What happens when you build a successful business but neglect the health that makes it possible?

In this episode of The HealthCast, Phil Zappone sits down with Dr. Quinto Pauletti to explore the connection between personal health, leadership, and sustained performance. Dr. Pauletti shares how his family’s experiences with serious illness shaped his career and why he built a concierge practice focused on executives, founders, and high-performing professionals.

They discuss his approach to personalized diagnostics, the role of trust and motivation in behavior change, and why more time with patients matters. They also explore where AI can support healthcare—and why listening, relationships, and everyday habits remain central to his approach.

In this episode:
• How personal loss shaped Dr. Pauletti’s approach to care
• Why he encourages founders to treat health as a core business asset
• How his concierge model incorporates genetic, hormonal, and gut testing
• Finding the personal “why” behind lasting behavior change
• Building a practice around time, relationships, and quality of life
• Using AI to support clinicians and reduce administrative work
• Returning to the basics before chasing supplements and biohacking
• His book, Running on Empty, and his interest in genetics and epigenetics

ABOUT THE GUEST
Dr. Quinto Pauletti is a chiropractor by training whose precision health practice serves executives, founders, and high-performing professionals. Over the past decade, his work has combined genomic, microbiome, and hormonal diagnostics with a root-cause clinical model focused on sustained high performance.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
00:42 Family illness and the path into healthcare
03:20 Choosing chiropractic and exploring root causes
07:14 Entrepreneurship and lessons from building a practice
09:52 Health as a founder’s greatest asset
12:18 Connecting personal health and business performance
13:59 What concierge care makes possible
17:29 Motivation, trust, and behavior change
19:47 Growth, time freedom, and defining “enough”
22:33 Where AI belongs in personalized healthcare
24:03 Rethinking the patient experience
28:34 The future of healthcare
30:05 Back to basics: habits, supplements, and biohacking
32:05 Perspectives on GLP-1s and behavior change
34:44 Collaboration, humility, and listening in medicine
38:37 Running on Empty and what’s next for Doc Q
39:59 Where to connect and learn more

CONNECT WITH DR. PAULETTI
Doc Q: https://doc-q.com
Running on Empty: https://runningonemptybook.com
Running on Empty Quiz: https://runningonemptyquiz.com

Check out what I do helping small businesses here:
Website | https://nxaihealth.com/
LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-zappone-647957379/

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