My Personal Longevity Routine

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Dr. Hyman, D-R-H-Y-M-A-N, and you'll see the discount code in your car. Welcome to the Doctor's Pharmacy. I'm Dr. Mark Hyman. That's Pharmacy Within F, a place for conversations that matter. And if you're interested in how I keep young and healthy, well, that's what today's podcast is about. I'm going to share my own personal health practices that I've learned that keep me biologically younger as I get chronologically older and that are really the key foundation of the teachings and the program that I laid out in my new book, Young Forever, which is out. I encourage you to get a copy right now. So this is a special episode called a health bite. It gives you little health bites to improve your health by taking small steps every day that can create big changes over time. And today I want to review a little bit about the mini series of podcasts we did on the health bites last few weeks, because it's going to do a recap, and then I'm going to share exactly what I do. every day or I try to do every day. I obviously don't do all of it every day, but I want to give you a sense of the kinds of ways of building these practices that we've talked about into your life, of translating the science into the practice of how to stay healthy and reverse your biological age. This is the final episode, so I'm just going to kind of recap for a minute. We've talked about how we need to reframe our approach to aging, the way we currently view the last bit of our lives, the last half or quarter of our lives is based on this kind of wrong framework of inevitable gradual decline that's filled with pain and fragility and medications so many we can't keep track of, a loss of independence, and all of that is not normal aging. All of that is abnormal aging. So we have to get into this paradigm shift, which is giving us a very different approach to aging, not as a normal consequence of getting older, but as a disease. And, this is now recognized as a disease by the WHO. I think the American Medical Association and the coding is not quite there yet, but there's a conversation in the longevity science world about how what we see as normal aging, all these chronic diseases of aging are actually abnormal aging. They're not things that are inevitable and they're related to the underlying causes of the abnormal aging, which are called Hallmarks. When we cover these Hallmarks of Aging, the things in our biology that go wrong that make us age faster, we talked about how to address the Hallmarks of Aging, the foods we need to eat and what we need to avoid, the lifestyle practices that we should prioritize and the things we should get rid of, and the importance of exercise and what kind of exercise to feel young and also really remain independent, strong, functional. We talked about the new frontier in longevity medicine, all the advances in longevity Innovations like stem cells and exosomes and peptides and there's lots more. Sure. I promised there's more I cover in the book. Things that are, are really going to change everything we ever known, experienced about getting older in our last part of our life. So today I'm going to kind of put it all together and share my top secrets, what I want to do and what I'm trying to do to ensure I'll be 120 in good health. So my my health span is equal my lifespan. We know exactly how to hack our biology now. The science is there. We know how to do this in order to live our last years that are not decrepit and frail in a nursing home or not enjoying the things we love to do, but are full of energy and being vibrant and being independent and full of life. And my new book, Young Forever, is your ultimate guide to understanding and putting it all together. So I encourage you to get your copy today at your favorite bookstore. All right, so let's dig in. my personal longevity program. How have I stayed healthy at 63 years old? Well, many wonder how I've managed to stay strong and healthy and doing all the stuff I do at 63. While many of my peers are kind of getting a little chubby, kind of winding down, you know, I'm, you know, helicopter skiing, improve my tennis game every day, building more muscle, outperforming my 30 year old friends, riding my bike up the mountain, lifting heavier weights. You know, how do I do that? Well, knowing all the possibilities to slow or reverse aging, you know, can sometimes be a little overwhelming or depending on your personality, a little exciting. How do you figure out what's best for yourself? You have to choose what resonates with you. You have to incorporate what works in your life on a regular basis. You have to build new habits. You can't do everything all at once, but over time you can explore a lot of different things that are going to help support and enhance your health and well-being and help you have a long, active, vibrant life. So I remember I've been doing this for 40 years. I've been learning and incorporating different things, and I've sort come up with what works for me, but I'm going to share with you what the science and what, and these are science-backed interventions that I've focused on. So the first is, you know, what do I eat? Because I think nutrition is the cornerstone of longevity medicine. One of the Hallmarks, deregulated nutrient sensing, and is, is really above many of the other Hallmarks that drives them. Poor nutrition, not enough of the good stuff, too much of the bad stuff. So I follow what I call the Pegan diet, which is really a food is medicine approach, it's plant rich diet, it's high in phytochemicals, it's high in the right amount of protein for my body and age, which we need more as we get older to build muscle. I use my healthy aging shake pretty much within an hour of exercise to build muscle. And that's in the book, the recipe for it, it's got goat whey and all kinds of other goodies, cocktails of things that are really powerful for up regulating my mitochondria for building muscle. And so I encourage you to check that out. Exercise, what do I do for exercise? I mean, I wish I could do more. I like to do more, but I probably do, you know, four to six days of aerobic training, probably half an hour interval training. I do different things. I do road biking, mountain biking, tennis, hiking, swimming. And then I use a strength training program that's based on Tom Brady's program, TB12, which I like 'cause as I get older, you know, I think I can injure yourself with weights. And I use some weights, but not too much. But I use the bands and I can travel with them everywhere. and I, there's an app you can use. You can buy the bands. It's tb12, I think, is the app between 12 sports. And I, and I do that three or four times a week for 30 minutes. And it's incredible the changes I've seen in my body. I do hot yoga whenever I can get a hot yoga studio, Vinyasa yoga a couple of times a week and stretching every day a little bit. Just keep flexible sleep. I always try to get seven, eight hours sleep. I usually get to sleep by ten, up by my six or seven. And I make sure I, I take magnesium at night. I wear eye shades. I have earplugs. I make sure I, I really make a really quiet sleep environment. Also track my sleep with my Oura Ring, Apple Watch, it's really great tools now to track what's going on. And I can see, oh, I had a late meal because I was busy and my sleep was crap, or I decided to have a glass of wine and oh boy, my heart rate didn't lower. So it kind of clues me into what my body's doing and sort that out. How do I deal with stress? Because, you know, just like everybody else, I have a lot of things that are going on and get stressed by different things. and just life itself is stressful these days. But I try to meditate at least once or twice a day. I try to do breath work, you know, whether it's just deep breathing or more expanded breath work practices. I try to get as much time in nature and wellness as I can because that. That really is my medicine. Nature is my medicine. And then Communities medicine. So I make sure I commit to making time with friends, people I love, my family. really, really important. Try to get a massage once a month or more if I can. I actually got this Theragun thing, which is great. And it's, you know, probably a cost of a couple of massages, but then you have it and it's like you can do it on yourself or if you have a partner, it's, it's quite amazing. I also practice hormesis, which I think is a key part of longevity. So I try to not eat, give myself like at least 14 hours between dinner and breakfast, which gives my body a chance to do autophagy, clean up at night at least three or four times a week. but usually at least 12. I never eat within 12 hour between dinner and breakfast. I make sure I include phytohormesis plants like Himalayan and buckwheat and various kinds of green tea extracts and products. So, I just include phytohormesis chemicals from food, which I talk about in the book. And, I also use hot and cold. So, after this podcast, I'm gonna go work out. I'm gonna do some interval training on my bike inside because it's winter. I'm going to do a half hour strength training. I'm going to put on my steam. I'm going to do a steam, then I'm going to do an ice bath. It's very cold in the winter because my water is cold up here in the Berkshires. But, and that's, that's, I'm really looking forward to that. And that's, that's going to be my sort of pre-lunch workout. And, and I, I just, I felt, I felt like I get so energized by that. I do it whenever I can. And probably when I'm home almost every day, I have red light therapy. I have a machine at home, which could be red light therapy that helps me. rejuvenate my mitochondria. I talk about that in the book. I use ozone therapy when I can. I have an office, so I'm lucky I can do it, but I do it tune up with ozone therapy. I use blue blocker glasses at night, which get rid of the blue light at night. I've used hyperbaric oxygen in the past. I wish I had one at home, but if they're expensive, maybe they'll come down in price. But I definitely love that. Also, something called Cell Gym, which is a hypoxia machine, but you can also use a mask like I have a hypoxia mask for 50 bucks. you can get online. So there's all these incredible techniques to stress your system. Hormesis is little stresses that don't kill you but make you stronger, whether it's, you know, short periods of fasting, whether it's exercise, whether it's hot and cold therapies, whether it's ozone or red light therapy or hyperbaric oxygen, all really help. All right, now, what do I take in terms of supplements? Well, I always have the basics, right? Vitamin D, fish oil, a multivitamin. I take a B complex for homocysteine because of my genetics. I have a high homocysteine, which means I can't methylate, which is important. I take a little magnesium at night and I use basically a multivitamin for the gut, which is called Gut Food, a product that I created with my team. Just go to gutfood.com, you can learn more about it. It's basically prebiotics, probiotics, and polyphenols. And then, you know, I'm a kind of a geek, so I kind of pack in my longevity stack. I take NMN, about 900 milligrams a day, which is a great dose of NMN. with a bunch of other things in it. I take HTB Rejuvenate, which is basically from Big Bold Health. It has quercetin, myoflavinoids. So, quercetin is really great for longevity. I use combinations of supplements, analytics, I call senolytics with curcumin and green tea and physetin and sterostilbine, which is like a respiratory product. I take something which got broccoli extract in it called OncoPlex. And, I also use Mitopure or Renewal from Pure Encapsulations, which is basically a compound that comes from pomegranate that helps build muscle and creates mitophagy, sending a little creatine or amino acids to help build muscle and my shake. So that's kind of my stack. It's a lot. I don't expect everybody to do that, but I'm very committed to this. So you can kind of look at my book and I kind of guide you on what makes the most sense, what you can start with. It's pretty simple. So. And then I kind of explored a lot of advanced therapies. I'm sort of really curious about the space, and I've invested a lot in my own health. And I quite like this guy who spent $2 million on reversing his biological age every year. I can't have that. budget for that, but it's pretty cool. And I've used myself as a guinea pig from stem cells to exosomes, and I've had many issues. I've had autoimmune disease, I've had chronic injuries, I've had mold toxicity, mercury poisoning, Lyme disease, back stuff. So I've learned how to use these both for general wellness, but also to really heal these chronic issues. And remember, these are things that I, you know, chosen to do, knowing the potential risks and the more researchers needed and you know, each of us has different appetites for risk and exploration and budget, but I've used peptides, exosomes, stem cells, plasma feresis, all kinds of cool stuff to clean your blood. And they're great. And I, I've noticed huge differences. And, and also, you know, I'm lucky because one of the other key things that have to do with longevity is meaning and purpose. And that has been a real gift that I've been able to, through my own suffering, been drawn to learn and teach about functional medicine, and that it's given my life a lot of meaning, a lot of purpose, and, to serve others as a doctor and author, hosted this podcast to try to bring information for people. I also have a nonprofit where I try to change the food system, which I know might be silly, but somebody's gotta do it. So I have a nonprofit called the Food Fix Campaign that actively works to create a healthier, more equitable food system and uses food as medicine approach to change policy and focus on regenerative agriculture to change how we grow food as well. So it's really important. And then I've also worked really hard on my mindset and mental health and work with life coaches and friends and explore different spiritual traditions. Every week I have a men's group. I gather with six of my closest friends. We've been friends for almost 40 plus years and we just meet every week and hang out and check in and really, you know, it's really beautiful to be seen and be known in that way. So I encourage people to like make an investment in time with the people you love and care about. So I've been cultivating a community for a long time and I have a beautiful community of friends and colleagues. And so I'm blessed in that way. but it's taken work and investment and time. So I encourage you to make that effort because, you know, that is a huge factor in longevity. It's meaning and purpose and community. Okay, so that's it. That's my life. Everything I do to feel younger now so I can have a great life and enjoy things and be able to give and do the work I want to do and enjoy my friends and family and contribute to what I want to contribute to making the world a better place. So that's kind what I've covered in these health bites on this health bite series on longevity. And I've also covered it in greater depth in my book Young Forever, which is out now. And again, the nitty-gritty science behind longevity, all the new and exciting research, everything you need to know about testing, self-assessment quizzes that tells you where you're out of balance, what exactly to do to give yourself a longevity tune-up and of course, my step-by-step Young Forever Longevity program. Young Forever is I think my most comprehensive book. It's super easy to get through. It's digestible, but it's a really beautiful resource for people who want to learn how to upgrade their health, how to optimize their health, and how to actually improve your health span and your lifespan. It's really the culmination of my life's work. I couldn't be more proud of the book. Make sure you get your copy today. It's available in all the major bookstores in person online and your support means a lot to me. so I hope you've enjoyed this Health Bite series on Young Forever. That's it for today. Be sure to share this with your friends and family and we'll see you next time on the Doctor's Pharmacy. If you like this conversation, I know.

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