Walter Michael Bortz II, is an American physician and author who teaches medicine at Stanford University. He is one of America’s leading scientific experts on aging, and promotes the possibility of a 100-year lifespan.

Recognized as one of America’s most distinguished scientific experts on aging and longevity. Dr. Walter Bortz’s research has focused on the importance of physical exercise in the promotion of robust aging. Dr. Bortz has published over 130 medical articles and authored numerous books, including We Live Too Short and Die Too Long, Dare to Be 100, and Living Longer for Dummies, Occupy Medicine and Diabetes Danger.

Walter M. Bortz II, M.D., is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and a graduate of Williams College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dr. Bortz is past co-chairman of the American Medical Association’s Task Force on Aging, former President of The American Geriatric Society and is currently Chairman of the Medical Advisory Board for the Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation, as well as a Senior Advisor to Healthy Silicon Valley, a community collaborative effort which addresses the soaring incidence of obesity and diabetes.

Dare To Be 100 Live To Your Potential

Audiences sit up and respond when the wisest of doctors speaks truth about life and death, their life and avoidable early death. Dr. Bortz, one of America’s most distinguished scientific experts on aging and longevity, draws on cutting edge science to challenge audiences to dare to live to be 100. He charms, challenges and chastises and leaves listeners awake, aware and with a better chance of living longer. He says staying alive and vital to 100 requires two things, GUTS AND SMARTS, the courage to face life’s uncertainties and the knowledge to heed the Serenity Prayer’s mandate, to change the changeable, to accept the inevitable, and know the difference between them. Oh, and that wise exercise and eating, good genetics and being love in your life help a lot!

The Economics of Health

Dr. Walter Bortz says Americans don’t really spend almost 3 trillion dollars per year on health care. He says it’s being spent on sickness, preventable sickness at that. Dr. Bortz, one of America’s most distinguished scientific experts on aging and longevity provides an impassioned call for a revolution to save American health care and he details an action plan to fix the most broken system in our country, a system everyone agrees is rapidly bleeding America to death. Dr. Bortz brings the cure, clearly explaining to your audience how Americans can save trillions of dollars and prevent 50% of all illnesses!

How The Health Club Industry Can Save Obamacare

Dr. Walter Bortz, recognized as one of America’s most distinguished scientific experts on aging and longevity, asks the vital question, if medicine’s mission is the assertion and assurance of the human potential, how is it doing? In this speech Bortz questions assumptions and explains the perverse incentives that cause him to give medicine’s current efforts toward mission a failing grade. He then uses the controversial subject of the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, to present a manifesto for a revolution to save American health care and explain how the Health Club Industry can lead the way.