How One Physician Is Rebuilding Primary Care | Dr. Sameer Sood

What if a calcium score of 170 showed up in a healthy, active 36-year-old physician with great cholesterol — and changed everything he thought he knew about his own mortality?In this episode of The Ultimate Asset, Dr. Deep sits down with Dr. Sameer Sood — family medicine physician, biomedical engineer, entrepreneur, and co-founder at Velocity Health — for a wide-ranging conversation about what it really takes to build a healthcare system worthy of the people it serves.Dr. Sood brings a rare perspective: trained at Duke and Harvard, he's worked with tribal communities in rural Minnesota, adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, unhoused populations — and high-performing individuals who want to live to 120. Few physicians have sat at more ends of the healthcare spectrum.In this episode, we cover:The CAC Scan That Changed Everything: How a routine coronary artery calcium scan revealed extensive calcified and soft plaque in an active, plant-based physician with optimal cholesterol — and what it taught him about the gap between traditional risk calculators and real cardiovascular riskLipoprotein(a) — Not Just Genetic Anymore: Why Lp(a) deserves serial monitoring rather than a one-time check, how sleep disruption and epigenetic factors may drive its rise, and what's coming down the pipeline to actually treat itThe Case for Upstream Biomarkers in Primary Care: Why ApoB, Lp(a), and fasting insulin are basic medicine — not longevity medicine — and why insurance, training gaps, and guideline inertia keep them out of routine clinical practiceEngineering a Healthier Life: From designing vascular grafts to co-founding one of the earliest remote patient monitoring companies, how Dr. Sood's biomedical engineering lens shapes how he sees patients, systems, and solutionsLongevity for Everyone — or No One: The uncomfortable truth about who can currently access precision preventive care, why the homeless population deserves the same upstream biomarker workup as anyone else, and how life and long-term care insurance may be the unlikely vehicle to democratize itAI, Wearables, and the Empowered Patient: How ambient AI listening in clinical visits, connected glucose monitors, and the quantified self movement are finally catching up to what Dr. Sood and Dr. Deep were building a decade agoMemento Mori as Medicine: How facing your own mortality — whether through a scan result or simply counting your 4,000 weeks — can be the most powerful longevity intervention of allWhether you're a clinician trying to practice what you preach, a builder working at the intersection of medicine and technology, or someone who wants to understand why the system fails so many while serving so few, Dr. Sood's story is a blueprint for doing the work that actually matters.Resources to Reference in Episode:Dr. Sameer Sood’s work connecting healthcare systems and communities through data-driven care coordination: https://www.fwdslash.org/Dr. Sameer Sood’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/srsood/ Velocity Health Website: https://velocityhealthclinic.com/