"It's this biology of aging that makes us get Alzheimer's or cancer or heart [disease] or diabetes," says Dr. Nir Barzilai, director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

"Aging is the mother of those diseases ... You deal with the mother, and you don't have those kids."

After speaking with a dozen experts or advocates, reading four books, parsing over 30 research papers, and absorbing popular press coverage " I know two things about the possibility of slowing or reversing aging.

First, anyone can do a few cheap, simple things (like exercise) to improve their longevity prospects. Second, several new tactics, technologies, and tools might someday work."

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The article is extensive, dealing with medical and commercial aspects, and citing many experts.

Here's one now, one of my favorites, David Sinclair, Dir of Harvard's Genetics Lab.

Unlike some, he's not pushing TM pills or running Pharma start-ups, but the guy you'll see is 54 years old, has the biological age of someone 20 years younger, and looks it.

Andrew Huberman "Aging is a Treatable disease"

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Dr Andrew Huberman & Dr David Sinclair

In this Recap talks about the ways you can Reverse aging & increase longevity, a lot of tools & data to use that would help you in your daily life.

Dr. Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist and tenured professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. He discusses neuroscience and science-based tools, including how our brain and its connections with the organs of our body control our perceptions, our behaviors, and our health, as well as existing and emerging tools for measuring and changing how our nervous system works.

I'M so glad this thread did SO well!

Happy you enjoyed it!

For all those who did let me relate my own experience, because I know you care. ;*)

Fasting is hard werk. Not many people can really do it, or do it consistently, even David Sinclair admitted he couldn't. However, Intermittent Fasting can accomplish the same thing; resetting your body to a much finer tuning, add years to your biological life, and it's a whole lot easier to do.

It's basically as easy as skipping breakfast, as some people already do, or skipping dinner as others do. The idea is to get 12 or 14 or 16 hours without eating, and 8 hours to eat.

Most people start slow, and here's how they do it. They sleep for 8 hours, skip breakfast; have coffee or green tea (or matcha) instead. And lots of water. When they get hungry, they know that the pang will go away in 15 or 20 mins for most, but suffering is not necessary; have some 80 percent or so dark chocolate with your coffee instead.... that's what sold me!

So now at noon you have 8 hours sleep and say 4 hours fasting, so that's a good start. Do it a couple of times a week, then go for 14 and then 16 hours, which gets easier as you go along. Then go for several days a week, then maybe every day.

At that point your body is in peak operation mode. You should walk a lot, don't sit as much, and drink lots of water. Avoid the biggest killer in your diet, SUGAR, cut back on salt and no processed meats. Use monkfruit as a sugar substitute with all that coffee.

I lost over 50 lbs in about 6 mos, went off of it mostly for nearly a year as I traveled, and never regained the weight. I'm back on it now.

The article and the videos are by people who really know the science, but I thought to give you a practical comment on actually doing it.

They also talk about common supplements and not so common ones. Omega 3, Magnesium, Vit D + K2.
Also, some not so common supplements that Sinclair and Huberman discuss in the video.

Cheers!

I decided I would wholeheartedly accept the notion that both coffee and dark chocolate are healthy, lol.

New Study

"Ten thousand steps per day have long been known as the magic number needed to lower risk of disease and early death. What researchers didn't know was whether the amount could have the same effect even for people who are sedentary most of the day.

That's until now, due to research that has found among this group, getting 9,000 to 10,000 steps per day lowered the risk of developing cardiovascular disease by 21% and the odds of dying early by 39%, according to the study published Tuesday in the British Journal of Sports Medicine."

"They found that for people with low and high amounts of sedentary time, getting any number of steps higher than 2,200 per day was linked with lower odds of developing cardiovascular disease or dying early, with 9,000 to 10,000 steps carrying the most benefit."