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Hi, I'm Dave. Let's go for a walk.

I don't know about you, but as I get older, one of the things that I can feel is less energy. I'm 64 years old and I don't have as much energy. I don't feel like I have as much

energy as I did at 44 or at 24. Some days that less energy factor is a little more intense than other days.

But this whole energy drain, and that's really kind of putting it in the negative,

is it's a real thing as we get older.

By the way, I'm not a doctor, not a licensed personal trainer.

This podcast is for education and entertainment purposes only.

But as we get older, we according to Harvard, Harvard Medical School,

and I'm going to quote a piece from them as we get older we

lose energy producing engines in the cells mitochondria we also lose muscle mass

resulting in fewer cells fewer mitochondria if you're too tired to be active it

compounds the problem by further weakening and shrinking muscles.

So that's the biological reason why we don't feel like we have as much energy as we did when we were younger.

As we get older, illness can become a bigger part of our lives, and there are a lot of

illnesses that add to that energy depletion, that add to that energy drain. As we get older,

we are perhaps on more medications than when we were younger.

Well, guess what?

A lot of these drugs, side effect, can make you drowsy.

So you have less energy.

The impact of our diet is pretty profound on energy again back to

Harvard are you eating too much processed food or simply not consuming enough

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