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Top 5 Anti-aging Hacks · Intellectual Medicine

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  I fully expect to live to be 120.
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  That's not hyperbole. It's an expectation to plant.
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  We know human beings can live to be 120.
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  They've done it. We have proof.
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  We know it's biblical. Right after God got fed up with
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  Methuselah living to be what, 6-7 hundred?
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  He said man will live to be 120 years.
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  It is also cellular validated something called the hay field
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  equation, who was a researcher that analyzed how long a human
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  cell could live and guess what, it was 120 years.
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  All right, that's pretty cool. So why not aim at that at the
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  same time take vitality with it. So the title of my podcast today
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  is the Top five Hacks for Life Extension and Longevity.
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  But I might sneak a 6th one in there.
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  One of the things that I have, these are hacks that are
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  universal, foundational. Everybody, regardless of your
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  age, should have these as core elements.
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  Now, you can always build on top of it, but you got to start with
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  #1 the belief and expectation that you're going to live a long
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  time. Now, that may sound trite, but
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  it holds true. I fully expect to live to be
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  120. You know, I'm aiming at that.
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  That's not hyperbole. It's an expectation.
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  It's a plan. Now, with that plan in mind, and
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  by the way, that's not out of thin air.
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  We know human beings can live to be 120.
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  They've done it. We have proof.
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  We know it's biblical. Right after God got fed up with
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  Methuselah living to be what, 6700, he said man will live to
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  be 120 years. It is also cellular validated,
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  something called the the hay field equation, who was a
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  researcher that analyzed how long the human cell could live
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  and guess what, it was 120 years.
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  All right, that's pretty cool. So why not aim at that at the
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  same time take vitality with it. Now we're starting to do things
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  intending to achieve the goal #1 hack is believe the biology.
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  There's nothing about us biologically that requires us to
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  age before we die. So start out there.
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  Ignore all these other parameters.
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  Another important hack. You must avoid toxins.
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  Now, you can do a lot of fancy stuff to try to preserve
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  telomeres, but if you're exposed to lead, and if that lead is not
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  being addressed, you're going to have problems with your brain.
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  Lead rots the brain and damages the heart.
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  Now, there are prescriptions. DMSA is out there.
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  Intravenous chelation is fabulous if you can acquire it.
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  But suppose you can't. What can you do?
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  I don't advocate taking charcoal to block lead absorption and
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  blocks other stuff with it. But a sauna, Yeah, Sweat is a
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  powerful detoxifying phenomenon. And if you can get to a sauna
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  several times a week, or better yet, get one of those infrared
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  saunas for home. The red red light saunas,
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  they're fabulous. Of course, you could exercise
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  until you sweat. That's too hard.
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  I'd rather just lie there under the light.
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  Another one, fat. I'm not talking about the fat
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  that you eat, I'm talking about the fat on your body.
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  One of my favorite anti aging researchers, when summarizing
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  his work, he said thusly, Let me put it to you this way.
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  The skinny rats bury the fat rats.
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  So it's not weight. It's not what you eat as much as
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  how much you eat. Now I'm going to show you one of
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  the most important tools you can have for anti aging hack.
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  This, ladies and gentlemen, is a food scale.
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  Why? Because your eyes lie to you.
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  You would be amazed at how little food volume it takes for
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  you to thrive. You're a little frustrated
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  because you're a little fatter than you want to be.
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  Get that food scale. I use it frequently.
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  I'm typically weighing what I eat.
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  Now, obviously I don't bring it to a restaurant.
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  I've acquired enough knowledge to know that at restaurants,
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  every time they serve you food, presume it's a double portion.
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  Eat half of it. Controlling percent body fat,
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  Not necessarily just weight, but body fat.
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  While we're on that topic, how about muscle growth?
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  Yes, 100%. People live longer who have a
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  strong muscular foundation and do not let it sink.
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  You want to maintain that muscular frame throughout your
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  life. And this goes back to what I
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  said. The number one hack is
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  expectation. Never should you say something
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  like this. Well, you know, for my age, my
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  brain's working. Oh, no, the brain should never
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  ride out. Well, for my age, you know, I'm
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  not that weak. No, you don't get bonus points
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  because everybody around you is sinking fast as you are.
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  We, you and I, the reason you listen to this podcast, she
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  could be an outlier. I've been doing anti aging
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  medicine for over 20 years. Why?
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  I'm a selfish guy. I don't want to age.
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  In my late 40s, I began to feel some of the effects of aging and
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  I realized that a lot of what's out there, folks, it's noise,
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  misleading, and it does not help.
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  So I did my own research. I became an expert in the field,
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  which is not really one of my hacks, but if you can find an
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  older anti aging specialist, they're worth the weight in
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  gold. I guess that's a little self
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  congratulatory. My point being, I'm a little
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  skeptical of teeny bopper anti aging specialist trying to tell
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  me what it takes to live long. Far better to have walked the
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  path. All right, back to the topic at
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  hand. What can you do at home on your
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  own expectation? Avoid toxin.
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  Get sweating control percent body fat, another critical toxin
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  to avoid people X-rays. We're talking ionizing
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  radiation. In our medical culture, we throw
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  around X-rays like nothing. I recently tried to get a new
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  dentist. I've been very frustrated
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  because they all want to X-ray my head.
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  Why? Why We got to see this going
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  with you. Look at my teeth.
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  You can see what's going on. Oh, but it's only a little bit
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  of radiation. Yeah, radiation, folks, X-rays
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  never wear off. With each X-ray, you build
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  cumulatively your lifetime risk for cancer, lymphoma, leukemia.
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  I'll never forget my patient of mine years back had X-ray after
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  X-ray after X-ray for his back. His back, his back, his back.
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  He had up with prostate cancer. You can never draw a Direct
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  Line, but we know this unequivocally.
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  Ionizing radiation is a major contributor to cancer and it
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  builds over your life. Do not get X-rays.
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  Do not be a victim of insurance mandates.
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  Your knee hurts? You want to get an MRI but the
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  insurance company requires an X-ray first.
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  BS Pay for the damn thing. You can pay for your own
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  imaging. You don't have to wait for
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  insurance. And if it's worth it to you, if
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  you have enough of a symptom to justify it, bypass the X-ray.
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  For most orthopedic indications, NMI is far superior.
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  The reason why they order X-rays.
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  It's a delaying tactic right? Maybe the pain will go away on
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  its own if we just X-ray you and make you jump through enough
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  hoops. So I do a lot of prostate cancer
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  treatment, as in my practice, and I sometimes order an MRI of
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  the prostate. Actually, often I order it.
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  And when insurance doesn't pay for it, guess what?
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  It costs about 300 bucks. So the sticker price of some of
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  these things, not as extreme as you might think, and it can be
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  negotiated. So as I talk about them, maybe
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  I'll get an MRI of my teeth. Maybe that'll make my dentist
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  happy. No radiation unless it's life or
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  death. Emergency room 911.
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  You broke your leg. OK, I get it there.
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  But CAT scanning, just to make sure we're going to what, rule
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  out No, CAT scan is like a hydrogen bomb of radiation,
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  should only be done under the most extreme of circumstances.
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  Life threatening. The idea of doing it just to
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  monitor a lesion and look up, Oh my goodness, what a horrible
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  idea. Horrible idea.
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  All right, so there you go. Ionizing radiation, muscle
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  building, and maintenance resistance exercise should be
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  part of your weekly routine. You don't necessarily have to be
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  a bodybuilder, You don't even have to worry about growing
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  muscle. But you sure as heck don't want
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  it to shrink. So you want to maintain strength
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  training at least twice a week. Maintain enough protein.
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  A rule of thumb 1g of protein per day for every pound that you
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  weigh, divided among three to four separate feeding times with
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  your food scale to monitor the volume.
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  Supplements There are two supplements worthy of universal
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  recommendation. One is vitamin DI.
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  Don't care how much you're outside in the sun, folks.
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  During the summertime, you're not getting enough vitamin D
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  based upon the research supporting its value.
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  Unless you're living at the equator, walking around naked,
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  that sun exposure is not going to get you to the level that I
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  would love to see you at that the research supports.
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  I've done hundreds, if not thousands of vitamin D levels.
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  I've never seen anybody with a level above 50 who wasn't on
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  robust supplementation, regardless of latitude.
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  Now, why 50? The bulk of research in the
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  functional world correlates blood levels above 50 with a
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  lesser incidence of infection, with enhanced immune function,
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  with the possibility of being resilient toward cancer.
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  So that's my recommendation for you.
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  Talking to your doctor, you get a vitamin D level.
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  Now, we just talked about insurance not paying for stuff.
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  A lot of times they don't pay for vitamin D either.
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  Look, if you want to be healthy, it's on you.
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  You want to wait around, you want to play the insurance game,
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  You can sit there and wait to get sick and hope insurance
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  bails you out. My goal is to have your
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  insurance premium be another expense that you got no value
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  out of because you didn't get sick enough to need it.
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  So vitamin D level of about 50, it is generally except it is
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  safe that you can take 4000 units of vitamin D, that's 100
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  microgram. You can take that every day in
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  the absence of blood work. If you're going to go above
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  4000, you do need to have a provider guiding you toward
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  that. And remember always add vitamin
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  K with it. Vitamin K2, Menoquinone helps
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  prevent that calcium that the vitamin D is absorbing from
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  being deposited into soft tissue like your arteries, like your
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  heart valve, like your brain. So D with K, if you're only
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  taking vitamin D, add the vitamin K to that.
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  Somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 micrograms should get it
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  done. So vitamin D with Ki, love that
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  for everybody. Another thing I love Yes, folks,
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  vitamin C Why vitamin C? Vitamin C.
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  Think of this as a stress vitamin.
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  Think of it more like cortisol. When you're under duress, you
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  need a lot more of it. Now, most mammals make their own
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  vitamin C and we know from studies of other mammals that
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  when they're hurt, wounded, stressed, psychologically,
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  emotionally, physically, that they pump out tons of vitamin C,
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  tons of it like cortisol when you're under duress.
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  We can't do that. So amongst the supplements, the
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  vitamin C is the one that is that is dynamic.
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  So you should consider modifying the dose, right?
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  When you go on a flight, you're in a plane, double up your dose.
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  It is a stress experience, that ultraviolet exposure free
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  radical cascade when you're not sleeping, right?
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  Bump the dose. When you're mentally stressed,
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  bump the dose. When you're feeling sick, bump
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  the dose. And by all means, if you have to
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  get surgery, go into a hospital, bump the dose.
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  The dose varies depending on the demand.
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  In general, I don't like to have folks take more than 2000
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  milligrams at one time because of limitations of blood levels
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  and absorptive capacity. But you can get more vitamin C
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  into your system by breaking it down and dividing the dose,
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  taking it more frequently. If you take too much too fast,
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  it can give you diarrhea. So make sure that you let your
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  body acclimate to it. Give it some time.
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  Vitamin C, Vitamin D2 of my foundational micronutrients that
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  I advocate universally, in order to live your longest life, you
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  got to be proactive with your immune system.
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  You need vitamin C for immune function, collagen production,
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  neutralizing free radicals. So those folks become my core
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  hacks. Make it part of your daily
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  routine and aim to live to be 120.
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  It's going to happen. I hope it happens to you.
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  I hope it happens to me. Part of the reason we do all
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  this is so that when the next breakthrough happens, we're
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  healthy enough to take advantage of it.
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  I don't want to be the guy that they have the breakthrough drug
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  that now can help. Our telomeres never shrink.
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  We'll talk about that in the future.
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  And holy cow, now human beings live to be 200.
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  But not you, Doctor Pedaruti, because your brain is too beat
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  up. So that's what you got.
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  Team live to be 120. Why not?
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  Unless unless you're a real unlikable person and a little
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  bit mean spirit, in which case, you know, party odd.
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  No, I'm kidding. We want everybody to be 120.
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  Wisdom comes with age, the ability to have an impact on the
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  human race. Why not?
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  All right, until next time. Thanks for tuning in.
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  I'm with you on this 120 year journey.