Ben Greenfield (speaker) argues that the single most powerful anti-aging protocol is stopping self-inflicted destructive behaviors. He enumerates common harms — overeating, junk food, poor sleep, skipped exercise, infinite scrolling/binge-watching, smoking, and drinking — and emphasizes human unreliability in resisting impulses, recommending behavior elimination over adding supplements.
The most powerful anti aging protocol is to stop self aided destructive behaviors. So eating too much, eating junk food, not prioritizing sleep, skipping exercise, infinite scroll, binge watching content, smoking, drinking. I think we all intuitively feel that we're kind of helpless against our own selves. That if we get ourselves in a situation where our mind gets to decide whether we do this naughty thing or not, we're going to lose most of the time. And that we're just, we're unreliable creatures by default. If we subconsciously process that and we say, well, if we're not reliable, we ignore it and we try to bury it. But I'd say that even more positive than trying to take a supplement or two or this or that thing is to try to stop the self destructive behavior.
The Solution to Aging Might Be Closer Than Anyone Realizes - With Ben Goertzel
