Want to Live Longer? Fix This First (It’s Not Diet or Exercise)
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
What if your mindset mattered more than your meals? Dr. Amit Sood explores the science of loneliness, the biology of connection, and how your self-worth directly affects your health.
Dr. Sood breaks down how meaningful relationships—and even the way you speak to yourself—can reduce inflammation, improve heart health, boost longevity, and lower your risk of depression. Research shows that how you feel about yourself, and your role in your community, can impact your gene expression.
In this episode you'll learn:
- How cultivating social connection and self-compassion can radically transform your physical well-being
- How social connection alters gene expression
- The one question that predicts longevity, according to science
- How to find self-acceptance in just three steps
- How to never feel lonely again
Dr. Sood is the author of the groundbreaking new book, It Takes You to Tango.
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| 0:00.0 | Today, on the exam room. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm sending my genes a message, |
| 0:07.0 | hey, I'm on this planet for a long time. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm not being chased by wild dogs. |
| 0:12.0 | I'll survive, so my genes then switch. |
| 0:15.0 | And they say, okay, if my owner is going to be here for a long time, |
| 0:18.0 | I don't need to clot his blood I don't |
| 0:20.9 | need to heal his wound I need to protect him from cancer from heart disease |
| 0:25.5 | from inflammation from infections so the genes switch to improve your |
| 0:31.1 | immunity decrease autoimmunity improve your cardiovascular health so you're |
| 0:35.6 | basically sending your genes a message, |
| 0:38.3 | I'm having a party on this planet. |
| 0:40.3 | So if I had to summarize 10,000 well-being studies |
| 0:43.3 | in a single line, |
| 0:45.3 | it is basically tell your genes, |
| 0:48.3 | I'm having a party on this planet. |
| 0:50.3 | What are you going to do if you are having a good time at a party? |
| 0:53.3 | You're going to stay at that party, right? |
| 0:58.2 | Welcome to the exam room podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 1:02.5 | Hi, I'm the weight loss champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. |
| 1:08.8 | Hi to the exam room. |
| 1:09.7 | He's listening in Spring Hill, Florida, Fairfield, California, |
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