Longevity Secrets That Actually Work

Longevity expert rejects fads, embraces sleep and exercise According to Business Insider, Dr. Stephen Ousted, one of the nation's leading aging researchers, says too many people are chasing expensive, unproven longevity trends. Ousted is the scientific director of the American Federation for Aging Research. He told Business Insider, I'm not one of these people who spends an hour a day in a hyperbaric chamber or gets infusions of some weird protein vitamin cocktail. He doesn't take supplements either, citing weak evidence that they extend life. Let me read that part. Some of you think, wow, that's crazy. What are you talking about? You know, let's, let's look at this again. Did I even read that properly? Yes. He doesn't take supplements, citing weak evidence that they extend life. Instead of focuses on two habits, intense daily exercise and time restricted eating. He describes himself as a gym rat, biking for up to 90 minutes and strength training almost every day. That physical exhaustion, he says, is also key to getting good sleep. Alstead eats twice a day, sticking to a Mediterranean, Mediterranean style diet, heavy on fish, fruit and vegetables. He says longevity shouldn't mean joyless restriction. If you spend all your time thinking about how long you're going to live, you kind of forget to live. What's the real message here? The longevity experts who get the most media attention, most eyeballs, the most Netflix specials, are the ones who say, I take 159 supplements a day and inject them all right here. But real longevity experts say no. They say you don't even need to take supplements. How about exercising every day? How about getting a good night's sleep and not gorging yourself with food all day long? How about that? If you want to live long. Let's go a little bit deeper here. I wanted to bring attention to this guy, Dr. Stephen Ousted, because he's exactly the sort of guy who isn't going to become famous. He's not going to get a Netflix special, his books are probably not going to be a bestseller. He's not going to become a billionaire selling his magic green potion drink powders because he doesn't believe in them. There's no revenue model to make a guy like this sound famous. Because unfortunately, we as human beings are constantly seeking out the magic pill, the magic potion, the magic light, red light. We're always seeking these shortcuts and there's always going to be someone who is going to play up to that and manipulate us because they can make money off of us. So I want you to take a little time and check this out in Business Insider it's again, it's Dr. Stephen Austad, a U S T A D. He's considered by many to be one of the leading aging researchers out there, an expert on longevity. And he's saying, I don't take supplements. You know who else doesn't take supplements? I don't take supplements. I'd like to take them. I'd like to believe it's going to extend my life and help me. But every time I actually look at the research and, and sort it through, I can't find any hard data showing vitamins. Supplements actually increase your life and people feel very passionate about it becomes religion for some people. In fact, some religions and religious leaders like the former or the Pat Robertson is no longer with us, actually start selling vitamins because they're great pyramid schemes too. They can be great ways of making money. They aren't necessarily going to make you live longer. And my other big problem with all these supplements, all these pills, all these magic greens, is what is the stress and damage to your liver and kidney? This guy Brian Johnson, who is the most famous longevity guy out there, takes some 153 pills a day. He's had some very negative reactions to some of the treatments he's tried. But he gets all the attention. The guy who says, exercise, eat healthy, don't be eating late at night and all morning long, that guy doesn't get any attention because there's no money in it. There's no revenue model. It's much better to be able to say, you know, buy my hyperbaric chamber, buy my snake oil, there's money, you have to have my olive oil, anyone else's olive oil, you'll die. Buy my olive oil and you'll live forever. That makes money. And that's not what this health expert, this longevity expert is saying. So my rule of thumb is if you want to, if you want real advice on how to live longer, look for people who are not famous but who actually work in the field and know what they're talking about. No, you don't have to take advice from me on your health, but I do think I can at least steer you in the direction of things like someone's trying to sell you a supplement. Ask ChatGPT. What's in this thing? Are there any long term negative consequences? Are there side effects? Because with almost any pill you put in your mouth, there are side effects. Am I telling you never take medicine? No. If your doctor's telling you to take a particular medicine, am I telling you, listen to TJ and ignore your doctor. No, I'm not saying that. That would be arrogant of me and foolish of you to take my advice. What I am suggesting is stop taking advice from friends and so called influencers on this magic green potion, this ginseng, blah blah blah. That's going to solve all your problems. Maybe your problem will be solved by going to sleep earlier tonight, getting a good night sleep, turning off your darn phone at 8 o' clock at night instead of scrolling TikTok. No offense to my TikTok friends at 2am Eating real food. Those are the things that make us live longer. Hey, I want to thank all of you for spending time with me today. That concludes sort of the main section of the show. We typically look at the five top news stories of the day. Now if you've watched before, you may notice something a little different about today's show. I'll talk about that in just a moment. And I see Rayan has stopped by. Rayan, thank you so much. Thanks for being one of the many people watching. I do appreciate that Muhammad has stopped by to say hello. Claus is with us as well. So thanks. Claus says so true. It's not easy to break that bad routine. But yes, we have to take care of our health. Muhammad also says, I agree with the experts with exercise, healthy food and sleep, I saw a fundamental improvement in physical and psychological health. Ryan is asking a question or posing a statement about how many people are watching. And Ryan, I would say to you, you're, you're watching on YouTube so you're getting a number of people you see watching us live on YouTube. I also have people watching us on Facebook, on Instagram, on Twitch, on X, on TikTok, a lot of different platforms. Most of the people who watch this show are watching the on demand version because this show is distributed once we finish the live version. It's distributed on demand on every single major social media platform. It's also distributed in the audio format, in the podcast format. So am I as famous as Joe Rogan? No. Do I have as big of a listenership for my podcast as as Call Me Daddy? No. But I have to tell you, this show is now less than one month old. We'll be doing I guess our one month anniversary next week and I'm very happy to report that way. If you add up all the views and impressions across all social media and all impressions from newsletters going out and audio downloads, it's adding up to a half a million views, impressions listens a month. So I'm pretty happy about that. So Ran, I do want to appreciate or thank you for stopping by and, and Janice and Muhammad and others as well, joining us for the live version. Okay. I hinted at it a moment ago. I wanted to see if any of you noticed something different about this show today. Well, there's a person I did not mention today, and it was very much by design, did not mention, the orange one, the great orange one in Washington, D.C. who I would just, just as soon not mention him at all as I started the very first edition of this show. And as I say regular, this show is about analyzing top business stories, technology stories, economic stories and cultural stories of the day, analyzed through the prism of communication skills and personal development skills, all with the goal of making you more successful, happier in your professional life as well as your personal life. But I have to tell you, it's been very, very hard to not talk about Dear Leader, the orange one in Washington, D.C. and I don't even want to mention his name for that. I want to be able to say I did not mention this rising authoritarian by name even once in the show today because I frankly don't like talking about it. But one of the problems of authoritarian regimes is they want to have their finger in everything. They want to tell people what to watch, what not to watch, who to laugh at, who not to laugh at. They want to tell you what business can exist, what business can't exist. They want to tell you what bathrooms you can go to and who you're supposed to like and not like and what religions you're supposed to like and which ones you're supposed to hate. So that's one of the reasons why people around the world generally hate and despise living under authoritarian rule. So it's one of the reasons why this show has frankly had to spend a lot more time than I would have liked to have spent talking about the Orange Deer Leader on a daily basis for the last month. But I kind of wanted to see, just for myself, can I get through a show without talking about it? And in all, top of the five issues we've discussed today, his name was not brought up. And I hope to be able to continue that.