Show 1117: What Can Chinese Centenarians Teach You About Long Life? (Archive)
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K 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. John Day, an interventional cardiologist fluent in Mandarin, became concerned about his own health prospects in his mid-40s. At the same time, he began learning about a village in rural China where centenarians were unusually common and exceptionally healthy. What was going on there to explain this? He and his wife Jane set out with their family to find out.
Lessons of Longevity:
Once the Day family got to Bapan (no mean feat), they were amazed by the vitality of the elders there. These centenarians were happy to teach them their secrets of a long healthy life: good food, a positive mind-set, staying in motion, connecting with community, following your own rhythm and living with purpose. How can Americans incorporate this wisdom into their own lives? The Days tell us how we can benefit from what they have learned.
This Week’s Guests:
John Day, MD, is a cardiologist and medical director of Heart Rhythm Services at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. He earned his medical degree at Johns Hopkins University and completed his cardiology training at Stanford University. Dr. Day is a former president of the Heart Rhythm Society and is currently president of the Utah Chapter of the American College of Cardiology. His website is DrJohnDay.com. He and his wife Jane are co-authors, with Matthew LaPlante, of The Longevity Plan: Seven Life-Transforming Lessons from Ancient China.
Jane Day has master’s degrees from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and from the University of California at Santa Cruz. She has a passion for international living and business strategy. Ms. Day is also enthusiastic about healthy comfort foods and hiking in the mountains with her family and dog.
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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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