Live A Long, Happy Life with Mark Hyman

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Management, Education

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Turns out laughter is not the best medicine. Medicine might not even be the best medicine. If you were to ask Dr Mark Hyman, he would tell you that food is the best medicine. Some would say Mark is a modern age miracle worker. In reality, he has figured out ways to help the body perform its own miracles. From curing diseases to extending our lifespans, his approach to wellness is unlike what most of us are used to. His work is inspirational, anthropological and downright fascinating. This is… A Bit of Optimism.

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0:00.0	In our modern day, with all our technology, we think we're so smart.
0:11.3	We think because of modern medicine, we are now living longer than we ever have.
0:15.8	Well, it turns out that's not true.
0:18.9	Apparently back in caveman times, they regularly lived to 80 and 90 years old.
0:24.9	And it's only when we came together and lived in larger communities bigger than the tribe
0:29.2	because of farming and industrialization, did the average age go down?
0:34.2	You know, we hear these stories about average age being 40 years old or something.
0:37.7	And now because of modern medicine, we're living to our 70s.
0:41.0	But what if we just kept our bodies healthy in the first place?
0:45.4	This is really the idea behind functional medicine.
0:48.3	And Dr. Mark Heimann is one of the pioneers of functional medicine,
0:52.5	which basically says, keep the body healthy, keep the body in tip-top form,
0:57.2	and it largely knows how to protect itself.
1:00.3	Not only can we fix disease and avoid disease in the first place,
1:04.3	according to his new book, Young Forever, we can actually live longer, too.
1:08.9	This is a bit of optimism.
1:14.0	Mark, you and I met at an event where we were both speakers,
1:18.8	but where we really became friends was in the sauna.
1:25.6	Absolutely.
1:27.8	We're all good things happen when you get hot and sweaty.
1:30.3	But it wasn't the sauna per se.
1:33.0	It was happening outside the sauna because we were in Colorado
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