana Partners, a prominent activist hedge fund is wading into the fight for control over our kids’ minds – vs. Apple! Does Apple know the damage its smartphones are enabling? Are they or the app developers the root cause? Should they have known from their user data alone and therefore should there be warning labels, etc. and where should they be.
- FOOD: If you care about the food you put in your body, then listen to (or read the transcript) of Dave Asprey’s interview with Don Huber on GMO’s, glyphosate and big bad Monsanto.
Help us: when you find worthwhile articles, please email them to protocols@p5hv.com.
- The Power of Fat Burning as a fuel source: Running 3 marathons on zero calories…
- J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference Wrap-Up: Transformation is becoming more than just a word.
- Limiting dietary fat could help prevent prostate cancer’s fatal metastatic progression – note: this study is ONLY a mouse model. Ugh!!!
- Someone to follow: Just an overall fantastic blog / web site by Nina Teicholz!
- Another person to follow: Rhonda Patrick at www.foundmyfitness.com – you can run some genetics reports, though they are not particularly comprehensive.
David Eigen and the P5 Health Ventures Team
