Something You Should Know
Proven Ways to Extend Your Life & Here’s The Cure for Loneliness
Thu, 28 Nov 2024
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Chapter 1: What is touch starvation and why is it important?
Today on Something You Should Know, are you getting touched enough? I'll tell you why it's so important. Then, a lot of things can accelerate aging, and there are so many simple ways to fight back.
I think my favorite of these is to brush your teeth. What we've discovered is that people who have worse oral health actually have a higher risk of heart disease. There's maybe even a link with dementia because the bacteria that cause gum disease have been found in the brains of people who've got dementia.
Also, why you need to check your tires now that the weather has turned colder. And loneliness, especially during the holidays, can be so hard to deal with. And it's bad for your health.
In fact, the Surgeon General defined loneliness as the number one medical problem in the United States today. Not cancer, not heart disease, loneliness. And most people don't realize social isolation is as dangerous for early death as cigarette smoke.
All this today on Something You Should Know. We talk a lot about health on Something You Should Know, and I guess it motivates me. I mean, I'm not a nut about it, but I try to take care of my health. I want to preserve my mobility and strength as I get older. And I recently started taking this supplement. Maybe you've heard about it. It's called MitoPure.
MitoPure is a precise dose of something called Urolithin A that supports your health by encouraging cellular renewal. Since I started taking it... I can tell I have more energy and I notice I recover faster after I exercise. I did some research on this too. There's some real science here that supports what I'm saying. And so does my experience.
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something you should know fascinating intel the world's top experts and practical advice you can use in your life today something you should know with mike carruthers and happy thanksgiving if you're listening to this on the day this episode publishes which is thanksgiving day 2024
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Chapter 2: What are the key factors affecting longevity?
They stay reproductively active no matter how old they are. That means that they grow older, but without growing old in the way that we humans do. And so I hope that by understanding the biology of aging, we can try and transfer some of that wisdom and some of those sort of biological techniques to keep us sprightly into our old age too.
And the goal is what? Because one day your day will come. I mean, you can't put off death forever. So is the goal just to put it off as long as possible, put it off as long as possible and be healthy? What is it that we're trying to accomplish with all of this?
The goal is definitely health, and I think that you've got to think about what actually kills you. Although decades ago it was permissible for doctors to write death by old age on an older person's death certificate, now we understand that you can't just die of old age. You die of heart disease, you die of cancer, you die of dementia.
One of these diseases that are much more likely as you get older, and these diseases too get exponentially more likely as you increase in age, that's something that eventually becomes severe enough to take your life. And so, you know, it's very much the pain, the suffering, all of these things together that we want to try and get rid of.
And actually, it's a really good way of thinking about it, is to think about a lot of modern medicine seeks to treat individual diseases. But even if we had, hypothetically, a complete success treating an individual disease, and let's take the example, imagine that, you know, we cured cancer tomorrow. That would only add about three years to human life expectancy.
And that's because, you know, if you avoid getting cancer, you've probably already got a bit of heart disease or diabetes or, you know, dementia starting, you know, waiting in the wings to kill you as you get older. And so that means that it doesn't make you healthier for much longer.
Whereas by treating the aging process, the thing that causes all of these diseases, we can potentially defer those diseases, maybe even prevent them entirely and create a lot more healthy years for people.
And isn't the prescription for doing that just lead what we've been taught is a healthy lifestyle to eat well, sleep well? Isn't that the prescription?
These are all good ideas, and they're definitely something that I would encourage people to do, but the fact is we can go beyond this with medicine. And I think the best way to explain this is with an example.
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Chapter 3: How does loneliness affect health?
So if you put a young mouse in a maze, it's often very exploratory. It wants to look around its new environment. An older mouse might be a bit more anxious, maybe just a bit lazier, because it's a bit more frail. And by giving mice these senolytic drugs that kill the senescent cells, you restore some of that youthful curiosity. And finally, these animals, they just look great.
You know, I was a computational biologist, so I never dealt with mice in the lab. And if you look at a picture of one of these mice that's had these drugs, they've got better fur, they've got thicker, plumper skin. They just look fantastic. And so the point is, you know, you can't diet and exercise and live a good life to a healthy, you know, guaranteed healthy hundred years old.
Whereas by using some of these drugs that could potentially slow down, maybe even reverse the aging process, we can allow ourselves to live longer and healthier than any current lifestyle intervention would allow.
And so that would mean what to me? What would I be doing? Where do I go get these drugs?
Well, we're going to have to wait for some of the clinical trials to happen. So I'm very excited that these things are going to be here in time for all of us because they're already in human clinical trials. But at the moment, you know, mostly we're looking at results in mice and we've got the first tentative results starting to come out in humans.
So hopefully in the next five or so years, we're going to have some of those answers. Do these drugs work in humans as well as they do in mice? And we can start thinking about taking them.
What is the connection between how you look, how young you look, how healthy you look, and how you age internally? Is there any connection or those are two separate topics?
It actually is, yeah. There's a fascinating study that was done a few years ago where people were asked to rate the photographs of other people to guess how old they thought they were. And what they found was that people who looked older tended to have a greater risk of dying in the near future and a greater risk of contracting certain diseases.
And actually, what this really tells us is that there is a sort of fundamental collection of underlying processes that are responsible not just for your internal aging, but for your external aging as well. And so someone who is wrinklier, someone whose hair is a bit grayer, they probably have older insides.
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