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The Secrets To Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life with Dr Mark Hyman #338

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Feb 22, 2023

Joining the conversation is Dr. Mark Hyman, a seasoned medical professional and author of 18 books, known for his revolutionary approach of using food as medicine. They delve into the ten hallmarks of aging and how our lifestyle choices significantly influence our biological age. Mark discusses the dangers of processed foods, emphasizing the relationship between diet and chronic diseases. He also shares insights from Blue Zones, where vibrant health thrives, and explores the role of protein and strength training in promoting longevity.

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ADVICE

Food Choices

Avoid low-fat processed foods, as they often contain high amounts of sugar.
Focus on whole, unprocessed foods to avoid misleading marketing and improve health.

ANECDOTE

Gut Health Case Study

Dr. Hyman treated a patient with multiple conditions, including psoriatic arthritis and IBS, by focusing on gut health.
After six weeks on an elimination diet and gut-supporting supplements, the patient's symptoms disappeared, highlighting the body's ability to heal when given the right support.

INSIGHT

Biological vs. Chronological Age

Chronological age is fixed, but biological age can be measured and influenced through lifestyle choices.
Interventions like diet, exercise, stress management, and sleep can reverse biological age by up to three years in eight weeks.

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My guest today is someone who has been leading a global health revolution around using food as medicine to support longevity, energy, mental clarity and happiness. Dr Mark Hyman has been a practicing medical doctor for several decades, he is the Head of Strategy and Innovation at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine and the author of an incredible 18 books. His latest one, Young Forever: The Secrets To Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life, challenges us to reimagine our biology and the entire process of ageing.

In our conversation, Mark walks us through the 10 hallmarks of ageing, and explains what we can all practically do to influence them. He talks about the difference between our chronological age and our biological age and wants to reframe the idea that growing older means becoming frail, weak and less independent. In fact, Mark believes that as a society we have normalised what he calls ‘abnormal ageing’.

We talk in detail about food and how our daily choices influence the speed at which we will age. Mark explains how all the chronic diseases of modern life – heart disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes and dementia – are in some way related to disturbances in how we regulate blood sugar. And he details the ‘wildfire of downstream effects’ this can lead to - things like inflammation, increased belly fat and an increase in stress hormones.

Mark also shares powerful research showing that we can reverse our biological age by up to three years in just eight weeks. We also cover the controversial topic of protein, the crucial need for resistance training as we get older, and what exactly Mark learned from visiting the Blue Zones – places around the world where the population naturally thrives into old age. Their default culture, he says, is a diet rich in whole foods and phyto-chemicals, a naturally active lifestyle, being socially connected and a strong sense of meaning.

People who live well into old age, it seems, live close to the earth and each other. How’s that for a health goal worth aspiring to?

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