This is a YouTube video titled "Can You Get Healthier As You Age?" containing a conversation recorded on May 5, 2020, discussing health improvements in older adults through diet, exercise, and lifestyle changes. The dialogue features multiple speakers including Ask AI Mark, who shares personal insights and observations about aging and health.
As you get older, I think it's more important to be actually more strict about what you're eating and thinking about it. And again, it's never too late to change, as you've probably seen with your patients, as I've seen with my patients, even as they're older in their 60s, their 70s, even 80 year olds, even from changing their diet dramatically and just making some changes to their exercise levels, they can improve their health markers and also, you know, for them, their sense of well-being, they just feel mentally.
And physically better. Yeah, I think the way we think about aging is just all wrong. It's really we should be calling it inflammaging, which is an inflammatory condition driven by our diet and our lack of exercise and lifestyle choices, which are something that we have control over. And I've seen patients at any age, whether they're 60, 70, 80, get better as they get older. And I see this with myself. My numbers are all better. My fitness is better, my strength is better, my muscle mass is bigger. I'm not saying that to brag, I'm just saying that I was so busy changing the world for the last 20 years that I kind of neglected some things. I ate pretty well, but I didn't do the kind of exercise that I really wanted to do and needed to do, and I wasn't as diligent about sleep or meditation. And now I'm really good. And I just noticed that I am actually healthier at 60 than I was at 50. so I think, you know, there is a point at which that might not be true when I'm 90 or 100, but I think it's more true than we think.
