Kien Vuu - Thrive State: Your Blueprint for Optimal Health, Longevity, and Peak Performance

The Fountain of Youth is at our fingertips and Doctor V is handing you the key. Doctor V has spent his career on the forefront of anti-aging unlocking the door between new discoveries and technologies and your bodys ability to harmonize with them. In Thrive State , Doctor V reveals how you can unlock that power to achieve optimal health and performance while loving the process.

~ George Bryant

New York Times bestselling author of The Paleo Kitchen

A must read. Thrive State is an empowering framework that reminds us We Are Our Best Medicine.

~ Keith Ferrazi

New York Times bestselling author of Never Eat Alone

The vision of Thrive State is a compelling moonshot with principles that can aid in the eradication of chronic disease and elevation of health consciousness.

~ Naveen Jain

Iconic Entrepreneur and CEO of Viome and Moon Express

Walking into a crowded room with Dr. V is like opening up a bottle of champagne and passing out full glasses; His sheer charm and unbridled enthusiasm intoxicates anyone in the vicinity. Fully armed with medical expertise but coupled with a true desire to change the world, this guy is the real deal!

~ Eric the Trainer

Hollywood Physique Expert

In a confusing and conflicting world of medicine, Thrive State presents a practical roadmap to health and performance that interlaces science with the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of wellness.

~ Brandan Kane

Best Selling Author of One Million Followers

Fasten your seat belts because Doctor V will put you back in the drivers seat of optimal health and performance. Thrive State is a simple, yet elegant framework that unlocks the medicine and healing powers within ourselves.

~ AJ Buckley

Actor and Star of CBSs Seal Team & CSI New York

INTRODUCTION

D o you want the good news or the bad news first?

This is a question Ive asked hundreds of my patients over the years, from those struggling with life-threatening diseases to those whove come into my concierge practice for medical advice on how to take their health and performance to the next level. Often, the good news and the bad news may come hand in hand. A suspicious lump may turn out not to be cancer (good news) but instead is evidence of a glandular problem (bad news). A patient with a serious injury may make a full recovery (good news) but only after a grueling physical therapy regimen (bad news). Life can be messy; medicine even more so, and sometimes struggle and celebration can come in the same package.

When it comes to your health, longevity, and quality of life, I want to give you a little more. The old Western movies had a saying: the good, the bad, and the ugly; I want to give you the good, the bad, and the extraordinary. So after I give you the good and bad news, Im going to give you the extraordinary news: a blueprint for reigniting your life like I did.

Lets start with the good news. Allow me to remind you of something that we forget all too often: Just by being alive right now, you have won the evolutionary lottery. You are a miracle. You are! I dont mean to sound so clich, but it happens to be true. To be a human being alive today, you have inherited the genes and gifts of many generations of natural selection of those that come before you. You are also a survivor, a winneryou beat out more than three million sperm battling for life, but it was you who made it. This is no simple feat. Like every single human being on this Earth, you were born with greatness encoded into your genes.

Every human accomplishment is an example of what we are capable of. We have been gifted with the mental acuity to be able to put a man on the moon, the emotional intelligence to create great works of art, and a physical body capable of scaling the worlds mountains. Every person who lives past one hundred is living proof that there is no artificial limit to how long can we live and even thrive.

All of us have abundant untapped potential for better overall health, greater human performance, and longer life. But the tensions of the modern worldfrom our morning commute, to our microwaved lunch, to our fifth cup of coffeeoften keep us from operating at full potential. Perhaps most importantly, our societys definition of success does not match up with a healthy lifestyle.

So, here comes the bad news. The bad news is that theres a high probability that you may be suffering from a chronic disease right now, even if you havent been diagnosed yet. Chronic disease comes in a wide range of dispiriting optionsfrom diabetes, to high blood pressure, to arthritis, to cancer, to a multitude of autoimmune conditions. In fact, one of every two Americans has a chronic disease, and one in four has two (or more) of the eighty-plus chronic diseases officially recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These debilitating conditions have literally become national as well as global epidemics.

Conventional medicine is at advanced levels never seen before in history, and the United States currently spends more money on healthcare than weve ever spent and more money per capita than any industrialized nation. Yet were also the unhealthiest weve ever been. Life expectancy in the United States has increased each year for the majority of the past 60 years, but the rate of increase has slowed over time, and life expectancy actually decreased after 2014 for a few years.

The economic cost of chronic disease is staggering. According to the Milken Institute, the total cost of direct treatment for chronic health conditions totaled $1.1 trillion in 2016, or 5.8% of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP). By adding in the indirect cost (i.e., lost workplace productivity), the total financial cost of chronic disease grew to $3.7 trillion, or 19.6% of GDP. That means that one out of every five dollars in the U.S. economy is spent on healthcare, with a large proportion of that going to the top three most costly conditions: diabetes, Alzheimers disease, and osteoarthritis.

Theres a famous story about the Dalai Lama. As the story goes, a reporter once asked the spiritual leader what surprised him most about humanity. He responded: Man surprised me most about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.