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Age is not the definitive factor it’s made out to be when it comes to our health.
We can use our age as a baseline for tracking our health and longevity, but it isn’t stagnant. For example, certain types of testing can help us compare our biological age to our calendar age in order to tinker with our wellness routine and achieve the milestones we’re after. With the right steps, we can slow down and even sometimes reverse the aging process.
When it comes to our biological age, or the measure of how well our body is actually functioning for whatever life stage we are in, there are many things that impact it. Diet, lifestyle patterns like exercise and sleep, and stress are all involved in forming our biological age, along with many other factors like blood sugar, inflammation, and genetics.
This week on The Doctor’s Farmacy, I’m joined by Dr. David Sinclair to explore the topic of longevity and anti-aging and how he reduced his own internal age by more than 20 years.
Dr. Sinclair is a professor in the Department of Genetics and co-director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging at Harvard Medical School, where he and his colleagues study longevity, aging, and how to slow its effects. More specifically, their focus is on studying sirtuins—protein-modifying enzymes that respond to changing NAD+ levels and to caloric restriction—as well as metabolism, neurodegeneration, cancer, cellular reprogramming, and more. Among other awards, he was included in Time Magazine’s list of the “100 Most Influential People in the World” and Time's “Top 50 in Healthcare.”
David challenges the idea that aging only goes in one direction. Throughout our discussion, he shares how we can challenge that mindset as well as the latest research available to turn aging on its head.
One of the best predictors of longevity is blood sugar; David explains the problems with treating blood sugar once it's too late and why being proactive in even just this one area of our health can have dramatic impacts on the way we age. We also get into Dr. Sinclair’s specialty of sirtuins, which work as regulators of aging, and what kinds of nutrients and habits (think resveratrol and intermittent fasting) can nudge them to work in our favor.
We dive into all this and more on this week’s episode. I hope you’ll tune in.
Wishing you health and happiness,
Mark Hyman, MD
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-doctors-farmacy-with-mark-hyman-m-d/id1382804627?mt=2&mc_cid=efed60fa07&mc_eid=4238cd6d36We can use our age as a baseline for tracking our health and longevity, but it isn’t stagnant. For example, certain types of testing can help us compare our biological age to our calendar age in order to tinker with our wellness routine and achieve the milestones we’re after. With the right steps, we can slow down and even sometimes reverse the aging process.
When it comes to our biological age, or the measure of how well our body is actually functioning for whatever life stage we are in, there are many things that impact it. Diet, lifestyle patterns like exercise and sleep, and stress are all involved in forming our biological age, along with many other factors like blood sugar, inflammation, and genetics.
This week on The Doctor’s Farmacy, I’m joined by Dr. David Sinclair to explore the topic of longevity and anti-aging and how he reduced his own internal age by more than 20 years.
Dr. Sinclair is a professor in the Department of Genetics and co-director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging at Harvard Medical School, where he and his colleagues study longevity, aging, and how to slow its effects. More specifically, their focus is on studying sirtuins—protein-modifying enzymes that respond to changing NAD+ levels and to caloric restriction—as well as metabolism, neurodegeneration, cancer, cellular reprogramming, and more. Among other awards, he was included in Time Magazine’s list of the “100 Most Influential People in the World” and Time's “Top 50 in Healthcare.”
David challenges the idea that aging only goes in one direction. Throughout our discussion, he shares how we can challenge that mindset as well as the latest research available to turn aging on its head.
One of the best predictors of longevity is blood sugar; David explains the problems with treating blood sugar once it's too late and why being proactive in even just this one area of our health can have dramatic impacts on the way we age. We also get into Dr. Sinclair’s specialty of sirtuins, which work as regulators of aging, and what kinds of nutrients and habits (think resveratrol and intermittent fasting) can nudge them to work in our favor.
We dive into all this and more on this week’s episode. I hope you’ll tune in.
Wishing you health and happiness,
Mark Hyman, MD
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