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The Real Truth About Keto, Fasting and Longevity: Jim Howard Oct 19, 2021

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What is the importance of biofeedback for longevity and improved physical performance? How can we accurately measure whether we are in ketosis? What is intermittent fasting? What impact does an 18:6 diet really have on our bodies? What is autophagy? How does fasting affect muscle mass? What are exogenous ketones? What does it mean to be metabolically flexible?

With all of the conflicting information surrounding ketosis, fasting, the impact of exogenous ketones, and nutrition as a whole, we wanted to get an expert on the SuperAge podcast to give us some clarity around the topic. Jim Howard, the President and CEO of Readout Health, has helped to create an innovative biofeedback tool, Biosense, used to measure your ketone levels throughout the day to help with goals for longevity, weight management, or peak performance. He, along with this team at Readout Health, wants to help us regain control of our health through proper nutrition and lower the rates of obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and more.

What you will learn in this episode:
- Why using a biofeedback device can promote a better understanding of our health and be used to promote longevity
- How to know whether you’re in ketosis
- The misconceptions around ketosis, health, and diet
- What intermittent fasting does for the body
- What autophagy is and how it impacts aging
- What Jim’s wellness non-negotiable are

“A good way to look at ketosis, I don’t mean the keto diet I’m talking about ketosis, is that it’s the other side of the metabolic switch, that’s where the damage is undone. We focus on the undoing of the damage that one has done to themselves.”

“If longevity and healthspan are curious and part of your future plans, I encourage it to be, knowing what your actual body is doing as you enter these zones is critical, as opposed to just guessing.”

“I was born in 1967 and in this one generation, in 1967 10% of us were obese. 54 years later it’s now at 40%. In one decade it will be 49%.”

Try Readout Health’s Biosense ketone monitor with code SUPERAGE20 on https://mybiosense.com.

Listen to the SuperAge podcast wherever you get your pods.

Connect with Jim:
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-howard-2b33124/
Biosense Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mybiosense/?hl=en
Website: https://mybiosense.com

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The People We Have Become: Stacy London Oct 13, 2021

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Start an entirely new venture way out of one's career experience at age 52? How audacious, but why not. Stacy shows us how to be an absolute beginner, to believe you can do it, and to thrive. Fashion editor, stylist, author, star of “What Not to Wear”, and now founder of State Of Menopause, Stacy continues to evolve and show that the only things that can hold you back are self-limiting beliefs and expectations. After going through menopause, Stacy realized how under-prepared women are for this time in their lives. She felt isolated, overwhelmed, and stuck. Now, she is determined to create a language and community for all women to feel confident and educated going into an inevitable phase in their life. She wants to talk about menopause and aging in a way that is productive and meaningful.

How are women unprepared for menopause? Why must we stop pining over who we used to be and stay present in who we are now? Why is it beneficial to have a variety of friends younger, older, and the same ages us? What do I do if I’m scared to pivot careers or try something new? How has technology changed how we live and our ability to be present? How do we let go of expectations?

“People don’t realize how much power they possess over the way they’re perceived.”

“Create a life that you don’t want to run away from.”

“As I’ve aged, my interest in style has kind of grown into an interest in wellness.”

“Why not change or pivot and do something at 52? What else should I be doing? Should I be sitting around, mourning that I don’t have the career that I had at 32? What would be the point of that? Where does the purpose lie in that?”

What you will learn in this episode:

How Stacy is reimagining how we approach menopause
Why we must stay present and stop pining over who we used to be
Why we should seek out a friend group of a variety of ages, older, younger, and the same as us
How to let go of self-limiting beliefs and try something new, no matter your age
How technology has changed our lives and what Stacy thinks social media will become in the future
Stacy and David’s life non-negotiables
Why letting go of expectations will change your life

Listen to the SuperAge podcast wherever you get your pods.

Connect with Stacy:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stacylondonreal/?hl=en

Twitter: https://twitter.com/stacylondon?lang=en

State Of: https://www.stateofmenopause.com

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Sonic Brain Health? What You Can Do to Improve: Nina Kraus, Ph.D Oct 05, 2021

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How does sound make us feel connected to our communities and the world around us? How can sound actually damage our brain? How do we create a sonic environment that promotes better health? What impact does playing music have on our brain and rate of success in life?

Nina Kraus, the author of Of Sound Mind, joins us on the SuperAge podcast to answer these questions. Nina Kraus is a professor at Northwestern University investigating sound, speech, and music. In this episode, Nina and David tackle the fascinating topic of sound. They discuss how it can connect us to the world but could also damage our brains, how creating sound, or playing music, can lead to a more successful life, how we have the choice to curate a powerful sonic environment for better health, and more.

What you will learn in this episode:

How sound damages the brain
How sound benefits the brain
How making music leads to a healthier, more successful life
How we can curate our sonic environment for better health

“Making music is one of the best things that we can do to strengthen our sound mind.”

“Our hearing brain is vast as is our sound mind. Our sound mind engages how we feel, what we know about sound, how we move.”

Listen to the SuperAge podcast wherever you get your pods.

Connect with Nina Kraus:

https://brainvolts.northwestern.edu

Buy Nina’s book, Of Sound Mind:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/sound-mind

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Longevity Science in Practice: Dr. Kien Vuu Sep 29, 2021

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What is longevity science? What are the 7 lifestyle changes that will help us to live a healthier life? What happens to our bodies when we’re in a stress state? What does it mean to “age” and are there promising interventions to slow this process? Does having a sense of purpose impact us on a cellular level? What are peptides and how do they impact performance? What’s the deal with Resveratrol, mTOR, and Rapamycin?

Dr. Kien Vuu joins us for the second time on the SuperAge podcast to answer these questions. Once diabetic, hypertensive, and overweight, Dr. Kien Vuu decided he needed to either accept his unhealthy fate or make a change to be well. When he made certain impactful lifestyle and diet changes, he reversed his deteriorating health in 6 months. Now, he is helping his patients and followers reach peak performance and longevity.

“We were designed to thrive, we were designed to give back to our community, we were designed to show up as who we are as people but I think modern life has hypnotized us.”

“Built into our DNA is the need for us to serve beyond ourselves.”

“The power to take over our genetic expression, the power to take over our biological destiny is really in our hands. You are your best medicine.”

What you will learn in this episode:

How certain lifestyle habits can actually change the way our DNA is expressed and aging process
Why we must have a sense of purpose and serve others to be healthier
How Resveratrol, mTOR, and Rapamycin impact longevity
Why the traditional model of medicine isn’t cutting it
How to take control of your biological destiny

Listen to our full conversation on the SuperAge podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

Connect with Dr. Kien Vuu:

Website - https://kienvuu.com

Dr. Kien's Book - https://kienvuu.com/book/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kienvuumd/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/kienvuumd

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/kienvuuMD

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kienvuumd/

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Perseverance, Resilience, & Reinvention: Joan Lunden Sep 22, 2021

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What was it like to be the co-host on Good Morning America in the 80s and 90s? How did Joan Lunden balance her booming career and being a new mother all while being on TV every morning? How did age play a role in Joan leaving GMA? What are the 3 things we need in our lives to age better? What are Joan Lunden’s health non-negotiables?

The iconic Joan Lunden joins us this week to discuss these questions. She is inspiring, humble, and curious with a tremendous amount of wisdom to offer. When Joan became the co-host for Good Morning America in 1980, she had just found out that she was pregnant. She had her child and, 7 weeks later, she was back in the co-host chair. She didn’t know it then but she was changing the TV industry and work force for women. When she left GMA after being there for 20 years, her biggest problem was learning what opportunities to say no to. She had no intention of slowing down and now at 71 years old she is still ticking things off of her to-do list.

What you will learn in this episode:

What the TV industry, and work force, was like for women in the 80s and 90s
How Joan managed being a new mother with her booming career
Joan’s health non-negotiables
The importance of cleaning your living space
The top 3 things we must have to age better

“Look at us! Do we look old? No we don’t. So then why do we have to be called older? Act older? Think older?”

“I literally took on my health as another job, as a second occupation, and I started working with a nutritionist and a trainer and I have really changed myself. It’s not just that I lost 35 pounds, I changed the way I lived my life, I came to understand that I needed to honor myself.”

Listen to the SuperAge podcast wherever you get your pods.

Read Joan’s book, “Why Did I Come Into This Room?”

Connect with Joan:

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/joanlunden/?hl=en

Website - https://www.joanlunden.com

Twitter - https://twitter.com/JoanLunden?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/JoanLunden

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanlunden/

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/user/JoanLunden

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Why Do Marriages End?: Dr. Mark Goulston Sep 14, 2021

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How can we become better listeners? Why do marriages end? What is the difference between feeling felt vs. feeling understood? What are the gender difference when it comes to emotional intimacy? How do you properly respond to your partner’s emotions? Why don’t we understand how powerful disappointment can be in our lives?

Dr. Mark Goulston, psychiatrist and author, joins us on the SuperAge podcast to share his insights on these questions. Dr. Mark Goulston dropped out of medical school twice due to depression. After a school counselor believed in him and gave him a second chance, he finished medical school and wanted pay forward what that counselor gave him for his future patients. That is exactly what he is doing with his current practice. From marriages to eating disorders to strained parent-child relationships to suicide, Dr. Goulston uses his empathetic personality and ability to listen to navigate these issues with his patients.

What you will learn in this episode:

How empathy and the ability to listen can help strengthen our relationships
Why some marriages end
Why strong personalities may have a more difficult time with emotionally intimate relationships, and how to overcome that
The power of feeling felt vs. feeling understood
How to respond to your partner’s emotions

“Marriages don’t end because we stop loving each other, but because we stop feeling liked by each other.”

“Alpha energy is great for success. It’s not good for closeness. You know, it’s good to have alpha energy. You can build something, you can build a business, you can grow it, you can sell it, you can do whatever, but it’s not that good for emotional intimacy.”

“One of the reasons women will say ‘Don’t give me advice or solutions’ is because when they’re sharing something, they want to just feel less alone in the feeling, they want to feel felt by you, because if they feel felt by you, their oxytocin goes up, their cortisol goes down, their blood flow goes up to their brain, and then they can give themselves the advice they need.”

Listen to the SuperAge podcast wherever you get your pods.

Connect with Dr. Mark Goulston:

Website - https://markgoulston.com

Instagram - https://instagram.com/markgoulston?utm_medium=copy_link

Twitter - https://twitter.com/markgoulston?s=11

Read one Dr. Goulston’s best-selling book - Just Listen

Listen to Dr. Goulston’s audio course - Defeating Self-Defeat https://www.himalaya.com/courses/defeating-self-defeat-3129841?partner-from=15652260&utm_source=partner&utm_medium=mark_goulston

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90 Is the New 40: Dr. Michael Roizen, Chief Wellness Officer at the Cleveland Clinic Sep 08, 2021

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Is it better to eat your larger meals earlier in the day or later in the day? Are there ways we can “turn off” aging? How are stem cells being used to treat diseases? What role does TMAO inflammation have in heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, etc.? How do steak, egg yolks, & cheese contribute to these diseases? Why does Dr. Roizen drink 6 cups of coffee a day?

Dr. Michael Roizen, the Chief Wellness Officer Emeritus at the Cleveland Clinic since 2007 and Cofounder of RealAge, joins us on the SuperAge podcast to discuss these questions. He shares his thoughts on the future of aging and health span, how certain diseases can be drastically decreased by changing simple lifestyle behaviors and diet, why he drinks 6 cups of coffee a day, and much more.

What you will learn in this episode:

Why one might want to eat their largest meals earlier in the day
What the future holds for aging and health span
How eating certain inflammatory foods increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, and more
Why Dr. Roizen drinks 6 cups of coffee a day
Why daily caffeine consumption may benefit our health

“You wouldn’t marry someone that’s trying to kill you everyday, you shouldn’t eat food that’s trying to kill you.”

“Are there ways of turning off the aging that we have?”

“I think with an 80% probability, sometime in the next decade, we’re going to recognize that 90 can be the new 40. That is… just imagine!”

Listen to the SuperAge podcast wherever you get your pods.

Connect with Dr. Michael Roizen:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrMikeRoizen?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrRealAge/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-mike-roizen-33a9293/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drmichaelroizen/?hl=en

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Is Instagram A Drug?: Dr. Anna Lembke Aug 24, 2021

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What is dopamine? Can social media use become an addiction? How is social media impacting our brains and ability to feel pleasure or pain? How can we break the addictive cycle of our digital devices?

Dr. Anna Lembke, psychiatrist and author of the new book, “Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance In the Age of Indulgence”, joins us this week to answer these questions. She has done extensive work to study and treat a new phenomenon: social media addiction. As Dr. Lembke explains, social media use has become compulsive and addictive. It is a way to comfort ourselves by completely distracting our minds. Interestingly, by comforting and distracting ourselves with devices, we are actually causing ourselves more pain and suffering. How? Dr. Lembke shares her perspective on the topic.

What you will learn in this episode:

What happens in our brains when we use our devices
How our dependency on our devices are doing more harm than good
How we can break the addictive cycle
Why Dr. Lembke feels more connected and reachable without a smart phone

“Boredom is a really scary emotion because all of a sudden we are confronted with questions about the deeper meaning and purpose of our lives. And those are things that we need to be confronted with.”

“Instagram is a drug. It releases dopamine in the reward pathway exactly like other reinforcing addicting drugs that people have been taking.”

“What we need to do now is intentionally make our lives less convenient. Intentionally seek out painful, arduous, challenging things.”

“We’ve become so Inundated with pleasure and so insulated from pain that we hardly even know anymore what it is to experience pain and distress. And most of our suffering comes from excessive reward”

“We live in this high reward, drug-ified eco system that’s made us all vulnerable to the problem of over consumption and in some cases addiction”

Listen to the SuperAge podcast wherever you get your pods.

Read Dr. Anna Lembke’s new book: https://www.annalembke.com

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Homeopathy, What Is It and How Does It Work?: Christophe Merville, D.Pharm Aug 18, 2021

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What is homeopathy? How can homeopathy compliment or, in some cases, replace traditional pharmaceuticals? How can we use homeopathy to treat things like allergies, stress, sore muscles, and more? What about homeopathy makes it so individual and specific for each person? How can you find the right homeopathic practitioner? What are the limits of homeopathy?

Christophe Merville joins us this week on the SuperAge podcast to share his insights on homeopathy. Christophe is a pharmacist with training in homeopathy. As he explains, in France, the relationship that a pharmacist has with their patients is quite intimate when compared to how it is in the US. Pharmacists in France also incorporate homeopathy into their treatment plans. So what exactly is homeopathy? Christophe breaks it down for us in this episode.

What you will learn in this episode:

Homeopathy 101
When one might want to use homeopathic treatments instead of pharmaceuticals
Why the dosages of homeopathic treatments are as low as they are
How to find the right practitioner for you
The limits of homeopathy

“In France, homeopathy is very much integrated in medical practice.”

“We are in a culture, especially in the US, where more is better.”

“Homeopathy works fast. When you find that right medicine, it will work fast.”

“Know your limits and know when to ask for help.”

Listen to the SuperAge podcast wherever you get your pods.

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How A 50-Year-Old TV Anchor Gets It Done: Tamsen Fadal Aug 10, 2021

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What is it like to be a 50-year-old woman on television? What are the different societal expectations for men and women when it comes to aging? Botox, fillers, getting, "work" done? How can we have more meaningful conversations with people? How should we think about retirement?

Tamsen Fadal joins us this week on the SuperAge podcast to discuss these questions. Tamsen is a journalist, news anchor, author, speaker, and podcast host. She seems to do it all and has no intention of slowing down anytime soon. She recently turned 50 and has the unique perspective of being a women on television in her midlife. She shares with us some of the challenges that come along with her profession, why she was proud when she turned 50, her thoughts on appearance as we age, how she has more meaningful conversations with people as she has matured, and her thoughts on retirement. David and Tamsen also share some of the current health hacks that they are loving.

What you will learn in this episode:

What it is like to be a woman in her midlife on television
Why you should be proud to age rather than just accepting it
How to have more meaningful conversations with people
Why we need to reframe our view on retirement
The hacks that Tamsen and David use to wind down at night and sleep better

“Literally for 15 years I was petrified that I was going to wake up and that was going to be the day that I was irrelevant.”

“I turned fifty and I went, It’s like I ripped open my shirt and had superwoman written on my chest. I went, ‘Hey, I’m 50 years old and I’m still on television!’”

“When I turned 50 I didn’t do it hiding behind a curtain trying to pretend I was still 45… I was bragging about it.”

Listen to the SuperAge podcast where you get your pods.

Connect with Tamsen-

Website: https://tamsenfadal.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tamsenfadal/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/tamsenfadal

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tamsenfadal/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamsenfadal/

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coming-up-next-with-tamsen-fadal/id1560877893

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