Your Doctor Is Treating Your Symptoms. She Treats the Cause. | Kristin Oja DNP on Functional Medicine, Muscle & Longevity EP95

Sick care is not the same as healthcare. Kristin Oja, DNP — founder of STAT Wellness and the first person in the US to build a gym inside a functional medicine practice — joins Josh Button to break down what root cause medicine actually looks like for high-performing midlife men.Topics covered:→ Why the absence of disease is not health — and what the gap looks like→ The three master pillars of longevity: muscle mass, blood sugar, and inflammation→ Sarcopenia starts at 30 — what you're doing in your 40s determines your 70s→ Eating healthy vs. eating for blood sugar balance — the critical difference→ Why the gut microbiome governs immunity, serotonin, melatonin, and inflammation→ Terrain vs. germ theory — how she practices without using the terminology→ Fermented foods ranked: what works, what's marketing, what's sugar disguised as probiotics→ Glyphosate on both sides — plants AND animal products — and what to do about it→ Raw dairy, home fermentation, and sourcing principles→ The functional medicine panel every midlife man should actually run→ Continuous glucose monitoring for athletes who already eat well→ Testosterone, DHEA, cortisol, magnesium deficiency — what the labs reveal→ Manopause is real — and most men are normalizing symptoms they don't have to→ Peptides: the cherry on top when foundations are already solid→ VO2 max as a longevity biomarker→ The Harvard study that ran for 100 years — and what it says about the #1 predictor of long life→ One word: Happiness━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 Find Kristin Oja:Instagram: @kristinojadnpWebsite: kristinoja.comSTAT Wellness: statwellness.com🔗 Find Josh:Instagram: @thatjiujiteiro | @stopkillingtheplants | @IamJoshButtonWebsite: joshbutton.com━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━TIMESTAMPS0:00 — Intro: Who is Kristin Oja?0:34 — STAT Wellness: barbells inside a functional medicine practice2:55 — Membership vs. al-a-carte — $185/month, transparent pricing4:56 — Insurance coverage and HSA/FSA6:28 — Terrain theory vs. germ theory — the conversation they're both having8:16 — Gut microbiome: the foundation of everything9:40 — Children who've never taken an antibiotic — and why10:18 — The two patient types: the optimizer and the frustrated sick13:30 — The three pillars of longevity: muscle, blood sugar, inflammation16:05 — What the optimizer looks like — and what the cherry on top is18:00 — Wearables, objective data, and knowing your own body22:00 — Continuous glucose monitoring for performance athletes23:10 — How the STAT model works for midlife grapplers25:40 — Full functional medicine panel: what to run, why it matters28:00 — Ashwagandha, magnesium, and natural testosterone optimisation30:34 — Ancestral eating, plant tolerance, gut microbiome, and SIBO35:00 — Glyphosate in plants AND animal products — the full picture37:00 — Fermented foods: home fermentation vs. commercial products39:30 — Raw dairy, sourcing, and not being black-and-white44:30 — Sleep apnea in midlife men — the missed diagnosis47:00 — Manopause: normalizing what doesn't have to be normal50:00 — Sauna, cold plunge, and recovery non-negotiables54:00 — VO2 max, grip strength, breathwork as longevity markers55:28 — Supplements: creatine, glycine, magnesium, electrolytes57:00 — The Harvard longevity study and what 100 years of data says57:59 — One word: HappinessKristin Oja, STAT Wellness, functional medicine, root cause medicine, muscle mass longevity, blood sugar balance, inflammation, gut microbiome, men's hormone health, testosterone optimization, manopause, sarcopenia, peptides, fermented foods, glyphosate, continuous glucose monitor, midlife performance, training after 40, hard to kill, Josh Button podcast, that jiujiteiro, stop killing the plants, functional medicine near me, women in medicine, happiness longevity Harvard study, terrain theory, gut health, magnesium deficiency men, VO2 max longevity, ep95