11/21/2025
On this week’s show: Gen Z health concerns, concussions and the “roundness” index. “HealthLink on Air” can be heard Sunday at 6 a.m. on WRVO and online at https://www.upstate.edu/informed/2025/111625-radioshow.php.
Doctors of family medicine treat patients of all ages. Kaushal Nanavati, MD, focuses on the health concerns of "Generation Z," young adults born between 1997 and 2012, many of whom have graduated from pediatric care and are out on their own. Nanavati is a doctor of family medicine at Upstate and also the director of integrative medicine.
Also on the show, Matthew Grier, DO, explains concussions, how they're diagnosed and treated and other questions about this traumatic brain injury that can affect athletes from a variety of sports, as well as non-athletes of all ages. Grier is an assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation and co-director of the Concussion Clinic at Upstate.
And the body roundness index, or BRI, offers a new way to measure someone's body fat. The BRI is meant to correct some of the shortcomings of the body mass index, or BMI, which cannot distinguish between fat and muscle. Exercise physiologist Carol Sames, PhD, tells how the new BRI works and how to calculate your own BRI. She is an associate professor of physical therapy education at Upstate.
