How Fast Are You Aging?

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1:01 Hello, and welcome to the Ask Good Questions podcast. This is your host, Benita bell Anderson, and I'm so happy that you're here today. We have got a fantastic guest and topic to talk about today. We're going to talk about how fast you are aging. So with that, let me invite to the proverbial podcast stage, doctor Eldred Taylor. Hello, Benita, Hey, how are you doing? So good to see you again. I know it's so good to see you. I'm so excited for this this episode because we are going to delve into I want. I want you to tell me how I can really slow down my aging. That's what I want. Okay, Taylor, Okay.

1:44 All right, okay, right, all right, we'll do. I want to give just a brief intro for him and then have him say a few words about his background, because this is a medical professional that has really stepped up his game as far as how to take care of the whole person. He's really getting the hormones and lifestyle and your brain and how how everything with your mindset fits in. Yeah, yeah, so I wanted. To I knew that he was really delving into this whole thing with slowing the aging process, so that's why I wanted to have him come on and chat about this. Do you want to say a few more words about your background?

2:25 Well, okay, I am. I am originally an obguy. N That's what my training was in. I trained at Emory University. I live in Atlanta, and that's where emory is that's what got me here. I'm married to another doctor and we worked together. But I started out being interested in bioidentical hormone replacement, and my wife and I wrote a book called Are Your Hormones Making You Sick? So that was my initial kind of divergence from conventional medicine. And then from that I started to get really interested in stress and how stress affects hormones, and we wrote a book called Stress Connection. And then as I have become older I'm sixty five now, I went I came to a crossroads and it's like, am I going to get better at sixty five or am I just going to retire and fade away and sit in a rocking chair until death comes? And I took the other road. I was like, instead of me just sitting around waiting on death, you know, maybe I can get better, Maybe I can reverse my aging. Maybe I can do even more than what I did when I was younger. So I set out on a path to do that. And that's what created this ageless blueprint, is that I tried to find that blueprint for myself. And you know, my chairman of my department in my ob Juan said, never do anything to a patient that you wouldn't do to yourself, or to your wife, or to your mother. And so if I'm going to do that for me, I feel almost obligated to try and share that. And you know, anybody,

3:58 you know, when we talk about being ageless, you know, you can be forty and feel like you're eighty, or you can be eighty and feel like you're forty, and it's it's a process to that, and that's what we'll you know, we can talk about today. How do you how do you how do you process that? What processes helped you to reverse aging? Yeah, well, you know, I don't know anybody that doesn't think about this. You know, pretty much all of us are wondering about this topic. So let's kind of start with. You know, I have had my my biological age tested, and but what's the difference between the chronological age and the biological age.

4:44 Well, you know, your chronological age is how many years have passed since your birth certificate says you were born, So that's your chronological age. But your biological age is how fast or how slowly is your are your organ systems aging? All right? And the primary aging aging process is stress. And when I say stress, stresses can be physical stress, it can be emotional stress, it can be environmental stress. And when we talk about reversing aging, that's going to be the number one thing we're going to talk about. There's really five points I want to make and we'll get to that. But yeah, your chronological age is what's on your birth certificate and what is and how many years have passed, But your biological age can be vastly different. You can be ten years younger than your chronological age because your organs have been treated correctly by how you eat, how you think, how you sleep, are you can abuse your body. All we've seen people, you know, let's say drug addicts who have not taken care of themselves. They look sixty and they're thirty, you know, because they have abused their body, and you can see it on their face, you can see it in their skin, you can see how they walk, how they talk, and you can say, you know, that person looks old. And there's a song that says everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old. And that's, you know, that's kind of how life feels. We want to live, but we don't want to grow old.

6:14 Well, are you saying that there is a test that can really actually reveal your biological age. Yeah, now there's a couple. Now, one is it's a test that I use, and I think there's some other companies. It's called true Diagnostics, where it looks at epigenetics, and epigenetics means you know, you have your genes. And a lot of people think, oh, while it's in my family, you know, I got this genetic you know, whether it's hypertension or cancer or whatever. But that's not true. You don't really have a gene for cancer, you don't have a gene for a high blood pressure. Really, it's these things called epigenetics, these triggers that either turn a gene on or turn a gene off, and they are primarily turned on and off by your lifestyle. And so if you can change your lifestyle, if you can change what you eat, how long you sleep, how you think, and how you think about age, it's probably the most important.

7:12 You know, when I said, hey, am I just going to sit in a rock and chair and die? If you if you think like that, that is exactly what will happen. You know, as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. But if you look at age as something that you know, the way I look at it is that I am wise. Now, you know, wisdom only comes with experience. So there's a lot of people who are talking about a lot of different things. But when you look at aging as something that is enviable, that hey, I am you know when they I had patients asking me if I was going to retire, and I'm like, why would I retire? I know more, I've experienced more, I've seen more patience, I've had more experiences. So I look at aging is that I'm I'm that wise person who can help younger people navigate this thing called life.

8:03 Yeah, well, is there some one thing that really surprised you when you first really started learning about the difference between biological and chronicle age? What surprised you the most? What surprised me the most is what you were talking about as mindset? Okay, what you think? Your thoughts have so much power that you really don't understand. And I'll tell you, I don't know if you know Joe de Spenza, he's big on this IP. I spent a week as because of you. You reminded me of him and I was listening to one of his He has these nighttime meditation things on YouTube right.

8:45 Right, nighttime meditations, daytime meditations, and he talks about and he can prove it scientifically that meditation changes your biology and there's no doubt about it. We did a seven day advance workshop and it was all about meditation and guided focus and all this. And he had a group of people that he measured some biological markers before the seven day conference and then afterwards, and there were dramatic changes in inflammatory markers, in markers of GI inflammation, all kinds of markers that he looked at. In just in seven days, he changed the genetic expression of most of these people. And just being in the room was really experienced.

9:37 It was over two thousand people there and we did over thirty five hours of meditations in seven days. And that's something that I couldn't I couldn't have done a year ago. It's no way I can meditate for that long because it is a practice that you have to learn. You have to practice meditation, and so that was probably the most surprising thing. It really is about how you think about yourself and about your environment, and that's what stress is. Stress is your perception. And so if you perceive something is stressful, you set off all these chemicals that begin to aid you prematurely. But if you can perceive your life as being joyful and grateful and loving, it changes your whole biology instead of being judgmental and angry and hateful. Those thoughts aid you because they set off chemicals in your brain and your body that start to well, really is inflammation, but it just starts to aid you prematurely. So that's probably the most surprising thing because a lot of people think, you know, it's what kind of medication or exercise or whatever, And exercise is important, but meditation is the most important. And I apologize to my patience and every time I talk that for the first twenty eight years of me practice in medicine, I did not advocate meditation. And meditation is probably the one

11:07 self healing thing that you can do and it doesn't cost you any money. Well, you can make it up now, right. Yeah, I am, I am making. It up now. Well, okay, let's stop for a minute again. Okay, so you've said a couple of times that term epigenetics, and I'm beat. And there's probably some people that are not familiar. I don't know if I could give a good definition. How would you define epigenetics. So epigenetics means it's above your genes. So you actually they said that you only really express about ten percent of your genes. But all of those genes have a purpose. So the best way to explain it is that genes are like piano keys and the epigenetics that is what plays the music. So you can play something that's in perfect harmony and it's great, and that's when your body is in balance and in harmony and your epigenetics are playing all the right genes all right, so that you live healthy and you live a long life and all that, and that's influenced by the stress. How well you sleep, how well you eat, how well you move, and how well your social connections are supporting you. So those are the five pillars, the five lifestyle pillars that play the right music. Okay, so just think you have all of these genes that can be either turned on or turned off.

12:37 So there's genes that aid you and those are usually the stress hormones. When you're under stress, is fight or flight are you can have what we call the reparative genes, which is parasympathetic, which is what we call rest and digest, and those are the ones that making sure that all of the keys are in tune. You know that they're playing the right music. So that's the best explanation I have. You have a piano, what keys are going to be played? And you know if you play a flat note, everybody here, you know, everybody knows that that's off and it throws off the whole music. And so that's how you have to look at your genes. If your sleep is off, if your stress is off, if your nutrition is off, it's a possibility that your epigenetics will play the wrong key, and then if you don't correct that, it ends up with disease and even death. So that's that's probably the.

13:33 Yeah analogy. Yeah, Well, so you're talking about genes expressing themselves. So I think of two things. I think about the environment and lifestyle choices. That seems to be is that the biggest things that will make a determination on which genes are expressed lifestyle. Environment, lifestyle. And again it's it's stress. And you got to think of stress being any kind of everybody thinks stresses emotional stress, but there's environmental stressors the air that you breathe. Now you're in Hawaii, so your air is probably a lot cleaner than it is in Atlanta.

14:13 But that I'm close to Honolulu. You should see the traffic here. Yeah, I do have these great trip Like if I went out on that deck right now, there's a wonderful trade wind that blows around. But yeah, no idea it no like air quality. Yes, it's air quality the stressor. And you know the pesticides that are used, those are stressors. Those are what we call hormone disruptors, so they disrupt your harmones. So and that if your hormones anything is out of is out of balance in your body, your body sees it as a stressor. So you want to have a lifestyle that eliminates as many stressors as possible. So you know, if you're talking about environmentally, you want to try and eat organic foods. You want to try and avoid pesticides.

14:59 You want to try and avoid chemicals that can be absorbed in your skin because they can stress out your immune system. So that's a part of your environment. And then lifestyle choices is really getting enough sleep and what you eat. Those are the two things. Because the way you are. The way you give your body what it needs to repair itself is by what you put in your mouth. And that can be food, that can be supplements or whatever. But you have to give your body what it needs to create energy, to be able to repair itself, to be able to regenerate itself. And then the only way you can do that is with rest. And that's why sleep is so important. So I can give you every supplement known demand, and I can feed you every organic fruit and vegetable there is. And if you don't sleep, nothing happens, because that's when you use whatever you've put in your mouth. That's when your body repairs this and regenerates that and eliminates this if you don't sleep. So that's always my first priority. If a patient says that they're not getting sleep, then that is my number one goal. First, we have to get you to sleep well.

16:12 Then probably one of the first things that when you and I started to connect it was on hormones. How see, if you can give me just a short little how does hormones fit in with this whole aging process thing? Because hormones affect everything, especially especially in women and in men too. Hormones they affect everything. And as a woman, you know, it affects your mood, it affects your weight, it affects how you feel, it affects everything. And when those are out of balance, that can be a major stressor. All right, And a lot of times women aren't familiar with why they're feeling a certain way. And a lot of doctors and this I told you I kind of steered away from conventional medicine, is how do you identify a hormone imbalance? And I talked about this on the last one. I'll just say, and what I didn't learn in medical school is how to measure hormones, especially in women.

17:15 And now I measure them in saliva and it shows me that imbalance. So you want to try and identify and correct any imbalances, whether it's in your gut or your hormones or whatever, so you can remove those physiological stressors, because that's the other part you gotta you know, we all think of stress as some emotional stress. I got a divorce or some my parent dad. But those physiological stressors that you're unaware of, they are aging you faster than you know. And hormones is hormones is a is a major part of that. And it's not just estrogen and progesterone, the testosterone. The biggiest cortisol your stress hormone, and when you are under stress, that cortisol is catabolic.

18:03 That means it breaks you down faster. And we all know when you know, when you're under stress, you look broken down. I mean you can see you can see it on a person's face, and so you want to avoid that at all calls. So estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and cortisol, they're all intermingled and if one is off, it throws off everything else. So that's why hormones are so important, because if you don't get your hormone straight, you're going to have difficulty sleeping. And most women know that when they go through menopause. And you know, when you're stressed, you have a hard time going to sleep, or you wake up in the middle of the night thinking about what you're you know, what you're stressed out about. So hormones, that's always my basic pillar. First we're gonna start with your hormones. Then we can work with your mind and your mindset, and then the third thing we try and do is try and have a social connection and a spiritual connection. And I took a longevity course and they always talked about how important it was to have some type of spirit. Your connection to think beyond yourself is that think that there is a greater purpose than just you being here as a human being, that you actually have a purpose and a and a higher calling, and that gives you purpose and gives you a reason to live.

19:15 You have to have a reason to wake up every morning. You know you have to have something that you feel is your purpose, that this is why I'm here is to do this, and you know that that has helped that helps you to live longer when you say I've got something that I have to do tomorrow, because you got to think for your purpose. You're the only one that can feel your purpose, and that's how you have to think about that. You have to think about yourself as being unique and that if I don't do it, it won't get done. So I'm determined to do this well. It seems like the first big AHA is all around stress and identifying what are the stressors in your own and because everybody's stressors are going to be different, so that would be a big AHA to delve into more after the podcast. All right, I want to go into you know, because it's like I know, I know, on these podcast episodes, I only have a certain amount of time with you. We're going to go into the test and what it reveals a little bit. So you've been talking a little bit about this test. What does the test measure and how accurate is it? You think it's really accurate and what it does.

20:31 Yeah, So what it looks at, It looks at methylation and methylation is how your genes are marked. And so there's I could show you if I hadn't known you once say it show it. But it is looking at the methylation of these different genes, and the more methylated it is, the more it is aging. All right. So that's how it looks at it. And methylation is a little marker that's put on these genes and as they are are being expressed, they're methylated. So that's what that's what is measured, the methylation. And we've all heard of m t h f R when you have problems methylating, and so that's what is protecting or either it's either turning the gene on all yeah, yeah, okay, And so so that's and so it looks at different organ systems.

21:21 It looks at your cardiovascular system. Is that aging you prematurely? Then we know that, Okay, that's what we have to focus on. Is it your GI system? Is it your immune system? Are you are things being inflamed and a lot of people call aging inflammation inflaaging is that the more inflamed you are, the more the quicker you're going to age. So the number one goal is to decrease inflammation. All right. So stress causes a suppression of your immune system, so it makes you more susceptible to inflammation eating inflammatory foods like processed foods, those are inflammatory if you're eating foods that you're sensitive to. So a lot of times we will look at food sensitivity testing because if we see inflammation and we can't you know, and you don't have an acute, acute inflammatory process, we start to look at food sensitivity to see if the food that you're eating is causing this low level of chronic inflammation. And that low level of inflammation eventually will show up in skin disorders, it will show up in arthritis, it'll show up in hype, in Hashimoto's disease, any kind of autoimmune disease that you have is more than likely due to a problem with inflammation and food sensitivities. So that's why nutrition is so important when we're talking about lifestyle choices

22:54 and aging. You don't want to you don't want to set up this chronic inflammation eating foods that you're sensitive to. And here's the deal. You would think, see people think of inflammation from food that hey, I'm allergic to shellfish, so I eat shellfish and my face blows up and I can't breathe. So that's what we a. That's what we call an acute or in immediate sensitivity. But then you can have these low level inflammation that you don't swell up like that, but you have this low level of inflammation that kind of is like when you think you're about to have a cold, but you don't really have the cold yet, but you know how your brain gets foggy and you don't you're kind of achey and you don't just feel right. A lot of people go through life feeling like that, and really it can be due to the foods they eat. The foods they eat and the chronic inflammation that's being set up. So I think we lost our host. Why are you still there? Hm?

24:06 There we go? Yeah, there you go? Yeah, I said we lost our host. I asked that Jan was still there. So all right, Next question? How often so somebody does this testing and then they're trying to make some lifestyle changes, how often should somebody retest to track progress? Because I'm guessing you start trying to diligently make some differences in your life, you would need to retest, wouldn't you. Yeah, that's the whole thing. I'm big into testing. Hey, what's the problem. What interventions should I do? If? What interventions should I implement? And then let's retest it and see if those interventions actually did what we wanted it to do. And if it didn't, we need to change, you know, change our whatever we implement it so that we can get the desired results. So we usually say in three to six months now lifestyle changes and all that stuff. Those those are great and they work well.

25:06 And there's also some things I'm really getting more involved with using peptads to try and stimulate and what what peptads do? They are these messengers that can kind of reignite some of your regenative processes. So there's there's peptads that can help with ligaments. There's peptads that help with your immune system. There's peptads that help with your skin. And peptads are these small so peptads means small proteins. They are these little chains of amino acids, and that's what glp ones are. They're they're peptads. And so just like those peptads can alter your insulin resistance and alter your hemoglobin A one C, there's other peptads that can alter your thymus clan and your pineal gland and there's all and even your overs any kind of biological regulatory system.

26:05 They can help boost it and make it act like it's younger. And you have a lot of these peptads when you're younger, and so you can repair yourself. You can recover from injury, and we all know as we get older, it gets harder for us to recover and to repair ourselves. But peptads can help to promote that. So we want to start with the lifestyle changes. But if in that epigenetic testing we see something that is definitely aging you more quickly, we may want to use peptads in order to focus on regenerating that particular system because they're they're they're discovering more and more peptads every day. And I have patients who come in and say which peptads should I take? And I say, I don't know.

26:50 Let's see where the problems are and then I can tell you what peptads will help to correct that particular system. Well, there is there certain lifestyle factors that would be have the biggest impact on you know, because this could be overwhelming, right, yeah, it could be overwhelming. So is there certain lifestyle factors that you think would have the biggest impact that maybe focus on one particular thing. Okay, I'm gonna I will say it again, and this is this is so I'll tell you A great book to read is the telomere Effect. Okay, okay, And and do you know what telomeres are? Let me explain what.

27:33 On your mitochondria. Well, they're on your DNA. So you have you have your chromosomes. Yeah, so you have your chromosomes. You know the chromosomes you've seen us in valley. They look like this. So the ends of your chromosomes, those are what open up and they're what they or what replicate and make new sales all right. So every time your DNA opens up and it and it and it duplicates itself, then it has to go back together. So the the the telomeres are like the shoelaces on your shoes, all right, So that what happens is they keep those ends from fraying so that stays organized. Now as the every time you your sales divide, those telomeres shorten, all right, and so the shorter the telomeres, the shorter the lifespan of that chromosome, all right. So that's how you can look.

28:25 And that's another way you can tell, is how short are your telomeres. And the person who wrote the telomere effect, she won a Nobel Prize for understanding there's this enzyme called telimeraates that can lengthen telomeres. So all of these lifestyle changes that I'm telling you about are things that she that she discovered with her you know, research group. How can you lengthen those telomeres? All right? So Number one was stress that shortens your tilameres, and that stress and and one of the number one of the biggest stressors was being a caregiver. Okay, it's a caregiver. Yeah, yeah, that was one of the biggest stressors is are you a caregiver? Are you in a dangerous or a unsafe environment, Whether you live in a bad neighborhood or you live in a bad home, you know where you're always under this chronic fear and stress. So those are the two big ones. But the thing that no doubt about it is meditation was the one to combat it. So you know, my four step stress formula is, if at all possible, get rid of the stress, whether it's a relationship, whether it's a physical stress, where it's environmental stress, emotional stress, try your best identify it and get rid of it.

29:48 If you can't, you have to change how you respond to the stress. And that's where meditation and breath work, all of that comes in, and that's been shown to reverse aging, no doubt about it. Meditation, breath work, and energy work like tai chi and she gong, those are all stress relievers. When you cannot get rid of the stress, the third thing is repair the damage caused by the stress. So if it's a damage, if it is damaged your gout or your hormones or whatever, try to repair that and then prepare yourself for future stress. So stress is the number one, So number two would be sleep. You want to get six to eight hours of good, RESTful sleep, and I like to monitor my sleep. Do you have an R ring or any of those? Do you have.

30:41 A I have, I'm about to I'm thinking about replacing this. This is a galaxy, a Samsung Galaxy five. Well, I think the latest one is like the eight and it can do all kinds of but this thing has been great. I have learned a lot by tracking my sleep. Yeah, and that's why sleep is so important. And I'll tell you I was banned with that, especially during COVID and stuff. My sleep was awful. I was monitoring it. But now I've come up with a routine. I routinely get six six and a half hours of sleep, and that's really good for me. Some people my wife needs eight hours, no doubt about it. It's almost impossible for me to sleep eight hours. But I know that I'm getting good ram sleep and I'm getting good deep sleep and I can feel it that next morning. So sleep is of utmost important. And then nutrition, and you want to stay away from inflammatory foods things that your sister too.

31:41 You want to stay away from inflammatory oils. Like olive oil. You want to use avocado or coconut oil, olive oil. Those are the things that you want to use. The fourth thing is exercise. And you don't have. To run America exercise because yeah, don't you think you know? You can hear so many conflicting ideas, and exercise is one of those where you get all kinds of opinions about how about if exercise really makes a difference on your biological age. What do you think, Well, yes, you don't want to over exercise because that will stress you out and that and that's been shown in these long distance runners and marathon runners. The more they do it, they wear their bodies down. I mean, you just can't do you can't.

32:30 You can't over exercise. What is suggested is you're supposed to do one hundred and fifty minutes of some type of aerobic exercise and it can be walking, it can be are either one hundred and fifty minutes of that all they say you do high intensity interval training like three times a week. You want to do some strength training, and again you want to do what is appropriate for you and for your stage and your exercise journey. Thirty minutes five times a week. Yeah, thirty minutes, five times a week. Yeah, So I mean, and can be walking around the neighborhood. It can be just enough where you're a little bit short of breath, you know, so you want to take some heels and whatever, where your breed, where your respiratory rate is a little bit you know, elevated, your your cardiovascular rhythm is a little bit elevated. And so that's it. You don't have to go and and do you know boot camps five days a week and you know, and you come out exhausted.

33:29 Always tell people here's how you measure exercise. When you finish, do you feel satisfied and you feel better or do you like crawl out on all hands, on your hands and knees and you know, drag yourself to the car. You've over exercised. So I just left the gym. I finished an hour ago. I came home, I showered and whatever, and I go out there. I mean, when I finished exercising, I feel like I've done something, But I don't feel like I'm totally wasted. And I you know, I come here and i'm you know, I'm I'm totally you know, exhausted, But I feel proud of myself that I did something that I promised myself how I was going to do. And then the fifth one is social connection, and I think that's really important. Human beings are meant to be social beings. You are not meant to live isolated. And you know, you see these movies where people are in solitary confinement and after about three or four days they go absolutely crazy. You know, you need that connection. And one example is and on my podcast, I said, you know, men need women and women don't necessarily need men because well, this is why I say that is that when you have a couple that's been married thirty forty years and you're a man and your spouse dies, it's statistically, it's been shown statistically that that man will die usually within a twelve month period if he does not have his children or someone around him to take up that social

35:00 connection that he had, or he needs to get remarried. So if you, you know, if you're a child and your dad's a widow or widow or whatever, then you need to encourage him to go and find another mate. Now, women they can you know, they can be they can be without a man for twenty thirty years, and it just it doesn't. Buy at all. We have our girlfriends, we have we do our stuff with our girlfriends. Yeah, right, right, So that's why I'm saying men need women and women you have a man if you want, But if you don't, that's fine. I'll just hang out with my girls. But but yeah, that's social connection. Like I said, you have a social connection. Uh so we are social beings and so you want to make sure that you try and maintain because in that book, it was like, do you have somebody you can talk to when you're feeling down or depressed? You know? Do you have someone that you feel loves you unconditionally? And you don't need thirty friends, You need just one or two who are real friends. I used to always tell my kids.

36:06 They's like, oh, my friend this. I said, No, you have a lot of acquaintances. But believe me, you only have a few friends, you know. And that's that's how I feel, is that if you have one or two good friends, you are very fortunate. Well, you know, we've kind of touched on the fact that there's a lot of information out there. How in the world do you separate legitimate science from hype and all the anti hing stuff that's out there. Yeah, I know, and that's why I like testing, Okay, because and you're right, you know, there can be you know, so like the telomere effect. She won a Nobel Prize for that discovery. So that's pure science. Yeah, that's pure science, and so we can go with that. But hey, I you know, I've been in this anti aging world or twenty twenty five years, and you're right, there are a lot of fats out there. There's a lot of people promoting a lot of stuff. But I'll tell you just this is what I tell you about mindset and meditation and all that. When you start to become familiar with your inner self, with your true being, your intuition will tell you a lot Okay, a lot of times we try and you know, disregard our gut feeling. But through meditation, I have learned how to listen to my self. And

37:39 I think that's really important. If you really understand yourself and you're comfortable with yourself, you will And women know this, women have women that women's intuition is real and men have to work at it. We have to work at it, you know. And I figured out women's intuition. When I first got married, we had some friends and my wife said, oh, it was really actually my medical partner. I hope he's not listening well when we decided. When I decided to join him and we started our practice together, my wife came home she said, I don't know, I just don't feel right. And I was like, uh, you know what are you talking about? You know this guy, we're going to have a practice. Well, she was right. After about six or seven years, we broke up. It was a nasty divorce. I'm telling you, being a partner in a medical practice is like being married. So it was a nasty divorce. And my wife was absolutely right. And since then, if my wife says something, I just say okay, and she's like, I don't know why, I don't know why I feel like this, but I'm telling you, ninety five percent of the time her intuition is correct. And so I really value women's situition. And you know, I was an obgui n and I would tell my patience I never argue against a woman's feeling. And I always tell them, Hey, if you don't feel right about what I'm saying to you, don't do it. Okay, so I want you to feel

39:10 right that I'm telling you, and I want you to I want you to pay attention to that gut feeling. And if that gut feeling is telling you it's not right for you, then hey, I need to switch gears. So so yeah, I don't know how I got on that button. Well, you know what they say, happy wife, happy life. Hey, I've been married thirty nine years, but I'll tell you it took me ten years to understand that. And I'll tell you my wife will tell you the first ten years we're like this. But for the last twenty nine at least for me, I've learned that, hey, whatever keeps her happy, keeps everybody happy. And so so yeah, I'm a staunch believer in that happy wife, happy life.

39:54 Well you know these episodes always go so fast, right I you know it's just like, well, first of all, I have a bonus downloads place on my website where people can get We'll make sure that whatever you want to where people can click on your information and get information about you, then that'll be there. But okay, let's kind of end up with what is one habit today to slow their aging? What would be one habit that you would recommend. Stop eating processed foods. Don't eat I mean, that's that's easy.

40:37 Is just you know, if I tell you to meditate, that takes it. That takes a while. You got to learn how to do it. You got to get a headband, all that stuff. Stop eating hot dogs and baloney and all the stop eating processed foods. I'm not telling you to stop eating meat. Stop eating processed foods, Okay, that would be the first thing. Stop, you know, that's easy to do. Pick another type of food. I would tell you to stop eating meat. But there's some good meats, you know, if it's not doesn't have hormones in it, doesn't have growth factors in it. But the processed meats are probably the worst chemical And I'll tell you some other things. Don't don't eat halfh fruit, toase coin SYRP, you know, and don't eat things that have transfats in it.

41:22 Because again, this is how you have to look at it. Your gut is the same is protecting your inside like your skin protects your outside. Okay, so if you are constantly putting damaging stuff inside you, your gut is like a filter and it ends up damaging that filter. Just like if you have a bunch of scratches on your skin, and it opens you up to all kinds of things. So it's really really important what you put in your mouth because that is going to affect every cell in your body. So that's the easiest quickest way to reverse aging is by changing what you put in your mouth.

42:06 And that's something you can do today. Go in there and take your hot dogs out and stop eating them. Okay, that's something you do right now. Okay, so before we say goodbye today, talk to talk to me and give me give me an invitation for people to check out your ag less ageless. Oh okay, yeah yeah. So in ages poof print, why did I start that one to have a community because communities are important. You want to have life like minded people, uh, talking about things talking about being ageless. So it's primarily people who are forty and over who are there to try and learn how to become ages. So give I do an ass tip of the day. I have three courses in there. It's one it's harmone clarity, it's five u uh five pillars of age is living. And then I have mindset Mastery and I'm about to open up one this beginning a beginning course on peptids, and so all those courses, it's ten dollars a month. I'm on their live at least twice a month. I answer questions.

43:17 I do all this, and so it's a community where I'm trying to impart what I've learned and what I am learning, and so we're on this path together. You know. Again, I'm sixty five. I hope that we're doing this for another twenty or thirty years. I call myself the Colonel Sanders of medicine. I'm starting a new business at sixty five and hopefully as successful as a protective question chickens, Yeah, without the fried chicken. But he started KFC when he was sixty five. So that's what I'm trying to do. You know. My whole practice has been as I have aged and as my wife has aged, I've kind of done things to go along in that age bracket. I was doing ob when I was younger and we were having kids. I started talking about hormones when my wife was going through perimenopause and menopause. Now I'm in sixty five, so now I'm concerned about how am I going to live the rest of my life. So I've walked this path for the last thirty years, and so this is you know, this is just another stage in my life.

44:21 And as I try to improve, I try to convey that information to whoever else is interested. Well, I predict that you are going to make a big difference to a lot of people, and you're just gonna continue to get better and better. That's that's gonna go. Go ahea, I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, no, And I see that, and it has been something that has really impressed me. Is because man, you need good, solid, truthful voices in this world. Yeah, and so you know, to me, you know, being a financial if you don't have your health, it doesn't matter how much money you might have or whatever other successes.

45:07 If you don't have your health, then nothing else really matters. Yeah, they tak Yeah, they say health as wealth. Yeah, that's that's yeah. So yeah, you can have all the money in the world, but you're sitting in the bed, you know, and can't breathe with action. What does it matter? Somebody else is just gonna they'll be spending your money, you know. So but uh yeah, I yeah, you know, I'm really passionate about this and I'll tell you. One reason why I started doing podcasts and Instagram is that I had patients come and tell me, hey, I heard this on Instagram. I heard this on that and it's totally, you know, crazy stuff. And one of my one of my patients said, Doc, you got to get on social media.

45:51 I'm sorry, you just got to do it. You have to be able to have a reasonable voice on social media. And so let me tell you at sixty five, it's not easy learning social media. I'm telling you I had to hire people to help me this TikTok and Instagram. Yeah, And so that's a part of my learning curve is that that patient said, we need a reasonable voice on social media, and I'm trying my best to be that. And so that's kind of my purpose is to be the you know, be the voice of reason in this crazy world of social media and followers and influencers and all of this stuff. So I'm jumping in head first and we'll see if hopefully I can float up to the top. I'm trying. I'm trying my best.

46:46 I'm pretty sure you will. You will. Yeah. So with that, I want to thank you so much for being here today. Well, thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it and I hope this helps somebody, and I'd love to see you in the ass Blueprint. Well, you know, I'm always I'm always about asking good questions and I think we did that today. So thank you so much for joining the Ask Good Questions Podcast. Thank you so much. I hope I gave you good answers. Yes I did. All right, okay, all right, thank you so much for get it all right, bye bye, all. Right, ay bye. Today's episode is over. But we did ask good questions again, didn't We don't miss out as we broadcast live every Wednesday six pm Eastern Time on W four CY Radio at W four cy dot com. Joined Venina Bellmerson next week for more conversations with experts on finances, retirement, behavioral finance issues, health and wellness, and more. Until then, remember to ask good questions.