PHW Podcast 001: Movement with Dr. Jay Weimar
Episode Date: February 23, 2024
Guest: Dr. Jay Weimar, Neurosurgeon
Episode Description
In the debut episode of the PHW Podcast, Dr. Jeffrey Davis sits down with Dr. Jay Weimar, a neurosurgeon in Wichita, KS, to explore the significance of Movement in health and wellness. Dr. Weimar discusses his passion for preventing patients from needing surgical intervention while emphasizing the importance of physical fitness.
The episode focuses on Movement as one of PHW's 5 Pillars of Health and stresses the importance of building muscle and the neurologic connection for overall well-being. Dr. Davis and Dr. Weimar introduce Transform Training, a unique gym initiative that emphasizes individualized training paired with specific nutrition plans.
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Key Topics Discussed
- The importance of posterior chain development for spinal health
- Why "just because we can operate doesn't mean we should operate"
- Functional medicine approach vs traditional Western medicine
- The journey from 5x5 training to N1 certification methodology
- Transform Training: individualized training with nutrition integration
- Protein requirements and the misconception about "eating too much protein"
- Why muscle is the "organ of longevity" (Gabrielle Lyon)
- Sarcopenia: the hidden epidemic of being "under-muscled"
- Addressing women's fears about weight training
Notable Quotes
"Just because we can operate doesn't mean we should operate." — Dr. Jay Weimar
"It'll take you about 5 years to really learn how to prescribe medicine properly and about 15 years to learn not to prescribe medicine." — Dr. Jeffrey Davis
"Muscle is the organ of longevity." — Gabrielle Lyon (quoted)
Full Transcript
All right so this is the first episode of the Prairie Health and Wellness podcast or the PHW podcast as we're going to call it and I am super excited that our first guest is Dr Jay Weimar. Dr Weimar and I have been friends for a long time. He's been an important ally to our clinic. I rely on his expertise in his field which is the field of neurosurgery.
As a family doc I'm often having to refer out to specialists and I'm often getting feedback from my patients about their experience with that and I can say that Dr Weimar's feedback from my patients has been overwhelmingly positive over and over and over again.
One of the things that I really appreciated early on was when I would send you a patient and you at that time knew that I was more functionally minded and wasn't jumping right to a pill for a problem for most of my patients and you would call and say hey I'm really sorry but I think I need to take this person to the OR and so you would apologize when you would have to do your job as a surgeon and I think I really appreciated that because I knew that number one you were similarly minded as me.
The probably the most important thing we have to do is identify when we shouldn't be doing something. I think I remember hearing during my medical training a doctor said it'll take you about 5 years to really learn how to prescribe medicine properly and about 15 years to learn not to prescribe medicine and that has really resonated with me.
[Full 1 hour 22 minute transcript continues - 15,000+ words available for SEO indexing. Topics include: functional medicine philosophy, posterior chain development, flat butt syndrome, 5x5 training limitations, N1 certification methodology, Transform Training facility, protein requirements, sarcopenia, women's training concerns, the collaboration between PHW clinic, physical therapy, chiropractic care, and personalized training.]