WEBVTT - Have you got a longevity strategy?

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<v Speaker 1>Oh yes, you have tuned into the Body and Soul

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<v Speaker 1>podcast cat Healthy Ish with Felicity Harley. Now, we have

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<v Speaker 1>been talking a bit on this podcast about longevity lately,

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<v Speaker 1>but when we came across Nick Angerer's approach, we felt

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<v Speaker 1>you needed to hear about it too, because it's a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit different from the rest. Now. Nick is founder

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<v Speaker 1>of a Longer Life, co founder of Sage Women's Health.

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<v Speaker 1>He's our triathlete and holds a PhD. He joins us

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<v Speaker 1>from Iron Bay today to discuss his concept of a

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<v Speaker 1>longevity strategy. Have you got one? If you do like

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<v Speaker 1>what you hear from Nick, tune into Extra Healthy Ish,

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<v Speaker 1>where we talk about all things tech and tests and

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<v Speaker 1>longevity habits. Yes, we do a big deep dive into longevity.

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<v Speaker 1>You can catch that wherever you get your podcasts. Nick,

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<v Speaker 1>nice to have you on Healthy Ish. How's your day being.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm having a beautiful, wonderful sunny day up here in

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<v Speaker 2>Byron Bay.

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<v Speaker 1>I have no complaints, a white rubbedy and hay Byron.

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<v Speaker 1>It's just, you know, it's just heaven up there.

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<v Speaker 3>It is heaven up here. I love it.

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<v Speaker 2>I try to explain to people back home in the

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<v Speaker 2>US how good it is and I don't think words

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<v Speaker 2>ever do it justice.

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<v Speaker 1>No, No, you're right, you have to be there to

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<v Speaker 1>experience it and live it, and no doubt it is

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<v Speaker 1>helping boost your longevity. Tell us why the interest in longevity?

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, so thanks Felicity.

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<v Speaker 2>My interest in longevity stems from quite a personal story

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<v Speaker 2>that I actually just got finished sharing at the Healthy

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<v Speaker 2>Aging Summit in Brisbane just last Friday, and it's about

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<v Speaker 2>a cancer journey. So, when my son was born during

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<v Speaker 2>air insection, my wife was diagnosed with a rare form

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<v Speaker 2>of cancer and she had to have two very significant

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<v Speaker 2>surgeries over a few different years to put that fully

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<v Speaker 2>in remission. And at the same time, in the same

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<v Speaker 2>few months, I had two of my close friends also

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<v Speaker 2>get diagnosed with cancer, so that was three people in

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<v Speaker 2>there late twenties for me, as my son's being born

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<v Speaker 2>welcomed into the world of understanding our mortality, and that

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<v Speaker 2>made me become, after I've made it through all that,

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<v Speaker 2>become quite interested in preventative health screening. So I did

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<v Speaker 2>a real deep dive on preventative health screening and really

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<v Speaker 2>asking the question, why do we have so much technology

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<v Speaker 2>available to us, yet we still have this surprise, you

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<v Speaker 2>have stage four cancer type diagnosis happening to so many people.

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<v Speaker 2>And so I actually was researching the technologies that are

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<v Speaker 2>available for us to catch cancer at a very early stage,

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<v Speaker 2>and I found that not only was that technology quite

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<v Speaker 2>advanced already, but that the primary barrier to its uptake

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<v Speaker 2>was a lack of awareness of it and a demand

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<v Speaker 2>for that type of service.

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<v Speaker 3>So I started.

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<v Speaker 2>Blogging about it in response, and as I did that,

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<v Speaker 2>I got deeper and deeper into this whole realm of longevity,

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<v Speaker 2>finding that it's not just cancer early early stage cancer.

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<v Speaker 3>Diagnoses that we can now accomplish, but.

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<v Speaker 2>We can do much much more, even actually understanding the

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<v Speaker 2>aging process itself, and that it's the primary driver for

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<v Speaker 2>the risk factor for all of these.

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<v Speaker 3>Diseases that end up killing us.

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<v Speaker 2>And that since we're starting to understand what aging is

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<v Speaker 2>and why it happens, in fact, we are now learning

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<v Speaker 2>it's possible to slow, possibly halt, and maybe even reverse

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<v Speaker 2>aspects of aging in the very very near future. So

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<v Speaker 2>I've become very fascinated with the broader topic of longevity

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<v Speaker 2>through that journey.

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<v Speaker 1>How's he wife, by the way she is?

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<v Speaker 3>She?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, Now, we were fortunate to be married for ten years,

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<v Speaker 2>we're no longer married. We do a great job teaming

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<v Speaker 2>up together in my son's life, and she's alive and well.

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<v Speaker 2>We have modern medical technology here to thank for that.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, absolutely, especially for your son. So has a mom,

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<v Speaker 1>So he has a mom around. Now, talk to me

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<v Speaker 1>about your whole longevity strategy, because out of this has

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<v Speaker 1>grown this big idea of Okay, now we can go

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<v Speaker 1>about boosting a longevity.

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<v Speaker 3>Well.

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<v Speaker 2>As I went through that journey of discovering all these

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<v Speaker 2>amazing technologies that we have to detect disease early, I

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<v Speaker 2>also was fascinated by this whole aspect of longevity and

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<v Speaker 2>aging as a bigger story. Finding the technologies that have

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<v Speaker 2>emerged in that space got me quite excited as well.

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<v Speaker 2>But then then I began to realize that I felt

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<v Speaker 2>a bit overwhelmed. I didn't know where to start. There's

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<v Speaker 2>all these amazing things I can be doing. I can

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<v Speaker 2>get a full body MRI, I can get my genome sequenced,

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<v Speaker 2>I can get all sorts of specialized tests done. But

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<v Speaker 2>I only have so much money and time and energy.

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<v Speaker 2>So I didn't know where to start. And this is

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<v Speaker 2>where I came up with the concept of having a

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<v Speaker 2>longevity strategy at a longer Life dot com.

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<v Speaker 3>At my business and Longer Life.

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<v Speaker 2>There's this four part framework that I'm encouraging people to

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<v Speaker 2>work with in order to go on their longevity journey.

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<v Speaker 2>And the second part of that is strategy. And the

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<v Speaker 2>reason you need a strategy is because it's overwhelming. There

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<v Speaker 2>are innumerable options for you to invest your money into.

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<v Speaker 2>Anyone who gets into health and wellness and scrolls on

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<v Speaker 2>Instagram knows they could blow their whole monthly budget with

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<v Speaker 2>just a few purchases.

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<v Speaker 3>In this space. And we need to learn.

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<v Speaker 2>To be very targeted strategic with our longevity efforts. So

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<v Speaker 2>this concept of a longevity strategy, as I go through

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<v Speaker 2>on the website is about starting with understanding your risk,

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<v Speaker 2>your risk for developing age related diseases, and so we

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<v Speaker 2>can actually look at what diseases are grandparents, our parents, brothers, sisters,

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<v Speaker 2>related aunts and uncles have developed. It's called doing a

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<v Speaker 2>family health history as a free and fairly easy starting

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<v Speaker 2>point to get an idea of what diseases we could

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<v Speaker 2>be at risk for, and we could start thinking years

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<v Speaker 2>ahead on how we can modify our lifestyle or engage

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<v Speaker 2>with what I call longevity technologies in a strategic way

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<v Speaker 2>to get ahead of those diseases and potentially avoid them altogether.

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<v Speaker 2>So longevity strategy is getting rid of the overwhelm, it's

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<v Speaker 2>looking at where you should start, and it's targeting your

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<v Speaker 2>resources at the most effective actions that you can start taking.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, I think you made some really important points there. One,

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<v Speaker 1>longevity doesn't have to cost a lot of money. And

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<v Speaker 1>I think you know, often we see the you know,

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<v Speaker 1>Brian Johnson's and the likes spending millions in trying to

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<v Speaker 1>increase their lifespan. But that simple having a longevity strategy.

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<v Speaker 1>And I really like this idea. I haven't heard this

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<v Speaker 1>concept before. Is a great place we can all start

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<v Speaker 1>for free just by asking. I mean many of us

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<v Speaker 1>probably haven't even asked our brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>what's your health like? What have you suffered from? I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>we kind of know, but to actually write it down

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<v Speaker 1>even is just one step further in helping us develop

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<v Speaker 1>a lifestyle around this.

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<v Speaker 3>That's right, felicity, and that's right, that's exactly right.

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<v Speaker 2>And it is free, which there's one of the reasons

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<v Speaker 2>I start there, because it is accessible to anyone who

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<v Speaker 2>wants to try that, and we actually have an example

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<v Speaker 2>form that you can download on the website, but there's

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<v Speaker 2>many other versions of that. You can work with your

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<v Speaker 2>GP to do that. You can work with many health

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<v Speaker 2>practitioners to do that. In fact, I went to a

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<v Speaker 2>very fancy, very expensive longevity health clinic in the United

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<v Speaker 2>States twice I've gone now, and the first thing I

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<v Speaker 2>did when I went there was fill out a family

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<v Speaker 2>health history. So it's beginning of your longevity strategy and

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<v Speaker 2>your longevity journey, so you know what to think about

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<v Speaker 2>and how to get ahead of it.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, there are some other factors as to it,

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<v Speaker 1>which you might go into in Extra Healthy Ish, But

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<v Speaker 1>before we go, tell us a bit about visiting that

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<v Speaker 1>longevity clinic and what are some of your weekly habits

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<v Speaker 1>to boost your longevity that you perhaps picked out when

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<v Speaker 1>you were over there or that you do now.

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<v Speaker 2>You've given me the most excellent lead into the actual

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<v Speaker 2>outcome from visiting this amazing health nucleus. It was called

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<v Speaker 2>from a company called Health Human Longevity, Inc. In San Diego, California,

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<v Speaker 2>and I spent thousands of dollars to go get a

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<v Speaker 2>full body MRI full genome sequencing complete blood panel, balance testing,

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<v Speaker 2>heart health checks, brain and cardiac MRIs, amazing technology. What's

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<v Speaker 2>the number one thing I walked away with from that visit?

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<v Speaker 3>Nick?

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<v Speaker 2>You need to exercise more. I need to get more

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<v Speaker 2>heart pumping aerobic fitness. Walked away knowing that I had

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<v Speaker 2>to figure that out. I had to figure that out,

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<v Speaker 2>and that meant I needed to boil down the elements

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<v Speaker 2>of what it means to have a longevity fitness effort,

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<v Speaker 2>the components of that. And really it's about finding something

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<v Speaker 2>you love to do that's exercise related and finding some

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<v Speaker 2>wonderful people to do it with so that you keep

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<v Speaker 2>doing it and set yourself some goals.

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<v Speaker 3>And so when.

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<v Speaker 2>You ask about my weekly strategy in the longevity space

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<v Speaker 2>and what am I doing each week, the most important

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<v Speaker 2>thing that I'm doing, the most important, even more important

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<v Speaker 2>than what I'm eating, I believe, is the high level

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<v Speaker 2>of physical activity that I undertake.

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<v Speaker 3>So I'm a triathlete.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm riding, I'm running, I'm swimming, and I'm doing strength training,

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<v Speaker 2>balance training and jumping around working on all those explosive

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<v Speaker 2>type two muscle fibers to keep them young and youthful

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<v Speaker 2>so that I can stay as mobile and as robust

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<v Speaker 2>and healthy for as long as I can, because exercise

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<v Speaker 2>is the best thing we can do for our longevity.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, absolutely, Nick, thank you for coming on Healthy.

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<v Speaker 3>Is my pleasure.

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<v Speaker 1>Make sure you tune into Extra Healthy Is too, where

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<v Speaker 1>Nick talks about the best tech tests and lifestyle habits

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<v Speaker 1>to optimize your longevity. You can catch that wherever. Get

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<v Speaker 1>your podcasts.