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Click Below To Listen…. In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Baron interviews Dr. Ryan Tomlins, a physician and founder of Summit Health. In a modern medical landscape where patients frequently feel dismissed or rushed out the door, Dr. Tomlins has completely redefined the standard clinical encounter by building an entire practice around listening first and treating second. He discusses why conventional reference ranges on blood panels are often misleading, the vital distinction between baseline “normal” and biological optimization, and why lifestyle factors like food, sleep, and targeted stress management serve as the true prescriptions for long-term healthspan. Key Takeaways: Connect with our Guest To be a guest or suggest an episode, email: info@primehealthpodcast.com Connect with us: Please leave us a review on your favorite platform: Riverside: https://riverside.fm/dashboard/studios/derek-barons-studio/podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX8L0BBe8OdwvlH_YsONOJROVBFxLxto0 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prime-health-podcast/id1835679843 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zYlwjo5863xRzG6bh9wuH

Click Below To Listen…. In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Baron interviews Elliot Raj, the CEO of Muscle Delta Robotics. Stemming from his own corporate technology background and severe, unresolved musculoskeletal pain, Elliot spent over a decade automating and perfective a repeatable deep muscle therapy robot. He explains how advanced robotic technology acts as a non-invasive, precise tool to systematically lengthen shortened muscles, restore proper alignment, and eliminate pain from the root. The conversation covers the physiological importance of deep myofascial therapy, the critical difference between Class I devices and high-risk imported machinery, and how automating manual therapy protects providers from intense physical burnout. Key Takeaways: Connect with our Guest To be a guest or suggest an episode, email: info@primehealthpodcast.com Connect with us: Please leave us a review on your favorite platform: Riverside: https://riverside.fm/dashboard/studios/derek-barons-studio/podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX8L0BBe8OdwvlH_YsONOJROVBFxLxto0 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prime-health-podcast/id1835679843 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zYlwjo5863xRzG6bh9wuH

Click Below To Listen…. In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Baron interviews Nurse Sherri Mack, a veteran registered nurse with 37 years of clinical experience in Boston’s premier teaching hospitals. After surviving a life-threatening, hospital-acquired bacterial infection that obliterated her gut microbiome and left her taking 18 daily pharmaceuticals for severe chronic pain, Sherri completely shifted her perspective on health. Today, she serves as a leading cannabis nurse specialist, patient advocate, and operational leader for Bloom Hemp CBD alongside Holistic Caring and The Green Nurse. She breaks down the scientific differences between hemp and cannabis, details the endocannabinoid system, and shares a mind-shifting success story of helping a nun wean completely off high-dose fentanyl. Key Takeaways: Connect with our Guest To be a guest or suggest an episode, email: info@primehealthpodcast.com Connect with us: Please leave us a review on your favorite platform: Riverside: https://riverside.fm/dashboard/studios/derek-barons-studio/podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX8L0BBe8OdwvlH_YsONOJROVBFxLxto0 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prime-health-podcast/id1835679843 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zYlwjo5863xRzG6bh9wuH

Click Below To Listen…. In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Baron interviews Elisabeth Mack, MBA, BSN, BA, RN, the CEO and founder of Holistic Caring, The Green Nurse, and Bloom Hemp CBD. After spending over three decades in conventional healthcare—including twenty years navigating clinical operations and insurance sales—Elisabeth experienced a profound personal health transformation using plant therapeutics after a major bicycle accident. Today, she bridges the gap between conventional medicine and cannabis care. She discusses the physiology of the endocannabinoid system, the crucial pharmacological differences between CBD and THC, and how the formal recognition of cannabis nursing as an official medical specialty is paving the way for safe, nurse-guided medicine. Key Takeaways: Connect with our Guest To be a guest or suggest an episode, email: info@primehealthpodcast.com Connect with us: Please leave us a review on your favorite platform: Riverside: https://riverside.fm/dashboard/studios/derek-barons-studio/podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX8L0BBe8OdwvlH_YsONOJROVBFxLxto0 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prime-health-podcast/id1835679843 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zYlwjo5863xRzG6bh9wuH

Click Below To Listen…. In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Baron interviews Dr. Richard Chen, a veteran functional medicine physician and the founder of Focused Wellness. With thirty-two years of medical experience, Dr. Chen shares his profound shift from traditional, fast-paced family medicine to becoming a root-cause detective specializing in complex chronic illnesses, cognitive decline, and neurodevelopmental conditions. Driven by personal family experiences with Alzheimer’s and his daughter’s severe childhood food allergies, Dr. Chen integrates advanced modalities like the ReCODE 2.0 protocol, pediatric neurodevelopmental therapies, and German neural therapy to calm the nervous system and unlock profound, long-term cellular healing. Key Takeaways: Connect with our Guest To be a guest or suggest an episode, email: info@primehealthpodcast.com Connect with us: Please leave us a review on your favorite platform: Riverside: https://riverside.fm/dashboard/studios/derek-barons-studio/podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX8L0BBe8OdwvlH_YsONOJROVBFxLxto0 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prime-health-podcast/id1835679843 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zYlwjo5863xRzG6bh9wuH

Click Below To Listen…. In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Baron interviews Margaret Floyd Barry, a functional nutritionist, master restorative health practitioner, and the founder and CEO of Restorative Corporate Wellness. After completely reversing her own chronic, full-body eczema through functional health, Margaret dedicated her career to helping people solve complex, long-standing health issues. She is now pioneering a new movement by taking root-cause lifestyle medicine out of private clinics and embedding it straight into corporate employee benefits programs. The conversation explores the massive limitations of standard wellness plans, the critical reality of hidden metabolic disease in the workforce, and how investing deeply in employee health span drives unmatched corporate performance, recruitment, and organizational loyalty. Key Takeaways: Connect with our Guest To be a guest or suggest an episode, email: info@primehealthpodcast.com Connect with us: Please leave us a review on your favorite platform: Riverside: https://riverside.fm/dashboard/studios/derek-barons-studio/podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX8L0BBe8OdwvlH_YsONOJROVBFxLxto0 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prime-health-podcast/id1835679843 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zYlwjo5863xRzG6bh9wuH

Click Below To Listen…. In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Baron interviews Margaret Floyd Barry, a functional nutritionist, master restorative health practitioner, and the founder and CEO of Restorative Corporate Wellness. After completely reversing her own chronic, full-body eczema through functional health, Margaret dedicated her career to helping people solve complex, long-standing health issues. She is now pioneering a new movement by taking root-cause lifestyle medicine out of private clinics and embedding it straight into corporate employee benefits programs. The conversation explores the massive limitations of standard wellness plans, the critical reality of hidden metabolic disease in the workforce, and how investing deeply in employee health span drives unmatched corporate performance, recruitment, and organizational loyalty. Key Takeaways: Connect with our Guest To be a guest or suggest an episode, email: info@primehealthpodcast.com Connect with us: Please leave us a review on your favorite platform: Riverside: https://riverside.fm/dashboard/studios/derek-barons-studio/podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX8L0BBe8OdwvlH_YsONOJROVBFxLxto0 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prime-health-podcast/id1835679843 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zYlwjo5863xRzG6bh9wuH

Click Below To Listen…. In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Baron interviews Dr. Trent Nessler, a Doctor of Physical Therapy, sports biomechanist, and founder of The Athlete Lab. Dr. Nessler shares his incredible personal why—from rescuing his father after a paralyzing vacation accident to later helping him walk again after twenty-five years in a wheelchair. He pulls back the curtain on how he co-developed the Athletic Movement Index (AMI), a wearable sensor system that formed the world’s largest human movement database. The conversation dives deep into removing human error from injury assessments, the power of “biostacking” treatments like blood flow restriction (BFR) and peptides, and what it truly means to rebuild an athlete rather than just patch up an injury. Key Takeaways: Connect with our Guest To be a guest or suggest an episode, email: info@primehealthpodcast.com Connect with us: Please leave us a review on your favorite platform: Riverside: https://riverside.fm/dashboard/studios/derek-barons-studio/podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX8L0BBe8OdwvlH_YsONOJROVBFxLxto0 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prime-health-podcast/id1835679843 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zYlwjo5863xRzG6bh9wuH

Click Below To Listen…. In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Baron interviews Dr. Michelle Pearlman, a board-certified gastroenterologist, obesity medicine specialist, and the co-founder of Prime Institute and Byte MD. Alongside her twin sister (a urologist and men’s health expert), Dr. Pearlman transitioned from a rigid academic medical track into direct concierge care to escape the constraints of standard 15-minute insurance visits. As a former competitive bodybuilder and personal trainer, she brings deep expertise to the intersection of gut health, muscle architecture, perimenopausal hormone optimization, and responsible GLP-1 prescribing. The conversation pulls back the curtain on how standard diagnostics fail to find functional root causes, why “strong is the new skinny,” and how proper nutrition directly transforms human cellular health. Key Takeaways: Connect with our Guest To be a guest or suggest an episode, email: info@primehealthpodcast.com Connect with us: Please leave us a review on your favorite platform: Riverside: https://riverside.fm/dashboard/studios/derek-barons-studio/podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX8L0BBe8OdwvlH_YsONOJROVBFxLxto0 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prime-health-podcast/id1835679843 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zYlwjo5863xRzG6bh9wuH

Click Below To Listen…. In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Baron interviews Dr. Tammy Penhollow, an osteopathic physician, board-certified anesthesiologist, and interventional pain specialist who founded Precision Regenerative Medicine in Scottsdale, Arizona. Dr. Penhollow shares her transition away from traditional pain management in 2015 after realizing that masking symptoms with steroids was actually destroying local joint architecture and weakening the stabilizing muscles of the spine. She discusses her holistic, root-cause methodology, explaining why “one-and-done” procedures fail, how cellular contamination can ruin injections, and how stabilizing the body’s structural architecture protects long-term healthspan and motion. Key Takeaways: Connect with our Guest To be a guest or suggest an episode, email: info@primehealthpodcast.com Connect with us: Please leave us a review on your favorite platform: