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Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show. Lots to get to today as Don Laman returns to CNN without apologizing on air.

That's brave and the censoring of Willy Wonka. How dare they? How dare they touch that sacred text? We'll get to it all as well as today's headlines in just a bit.

But my first guest today says he has unlocked the secret to defying the aging process. How'd you like to be in your 50s, but biologically be more like someone in their 30s?

It's possible. Dr. Mark Hyman says that while he is physically 63 years old, biologically, he's only 43. He says he has the blueprint on how we can all feel the same, much, much younger than we are chronologically. And he is here to share that secret. His new book is young forever.

The good title, right? Young forever, the secrets to living your longest, healthiest life. Welcome to the show. Dr. Mark Hyman. Great to see you again.

Good to see you too. Again, Megan. How's it going?

Oh, it's a pleasure. It's going great. All right. So this is young forever. I mean, who doesn't want that?

Absolutely.

Listening to your stories because you're not you're not contending that we're not going to age chronologically that's going to happen, but that not only can we feel younger, that's something we've told for years we can not really feel we can kind of get younger on the inside when it comes to our health and our likely longevity.

And the wellness that we can expect of ourselves as we age, so explain that. That's right. It's not just about more years to your life, it's more life in your years, and the key is to understand that for the first time we have the ability to measure our biological age, which we never had before.

So we can see based on what we're doing or lifestyle or habits, whatever we're doing, how that affects our biological age and the truth is most of us have come to expect disease, frailty disability, dysfunction and decrepitude as sort of the normal consequences of getting older, but they're not it turns out the science is very clear that they're actually dysfunctions that are a disease process that can be treated reversed.

And that's the whole point of my book, young forever is to unlock this new science of longevity and teach people how with very simple affordable practices they can reverse their biological clock, even as they get chronologically older.

All right, now I want to tell people I should have mentioned this up top, you went to Cornell undergrad, you, faculty of medicine, there you're practicing family physician, your MD 14 time New York time bestseller, and also the head of strategy and innovation at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine. That's what we're talking about functional medicine. That's what you're special.

Absolutely.

You know of what you speak decrepitude is a hilarious word for the process.

And you go, well, nobody wants to be a hundred years old because by the time you enter 100 you're like, you know, barely can get out. Maybe you're nursing home, your frail. I saw a guy in a horse was a hundred years old riding around in Costa Rica. That's impressive, you know, because he's one of the blues homes where they naturally incorporate the habits of how to live a long time just by default.

And we need to learn from them and we need to incorporate some of the more and create credible advances in longevity science, but we can actually reverse our biological clock and stay vital and fit as we get older and I know at 63 I'm way more fit and stronger and capable and it was when I was 30 and it's really remarkable to see how by applying this longevity science, we can literally turn back our clocks and add a lot of value or lies because most of us walk around feeling like crap.

You know, we have retired or sluggish, we can't sleep, brave, we have digestive issues, joint pains, we have headaches, congestion, who knows what and I call it FLC syndrome, that's when you feel like crap.

And we come to expect that as normal, oh, I used to be able to do this by can't do that nonsense. We actually know if we know how to regulate our biology, how to turn back the clock and use the advances in longevity science to heal what we call the hallmarks of aging and we can talk about that.

But it's basically all this shit that goes wrong. Can I say that? That actually is not a normal part of aging. It's an abnormal aging and we all are going to get older. We're all going to get, you know, you know, progressively older, but we don't have to be in that category.

People who end up with last 20% of their lives in poor health, we can feel good up until the end and then go like, you know, I've seen many people would like to be a hundred and then they just kind of go to bed and that's it. That's kind of how we should go.

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