The Dr. Hyman Show - My Personal Longevity Routine

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hi, Doctors Pharmacy listeners, it's Dr. Mark here. If you've been following me, you know that I'm obsessed with understanding the latest research on longevity and how we can apply it to our daily lives. So I wrote a book about it. Think of it as a roadmap to optimal aging. It's called Young Forever. It's never too early or too late to take control of your health, and this book will show you how.

Starting point is 00:00:20 Visit youngforeverbook.com to learn more and order now. Coming up on this episode of The Doctor's Pharmacy. I've had many issues. I've had autoimmune disease. I've had chronic injuries. I've had mold toxicity, mercury poisoning, Lyme disease, back stuff. I've learned how to use these for general wellness, but also to really heal these chronic issues. Hi everyone, it's Dr. Mark.

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Starting point is 00:02:49 InsideTracker.com forward slash Dr. Hyman. That's D-R-H-Y-M-A-N. That's InsideTracker, I-N-S-I-D-E-T-R-A-C-K-E-R.com slash Dr. Hyman, D-R-H-Y-M-A-N, and you'll see the discount code in your cart. Welcome to the doctor's pharmacy. I'm Dr. Mark Hyman. That's pharmacy with an F, a place for conversations that matter. And if you're interested in how I keep young and healthy, well, that's what today's podcast is about. I'm going to share my own personal health practices that I've learned that keep me biologically younger as I get chronologically older and that are really the key foundation of the teachings and the program that I laid out in my new book, Young Forever, which is out. I encourage you to get a copy right now. So this is a special episode called the Health Byte. It gives

Starting point is 00:03:41 you little health bites to improve your health by taking small steps every day that can create big changes over time. And today I want to sort of review a little bit about the mini series of podcasts we did on the Health Bytes last few weeks because I'm just going to do a recap and then I'm going to share exactly what I do every day or I try to do every day. I obviously don't do all of it every day, but I want to give you a sense of the kinds of ways of building these practices that we've talked about into your life, of translating the science into the practice of how to stay healthy and reverse your biological age. This is the final episode, so I'm just going to kind of recap for a minute. We've talked about how we need to reframe our approach to aging, the way we currently view the last bit of our lives, the last half or quarter of our

Starting point is 00:04:25 lives is based on this kind of wrong framework of inevitable gradual decline that's filled with pain and fragility and medications so many we can't keep track of, a loss of independence. And all of that is not normal aging. All of that is abnormal aging. So we have to get into this paradigm shift, which is giving us a very different approach to aging, not as a normal consequence of getting older, but as a disease. And this is now recognized as a disease by the WHO. I think the American Medical Association and the coding is not quite there yet, but there's a conversation in the longevity science world about how what we see as normal aging, all these chronic diseases of aging are actually abnormal aging.

Starting point is 00:05:10 They're not things that are inevitable and they're related to the underlying causes of the abnormal aging, which are called hallmarks. When we cover these hallmarks of aging, the things in our biology that go wrong that make us age faster. We talked about how to address the hallmarks of aging, the things in our biology that go wrong that make us age faster. We talked about how to address the hallmarks of aging, the foods we need to eat and what we need to avoid, the lifestyle practices that we should prioritize and the things we

Starting point is 00:05:33 should get rid of, and the importance of exercise and what kind of exercise to feel young and also really remain independent, strong, functional. We talked about the new frontier in longevity medicine, all the advances in longevity innovations like stem cells and exosomes and peptides, and there's lots more. Sure, I promised there's more I cover in the book. Things that are really going to change everything we ever have known and experienced about getting older in our last part of our life. So today I'm going to kind of put it all together and share my top secrets, what I want to do and what I'm trying to do to ensure I'll be 120 in good health. So my health span is equal

Starting point is 00:06:12 my lifespan. We know exactly how to hack our biology. Now, the science is there. We know how to do this in order to live our last years that are not decrepit and frail in a nursing home or not enjoying the things we love to do, but are full decrepit and frail in a nursing home or not enjoying the things we love to do, but are full of energy and being vibrant and being independent and full of life. And my new book, Young Forever, is your ultimate guide to understanding and putting it all together. So I encourage you to get your copy today at your favorite bookstore. All right, so let's dig in. My personal longevity program. How have I stayed healthy at 63 years old? Well, many wonder how I've managed to stay strong and healthy and doing all the stuff I do at 63.

Starting point is 00:06:51 Well, many of my peers are kind of getting a little chubby, kind of winding down. You know, I'm, you know, helicopter skiing, improving my tennis game every day, building more muscle, outperforming my 30-year-old friends, riding my bike up the mountain, lifting heavier weights. You know, how do I do that? Well, knowing all the possibilities to slow or reverse aging can sometimes be a little overwhelming or depending on your personality, a little exciting. How do you figure out what's best for yourself? You have to choose what resonates with you. You have to incorporate what works in your life on a regular basis. You have to build new habits. You can't do everything all at once. But over time, you can explore a lot of different things that are going to help support and enhance your health and well-being

Starting point is 00:07:29 and help you have a long, active, vibrant life. So remember, I've been doing this for 40 years. I've been learning and incorporating different things. And I've sort of come up with what works for me. But I'm going to share with you what the science, and these are science-backed interventions that I've focused on. So the first is, you know, what do I eat? Because I think nutrition is the cornerstone of longevity medicine. One of the hallmarks, deregulated nutrient sensing is really above many of the other hallmarks that drives them, poor nutrition,

Starting point is 00:07:59 not enough of the good stuff, too much of the bad stuff. So I follow what I call the Pagan diet, which is really a food is medicine approach. It's plant-rich diet. It's high in phytochemicals. It's high in the right amount of protein for my body and age, which we need more as we get older to build muscle. I use my healthy aging shake pretty much for an hour of exercise to build muscle. And that's in the book, the recipe for it. It's got goat whey and all kinds of other goodies, cocktails of things that are really powerful for upregulating my mitochondria, for building muscle. And so I encourage you to check that out. Exercise, what do I do for exercise? I mean, I wish I could do more. It's not that I like to do more, but I probably do four to six days of aerobic training, probably half an hour interval training i do different things i do road biking mountain biking tennis hiking swimming and then i use a string training program that's based

Starting point is 00:08:51 on uh tom brady's program tb12 which i like because as i get older you know i think i can i can you can injure yourself with weights and i use some weights but not too much but i use the bands and i can travel with them everywhere and i uh there's an app you can use you can buy the bands it's tb12 i think is the app between 12 sports um and i do that three or four times a week for 30 minutes and it's incredible the changes i've seen in my body i do hot yoga whenever i can get a hot yoga studio vinyasa yoga a couple times a week and stretching every day a little bit just keep flexible uh sleep i always try to get seven, eight hours sleep. I usually get to sleep by 10, up by six or seven.

Starting point is 00:09:30 And I make sure I take magnesium at night. I wear eye shades. I have earplugs. I make sure I really make a really quiet sleep environment. Also track my sleep with my Oura Ring, Apple Watch. It's really great tools now to track what's going on. And I can see, oh, I had a late meal because I was busy and my sleep was crap. Or I decided to have a

Starting point is 00:09:50 glass of wine and oh boy, my heart rate didn't lower. So it kind of clues me into what my body's doing and sort that out. How do I deal with stress? Because just like everybody else, I have a lot of things that are going on and get stressed by different things and uh and just life itself is stressful these days uh but i try to meditate at least once or twice a day i try to do breath work uh you know whether it's just deep breathing or more expanded breath work practices i try to get as much time in nature and wilderness as i can because that that really is my medicine nature is my medicine and then community is medicine so i make sure I commit to making time with friends, people I love, my family. Really, really important. Try to get a massage once a month or more if I can. I actually got this Theragun thing, which is great. And it's

Starting point is 00:10:37 probably a cost of a couple of massages, but then you have it and it's like you can do it on yourself or if you have a partner, it's quite quite amazing um i also practice hormesis which i think is a key part of longevity so i try to not eat um give myself like at least 14 hours between dinner and breakfast which gives my body a chance to do autophagy clean up at night uh at least three or four times a week but usually at least 12 i never you know within 12 hour between dinner and breakfast. I make sure I include phytohormesis plants like Himalayan terry buckwheat and various kinds of green tea extracts and products. So I just include phytohormesis chemicals from food, which I talk about in the book. And I also use hot and cold. So after this podcast,

Starting point is 00:11:21 I'm going to go work out. I'm going to do some interval training on my bike inside because it's winter. I'm going to do a half hour strength training. I'm going to put on my steam. I'm going to do a steam and I'm going to do an ice bath. It's very cold in the winter because my water is cold up here in the pictures. But I'm really looking forward to that. And that's going to be my sort of pre-lunch workout. And I just felt like i get so energized by that

Starting point is 00:11:47 i do it whenever i can and probably when i'm home almost every day i have red light therapy i have a machine at home which could be red light therapy that helps me rejuvenate my mitochondria i talk about that in the book i use ozone therapy uh when i can i have an office so i'm lucky i can do it but i do it tune up with ozone therapy i use blue blocker glasses at night, which get rid of the blue light at night. I've used hyperbaric oxygen in the past. I wish I had one at home, but they're expensive. Maybe they'll come down in price, but I definitely love that. Also something called Celgium, which is a hypoxia machine, but you can also use a mask, like a hypoxia mask for 50 bucks you can get online. So there's all these incredible techniques to stress your system hormesis is little stresses that don't kill you but make

Starting point is 00:12:30 you stronger whether it's you know short periods of fasting whether it's exercise whether it's hot and cold therapies whether it's ozone or red light therapy or hyperbaric oxygen all really help all right now what do i take in terms of supplements? Well, I always have the basics, right? Vitamin D, fish oil, a multivitamin. I take a B complex for homocysteine because of my genetics. I have a high homocysteine, which means I can't methylate, which is important. I take a little magnesium at night and I use basically a multivitamin for the gut, which is called Gut Food, a product that I created with my team. Just go to gutfood.com. You can learn more about it. It's basically prebiotics, probiotics, and polyphenols. And then I'm kind of a geek, so I kind of pack in my longevity stack. I take NMN, about 900

Starting point is 00:13:14 milligrams a day, which is a great dose of NMN with a bunch of other things in it. I take HTB Rejuvenate, which is basically from Big Bold Health. It has quercetin, bioflavonoids. Quercetin is really great for longevity. I use combinations of supplements, senolytics. I call senolytics with curcumin and green tea and fisetin and sterostilbene, which is like a respiratory product. I take something which got broccoli extract in it called Oncoplex. And I also use MitoPure or Renewal from Pure Encapsulations, which is basically a compound that comes from pomegranate that helps build muscle and creates mitophagy. It's an initial creatine or amino acids to help build muscle in my shake.

Starting point is 00:13:56 So that's kind of my stack. It's a lot. I don't expect everybody to do that, but I'm very committed to this. So you can kind of look at my book and I kind of guide you on what makes the most sense, what you can start with. It's pretty simple. And then I kind of explored a lot of advanced therapies. I'm sort of really curious about the space and I've invested a lot in my own health.

Starting point is 00:14:14 I'm not quite like this guy who spent $2 million on reversing his biological age every year. I can't have that budget for that, but it's pretty cool. And I've used myself as a guinea pig from stem cells to exosomes. And I've had many issues. I've had autoimmune disease. I've had chronic injuries. I've had mold toxicity, mercury poisoning, Lyme disease, back stuff. So I learned how to use these both for general wellness, but also to really heal these chronic issues. And remember, these are things that I, you know, chosen to do knowing the potential risks and the more researchers needed. And each of us has different appetites for risk and exploration and budget. But I've used peptides, exosomes, stem cells, plasmapheresis, all kinds of cool stuff to clean your blood.

Starting point is 00:14:58 And they're great. And I've noticed huge differences. And also, I'm lucky because one of the other key things that have to do with longevity is meaning and purpose. And that has been a real gift that I've been able to, through my own suffering, been drawn to learn and teach about functional medicine. And that has given my life a lot of meaning, a lot of purpose. And to serve others as a doctor, an author, host of this podcast, to try to bring information

Starting point is 00:15:23 for people. I also have a nonprofit where I try to change the food system, which I know might be silly, but somebody got to do it. So I have a nonprofit called the Food Fix Campaign that actively works to create a healthier, more equitable food system and uses food as medicine approach to change policy and focus on regenerative agriculture to change how we grow food as well. So that's really important. And then I've also worked really hard on my mindset and mental health and work with life coaches and friends and explore different spiritual traditions. Every week I have a men's

Starting point is 00:15:55 group. I gather with six of my closest friends. We've had been friends for almost 40 plus years. And we just meet every week and hang out and check in. And really, you know, it's really beautiful to be seen and be known in that way. So I encourage you to like make an investment in time with the people you love and care about. So I've been cultivating a community for a long time and I have a beautiful community of friends and colleagues. And so I'm blessed in that way, but it's taking work and investment in time. So I encourage you to make that effort because, you know huge factor in longevity. It's meaning and purpose and community. Okay. So that's it. That's my life. Everything I do to feel younger now so I can have a great life and enjoy things and be able to give and do the work I want to do and enjoy my friends and

Starting point is 00:16:41 family and contribute to what I want to contribute to making the world a better place. So that's kind of what I've covered in these health bites on this health bite series on longevity. And I've also covered it in greater depth in my book, Young Forever, which is out now. And again, the nitty gritty science behind longevity, all the new and exciting research, everything you need to know about testing, self-assessment quizzes that tells you where you're out of balance, what exactly to do to give yourself a longevity tune-up, and of course, my step-by-step Young Forever longevity program. Young Forever is, I think, my most comprehensive book. It's super easy to get through. It's digestible, but it's a really beautiful resource for people who want to learn how to upgrade their health, how to optimize their health, and how to actually improve your health

Starting point is 00:17:29 span and your lifespan. It's really the culmination of my life's work. I couldn't be more proud of the book. Make sure you get your copy today. It's available in all the major bookstores and personal online, and your support means a lot to me. So I hope you've enjoyed this Health Byte series on Young Forever. That's it for today. Be sure to share this with your friends and family. And we'll see you next time on The Doctor's Pharmacy. If you like this conversation, I know you'll love my new book, Young Forever.

Starting point is 00:18:05 If you pre-order this book now, you'll get access to my discount bundle with deals from all my favorite health and wellness brands. Visit youngforeverbook.com to order my book and get access to these deals. I hope you're loving this podcast. It's one of my favorite things to do and introduce to you all the experts that I know and I love and that I've learned so much from. And I want to tell you about something else I'm doing, which is called Mark's Picks. It's my weekly newsletter. And in it, I share my favorite stuff from foods to supplements, to gadgets, to tools to enhance your health. It's all the cool stuff that I use and that my team uses to optimize and enhance our health. And I'd love you to sign up for the weekly newsletter. I'll only send it to you once a week on Fridays. Nothing else, I promise. And all you do is go to drhyman.com forward slash pics to sign up. That's drhyman.com forward slash pics, P-I-C-K-S, and sign up for the newsletter and I'll share with you my favorite stuff that

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The Dr. Hyman Show - My Personal Longevity Routine

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