433: Reverse Aging with Lifelong “Play” with Stephen Jepson
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Reverse Aging with Lifelong “Play”
with Stephen Jepson
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Aging starts with the loss of lean muscle and mobility. Next, you notice you’re not sharp as you used to be, and then things accelerate as you become less active, less engaged in the world, and one step closer to the grave. Death is inevitable, but “healthspan” is something we can control: how healthy will you be in those years you do have on this planet? Do you want to die riding a skateboard or stuck in a nursing facility? Do you want your best years to be in the past or in the future?
Our guest on this week’s podcast is in his late 70’s and learning new skills daily, skills that even 20-year-olds find challenging.
Listen & Learn:
- Why bilateral training is the key to cognitive health
- How there are countless examples of people going from wheelchairs to full function, from bedridden to active—so why not you?
- How eating and writing with your non-dominant hand can be a simple hack to lay down new neural wiring
- How neuro-plasticity and neurogenesis can happen at any age if you keep learning and keep playing
- Why you should never stop playing
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Stephen Jepson is the creator of a lifestyle he calls: Never Leave the Playground. He rides a unicycle, juggles while balancing on a bongo board, throws knives and plays jacks with both hands, walks a tightrope, swam across Iowa's Spirit Lake at age 66, and has won over 80 gold medals in swimming since age 65. And more. Much more. After a career in pottery, both teaching and creating, he now dedicates his time to the research of this lifestyle fitness plan.
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| 0:00.0 | So the other day I went up on a word while I was teaching and the word is |
| 0:07.0 | irregularity. When I say I went up on the word meaning I couldn't find it, went |
| 0:11.5 | back into the recesses of my brain and it just wasn't there. |
| 0:15.0 | And I'm sure this happens to a lot of people a lot of the time, but for me, I can't recall going up on a word like that. |
| 0:21.0 | I either know the word or I don't know the word |
| 0:23.6 | and I certainly know the word irregularity. So where was it? Well I made a joke that it was a |
| 0:29.1 | senior moment and I'm sure that you have had senior moments as well too and I don't mean that in a derogatory way I mean I felt like my brain was getting older I felt like my brain was missing words now |
| 0:40.3 | probably I'm exaggerating and dramatizing what was just a sign of being tired and overworked and maybe on my fourth hour of teaching in the same day. |
| 0:48.0 | But it was a moment where I thought, huh, I wonder, I wonder if this is what it feels like to get older and I started to think about this |
| 0:55.4 | what does it mean to age you know what does it mean to get older there's so many things |
| 0:58.6 | about it that I love I feel like I'm much wiser I feel like I make better decisions, but you cannot really ignore the brutal beast that is |
| 1:09.5 | father time. You know, aging starts with the loss of lean muscle, loss of mobility, and then this cognitive |
| 1:15.2 | decline is something that friends and relatives have shared with me is not unique to me. |
| 1:21.0 | Little by little people tend to check out from the world life and their world |
| 1:24.9 | gets smaller and smaller and that I guess is the part of aging that makes me the most |
| 1:30.6 | worried I love to swim in the world of ideas and if those ideas are not on the |
| 1:37.0 | tip of my tongue I'm concerned I'm worried about that. So our guest on this |
| 1:41.7 | week's show is a gentleman in whose 70s who |
| 1:45.2 | focuses on play as a means of reversing or at least slowing cognitive and physical decline. I like this approach because so many people I |
| 1:54.6 | meet are not super excited about structured workouts. They're not super |
| 1:59.1 | excited about going to the gym or the yoga class or the pelleton, get on the pelleton or whatever it is, but they'd love to do |
| 2:06.0 | something that gets them engaged with their life in their later years and this |
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