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Episode Date: August 16, 2025

Lots of news to catch up on, Dr. Michael Aziz, author of THE AGELESS REVOLUTION - we discuss RFK Jr Being on the right track, improvements to your health you can do, plus his thoughts on alcohol consumption at a 90-year low

The Bill Meyer Show podcast is sponsored by Klausur drilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon well drilling for over 50 years. Find out more about them at Klausor drilling.com. Here's Bill Meyer. Delight to have you here on Find Your Phone Friday. 770-M-E-D. Email bill at Billmyershow.com. I call it Find Your Phone Friday because I always remember Rush Limbaugh used to do open phone Friday,

but during the War on Terror, he ended up having a parody in which he would have the you know, someone in like an Afghan, an Afghan cave, you know, if you can find a phone, find a phone, Alibaba Rush, remember those days, oh, what simple times, what simple times by comparison in some ways. A little less nonsense. Well, there was always nonsense. There's always nonsense from the government, but there seems to be even more of it right now. But anyway, if you want to join in, 770563-37-0.KM.D. We're going to be talking with board certified intern. and is to regenerative medicine specialist, Dr. Michael Aziz. And a new report coming out that booze consumption, alcohol consumption, is now at a 90-year low. And we have all the health people that are now saying, oh, even moderate drinking is really,

really bad. Even moderate drinking, cancer, et cetera, they're saying all sorts of things. And, of course, what they consider moderate drinking to me is, kind of boozing, you know, two, three drinks a day, two, three drinks a day. Now, I'm not a teetotaler, but I just don't drink a lot. I never have consumed a lot of alcohol. I'm pretty sensitive to it. Cheap drunk, in other words, yeah.

In other words, Bill buys the beers, and it's like, wait a minute, I'm having to buy you five. I have one, and I go to, you know, and I go to sleep. I'm a very happy man. I'm a very happy man. I laugh and giggle and fall asleep. It's the way I've always been. Just that way. And yet I look at my great-grandfather, my great-grandfather, John Yaxi, who made it to just a couple of days, two, three days before 100.

Now, granted, he was missing a few body parts from the diabetes and things like that, you know, up to that point. And, but other than that, the guy just kept going, and he always had a glass or two of his horrible, rot-gut Kianti that he made in the basement of the house. We always looked at that homemade wine of his as lighter fluid. I mean, it was like lighter fluid. Mom at one point was given a glass of that wine, and I recall her famously pouring it into the potted plant in the corner of the kitchen. You know, one of those things is like, I just couldn't do that.

Of course, she was also pregnant at that time, I think, with my brother, Mike. So even then she kind of had a feeling you shouldn't drink a lot of alcohol if you're pregnant. But yet, the people who in my family would drink and have a glass of wine kind of routinely. I don't know if that's kind of an Eastern European tradition, you know, from the family having come from a lot of Eastern Europe or not, but it seemed to do them well. And it was never done abusively. You know, it was like a glass of wine with with a meal, maybe one or two a day most. And it seemed to actually do them pretty well.

And you look down through history and it seems to have served humanity really well. And then for a while, the scientists were saying, well, yeah, you know, a little bit of moderate drinking is actually good. It relaxes. Put some polyphenols into your bloodstream, et cetera, et cetera. And now they're coming back. Oh, no, no. we have to stop drinking entirely.

I don't know if that's a good thing either. What I'm going to have to ask Dr. Aziz, though, if the unspoken part about alcohol consumption in the United States dropping to a 90-year low, so you'd almost have to go, well, you'd have to go back to the Great Depression practically to find lower consumption. I wonder how much of it is connected with the rise of cannabis. if younger generations have just taken alcohol and replaced it with cannabis instead.

Because as they have been trained in their culture, in today's culture, cigarette smoking is bad, but smoking marijuana is healthy. You know, it's a healthy thing that is, you know, will help you greatly. And if you're, and so what, if you get up in the morning and you can't function without sparking a bowl or two? there are people that do that too can be just as abusive if they just ended up swapping one intoxicant for another

but of course they'll call that intoxicant medicine too I don't know we'll talk with Dr. Z's about that I am looking forward to this see what he has to say about this outdoor reports also on the way Mr. Outdoors will be here also going to talk with State Representative

Dwayne Yunker the woke investigative Torquamadas over in Salem have dismissed the charges. They've dismissed those woke charges against State Representative Dwayne Yonker. Here is the story.

We'll talk more with him about that a little more than an hour from now. But yes, the Oregon House Conduct Committee, otherwise I'll translate that into woke Torquamadas, dismissing all complaints filed under legislative branch personnel rule 27 against Representative Dwayne Yonker or grants pass.

And Yonker called the outcome a clear affirmation of constitutional protections for political speech in the legislature and a wake-up call for needed reform in Salem. We'll talk with Wayne, Dwayne, rather, about that next hour. And I am so glad he won that because if he had not, this whole concept that you have a state representative on the state floor when you have an incredible issue of concern before the state. And he's there, and remember what started this. This was all. about Dwayne reading a section of the book called The Haters. And essentially it was LGBTQ porn, which is paid for a taxpayer's expense and sitting in school libraries.

That's essentially what it is. And Dwayne is reading the book and the graphic sexual activity in this book, which remember, the Democrats were falling all over themselves. You can't stop this book to be in there. they were debating the bill that would have squashed the ability or highly restricted the ability of school boards, of your local school boards to be able to get rid of books like that and keeping them out of the, out of the libraries. And naturally, Democrats that want the entire world trans, at least it seems that way sometimes, this is discrimination.

Yes, this is discrimination because adults discriminate and protect kids. And everything that the library does is a choice at some point. There are times the libraries are choosing which books to do and stock all the time. And so what the state legislature ended up passing that bill saying, well, you know, if you're trying to ban something because of it's LGBTQ theme, well, then gosh, we, you know, our state religion is LGBTQ theme. That's essentially what the state did. So they're making it, you know, harder to do this now. But they came after him, him being a state representative of Wayne Younger, for having read this on the floor because the floor has a rule which says you're not supposed to be conducting yourself on between.

But hey, this was serious stuff. The Democrats are so thrilled to have LGBT porn in the high school and the middle school libraries. That's what they like. That's what they like. But to actually read those on the floor and let everybody hear what this crap is all about, oh, that's just too much. We've got to get rid of them. And so a couple of clowns end up filing charges against state representative

Dwayne Younger saying that, well, him reading this on the floor, something of a big concern, is creating a hostile work environment. Well, that's a hostile work environment. We need more of it, you know, frankly, you know, this whole thing that, you know, politics is supposed to be for, you know, the meekest, wussiest folks in the entire. world. No, it is rough and tumble sometimes, and you're having to talk about really important, deep, and sometimes very dark things, like what this story was about the LGBTQ porn.

And by the way, yeah, the local school boards have been restricted somewhat. It's going to be a lot harder to get control of what's going on in your schools. Indeed, the state legislature has once again bent the knee to the state religion. Actually, there's two. state religions. It's kind of co-religions. You have, you know, climate change, carbon is killing everything. And the other thing is that, you know, the LGBTQ agenda is the one in true faith. That's pretty much what it is. That's the way the state of Oregon is, and they conduct a lot of policy that way. All right. So we'll talk with Dwayne about what is next also, what is happening with this state legislative special session that the governor has called August 29th.

not getting a lot of play, is it? Isn't it amazing how few people, if you were to talk to people on the street, hey, do you know that they want to just screw you to the wall with tax increases, August 29th? And most people will go, huh? What are you talking about? I thought legislative session was over. They probably weren't paying attention to that either.

But anyway, we will have a bit of conversation about that with Dwayne and more. Okay, okay. Dirk Vanderhart from OPB. He has an article out this morning. The Trump administration is seeking Oregon's elections data. Secretary of State Tobias Reid says he's not inclined to share information with the federal government. U.S. Department of Justice is looking for a whole lot of information, including details of people who have been deemed ineligible to vote to a roster of a state election. officials. The inquiries are the latest side of federal interest in how elections are

carried out in Oregon. Yeah, it's because we are kind of loosey-goosey. We're not really tough on people. And it came as the Trump administration made similar demands in states across the country, in which federal officials rather described as an effort to battle voter fraud. Tobias Reed says, yeah, I'm not going to help. So I'll tell you what. Secretary of State Tobias Reed, we're citizens, and we pay your salary and we elected you to run the elections. How about you give us the election data because we're citizens here. We have dogs in the fight. And then we can give it to the Trump administration.

Would that make you feel better? Why not? I'd like that. Okay. Tobias, it's okay. Give us the data because we're citizens. We should be able to see this stuff. Because remember, transparent, clean Oregon government.

You clowns in Salem, we're always talking about how clean and honest and open everybody is. Even if you do have past secretary's estate walking around with bags of motocash, LaMotacash, I'll tell you. This is rich. They didn't have me to give it to him. I hope the Trump administration wins on this. There's nothing about that that is supposed to be, you know, top secret, secret, secret, secret. this is public information I hope that they

I hope that they take Tobias Reed to court on this one I really do and have them win but better than that I'll tell you what Tobias give the citizens the information and then the citizens can forward it to the Trump administration if you don't feel very good about helping out the Trump

administration I must resist because I have a D in front of my name The Trump administration asking Tobias Reid for the cure for cancer. No, I'm sorry, we can't give it to the Trump administration. I'm assuming if he had something like that. It's ridiculous. Anyway, we can talk about things on your mind, too. 7705-633-770 KM-A-D.

Let me grab a call here. Good morning. Hi, who's this? This is Minor Dave. Dave, what's on your mind today here? We had a fire out here on my neighbor's ranch that's a 900-acre ranch. It's called the Heather Fire, which Heather, that road dead ends into that, but it's our only way out. Fortunately for us, we didn't have to evacuate.

We only had to get ready to evacuate. Did they get it all taken care of? Well, I haven't heard this morning, but the sheriff told me yesterday that the fire was not contained, but it was controlled. and it was moving to the south of us, not to us. Well, that's good news. I'm glad to hear that because we're heading into a weekend with lower temperatures, so fire activity, it'll probably be easier to get control with that. I'm understanding it's a 240-acre fire.

All right. Well, hey, thanks for the report this morning, Dave. And stay safe out there because I know you've been just dry as tender, dry as tender out there in the Iron Gate area, okay? Appreciate the call. Let me get over the next one. It is, find your phone Friday. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Hey, good morning. It's deplorable Patrick, Bill, and I love discrimination.

Well, discrimination means you're actually expressing adult judgment, which I thought is why we were supposed to be adults. Discrimination means to make choices, and idiot Democrats don't get the difference because they don't make distinctions anyway. Everything is the same with Democrats. And when we grew up understanding that racial, discrimination was wrong. They just figure discrimination is wrong. No. If you're going to take a trip somewhere and you say, well, let's say you're going across the other side of the county, well, should I take the freeway or should I take

the old road? That's discrimination. Okay? And one of the, you're discriminating about, you're making discriminating choices, which road you're going to take. And not one of the discriminating choices that I made, by the way, about 16 years, ago was I quit alcohol. And that's one of the best discriminations I ever made. And I got kind of curious after seven years, the seven year point was reached. And I said, you know, I wonder how much

money I've saved. And because I knew about how much I'd been spending and I've figured, calculated, I had saved at the seven year point, $25,200. Oh, wow. So you were calculating how much you've been buying up to that point in your weekly alcohol consumption. That is, you know, there's practically a new car or truck, or at least you're on your way to one, huh? Yeah, and maybe you can live long enough to drive it. That's interesting. Well, they're saying, though, the latest studies, though, alcohol consumption in the United States at a 90-year low. This is like per capita, per resident, that kind of thing.

And my question, though, is if we have just swapped one intoxicant for another, if we swapped alcohol for cannabis. And I would say in Oregon, one could argue that could be the case. I don't know. That's why I want to talk with the doctor about that. See what he says. Well, I'll be really interested in hearing that. And to me, it's not healthy at all. There's no, you know, you have pros and cons to most things.

I don't know of any pro indication for alcohol. Okay. Well, I just noticed that I had many of these elderly people in my family had a glass, a small glass of wine every day for decades, and it seemed to actually do them well. Not only a stress reducer, but, you know, it was red wine, by the way, red wine. I know that red wine is some of the better stuff to be consuming for health benefits. But anyway, we'll talk with the doctor about and see what he says. I'm kind of curious as a regenerative medicine person, what he does with his patients.

Okay. Hi, good morning. This is Bill. Who's this? Good morning, Bill. Tom here. Tom, welcome. And diddle Patrick's good discrimination and bad discrimination.

And I'm glad he discriminated between those two. When you were rattling up, well, when you were discussing Dwight and so forth and the Salem legislature, and I also came to mind the drag queen story hour, whatever they had. Oh, yeah, they had the black drag queens dancing in the house, too, because there was a, a, not of a monstrous, I think it was a house joint resolution to, to recognize the incredible artistic contributions of black drag queens. And I didn't even know that there were big contributions from drag queens in general. But in the state of Oregon, anything goes.

You know how that happens. So when you were talking about that, it brought to mind, okay, the legislature's doing these off-the-wall loony crap. In the meantime, they're not doing things that they should be doing, like find out how many Oregonians were killed by the COVID clot shot. Or also auditing Oregon Department of Transportation to find out how much money is being wasted there. They haven't wanted that. All they want to do is just, you know, double your taxes coming up. Yeah, so they're doing a lot of these distracting maneuvers, I'll call it. So they're doing a lot of weird, not healthy stuff where Oregon, climate change, which is costing us billions of dollars.

Are you alluding, though, that you're thinking that this is actually an intentional distraction from not doing the actual hard part of governing the state? intentional is a good word question there I think they're just asleep at the switch I don't I don't think they're that bright or sharp I think they're just easily dup just because you get elected to an office doesn't mean you have any brains left or you know that's a sign that you have good discrimination in your head I think they're just they're doing their job just like that Republicans there that won't boycott the damn legislature and stop them. I am here doing my job, and I have always wanted to be a state senator. Well, good for you. I'm glad that they did you get a pony, too, along with her. Yeah, right. Corn and ice cream.

So they're doing all these things that they should not be doing, and they're ignoring a lot of things they should be doing. And I tell you, I just look upon the Oregon legislature right now. You know, it's a mentally, what do you call it, the porcelain mausoleum up there? Oh, yeah, the famous nickname is, let's see, the Marble Nut House, I think, is how people ever turn. The Marble Nut House, okay. I'll vote a thousand percent for that term. Oh, thank you. All right, the Marble Nut House, translation, Oregon is doomed, doomed.

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He is a board-certified internist and regenerative medicine specialist, and he is from New York City. And a big expert in anti-aging medicine speaks nationally, big writer. And you may recall a book of his little while ago called The Perfect 10 Diet. and he's also written a new book called The Ageless Revolution, 10 hallmarks of aging that hold the secret to defeating disease, reversing age, looking younger, and living longer. Boy, I like the sound of that, doctor. Welcome to the show.

Great having you on. Good morning. Thank you so much for having me. Hey, before we get into the alcohol story, which is I wanted to get your take and wondering how you deal with that in your particular practice here, the ageless revolution now, are you talking about, magic supplements or particular diet changes or what kind of ageless revolution are you discussing in this book kind of give us the thumbnail sketch and the pitch if you don't mind well sure it

took me a while to write the second book because you know I'm a full-time physician but I was motivated and to write the Asia's revolution because I was alarmed by the high mortality rates we had during the COVID-19 pandemic so I realized that many people in this country even young people are aging on the inside. And we have one of the lowest lifespan in the Western world at 76, while countries are beating us. Switzerland are living to 90. The French are living to 85. So it alarm me that we have to have a revolution in this country for us to live not only a longer lifespan, but a healthier lifespan. And this book is about all the advances in medicine that can make us live a very long life, from lifestyle to diet to stress,

management to medication, supplements, peptides, hormone replacement, and all that stuff you hear on radio and you see it on Instagram from all those, like Brian Johnson and all those people, but I want to make it most importantly affordable for people to do all the things I talk about on a budget. Okay, well, that's important because, yeah, it's great if you're Brian Johnson and you can afford to have, you know, sheep DNA cells or whatever it is, cloned and injected somewhere, Right, you know, but most of us are kind of like, all right, we're trying to give up the Big Mac and maybe live a little bit better. I don't know.

But in all seriousness, do you think that what RFK Jr. is doing in the federal government would make America healthy again with that agenda? Is he somewhat on the right track from your point of view as a regenerative medicine specialist? Oh, my God. I'm so excited to have RFK doing things that are really, that I was talking about 15 years. years ago. I talked about the dangers of vegetable oils, and I was on TV many times on big shows talking about how trans fats are bad for us. And people laughed at me when I said, eat butter and all that stuff. And all of a sudden, we have RFK talking about changing the vegetable oil, the seed oil and the fast food to like a lard and all that stuff, all the dyes in our food

that damage our DNA. So this is right up my alley of everything I talk about, avoiding chemicals for a longer life. So they laughed at you then, and now they're going like, oh, Yeah, I guess you were right, Dr. Aziz. They still laugh at me now because I'm like talking, we can make it to 90 and 100 if we try, you know. But, you know, I'm really, I'm only sharing with people the science and the research. And it's up to them to take as little as much as they want, whether it's just a little diet tip, whether it's just a supplement they could take. I mean, if you take it just fish oil, that can add four years to your life.

That's amazing. You know, you can be on the treadmill every day that will only add two years. but many of us don't take fish oil. So people can take as low as much they want from my books. Okay. What about, something I wanted to ask you about, I have been noticing, I've been doing it, at least my wife and I, my wife is an amazing cook, and I'm very fortunate that, you know,

she reads a lot on cooking great food, not only great food, but as a healthy food as we can. And we've made a big push on eliminating as many of the seed oils as possible. And I have to tell you, it is incredibly difficult. It's like the entire culture seems to be just drowning in seed oil and seed oil infused products. I mean, you'll even go, let's say you want to get a particular, maybe you want to get a tortilla chip or something. And, of course, what are they doing? They fry it in safflower oil or some other type of seed oil.

And how do we get to the point where we were going with seed oils rather than tallows and other more natural forms? How did that happen, do you know? Well, you know what happened is I really was following all the guidelines. I really believed the medical establishment. I believe the medical institution. And then I realized that much of the research we learned in medical school and residency was sponsored by the soybean lobby, Missoula, Chrysko, Fleischman, the producer of margarine. So I grew up on margar, I grew up on vegetable oil. I've eaten in butter since I was nine years old, and I changed at age 40 or 42. And that was like, it was just too late. I mean, I'm like the only one in Starbucks asking for a regular lot. It was regular. milk when everybody's asking for different things. And everything we learned was sponsored by the soybean lobby. And that's why we have such high, you know, many diseases in this country, chronic age-related diseases, even happening in young people. We have diabetes, we have obesity, we have high rates of cancer. Again, we also have the lowest lifespan at 75. We're living 14 years on the table when we can live a much healthier life like many countries that don't eat that crap we're eating.

What is it about the seed oil, though, that is so problematic for the human body? I know there's like an acid in it. I don't know how you pronounce it. Is it Lionel? You know, for you to extract the vegetable oil from the plant, they go through 1,000 chemicals, and they go through hexane, which is a petroleum. Do you think that's good for you? It's not stable when you fry them.

They create free radical that damages the cholesterol. It makes the cholesterol sticky. You're more likely to get a heart attack. you're more likely to get cancer. They're inflammatory in nature, so we have to have the right balance in the body between the omega-3, which are anti-inflammatory that you find in fish oil,

and you have to have just small amounts of omega-6, maybe from eating some peanuts or some corn, but we have massive amounts of omega-6 because we're eating french fries, we're using vegetable oils for cooking, and that disturbance in the omega-3-Ommas-6 ratio is causing that high-rise and spike, and all the diseases we're seeing

as doctors every single day in our offices. Is there a good chance that what we're thinking of is something and cholesterol problems and heart problems that most doctors want to attack by giving you a statin, getting on lots of statins? Could much of this be based on that vegetable oil aspect of all our foods having that these days? It's not just the vegetable oil. It's also we're eating massive amounts of sugar. We're eating massive amounts of refined carbohydrates.

all the low-fat products, you know, with the introduction of the cholesterol theory and the introduction of the vegetable oils, people switch to from full-fat products to low-fat products. So people eat like, let's say, a low-fat yogurt. I mean, many of my patients think that's a healthy choice. But then grab any low-fat yogurt at the supermarket, and you'll find high-fructosecone syrup, added sugar, chemicals that RFK is talking about. How can this low-fat or fat for yogurt be good for you with 10 grams of high-froftone syrup

and 10 grams of sugar. It's just horrible. It's very bad for us. The Ageless Revolution is the book, 10 hallmarks of aging that hold the secret to defeating disease, reversing age, looking younger and living longer. And no doubt you get this out there in your regenerative medicine practice. And I appreciate you coming on talking about this here, Doc. Can you get the book in the regular suspects? It's a published book. I've even published in different countries now. I went to international, so it's on Amazon. It's everywhere books are sold, and I really hope to make a difference with this book to make us live healthier lives. I hope that. I hope you're right about that. And it's good

to hear that RFK Jr. you think is on the right track here. I wanted to shift this, and we'll put your information up on my show blog here, too. There has been a collapse of alcohol consumption in the United States, and I don't know how you approach this in your practice, but we're now finding out that only 50%, only half of adults under the age of 35 report drinking at all, and this is a huge drop, 18-point drop since the early 2000s. And it is indicating a real cultural consumption shift here. I mean, you have to go back almost to the Great Depression here. And is, do you know, do you deal with people, you know, at that age, perhaps?

And could you comment on maybe why we're seeing this? Is this a cultural thing? Are they replacing booze with, let's say, cannabis, or is there something else going on, you think? What are your thoughts? I don't think we should get the wrong idea that alcohol is going away. Alcohol abuse is very prevalent in our society. In fact, 10.2% of adults in the United States qualify for meeting the criteria for alcohol use. I think it's dropping a little bit because have you been to New York City lately?

Have you seen all the cannabis store everywhere? They're like McDonald's. It's every block. So people are replacing alcohol. a little bit with cannabis, thinking that this is a better thing. But I don't think alcohol use is dropping significantly. I think it's dropping, but not that much. But some people are replacing alcohol with cannabis, which is also not a good thing. In your experience in your medicine practice here, Dr. Aziz, is cannabis a healthier alternative to alcohol if you're looking to

self-medicate somehow? What is your opinion? Oh, it's apple and oranges. You know, alcohol actually a little bit in small amounts can be good for you. We see many countries that make it to 100. They drink a little bit of red wine. I think the problem is that when we drink alcohol in this country, we tend to overdo it. We tend also to have alcoholic drinks that are not healthy. We drink beer, which is very bad for longevity. We're not drinking red wine.

We're eating, we're having cocktails with massive amounts of sugar. And many people are not just sticking to five drinks a week. They're going beyond that. I get patients who are young, especially in their 20s. And, you know, they may not drink during weekdays, but on weeknights, but then on the weekend, they have, like, six drinks on Friday and seven drinks on Saturday, and that's really bad. So some people are using cannabis, and that has a calming effect. It has, you know, it works on pain and so on, but you're causing different, and it's less addicting, but it's causing different problems. It can damage your lungs.

I mean, it's just as bad, you know. Okay. Well, here in Oregon, we also have that same sort of situation where, you know, cannabis dispensers. everywhere you go. We were one of the early adopters in this state, and I wouldn't be surprised if maybe the amount of consumption is going down here, or alcohol consumption. I'm glad you brought up the situation about red wine, because some of the surveys they were saying, oh, there's no such thing as moderate drinking. But my relatives came from Eastern Europe, the immigrated from Eastern Europe in the late 1800s, and they made wine. You know, they grew grapes and made wine. And I remember

my great-grandparents, especially, you know, a glass of red wine. In fact, it was a pretty small glass of red wine every day. They usually had it with a meal. And the great-grandfather lived to be almost 100. And so I'm thinking, well, you know, a lot of other things he was doing wrong, but he did that right, it seemed like. And is that your experience, too? Because you were talking about specifically red wine, being the really good one. Well, alcohol has its benefits and it's dangerous. So let's talk about alcohol in general. Alcohol in general has a thinning effect on the blood. So maybe that's when people drink in moderation. You're less likely to get clots, so it less likely to get heart attacks. If I do a Botox on somebody, you usually tell the patient,

hey, don't drink alcohol the day before because they're going to bleed. So alcohol has a sitting effect. But it has to do with the red wine as well. It has to do probably with the flavonoids, the antioxidants. The amount of resveratrol is very tiny, but definitely alcohol has the positive effects on longevity. As long as it's moderation, if you go in excess, then you also have high rates of esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, and you have high rates of liver damage and liver cirrhosis. So moderation is key. And we see, I talk in my book also, the Asia's Revolution, about the blue zone.

That's the five areas in the world where people live to, many make it to 100. We find that they drink wine in Icaria, Greece, they drink wine in Sardinia. So I don't think, in general, alcohol is bad as long as you are a moderate drinker. But if you go in excess, that will shorten your life. And it sounds as if you are an advocate of alcohol drinking that is not in the fill it with, well, kind of like the margarita mix with a ton of sugar, right? That's not the way to consume your alcohol is what you're thinking. Is that kind of, is that a good way of looking at it?

Yeah, of course. I mean, look at Long Island's iced tea, like how many calories are in that. That's like 500 calories. And then, believe it or not, I talk also in the book, The Asia's Revolution, about different drinks. So, for example, people who drink beer, they can have a higher mortality because beer increases a metabolite called uric acid. And uric acid doctors found recently, then levels are high that increases mortality and you can shorten your life by four years. And if you drink whiskey, believe it or not, whiskey drops uric acid. So, you know, so yeah, it depends on what you drink.

You know, how bad a lot of people would automatically assume that beer would be easier on your body than the whiskey? but not necessarily, right? No, it has massive amounts of sugar because beer is maltose. And malto sparks your sugar so high. It's like eating two, three donuts. So that's definitely not good for you. It increases uric acid. And then it also very bad, you know, people tend to overdrinking beer.

You know, you may have like three beers versus having one whiskey shot if you're like drinking. So you can overconsume it. Just like when people overdo it with things that they think that's better for them, but then really when you have it in excess, it becomes. interest. Dr. Michael Aziz, board certified internist, regenerative medicine specialist. And the book is Ageless Revolution, 10 hallmarks of aging that hold the secret to defeating disease, reversing age, looking younger, and living longer. So you're thinking then, doctor, that we don't have to have artificial intelligence embedded in us to live forever, that we could do a better job

just by changing diet and some lifestyles. Is that pretty much the takeaway from all of this? I think why we have to do is we have to treat aging as a disease, and that's a new concept in medicine, because doctors, they tell you getting old is normal. It is normal, but it's not okay to get sick. So we have to change the way we think, not only as the public, but also as physician, and that's what I'm trying to do with the book. And second, you really have to do some healthy steps if you want to live a longer life, whatever it takes, whether it's eating right, avoiding chemicals, stress management, exercise, taking your fish oil, doing some tricks in your diet, adding a lot of superfoods, try to find the superfoods I talk about, sweet purple potatoes. There's a tea from China called Jagulanti, where people, seven times more antioxidant than green tea. And then moving on to the next step, which are the things that can make us live longer with the help of the doctor, supplements, and medication.

All that stuff can make us live much longer life. There are medication that can prevent diabetes, that can prevent heart disease and cancer, and I talk about all that. All right, very good. I'm going to get all the information up. I want to buy a copy of it myself. Linda and I will take a look at that and probably have you back on. Make sure you avoid the vegetable oils first because it looks like you're still using some. Well, no, actually, no, we are avoiding it.

We are doing our best. But, you know, if you go out, I have to tell you, though, if you go out to eat for the most part, it's almost next to impossible to avoid it, isn't it, when you go to a restaurant? Yes. Well, you know, there are certain things you can do. Like when you look at the menu, you try to go for grill things versus things that are fried, you know. So it's just doing tricks again and to do. cope with everything around us that's trying to kill us.

All right, doctor, I really appreciate the take. Thanks for having joined the show. We'll get all your information up. Do you have a website? Sure. It's Michaelazizmd.com. All right, very good. Doctor, great talking with you.

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