Ben Greenfield takes a TeloYears telomere test to measure his cellular age against his chronological age. He explains how telomere length tracks biological aging and reveals which habits accelerate it, like excessive exercise and too many antioxidants, versus what slows it down: sunlight, clean water, and moderate movement.
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Hey, what's up, you guys? It's Ben Greenfield, and I am here surrounded by a group of people who I believe, according to my calculations, are.
Just slightly younger than I am, possibly. How old are you guys? Nine, eight. Nine. Nine. Nine. He's an eight. I won't say how much younger you guys are, but. Than I am. But needless to say, they're younger. Now, right in the middle of your screen here, you're looking at one of the most advanced methods currently known to man to actually measure how old your cells are. Anybody know what a cell is? Blood cell. Yeah, like a blood cell. In this case, a white blood cell. Did you know that how old you are is encoded in your DNA and you have these little protective caps on the end of your DNA, and the DNA tells your body everything to do, and the shorter, the shorter they are, the older. What's called your biological age is. So you could be like 40 years old, but if you took really good care of your body, then it could be as though you're 20 years old. That's the way your body would feel, or you could be 40 years old, and you could feel like your body is 60 years old. Now, what this test does and what you're looking at, here are my results. So. So you can see here, I'm 35 years old, but my age, my cellular age is 36, which means I'm actually one year older than the year I was actually born. Now, why do you think that would be? Why is it that someone would age just slightly more than they're supposed to be? Even though I take pretty good care of my body, there's one thing that I do that that makes me age faster. What is it? Grow? No, it's something I do that I have a lot of fun doing, but that I shouldn't do if I want to live as long as I can. Exercise. Exercise a lot, like Ironman triathlon and Spartan races and stuff like that. So it shows that that's made me slightly older. However, there are things that you can do to actually save yourself, to reverse that damage. And I'm going to tell you guys and the people watching what a few of those things are, because we're about to go do some of those exact things. There is this theory, it's called the antioxidant theory of aging. And that's why a lot of people do things like drink coffee like this.
And take antioxidants like vitamin C and vitamin E, because they think it's going to make them younger. But that's not true. Science has actually shown that taking a bunch of antioxidants can actually keep your body from making its own and make you age even faster. So. But there are these little things inside your cells called mitochondria. Mitochondria help to keep you young. And there are a few things you can do to help your mitochondria. Who could name one.
Vitamin D. Vitamin D is good. Vitamin D is good. And where do we get vitamin D? Sunlight. Sunlight exposure will reverse aging by activating your mitochondria and your mitochondrial density. So sunlight is one sunlight every day. What's another one? Water. Water. Good, clean, fresh water. Not just breathing in all the electricity that comes off water, like the ocean right outside our window right now, but also drinking.
Very, very good water. That's number two. I'll give you two more. What are two more. Breathing. Breathing especially really fresh air. Air. Good oxygen. So good oxygen, good sunlight, good water. And what would be one other thing? We already know that a little bit of exercise is good, but too much is bad. We know that a little bit of antioxidants, like a cup of coffee, is actually good, but a lot of antioxidants are bad. What would be one other thing that could help to keep us young?
You're right. And there's especially one thing in plants. It's the thing that makes plants green, that actually helps you to produce energy without eating them, that keeps you young. Somebody said it. Chlorophyll. Chlorophyll. That's right. Chlorophyll is based on scientific research, one of the best ways to keep you young. And how do you get chlorophyll eggplants? From eating plants. Especially, like wild plants, not plants that have been sprayed with a bunch of chemicals, like from the grocery store. Like plants that you find from an organic garden or a farmer's market or something like that. Right. So we know that taking too many vitamins and exercising too much, which is what a lot of people do, including myself, for like, 20 years, that actually ages you more quickly. But if you get things like fresh air, good sunlight, clean water, good wild plant intake, and chlorophyll, those are just a few of the little ways and moderate amounts of exercise and movement. Because we're about to go on a long walk in the sunshine next to the water with fresh air, we're gonna do the perfect thing to help keep us young. But I don't think you guys need to get any younger. I, on the other hand, could use a little bit. So check it out. Here's how you can here's how you can get a telo years test for yourself. You can go to BenGreenfieldFitness.com teloyears that's BenGreenfieldFitness.com Teloyears T, E L O years. And the code BEN10 will save you 10% off of any telo years test. So check it out. One of the most advanced ways to measure how old you are. And now we're all going to go get young. Thanks for watching.
