What a family welcome to episode 277 of The Genius Life.

What's going on everybody welcome back to another episode of The Genius Life.

I'm your host Max Lugavir, filmmaker, health and science journalist and New York Times

best-selling author. I've dedicated my life to unraveling the science behind our choices

including what we eat and how we live, affect our cognitive and physical performance,

how we feel and our health span and risk for disease. This podcast is all about how to live in

that optimal state, which I call living like a genius. Guys on today's episode of The Show,

I'm super excited to welcome back. I think for the third time, my good friend Dr. Mark Hyman.

Dr. Hyman is a board certified physician, a leader in the field of functional medicine.

He's the host of the wildly popular The Doctors Pharmacy podcast and he's the author of several

New York Times best-selling books, his latest offering, Young Forever, The Secrets to Living Your

Longest Healthiest Life is Out Now. Today on The Show, we are going to discuss the underlying

causes of aging according to Dr. Hyman, the difference between biological age and chronological

age and how it's never too late to improve your health and roll back the clock on your biological

age. We're going to discuss the fact that the recommended daily allowance for most nutrients is

based on the amount needed to prevent diseases of deficiency not necessarily to promote optimal health

and how to use food to modify key aspects of your biology. For example, how to find the right

balance between activating mTOR with protein to build muscle, but then conversely how to inhibit

mTOR to activate autophagy, which is an important process that aids in the cleaning up and

repairing of cells. We're going to talk about how hormesis, the positive effect of small amounts

of stress in the body, can be brought about by sonnas, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and hot and

cold baths, even certain phytochemicals, and so much more. Mark's latest book is all about the

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