Can You Really Live to 150 Years Old? | Dr. Mark Hyman

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Everyone from the Buddha to the Stoics have exhorted us to remember that we're going to die. So what are we to make of Dr. Mark Hyman? He's a physician and a student of Buddhism who is just out with a new book, called, "Young Forever." In it, he argues that your biological age can be reversed even as you grow chronologically older. So we decided to have him on, learn about his approach, and gently grill him on some of the things that made us most skeptical.

This is the second part of our new six-part series, Get Fit Sanely series, where we are trying to help you to make sense of the noise around getting fit–and to do so without losing your mind.

A little bit more about Dr. Hyman: He is a practicing family physician, the Founder and Senior Advisor for the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, and a fifteen-time New York Times best-selling author. He also has his own podcast, called The Doctor's Farmacy.

In this episode we talk about:

Whether there's a tension between Mark's approach and Buddhism
Whether it's realistic for people alive today to think that we could make it to 150 or 200 years old
Mark's contention that he is in better shape at 63 than he was at 40
His take on intuitive eating
His top line recommendations on exercise
The benefits of cuddling
His response to critiques of functional medicine
Whether his longevity routine is something regular people can do
The research on cold plunges and saunas
His advice on alcohol

Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/dr-mark-hyman-609

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0:00.0	This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris.
0:19.1	Hello, my fellow suffering beings. People have been promising eternal life for thousands of years.
0:25.6	There's a reason why the myth about the fountain of youth has had such staying power in so many
0:29.6	cultures and so many parts of the world for so long. We all know it's bullshit, but god damn it is
0:35.2	compelling. Everybody from the Buddha to the Stoics have exhorted us to remember, though, that we are
0:41.4	going to die. That this whole being alive business is super short and quite fragile. But we seem
0:48.9	to be programmed for denial. So then what are we to make of Dr. Mark Hyman? He's a physician and
0:55.7	a student of Buddhism who's just out with a new book called Young Forever. In it, he argues that
1:02.4	your biological age can be reversed even as you grow chronologically older. He also lays out his
1:09.0	extraordinary personal longevity regime, which includes check this out. Arobic exercise,
1:14.4	strength training, hot yoga, mantra meditation, breathwork, sauna, cold plunges, red light therapy,
1:20.2	supplements a specific diet. He calls the pagan diet, time restricted eating, using a low oxygen
1:25.9	mask while he's working at his desk, using blue blocker glasses at night, getting massages,
1:30.7	ozone therapy, hyperbaric oxygen therapy. And by the way, that's not even the whole list. I should
1:36.2	say on top of that, he also sometimes experiments with things like peptide therapy, exosomes, whatever
1:41.3	those are stem cells, natural killer cell infusions, and transfer plasma exchange. Okay, at this
1:48.2	point, you may be thinking this sounds ridiculous, unrealistic, very expensive, and supremely time-consuming.
1:55.0	However, Wal-Mark is by his own admission and you'll hear him cop to this in the course of
2:00.3	the interview up a bit controversial in some circles. He is also a friend of mine who's been on
2:05.0	the show before. He's a very big deal in the health and wellness space. So we decided to have him on
2:10.4	and learn about his approach and gently, gingerly, in a friendly manner, grill him on some of the
2:16.9	things that kind of made us my team and me just a little bit skeptical. I should say Dr. Mark
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