Why Aging Is Just An Expectation | Marisa Peer

This is what aging is. It's an expectation that you live up to. You know, you can go to old people's home and see people sitting with their remote control, clicking through the TV shows, getting older. Because when hope dies, old age runs to meet you. But people who don't do that, who still work, you know, professors of 90 have the same brain neurons as professors of 30 because they use their brain all the time. They. So you want to age? Well, have a different expectation of what aging is. Scientists know that you can boost your immune system just by thinking differently, which is exactly what those people did with a BBC test. They thought they were younger. Meditation can make you, I promise, 15 years younger. Don't believe me? Go and ask Emily. She'll tell you because you can't stop. Yeah, she's really 62, but that's a secret. And I'm really 82, but we don't ever discuss our age. You see, you make different chemicals when you're happy, when you're depressed, your whole immune system is depressed with you.