Some moments change how you see medicine forever. Once you see them, you can't unsee them.

For Dr. Haleem Mohammed, known as Dr. Hal, one of those moments happened at home. He was a chief medical officer managing thousands of employees, and he had reached 255 pounds. His wife, also a physician, asked him a question he couldn't ignore: would he be around after they had a baby?

He resigned, rebuilt how he lived, and rebuilt how he practiced. Today he's a board-certified internist, Chief Medical Officer of Gameday Men's Health, runs his own concierge practice, and serves on the FDA's Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee.

Leonard and Dr. Hal go from Wall Street to the FDA hearing room. They talk about how insurance shapes what doctors can and can't do, and why he tells some men they don't need testosterone. They cover what a network of hundreds of clinics reveals that a single practice can't, and what it was like to push back during a committee meeting on the future of compounded peptides.

In this episode: -His path from stockbroker to chief medical officer -The 255-pound wake-up call that changed his life and his medicine -How insurance shapes what doctors are allowed to do -The difference between a low testosterone number and testosterone deficiency -His advice for doctors who want out of the insurance model -What the FDA advisory committee actually does, and what it doesn't -What drives him now

This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice. Talk with your healthcare provider before making changes to your care.

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Chapters 00:00 Introduction 00:58 From Wall Street to Medicine 10:07 Building Gameday Men's Health 12:35 Insurance Medicine vs. Whole-Patient Care 15:43 Who Your Insurance Company Really Works For 16:34 What Hundreds of Clinics Reveal 18:39 "You Don't Need Testosterone" 19:52 The Problem With Some HRT Clinics and Med Spas 22:36 "My Goal Is to Not Have Any Patients" 24:11 Advice for Doctors Stuck in the Insurance Model 25:37 Collaboration Over Competition 27:41 Separating Signal From Noise 31:01 Why He Still Sees Patients 31:28 Inside the FDA Compounding Committee 33:39 Old Guard vs. New Guard 35:04 "I Think We Did the Right Thing That Day" 36:33 What Drives Him 39:58 Where to Find Dr. Hal

Some moments change how you see medicine forever. Once you see them, you can't unsee them.

In this first episode Leonard Pastrana, Pharm D shares the "unseen moments" that reshaped his view of healthcare. They include a hospital committee that chose a treatment based on cost instead of what was best for the patient, and his wife's years of recurring diverticulitis flares that specialist after specialist couldn't explain. It took a physician willing to look beyond the guidelines to finally find what everyone else had missed.

After working in retail and hospital pharmacy, and then spending years creating education alongside leading physicians and scientists in clinical longevity medicine, he's had thousands of private conversations with doctors who practice in the gap between what's proven, what they see in patients every day, and what we're still figuring out.

This show brings those conversations into the open. You'll hear from physicians, scientists, and founders who treat "show me the data" as the start of the conversation, not the end.

In this episode:

- What an "unseen moment" is, and why it happens so often in healthcare

- Longevity medicine defined: improving health span and lifespan together

- Why earlier diagnostics are creating new uncertainty in medicine

- The personal story behind the show

This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice. Talk with your healthcare provider before making changes to your care.