How to live long: 5 longevity habits from the world's healthiest people | Daniel Stickler, M.D.
Daniel Stickler, MD — How to live long: 5 longevity habits from the world's healthiest people | Daniel Stickler, M.D.
Channel: Daniel Stickler M.D. - Longevity & Healthy Aging · Our label: Clinician educator (Apeiron) · Source: youtube.com/watch?v=wVkUJ8wsILc
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What if I told you that there was a habit that’s practiced around the world in these isolated pockets and it’s been practiced for centuries that can add decades to your health and longevity. This is the practice of [music] the blue zones and I’m going to talk to you about the five most common habits that you can adopt to actually improve your quality of life, your health span, [music] and your longevity. The first two are pretty straightforward, but the last three are going to really [music] surprise you. I think [bell] blue zones are pockets around the…
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Key points, in the speaker’s own framing
- What if I told you that there was a habit that’s practiced around the world in these isolated pockets and it’s been practiced for centuries that can add decades to your health and longevity.
- This is the practice of [music] the blue zones and I’m going to talk to you about the five most common habits that you can adopt to actually improve your quality of life, your health span, [music] and your longevity.
- Even though these blue zones are in different climates, different locations, some on mountains, some by the sea, there are basically five habits that really impact longevity and health span that they practice.
- And this is something that has proven out in all of the longevity data, health span data, is that the heavy vegetablebased diets tend to promote sustained longevity.
- Primarily the phytonutrients that you get from the vegetables, the resistant starches that you get from the vegetables that help promote healthy gut bacteria, and the low calorie consumption.
- I mean, we now know that prolonged heat exposure, high heat areas tend to have a lesser life expectancy and health span than places that have temperate environments like the Koa Peninsula of Costa Rica.
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