Joy Kong, MDRegenerative Medicine Physician, Educator, and Entrepreneur

My Non-Negotiables for Health and Longevity

13 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment Dr. Joy Kong outlines the core habits she considers non‑negotiable for maintaining health and longevity. She emphasizes an anti‑inflammatory diet that excludes highly processed and fried foods, and she stresses limiting sugar to avoid glycation‑driven aging. She advises avoiding environmental toxins and recommends gentle detoxification, highlighting infrared sauna use to sweat out toxins. Daily physical movement is presented as essential for activating youth‑supporting genes, and she underscores the importance of adequate sleep. The overall message is a proactive, responsible approach to nutrition, detox, activity, and rest to preserve health.

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What do you think are the non-negotiables that everyone should be doing for their health? Instead of actively poisoning yourself and then being upset that when your health goes down, put something that's responsible into your body. Eating an anti-inflammatory diet, avoid a lot of highly processed food, avoid fried food, limit just sugar intake so you're not, you know, slowly roasting your body through this sugar glycation process. That, that's a huge aging process. Besides not putting toxin in your body, you can do gentle detox. And my favorite way is just infrared sauna to sweat it out. You can sweat out a lot of toxins. Another one is moving your body. You should move your body every day. That activates all kinds of genes that actually help you stay youthful. But don't put toxin in your body. Do some kind of a little bit of detox and sleep and move your body.