Show 1117: What Can Chinese Centenarians Teach You About Long Life? (Archive)

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

More Americans are living to old ages, but frequently their later years are plagued with chronic diseases. Is there a way to stay healthy into the ninth and tenth decade of life? To find out, we take a virtual trip to visit centenarians in a remote village in southern China. Visit to Longevity Village: Dr. […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's pharmacy.com.
0:14.0	We live in a youth-oriented culture,
0:17.0	but if you watch TV, you'll see tons of prescription drug ads
0:21.0	for diseases of aging. What gives? This is the People's Pharmacy
0:25.9	with Terry and Joe Grayden.
0:32.4	Commercials. commercials on television promote medicines for cholesterol control, arthritis, heart disease,
0:39.7	co-opd, and cancer.
0:42.0	A traveler from another planet might conclude that Americans get extremely
0:46.0	sick when they get older. Does it have to be that way? Cardiologist John Day doesn't think so.
0:52.4	Aging doesn't have to be what it's made out to be in the media.
0:57.0	Aging can be beautiful, and it doesn't have to be the way we all dread it to be.
1:03.2	What can we learn from centenarians in China?
1:06.2	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy,
1:08.0	the longevity plan.
1:10.0	First the news. In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, while public health officials are still
1:19.2	trying to encourage Americans to get a COVID booster, Israel is starting to roll out its fourth shot.
1:26.0	A panel of coronavirus experts for the Israeli government is encouraging medical workers,
1:31.0	patients with compromised immune systems, and everyone over 60 to get a fourth vaccination.
1:38.0	It should be at least four months after the third Pfizer biopintec dose. The decision to move forward with a fourth
1:46.4	dose of vaccine was challenging. That's because there's virtually no data to
1:51.1	demonstrate how effective it will be.
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