Neha Pathak, MD, FACP, DipABLM: Welcome to the WebMD Health Discovered Podcast. I'm Dr Neha Pathak, WebMD's Chief Physician Editor for Health and Lifestyle Medicine. Did you know that more than half of Americans, 51%, skipped their routine cancer screenings in the past year? If you are potentially one of that 51%, take a moment and ask yourself what might have prevented you from participating in these routine screenings. Was it fear? Lack of access? Was there not enough time in your overwhelming schedule to focus on screening and to take a proactive approach to your healthcare? Or maybe you weren't even aware of the recommendations and guidelines that put you in a category to recommend screening?

Today we're gonna take a look at this alarming trend and uncover why so many people are missing their cancer screenings. We'll highlight which screenings are most commonly missed and how that can have life-altering consequences. We'll unpack what it takes to turn evidence into action when it comes to our health.

We're also gonna touch on some very real issues, like what it feels like to put off a screening because of fear, how bias might show up when it comes to awareness and screening, and how we can prioritize our health. Our guest today will discuss this and so much more, including what early detection can mean for the length and quality of our lives.

From lifestyle changes to correcting misinformation, this episode will offer you practical insight on why screenings matter and the action steps we can take to empower ourselves and our loved ones to schedule that overdue cancer screening. First, let me introduce my guest, Dr Chris Scuderi. Dr Scuderi is a family physician with a focus on individual wellness and community health. He's currently the president of the Florida Academy of Family Physicians. As a physician, he partners with patients to understand the why behind their behaviors and what's motivating them. He himself is a cancer survivor, and he's passionate about cancer screening and prevention education, as well as support for those navigating a new diagnosis.

Dr Scuderi was commissioned into the US Navy in 2002 as a lieutenant and completed a transitional internship at Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virginia. Since leaving the Navy, Dr Scuderi continues coordinating care for many veterans. Welcome to the WebMD Health Discovered Podcast, Dr Scuderi.

Christopher Scuderi, DO: Thank you so much, Dr Pathak.

Pathak: We are so excited to have you and really, really interested in your own journey. So I'd love to start there with your story. As I mentioned, you're not just a physician, you're also a cancer survivor. Can you share your story, help us understand what your journey was from diagnosis to survivorship?

Scuderi: Thank you so much for bringing awareness to this topic. It's a great topic, and this topic has a lot of fear around it. And so I think bringing it out in the open is just an excellent way to make people comfortable with it. And so when I talk about my story, I want listeners to understand that there's 18.6 million other Americans who share my story.

My story is not unique. If you talk to people in your family or at work, they all have similar stories. They all have stories of survivorship. And I encourage you today—if you are a cancer survivor, please share your story—because the more people that understand that you get through cancer, and you take the fear out of it, the better.

This week alone, Deion Sanders, the coach of the University of Colorado football team, shared that he also was diagnosed with bladder cancer and he had a major surgery this spring to treat his cancer. And I really applauded him, 'cause if you looked at the news this week, he used it as a platform to encourage people to get screened. And I thought that was fantastic.

So, great topic today. I'm very, very passionate about screening, and I thought it was amazing to see an athlete and a coach use their cancer as a chance to encourage people to do that.

A little bit about my cancer: I was a very healthy family physician. 2020 hit—I think all of us can picture 2020 in our minds and remember how challenging of a year that was. And for my family, it was a difficult year. We lost my father-in-law earlier that year, and I had a lot of responsibilities. I was Associate Chair of the Department of Community Health and Family Medicine for the University of Florida, Jacksonville.

At the time, I was also the Chair of the COVID-19 Task Force for the Florida Academy of Family Physicians. I was charged with providing education for all of our family physicians in Florida. It was just a busy year with a lot of challenges, homeschooling kids, and then a lot of unknowns.

Later in the year, in November, I thought I had food poisoning from eating bad yogurt. The next morning I woke up and just felt led to go to the emergency room. I hadn't been to the ER since I was 18 years old, and for some reason felt like this was different. I ended up going to the emergency room, had a friend of mine who was a surgeon who convinced me twice to say that I was ready to leave, and ended up being seen again.

I had a CT scan, and a good friend of mine who's the Chair of Radiology called me directly into the ER doc and said, "Hey, I just wanna let you know I did your CT scan. Your appendix looks great, your intestines look good, but there's a spot on your bladder I'm really concerned about. You should get checked out. You need to see a urologist."

It was amazing, because even I as a family physician was just like, "Okay, I'm feeling better. I'll go back to work and I'll get that checked out in a couple weeks." And so he said, "I'm sending you a picture," 'cause I think he could sense that I was blowing it off.

I ended up leaving the emergency room happy that I didn’t have anything crazy going on and was driving to go back to work, 'cause there was half a day left. And that's what physicians do—you just go back and you see your patients.

My wife called me up—and my wife happens to be a radiologist in an oncology practice—and she said, "Chris, what's going on?" And I said, "Ah, you know, just—" She's like, "Do I need to come get you?" And I said, "Well, you know, they found this thing in my bladder. It's no big deal. I'll get checked out in a couple weeks. I'm gonna head back to work."

And she said, "Well, send me the picture." Immediately I got a phone call from my wife and she said, "You need to call your friend Joe Costa, the urologist, and you need to be seen right now."

I called Joe and he happened to have a cancellation. Later I had a cystoscopy, and then on camera it was very real—there was a large tumor in my bladder.

And so at that point, I became a cancer patient. I was amazed. I know so much as a physician, I've walked so many patients through cancer, but at that moment when somebody told me there was a mass in my bladder, I just blew it off. And so I think that's why it's so important to bring this topic up, because a lot of times we don’t think clearly around cancer.

I went through surgery about two weeks later and ended up doing about a year and a half of preventative treatments. For the past couple years, I’ve been cancer free. It's been very life-changing, and a lot of positive things have come from it. I'm excited to share some of that as we go further through this podcast.

Pathak: I wanna thank you so much for sharing your story. And I think connecting it with what we're hearing in the headlines right now as well—that the more you talk about it, the more you talk about your own experience, the more real it becomes for people, the more manageable it becomes for people. Because a lot of what you said resonates with me.

But I'd love to dig into one piece, which is the "why." We know that around 51% of Americans skipped routine cancer screenings in the past year. I'm really curious, in your conversations with patients, what are you seeing as the reasons why people are skipping routine cancer screenings, especially when we have more and more information in the media about people being able to recover, be in remission, and survive cancer?

Scuderi: I think there's a lot of emotions and a lot of reasons. Some common ones I hear from my patients—one of the biggest is fear. People just don't wanna know. They're afraid. If they are diagnosed, how am I gonna deal with it? How can I still take care of my children? How can I keep my job? When can I get treatment? How can I pay for treatment?

So, I think there's a lot of fear. There was one study that showed 26% of Americans identified fear as the reason why they skipped screenings. Another big one that comes up often is people say, "Hey, I'm not having symptoms, why do I need to be screened?" I think there was one study that showed that 37% of Americans felt that way, and that really defeats the purpose of cancer screening. Because a lot of times, by the time you have symptoms, you now have a later-stage cancer. The goal of screening is to find those stage zero, stage one cancers that are very treatable and very curable.

Two other ones that I see really often in my practice: one is just lack of time. And we'll talk about that a little bit later on—there are ways to get around this, and your family physician is a great resource.

The last one, a big one, is the lack of clarity among screening guidelines because they've changed so often recently. A lot of times, people don't realize they're due for screening. They don't realize that a lot of the ages have changed—that now some of them are 40 for mammograms or 45 for colorectal cancer screening. A lot of people aren't aware that there's even a screening out there for lung cancer.

Having a family physician to guide you through these conversations is really important. For patients, it's difficult. Even for us as physicians, it's hard to keep up with these guidelines. So for patients, it's even more challenging. You need someone who can walk you through and say, "Okay, based on your age, based on your risk factors, this is what you're due for. Based on your family history, you may be high risk, and we may need to do more for you."

So I really challenge everybody today. One big takeaway is: have a great relationship with your family physician, because they can really help create a unique plan for you.

Pathak: Can you help us understand the concept of cancer screening? What are the typical cancers that we should be thinking about with regard to screening? Let's start there and then we'll sort of address the second part of that.

Scuderi: Sure. So, looking at screenings, the ones that are most common are breast cancer screening — that's receiving your mammograms, and that's an important one, just like you discussed. Another one is colorectal cancer screening, and there are a couple of options. If you're average risk, you have options of stool-based tests. If you're high risk, then a colonoscopy is needed.

There's the screening test now for lung cancer, and that's an easy CT scan. It's a five- to 10-minute test, and a lot of times there are really some economical options for that test too, for people who may not have insurance. So you can talk to your family physician about that.

A big one is cervical cancer screening — that's your Pap smears. Again, the guidelines around that have changed drastically in the past couple of years, so it's good to have someone who can walk you through that depending on your age.

There's prostate cancer screening, and that's another one where it's great to have a family physician to talk about the risks and benefits of prostate cancer screening, what age to start based on your family history, and when to stop.

Another one to think about is skin cancer screening. If you live in an area with high exposures to the sun, or if you have family history, you may want to see a dermatologist. But the big four that we often talk about and really focus on are breast cancer, colorectal cancer, cervical cancer, and lung cancer.

Pathak: And are there particular ones of those that you find patients skip out on or miss the most?

Scuderi: Yes, and two are really concerning. The first one is the number one cause of cancer death in the United States: lung cancer. People skip that screening very often. In fact, in 2022, only 18% of eligible Americans had a lung cancer screening. That meant 11 million Americans missed that screening.

It's important if you're listening today, because a lot of people are unaware that there is a screening available. If you've smoked 20 pack-years — that's either a pack a day for 20 years, half a pack a day for 40 years, or two packs a day for 10 years — and you're between the ages of 50 and 80, and you've smoked within the last 15 years, you qualify for this screening.

It's a great screening. A lot of times I find that my patients are ashamed or afraid to be honest about how much tobacco they use. This is a great chance to be real with your physician, because there's a really good opportunity to get a screening and identify lung cancer early, which, as I mentioned, is the number one cause of cancer deaths in America.

The second one that's really important is colorectal cancer screening. When you look at the fastest growing cause of cancers in patients under the age of 50, it's gastrointestinal cancers. People tend to skip colonoscopies because there's just so much stigma — people hear all the stories, there are a lot of jokes, there's a lot around it.

If you are average risk, your family physician can walk you through what average risk is versus high risk. You may qualify for stool-based tests. But it's really important. I think a lot of people are unaware that the age dropped to 45 a couple of years ago.

It was really interesting — it dropped to 45 the year I turned 45. My kids laughed at me and said, “Dad, what do you want for your birthday this year?” I said, “A colonoscopy.” They thought I was joking. Three days after my 45th birthday, I got a colonoscopy because I said I have to put my butt on the line if I'm going to give my patients a hard time about it.

It is a big one. I've seen a number of cases, including a couple of my friends who have been diagnosed with early-stage colon cancer in their late forties. So please, if you're between 45 and 50, recommendations have changed — please get screened.

Pathak: So why is it so important to really have this connection with your primary care doctor so that you can bring up symptoms that might shift the needle on what tests you're going to get, even if you don't fall into a screening category?

Scuderi: I think it's important, especially if you have persistent or perplexing symptoms. If you have something that just doesn't get better, or it's concerning, or you just have a gut feeling, it's a great chance to have a relationship with your primary care physician. Just say, “Hey, I have this going on. This is strange. It just isn't getting better.”

Talk about it, because a lot of times it is easy to say, “Well, I'm young,” or, “I'm female, I'm not at risk for cancer.” That's not true, because if you look at the demographics, cancer has changed tremendously in the past 20 years.

Cancer rates have decreased in the United States from 2000 to 2019. But they have shifted — cancer rates have decreased faster for men than for women. Women under the age of 50 now have an 82% higher incidence of all cancers compared to men.

It's really important. A lot of times people think about cancer and assume it's someone who's 75 or someone with bad lifestyle factors. But cancer has changed in the United States. I would challenge you: if you’re having symptoms that just aren't getting better after a couple of weeks, or if your gut says, “Hey, this isn't right,” please listen to that.

That still, small voice is very powerful. There are a lot of great tests today. There's much more access to care for a lot of people, and you can work with your family physician about what you can do to get that help.

Pathak: We've talked a little bit about fear being a potential barrier to getting tested or screened. We've talked a little about concerns around access. I'd love for you to dig in a little more about what you said earlier around time. You mentioned that in your own story — just feeling like you had so much going on. So how do you help patients rethink that barrier?

Scuderi: Time is hard. And I think especially now, currently, we're all so busy and we have such little margin, and so this is important. One analogy I love to use with my patients is, I talk to 'em a lot that their health is like their retirement account, and every day that you do have good habits—so you exercise, you eat well, you get a good night's sleep, you avoid harmful substances—you're putting in an investment into your retirement account. And hopefully by the time you're 65, compound interest works and you've got a really nice retirement account.

The cancer screenings are very similar to pulling your credit report. You wanna make sure there’s not something catastrophic out there that's gonna hurt all that hard work you do day in and day out. And so I challenge people to think about it. I know all of us love to pull our credit report now and see what our score is. Your cancer screenings are your credit report. Pull that credit report, make sure there's nothing out there that is going to damage the hard work that you have done. And so I talk to patients about that.

The other thing I talk to my patients about is screenings have changed. There are at-home options if you're average risk. And so especially—we talked about colorectal cancer—there are some stool-based tests that are an option. The other thing is that a lot of places, you know, especially if you're in a larger city, there may be options for a Saturday colonoscopy, or an evening mammogram, or a Saturday or Sunday low-dose CT scan for your lung cancer screening.

And so talking to your primary care physician is a great option, because if you come in and say, “Hey, I'm really struggling. I used all my PTO this year 'cause my child was sick, or my mother was sick, and I still need to get screened. How do I work that through?” That’s exactly where that relationship comes in, where they can say, “Okay, here are options. You qualify for home-based testing. There are options on the weekend too.”

Pathak: I'm gonna steal your analogy about pulling the credit report, because I think that is just such a great way to think about it. I'd love to then dig in a little bit more deeply into the fear factor. How do you talk your patients through that barrier?

Scuderi: So I let them know my story. And fear is real. I remember the first two weeks I was diagnosed—when you're first diagnosed with cancer, the first couple weeks are terrible. You live in this unknown: staging, pathology, and a plan. You don't know, is this gonna be something catastrophic that is gonna change or end my life? Or is this just a really great discovery that's gonna help me live longer? And being stuck in that limbo area is really, really challenging.

I remember really struggling those two weeks, thinking about if I was to die, all the things I would have missed: watching my daughter get married, the great things my son was gonna do, growing old and traveling with my wife, or being able to take care of my patients.

And the one thing that really struck me was just waking up in the mornings thinking, “I wanna live. I wanna live.” This great desire—that I wanted to live. And so I talk to my patients about that: you have an opportunity here to go and get screened. You have an opportunity to go out there and say, “Hey, let me discover if I have cancer early.”

We live at a time where we have these options, and they're only gonna get better. So why not take them? Because there is a great desire to live. And cancer treatment has come a long way—even in the past 10 years. We're seeing people even with stage four cancers doing well on certain treatments.

So I think we're at a great time. There are a lot of discoveries being made. It's not like it was 20 years ago. I would encourage our patients to just be honest about fear. A lot of times when you have fear, if you talk about fear and work through it, it helps.

And a lot of times people have fear because it's related to someone close to them who had a bad outcome or bad experience with cancer. I think just being honest about that and working through it is really important.

Pathak: Yeah, and I'd love to dig into what you said earlier about new ways of screening too. Some that are home-based, some that are very accessible to people—like I'm thinking right now, mobile mammograms. What are some of the types of tools that you are sharing with your patients that are newer and more accessible?

Scuderi: I think a lot of them coming out now are the stool-based tests for colorectal cancer, especially if you're average risk. Again, you have to check and make sure that you're average risk. But I think that in the next three to five years, we're gonna see huge change.

I was reading that there’s even an at-home Pap smear that I think is being released in the next year, which is just hard to imagine as a family physician. And I think we're looking at these multi-cancer early detection tests that have a lot of promise. They're not there yet, but I think there’s a lot of promise that these will really help us screen for many different types of cancers.

We just have to understand some of the nuances with these tests. There are going to be some saliva tests that you could do. There are going to be some pinprick tests that you could do—similar to diabetes. I think the age is coming that really helps us take away that time constraint.

So over the next 3, 5, 10 years, have a great relationship with your primary care physician, because I think these options are coming forward rapidly. I also foresee more screening tests coming for some of the other cancers. Right now we talked about all the ones we screen for earlier, but I think bladder, liver, pancreatic cancer—we're gonna see some at-home testing coming for that too over the next three to five to 10 years, and it will become more mainstream.

It's an exciting time. I think a lot of these companies that produce these products realize the emotions, the challenges, the fear, the time—and they’re trying to help overcome these barriers so we can screen more people safely.

Pathak: We've talked about cancer screening as that pulling of the credit report, and then I loved what you said about building the bank balance with healthy lifestyle changes and behaviors. Because again, empowering yourself to be as healthy as possible is not just about checking—it's also about these types of behaviors. So how do you talk to your patients about some of these lifestyle behaviors? What do you focus on?

Scuderi: This is a topic I love. One of the emotions I went through when I was diagnosed with cancer was frustration. I'm pretty healthy. I'd work out probably 360 out of 365 days. I've been mostly pescatarian for the past 12 years. I have mostly good habits.

I remember just being angry and feeling like my body was broken. For about six months, I really dealt with that emotion—that my body betrayed me. Despite all the hard work I put in, I still had cancer.

But after making it through my surgery and starting treatments, I began to see that there was another side. I started to see some of the good things that came out of it. I began asking myself, “Okay, now what really put me at risk? What were some of the changes I could make?”

When we talk about health, there are important ones. Diet is huge, and I think we're just scratching the surface about how important it is. There are great studies about the Mediterranean diet, and about how ultra-processed foods can affect us. So I tell patients: really pay attention to your diet.

We know movement is medicine. I talk to all my patients every day about just moving. The more you move… we just don't move enough in this country. Every day, just do 20 minutes of something. I don't care what that something is, but please move. That really helps prevent cancer.

Another is to avoid harmful substances. Please don’t use tobacco—we know tobacco is very dangerous. And try to limit alcohol.

But the two I really focused on, when I thought about my risk, were sleep and stress. If I had one thing I had to change in my life, it's that I overwork. I work too hard and I’m constantly running in a high gear. So I had to really look at how to change that.

The year after I was diagnosed, I really started to take a look: How do I make sure that my sleep is improved? How do I make sure that I'm recovering? Sleep is a superpower, and it's one we sometimes forget about. Our bodies are working very hard, our immune systems are working very hard to identify potential cancer cells while we’re sleeping. The better we sleep, the better that’s gonna happen.

Same thing with recovery. If we're constantly going at a high rate and our cortisol levels are high, we're not gonna be able to recover well. Our immune systems can take a hit. Because at the end of the day, one of the greatest protections we have against cancer is our immune system.

A couple things I started doing: really using wearables. I have two wearables I use to track my sleep every night. I try to hack and understand—what helps me get a great night's sleep? What causes a poor night’s sleep? What are the factors? Now I have it down to a science. I can tell you exactly what I need to do to get good sleep, and I can tell you exactly if certain things happen between 9 and 10 PM, it's gonna go badly.

The other thing is using wearables to track my heart rate variability, my recovery, and my resting heart rate. I try to see what I can do to make sure I’m recovering well, because I am prone to overwork and I have to watch that. Having something objective to hold me accountable helps. I can look at the end of the day, or the end of the week, and say, “You know, I’m really falling out of balance.”

For many professionals out there—working, parenting, taking care of parents—I think this is a really important one that we overlook.

Pathak: I would love if you could dig in a little bit to how you use that data, because I think there is sometimes a risk of too much data that you just kind of, you have all this information, you see, okay, I'm sleeping poorly, and then that's not really leading to change. So could you help us understand concretely, like how did you use that data to shift what you do?

Scuderi: Sure. And, and there is a risk. And it's funny, I have to tell my daughter that all the time. She's an excellent runner and she's constantly looking at her watch to justify is she running well or not? And I have to remind her, how do you feel? So I think there is a danger and we have to balance both.

And you have to ask yourself, how do I feel? 'Cause they're just tools and, and they're data. And sometimes your watch may tell you that you slept poorly, but you may feel great that day. And so how you feel is way more important. But the data's great. And I think, you know, what really helped me was just realizing there were a couple things that were important for me.

One was I worked too late, especially on the computer or doing a lot of brain work. I would need time to descend, kinda like an airplane. I just couldn't go all the time. And so having that separation between work and sleep was very huge.

Another one was, I was never a heavy drinker, but alcohol really disrupted my sleep. I was amazed at just how even one or two drinks would really hamper my deep sleep. And so it's really one thing that's come out of me having cancer. I wasn't a big drinker to begin with, but I drink even less just 'cause I recognize, I'm like, you know, I'm just not gonna sleep as well.

Late eating — heavy. So if I have dinner past 8:00 PM, I don't sleep as well. An intense conversation with anyone past about 9:00 PM, I don't sleep as well. And then one thing that I started when I was diagnosed with cancer that has helped me to sleep well is I've started gratitude practice.

And this is just something that a couple days after I was diagnosed, I was like, you know what? I need to see the good in my days. And so before I go to bed every night, I think about three things that were blessings from that day — particularly, even if it was a terrible day. It's the last thing I do before I go to bed at night. And there's been a lot of studies just with how gratitude drives health and how gratitude drives sleep.

And so I think those were some big action items that really helped me. And caffeine's another one — stay away from caffeine past about, you know, one or two o'clock. But those have helped tremendously, especially gratitude. I challenge you that just if you take time to write down three things that you're grateful for from that day, it is powerful.

It will change your life. 'Cause, you know, we're trained these days to see the negative, and if we take some time to look around and just say, hey, it was a beautiful sunset tonight. Hey, that person at the restaurant was really kind to me. Hey, I had a great day with my children. That is amazing. And we need to recognize the good.

Pathak: I am just so thankful to you for sharing those very concrete pieces, because it is really something that we can change and we can change our mindset around what we're focusing on. And you saw tangible benefits in your sleep, so I think that is just such helpful information.

So thank you for sharing that, and I'd love to hand it back over to you as we end our time together. Because what I think you've done so beautifully is shifted us from this idea that cancer screening is one thing at one moment in time, and helped us understand that it's really sort of us thinking about what are our patterns of behavior, and then when can we take this little snapshot of what our body is showing so that we can intervene or not intervene.

So I'd love to kind of hand it over to you. Your final thoughts on misconceptions around cancer screening that you'd like to allay, and then just what you'd like someone to take away from this episode.

Scuderi: I think a big misconception that I hear often is that no one in my family had cancer, so I'm not at risk of cancer. And it's interesting, because when we look at cancer in America, only five to 10% of cancers are hereditary. The rest are a combination of other factors. And so just 'cause you don't have a family history — I had no family history of bladder cancer. I didn't have the typical risk factors that someone with bladder cancer would have.

And so I think that that's a huge fallacy that I hear often. And so just challenge our listeners today that, you know, really this is a great opportunity just to think about. And it's something you don't think about often, but just, hey, am I up to date? We all work so hard and we do so many things to have a great future. And cancer screening's one that if you take some time and you again look at it holistically — into my whole health portfolio — can I do well?

And so I think having a great relationship with your primary care physician just to say, okay, am I up to date? What can I do? How can we work through barriers? I think this is the way. It doesn't have to be something crazy. There are ways around every barrier.

And then it's an exciting time. The other part is knowing that over the next couple years, it's only gonna get better and better. Screening's gonna get better, treatment's gonna get better. And so, you know, the one thing that I would challenge our listeners today is to really be proactive about your own health.

I think if you take the steps to say, okay, my life is a gift, and what can I do today, small, to be healthier? You know, let me take a 20-minute walk at night. What can I do to eat a little bit healthier? What can I do to make sure that maybe I'm working a little less? What can I make sure to do that, you know, I vacation a couple times a year? What can I make sure — am I connecting with my friends that I haven't connected with for a long time?

These things are all part of health. It's very holistic, and I think cancer comes into that. 'Cause I think the healthier we are, it lowers our cancer risk. And then just making sure, again, pull your credit report, get screened.

Pathak: Thank you so much for being with us, Dr Scuderi. Really appreciate this conversation. My key takeaways from this discussion are: fear, time, misinformation are all major barriers to getting that preventive cancer screening. Anxiety surrounding potential screening results, the absence of symptoms, and confusion over evolving guidelines are common reasons why Americans are delaying or potentially avoiding their cancer screenings.

But overcoming these barriers is important for our health, and understanding the impact of early detection is crucial for better outcomes. Your primary care physician can help you navigate through screening guidelines, assess your risk, and identify the appropriate cancer screenings for you. Never underestimate the power of early detection.

It's also important to understand the power of prevention. Paying attention to our nutrition, movement, sleep, and stress reduction is an investment in our overall health and another way to take a proactive approach to our health and well-being.

To find out more information about Dr Chris Scuderi, make sure to check out our show notes. Thank you so much for listening. Please take a moment to follow, rate, and review this podcast on your favorite listening platform.

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This is Dr Neha Pathak for the WebMD Health Discovered Podcast.