Superbeing sat down with Dr. Cory to discuss his journey into medicine, his passion for longevity, Canada’s healthcare system, the importance of community and social connectivity in promoting healthy longevity, and his company, Healthspan Digital. We explored the future of personalized healthcare using data analysis, health-centric home features, stem cell therapies, and the potential of aesthetic treatments in holistic health.

Below are excerpts from the interview. You can listen to the full audio below.

SUPERBEING: How did you get into longevity medicine?

DR. CORY: You enter medicine to help people through your training. I love being a plastic surgeon, interacting with people, and the benefits of surgery, but I've recognized there's more. It's not just about the aesthetic or surgical treatment.

It relates to people being healthy at a root cause level and maintaining that health for a beautiful appearance and confident outlook. My colleagues and I can help by empowering individuals with personal healthcare and a forward-looking approach to optimize their health. That's what led me into longevity medicine.

I have a master's degree in biomedical engineering and stem cell science. As these tools have developed, I have grown a passion for evolving the industry. Within the Canadian healthcare framework, I have noticed limitations in what a healthcare system can provide.

The current model in Canada and the US is a sick care system that waits for someone to become sick and then tries to fix it, when the issue could have been prevented or identified early.

In Canada, our healthcare system is in crisis, and people can’t get expected care from the public system. They will have to take care of themselves more.

This has led me to my passion for developing this industry, which will significantly impact public health globally.

SUPERBEING: What is longevity versus healthspan to you?

DR. CORY: As this healthcare develops, we need to define terminology and understand what we're discussing. In the healthy longevity community, there's a project to define 'healthspan'. Initial research found over 200 definitions of the term, making it challenging to discuss, define, and set an objective. You need to know what defines healthspan, and there's no consensus. Our community efforts aim to achieve that consensus and appropriate definitions for what these things are so that we know what we're developing. Fundamentally, the concept of longevity is about how long you would live – your lifespan.

Historically, people viewed aging through the lens of lifespan as the goal for longevity. The implicit assumption was that extending it was desirable. There was a firm belief that aging diseases were natural – blood pressure problems, arthritis, and all of these things.

The key differentiator from longevity to 'healthy longevity' or 'healthspan' is promoting extended life durations with extended health durations.

That leads to the term healthspan. The simplest definition is how long you're alive until you develop one significant chronic disease.

Some see healthspan simply, but I view it as a mathematical formula. In our sick-care model, health is binary: you're healthy or sick. Labeling someone sick because of a disease like diabetes is too simplistic. It is a spectrum. Healthspan is the total health a person has over their lifetime, added up over the duration of their life – and that will change over time. Disorders or infections will vary the amount of health you have at a given moment. Healthspan is the sum of health moments—like a calculus problem, it's the area under the health curve from birth to death. That is healthspan.

SUPERBEING: This next frontier of longevity is about targeting the biology of aging to slow it down and live our later lives healthier.

DR. CORY: When I introduce this concept to my colleagues, or during operations with my nurses or students, there’s an automatic reflex when I mention healthy longevity or health span. The immediate reaction is, “I don’t want to live longer. Why would I want to live longer?” The concept of living longer means living longer with diseases, being immobile, and being in a nursing home.

That's not the case at all. The premise is about improving health and increasing healthy longevity, so living a longer period of time and being vital and energetic enough to go dancing. We're trying to enhance people's quality of life and extend the duration.

SUPERBEING: We need to adjust to longevity, but we have this aging society narrative and see more old people as a burden. If we need to age differently, how do we change this conversation? What else do we prioritize for our health? It's not just about living healthy longer, but what do we change in our financial institutions and education system? How long will I work? How much more money do I need to save?

DR. CORY: I'll try to shift that narrative a bit because you should be excited about it. I'll start with the focus of living longer. Let's assume that healthy living is possible. Let's say you could be perfectly healthy from zero to 100. On your 100th birthday, if you chose to end your life, that would be it. 100 years of perfect health, running a mile daily, dancing, and enjoying intimacy with your partner. All of that until you're 100. From a financial point of view, that really changes things.

You work until you're 65, then stop, and the rest of your life you're taken care of. That doesn't fit anymore. It doesn't work for people saving for retirement. It doesn't work to think if we're supporting individuals from 65 to 100 and everybody lived that long in nursing or retirement homes, it would be an overwhelming and unmanageable burden. But that's not the point. We're talking about people being productive for longer.

People envision living to 65 and retiring, a very American phenomenon – middle class and the US pioneered the premise of golden years and then retirement. The AARP in the US is fixed to that model. That will need to change.

For healthy longevity and living longer, it's not about the drugs or therapies. The most important factor is your motivation and purpose: waking up with a sense of purpose.

A big part of that is your social network, partner, friends, and family. Those things motivate you to want to live longer, and that's a main driving factor for keeping you healthy and alive longer.

The idea of working until 65, then stopping to sit on a beach with margaritas... I've never viewed retirement that way. It's foolish, because then you stop having a purpose in life. Without purpose, your motivation for being alive and getting up, your cognition, all of it suffers. The existing model of work until 65 and then stop is not financially feasible, and it's not healthy. It's good for people to have a reason to get up. Work is not a bad thing; it's a way of being productive and contributing to society.

I'd look at it this way. We have a significant crisis. We lack enough people to handle the workload. Very few are actually labouring – it's a huge issue. It would be amazing to tap into our elderly population who are experienced, knowledgeable, and vital, energetic, and healthy – not the diseased, hospital-ridden individuals we've been conditioned to think of.

When you hit 60, you don't retire. You get another degree, go back to school. Why not become a professional, learn a new trade, and maybe you don't need to work anymore? You've saved enough to live off the savings, and at that moment, you can enter a new career. You could do something else with your life in another part of the world. This opens the door for people to enjoy and be productive longer. That means they are contributing to society. Your GDP will go up, social supports will increase – it's a benefit for everybody.

We take healthcare costs for granted. They're highest in Canada and the U.S., for different reasons. In the U.S., it's immense inefficiency due to the interplay between caregivers and insurance companies. In Canada, it's inefficiency due to unfortunate structuring and conflict between government and provincial health ministries. Overall, we spend a huge sum of money in every province, and the U.S. spends a lot on every person, regardless of state. And what's the outcome? Poor health.

In the past few years, U.S. life expectancy has decreased and infant mortality has increased. Healthcare spending doesn't reflect population health.

Now, we're looking at healthy longevity, and we go back to that person living to 100 with perfect health to that last moment. That individual is productive. What's their healthcare cost? It's next to nothing. It's about maintenance and prevention, with some cost and aftercare, but the per capita healthcare expense will drop dramatically.

The healthy longevity industry is key for societal productivity and reducing healthcare costs.

SUPERBEING: I'm thinking about the blue zones worldwide. I think about community structure and how people engage, and the things we're doing in society leading to chronic diseases and unhealthy habits. There's a big gap between how they live in these blue zones and here. What are your thoughts?

DR. CORY: You got it exactly right. As I mentioned earlier, the most important component of healthy longevity is social connectivity and the purpose, satisfaction, and connection it brings. That exists in the blue zones, and it doesn't exist much here.

Reflecting on our last conversation about the aging population and elderly, we've established a model where after 65, you can't work, you're too sick, and you should retire. Eventually, you go to a retirement home, then a nursing home, and then, it's the end. We view old people as unhealthy and separate from ourselves.

The model of multi-generation families living together or in the same community doesn't exist. As our parents age, they can't care for themselves. The next generation is too busy working and managing an accelerating lifestyle to provide care. The distances these families live apart make it impossible to be supportive.

We see our old people as needing to be put away somewhere and not living with us. I'd change that perspective. We should live close to our families and friends for that network. In Singapore, a Blue Zone 2.0, they give a financial bonus to families living within two kilometers. Parents and children aren't together but are close. Singapore has public transit and walking, so driving isn't necessary. That distance lets them interrelate. Grandchildren have babysitters, and you have multi-generational families and communities working together. That's healthy longevity.

Our technology, devices, and work-from-home model (popular post-pandemic) offer benefits but are extremely isolating. People working remotely or in a hybrid model are disconnected, spending time on devices away from others, leading to unhealthy isolation. We need to encourage work and home environments that foster social interconnectivity.

This will come down to real estate and community developments – building homes and communities around public spaces that encourage physical activity and modes of transportation like walking and biking.

This needs to be instituted at the level of our homes and communities. The future of real estate in terms of healthy longevity and wellness will be communities that do that.

At Healthspan Digital, which I've helped co-found, we're pioneering the development of communities around healthy longevity, not just having a basement gym. It requires more than that to make people social and enjoy the outdoors, which comes from a development level.

When I first got involved in the healthy longevity space, I expected the consumers would be those later in life, approaching their later years, wanting to be healthy. I was surprised that the younger population – mid 20s to early 40s – are the most in tune with their health and desire to be healthy. This comes from a sense of self and wanting to care for oneself, which past generations lacked. People were conditioned to think they weren’t important and that looking after yourself or trying to look good was vain. It was a strange mentality.

Young people are looking after themselves and their parents. They see their parents facing health issues. They want to do better and be healthy. The gateway to older people is through their children, who will bring technologies and knowledge to their parents, helping expand this field.

SUPERBEING: Do younger generations feel traditional medicine practices failed them? What's changed since you started in your medical practice? What do you wish we could do differently in healthcare today? What's missing?

DR. CORY: I compare our public healthcare system to the Titanic. It's too massive and cumbersome to turn or too damaged to be saved. We could debate whether the iceberg is ahead or behind us – it doesn't matter. It has long passed.

Our system can't change for our population, and it's beyond repair. People need to find alternatives and ways to care for themselves. A fix is not coming.

Our tax base shrank in the nineties. Canada's healthcare system is 50 years old. Initially, universal healthcare was solid, but now it can't operate the same way. We're expecting it to, despite a decreased tax base. For every person over 65, there were 7.7 workers; now it's 3.4. In the nineties, we had enough workers and tax revenue. Now, 25-30 years later, we have fewer workers and resources.

The pandemic worsened the situation. Anyone who could escape did. Any physician who could retire or find alternative income did. Any nurse who could leave the hospital system did too. There's a huge nursing shortage, but many have left. They don't want to be in hospitals. We're facing a world with insufficient revenue, workers, and increased healthcare delivery costs. There are more tools and costs. There's also more liability, necessitating hospital and infrastructure adaptation, leading to additional expenses.

The last issue is hospital inefficiencies. The cost of care in the public system is far too high. I'm a surgeon, and I can tell you the cost to run an operating room in a hospital is $2,500 to $4,000 an hour. In a private center, that would be less than $1,000. By private center, I mean privately delivered, publicly funded, like x-ray or blood work at a lab paid for by OHIP. A private operating room would be a third to a quarter the cost of the public systems, and they have high turnover time, over an hour between cases.

Due to huge inefficiencies in operations and management, the output is much less. One of Canada's largest hospitals has more administrators than physicians. Our system hasn't adapted.

Your question: what's the public healthcare system and what's the solution?

The solution is a personal healthcare system that supports people in obtaining, managing, and monitoring their own health and that of their family, avoiding the public healthcare system.

Our public healthcare system is past crisis. It may not be fixed in my lifetime. It's up to us in this industry to help democratize and bring these tools to people to take care of their own health and be aware of what’s going on in the public system, and where we can and can’t depend on it.

Stay tuned for part two of ‘The Next Frontier of Longevity’ with Dr. Cory Goldberg, coming soon.

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A lifestyle rooted in nature and its unequivocal intelligence is the number one determinant of wellbeing, longevity, and healthspan.

The Frequency Diet explores how we might return to the natural rhythms that our bodies were designed to follow—achieving harmony and optimal health in the process. In this lifestyle, we are not merely surviving, we are thriving and resonating with the full spectrum of life’s frequencies.

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After deeply exploring the progress or lack thereof in general health and wellbeing, as well as delving into emerging technologies and the latest scientific literature, the concept of The Frequency Diet was developed to communicate a more accessible framework for optimal wellbeing for all.

True wellbeing is simpler than we’re led to believe and deeply rooted in our biological and energetic connection to the natural world.

Maintaining a Frequency Diet isn’t about counting calories or restricting food intake. While traditional diets focus on what we eat, the Frequency Diet encompasses the full spectrum of energies we consume and absorb: light, water, magnetism, sound, and more. In the sense that it offers a scientifically-informed recipe for living, it is a ‘diet’ composed of ingredients that nourish our bodies on a more fundamental level.

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By learning to optimize our ‘energetic diet’ and minimize unnatural inputs, we can unlock our full potential, transforming not just our physical health but our entire way of being.

A History of Detachment

Electrification marked a pivotal moment in human history, fundamentally altering our relationship with the natural world. Artificial light extended our days, allowing us to work, play, and consume long after sunset. While this brought unprecedented productivity and convenience, it also began to erode our connection to the earth’s natural cycles. We no longer needed to rise with the sun or retire at dusk. Seasons became less relevant as climate-controlled environments kept us comfortable year-round. The result? A society increasingly detached from the very rhythms that shaped our evolution.

This detachment has had profound implications for our health and well-being. Our bodies are designed to respond to natural light cues from the sun, regulating our sleep-wake cycles, hormone production, neurotransmitter function, and numerous other physiological processes. The constant exposure to artificial light, particularly the blue light emitted by screens, disrupts these processes, leading to sleep disorders, mood imbalances, and other health issues.

Disrupting the Delicate Balance

Moreover, the ease of accessing pleasure in our modern world has upset the delicate balance between pleasure and pain that exists in nature. In the natural world, pleasure often comes as a reward for effort or endurance—the satisfaction of a meal after a hunt, or the comfort of shelter after braving the elements. Today, we can summon almost any pleasure at the touch of a button, from food delivery apps to endless entertainment streams. This constant stimulation can lead to a kind of hedonic adaptation, where we require ever-increasing levels of stimulation to feel satisfied.

Most Health Fads Miss the Mark

Today’s health fads and wellness trends miss the mark, operating within a narrow paradigm that reduces health to food intake and exercise alone. This reductionist view overlooks a crucial aspect of our being that quantum biology reveals: we are, at our core, manifestations of energy tuned to our environments.

Focusing solely on regular exercise and changing food intake without considering our energetic existence is like trying to make a Volkswagen Bug perform like a Ferrari by simply painting it red—it ignores the fundamental mechanics at play.

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By attuning ourselves to the energies of light and the environment, we can reconnect with the wisdom of our evolutionary past and the rhythms that have shaped our biology.

Knowledge is Power

Once we understand that much of our built environment and modern way of life prioritizes efficiency and cost over biological compatibility, we can reclaim our health at the most fundamental level.

By addressing health at the level of energy and frequency, we tap into a wellspring of vitality that goes far beyond what diet and exercise alone can offer.

This approach doesn’t just treat symptoms; it harmonizes the very foundation of our being with the rhythms of the universe. Imagine a world where:

• You don’t just manage stress, but where your environment actively supports your well-being

• Technology enhances rather than disrupts your natural biological processes

• You’re not fighting against the current of modern life, but flowing with it in perfect harmony

This is the promise of The Frequency Diet and a quantum approach to health. It’s not a quick fix or a fad diet, but a fundamental shift in understanding and interacting with our bodies and the world around us.

The Frequency Diet is a core pillar of Superbeing, helping you tune to the quantum symphony of your health. As we further explore this lifestyle together, we’ll be sharing ways sharing ways to:

• Design your living and working spaces to support your body’s natural rhythms and frequencies

• Choose technologies and practices that minimize disruptive electromagnetic fields

• Time your exposure to different light frequencies to optimize your circadian rhythm

• Use sound and vibration therapies to ‘tune’ your body’s energy fields

Research highlights the importance of early sunlight exposure for our health. Blue light at sunrise activates the endocrine system, triggering cortisol release and stopping melatonin production. Specialized opsins in the eyes detect specific light frequencies, setting the master biological clock. This timing information is then transmitted to peripheral clocks, ensuring the efficient execution of critical processes like hormone regulation, protein synthesis, and enzymatic activity. [1] [2] [3]

Adopting a Frequency Diet lifestyle doesn’t mean abandoning all modern conveniences, it's about intelligently adapting it to support our quantum biology. Moreover, it extends beyond individual health. By aligning ourselves with nature’s rhythms, we become more attuned to the natural world. This heightened awareness can foster a greater sense of environmental stewardship, encouraging more sustainable lifestyle choices.

It all starts with recognizing the profound truth that Einstein uncovered over a century ago: at our core, we are energy, we are frequency, we are vibration.

Every month, we’ll explore simple ways to optimize our lives to combat these stressors via the Frequency Diet Playbook. Stay tuned here. In case you missed it, read the introduction by Dave Sorbara at the link below.

An Introduction to The Frequency Diet, you can read it here.

Over the past decade, my journey has expanded beyond audible frequencies, venturing into the subtle realms that underpin our reality. This exploration has yielded insights into the very nature of consciousness and our potential as human beings—insights that feel too significant to keep to myself.

I come to you not as an academic or a medical professional, but as a dedicated explorer. My path has been one of curiosity and experimentation, unbound by conventional paradigms. This unique perspective has allowed me to perceive connections and possibilities that often elude traditional research and reductionist thinking.

In sharing these discoveries, I hope to offer more than just information. I aim to present a new lens through which you might view yourself and the world around you. It’s an invitation to question, to explore, and perhaps to uncover aspects of your nature that have remained hidden.

My lifelong fascination with sound stemmed from its remarkable ability to evoke deep emotional responses and alter states of consciousness. This served as a gateway, leading me to investigate other modalities that could similarly impact human experience and wellbeing.

As I grappled with my own challenges—persistent worry, anxiety, and overwhelm—I began to uncover practices and understandings that not only alleviated these issues but also amplified creativity and moments of profound clarity. The intersection of sound, health, and consciousness revealed itself as a fertile ground for exploration and growth.

What emerged from this confluence was a glimpse into an exciting frontier: the science of health and human optimization through energetic modalities and quantum biology.

This approach encompasses sound, light, and physical vibration, offering non-invasive methods with far-reaching beneficial effects. As recent research suggests, some of these methods are as simple as making subtle shifts in your light-dark cycle, which is a powerful synchronizer of circadian rhythms. Appropriately timed exposure to light and dark can result in “large shifts of hormonal profiles, including those of cortisol, melatonin, and TSH” (thyroid-stimulating hormone).

It points towards a paradigm shift in the way we understand and nurture human thriving.

We stand at the threshold of a new understanding of our relationship with the energetic underpinnings of existence.

The Frequency Diet is an opportunity to explore these concepts together, to challenge our preconceptions, and to expand our awareness of what it means to be fully human.

If you’re intrigued by the possibility of viewing your health, your consciousness, and your place in the universe through a new lens, I invite you to join me on this journey of discovery. Together, we’ll explore the unseen frequencies that shape our world and our selves, and uncover the potential that lies within each of us.

Wellbeing has become a sacred pursuit and catalyst for embracing life to its fullest; it's about expanding horizons.

As we seek to unlock the secrets to a longer, healthier life, a growing number of natural, accessible, and effective modalities are emerging. These new options can augment diet, lifestyle, and exercise to support our vitality and decelerate aging.

True wellbeing encompasses all aspects of life and requires a comprehensive, balanced, and proactive approach.

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ON THE SUPERBEING SONAR…

Currently in our bedside table book stacks: Peter Attia’s Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity, Deepak Chopra’s Quantum Body, and Dr. Gerald Pollack’s The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor.

We’re also (re)watching The 1 Field, a film that took over a decade to create, directed by Israeli filmmaker Tsipi Raz. It examines the existence of an energetic field that connects everything and explores whether spirit can be measured. Interwoven throughout the film are stories from leading researchers and scientists worldwide – all of who have spent decades studying different aspects of the existence of this energy field.

Anyone else thinking about sunscreen and wondering if it's actually worse for you when it comes to skin cancer? Us too. Check out Against Sunscreen Absolutism in the Atlantic and also this Ask Me Anything issue with Peter Attia, where he explores the complex relationship between skin cancer (particularly melanoma) and UV exposure. He also discusses the various skin types, how sunscreen affects UV radiation and skin cancer risk, and how to select the best sunscreen for your needs.

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