The Guaranteed Way to Extend Your Life and Live Longer
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Let’s talk about the best way to extend your life. The #1 cause of death worldwide is heart disease. If we look at risk factors for heart disease, high LDL increases your risk by 38 percent. But insulin resistance increases your risk by 540 percent. Other risk factors for cardiovascular disease, like diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and hypertension, can be caused by insulin resistance. This seems to mean that insulin resistance is the biggest risk factor for premature cardiac death. The most popular mainstream treatment for high cholesterol is statin drugs. Studies have shown that statins can potentially lead to insulin resistance and diabetes. Healthy mitochondria are essential to longevity. Statins may also impair the mitochondria and increase apoptosis (death of the mitochondria). An interesting study links higher LDL cholesterol to inversely affecting mortality. This means that having higher LDL may help extend your lifespan. Cholesterol is involved in a myriad of functions in the body—it’s essential for a healthy life. Blood thinners and even the heart-healthy diet recommended by the American Heart Association can also contribute to insulin resistance and high blood sugar. To live longer, improving insulin resistance, making insulin more sensitive, and stabilizing your blood sugar is crucial. The most important things you can do to support healthy insulin and blood sugar include: 1. Getting on a low-carb diet (the ketogenic diet) 2. Doing intermittent fasting 3. Not restricting cholesterol 4. Consuming vegetables 5. Exercising DATA: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31696945/ https://academic.oup.com
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28132458/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33511728/
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| 0:00.0 | So I think everyone wants to live a little bit longer. |
| 0:03.0 | I will guarantee at the end of this video, you are going to know how to extend your life. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'll put a guarantee on that to the point where I'll even give your money back if you don't live longer. |
| 0:14.0 | So if we want to figure out how to extend one's life, we need to compare that to something else. You can never figure something |
| 0:22.8 | out or understand something if it's just like one thing. Like, for example, if I said, is the number |
| 0:28.7 | 100 good or bad, right? It has to be related to something. For example, if your blood sugars |
| 0:34.5 | are 100, is that good or bad? Well, normally it should be like 80, |
| 0:39.8 | okay, or even a little bit less. So 100 is not that great. Okay, what about temperature? Is that good or |
| 0:45.6 | bad? Well, you have to evaluate that compared to your normal temperature, which is 98.6. So 100, yeah, |
| 0:51.4 | it's a bit too high. So in order to figure out longevity, we have to compare that to the reason why people die and look deeper at the risk factors, potential causes, etc. Because if we could just eliminate why people die, we can extend your life that way without knowing anything else. Well, I'll just tell you |
| 1:12.9 | right now, the number one cause of death worldwide is heart attacks. Now in this graph I'm |
| 1:20.4 | going to pull up right now, it shows the greatest risk factors for dying from a heart attack. |
| 1:29.8 | Take a look at this. And we're looking at the graph on the left side heart disease. We have various risk factors. We have hypertension, |
| 1:35.7 | we have smoking, we have obesity. Okay, then we have aging. So look at how much greater |
| 1:42.0 | aging is as a risk factor for heart disease. But what we're |
| 1:47.1 | really looking at is that deaths from heart attacks. So based on that, do we have enough information |
| 1:52.5 | to know how to live longer? Because all we know now is the biggest factor for heart disease death |
| 1:57.2 | is aging. And we know that the greatest cause of death is heart disease death. |
| 2:03.4 | So what we need to do is we need to look a little bit more at heart disease itself. |
| 2:08.0 | Let's look at some statistics on heart disease. I have this very interesting graph showing |
| 2:14.0 | the risk factors for coronary heart disease, as well as the biomarkers. |
| 2:20.8 | And biomarkers are just like little red flags, which just tell you the risk of getting a heart |
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