This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.

Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.

I am your host, Michael Cobell, not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

My guest today is Michael Greger, his book, How Not to Age, the Scientific Approach to Getting

Healthier as you get older.

If that doesn't make you want to listen, why do you listen to this podcast?

We can have all the money in the world.

We can have all the success in the world.

But if we're an obese slob, who's dying slowly or fast with a really bad health condition,

that's no fun. Let's take the deep dive. What does the science say? What are the details? What can

we do to save ourselves and live longer? And not only live longer, but be healthier longer. That's the goal. We don't want to

be invalids at age 90 or 100. We want to be out running sprints at age 100. At least I want to,

because I'm slightly off center. But I like people that bring me the truth. My guest today,

Michael Greger, brings the truth. If you don't

like the truth, you won't like this conversation. If you like the truth, you'll enjoy. Without any

further delay from me, let's jump right into my conversation with Michael Greger.

So, Michael... So Michael is a keen observer of the last handful of years and taking into account your fine work in my possession.

I observe what has happened to the planet since 2020, in particular our pandemic.

The thing that I've thought most unusual about the pandemic in the midst of it,

and now that we're seemingly out of it, for sure, is that we knew very early on in 2020 that obesity was mission critical, meaning we knew that people that were getting really sick. Obesity was just right there. I thought

it was an opportunity for the powers that be, whoever they might be, whatever the political

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