Can You Really Live to 150 Years Old? | Dr. Mark Hyman

06/07/23 • 73 min

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Everyone from the Buddha to the Stoics have exhorted us to remember that we’re going to die. So what are we to make of Dr. Mark Hyman? He’s a physician and a student of Buddhism who is just out with a new book, called, “Young Forever.” In it, he argues that your biological age can be reversed even as you grow chronologically older. So we decided to have him on, learn about his approach, and gently grill him on some of the things that made us most skeptical.

This is the second part of our new six-part series, Get Fit Sanely series, where we are trying to help you to make sense of the noise around getting fit–and to do so without losing your mind.

A little bit more about Dr. Hyman: He is a practicing family physician, the Founder and Senior Advisor for the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, and a fifteen-time New York Times best-selling author. He also has his own podcast, called The Doctor’s Farmacy.

In this episode we talk about:

Whether there’s a tension between Mark’s approach and Buddhism
Whether it’s realistic for people alive today to think that we could make it to 150 or 200 years old
Mark’s contention that he is in better shape at 63 than he was at 40
His take on intuitive eating
His top line recommendations on exercise
The benefits of cuddling
His response to critiques of functional medicine
Whether his longevity routine is something regular people can do
The research on cold plunges and saunas
His advice on alcohol

Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/dr-mark-hyman-609

New episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers.

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This is the second part of our new six-part series, Get Fit Sanely series, where we are trying to help you to make sense of the noise around getting fit–and to do so without losing your mind.

In this episode we talk about:

Whether there’s a tension between Mark’s approach and Buddhism
Whether it’s realistic for people alive today to think that we could make it to 150 or 200 years old
Mark’s contention that he is in better shape at 63 than he was at 40
His take on intuitive eating
His top line recommendations on exercise
The benefits of cuddling
His response to critiques of functional medicine
Whether his longevity routine is something regular people can do
The research on cold plunges and saunas
His advice on alcohol

Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/dr-mark-hyman-609

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The Science of Longevity | Dr. Peter Attia

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Most of us want to stay alive — and healthy — for as long as possible. But how to actually do that, given all the obstacles? What advice should we listen to? How do we find the time and motivation to follow it? And how do we do so without succumbing to what has been called the “subtle aggression of self improvement”?

Today, we are launching an ambitious three-week series to tackle these questions. We are bringing on top experts from science and Buddhism who will talk about how to eat better, exercise smarter, and extend your lifespan. Guest number one is Dr. Peter Attia. He has trained at Stanford University, Johns Hopkins, and the National Institutes of Health. He’s the host of a popular health and fitness podcast called The Drive and the author of a new book called Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity.

In this episode we talk about:

Why Peter kind of hates the word ‘longevity’
The definitions of ‘lifespan’ and ‘healthspan’–and what we can do in five key areas to increase both
The importance of exercise, including what types of exercise to do, how to measure your fitness, and how even a little bit of weekly exercise can go a very long way
The roles our genes play in our lifespan and our healthspan
The importance of nutrition, including Peter’s top tips, his personal evolution, and his take on intuitive eating
How to get better sleep (and when to stop tracking it)
How to think about pharmaceutical tools, incl. a discussion of how to make sense of the crowded and unregulated supplement market
The importance of emotional health, including a raw story from Peter about how he came to understand the importance of mental health, and why he believes tending to your emotional health makes all of the other health levers easier to pull.

Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/tph/podcast-episode/dr-peter-attia-608

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Mindful movement is an excellent way to integrate and even invigorate mindfulness while cultivating the power of curious awareness.

About Dawn Mauricio:

Dawn Mauricio discovered the practices of Buddhist meditation in 2005, and from then on, did what any well-intentioned perfectionist would do — plunge in head first! Since then, she's graduated from several teaching programs, including Spirit Rock's four-year Teacher Training. Her teaching style is playful, dynamic, and heartfelt, and she teaches extensively in her home-country of Canada, as well as the US, to teens, people of color, and folks of all backgrounds.

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