While you're listening to this podcast, I'm causing mischief.

Like creeping past sleepy granddad to sneak a pot of Petty Faloo from the fridge.

Because Petty Falue fuels the mischief.

Boom!

Mom says that Petty forlue is made with calcium and vitamin D for healthy bones.

She knows best, most of the time.

Fueling mischief with petty flu. You're listening to Well Now, Slates Podcast on Health and Wellness. I'm Kifita Patel.

And I'm Maya Feller. So Kavita Patel. And I'm Maya Föhter.

So Kavita, you know, most people who come to my practice,

they're looking for guidance on nutrition

because they want like this really reliable way

to improve their health.

And for some, that simply means addressing health problems that already exist.

Things like diabetes, high cholesterol, heart disease, but for a handful of those who really already have achieved that what I would

refer to as baseline health, their ultimate objective is to increase longevity and live

past what we would conventionally refer to as a normal lifespan.

They have leaned into this idea of biohacking,

really getting to the core of life, long, health and wellness, and some of them even have this goal of living past 100.

God help me to live past 100 Maya.

It's a very interesting goal and it actually becomes kind of something where there are countless studies and also some Netflix specials and some other specials dedicated to looking at how people who live past 100 or communities where people have lived into their 80s 90s even hundreds and have been well

what is common amongst those communities and characteristics of these centenarians and

several studies including a study in 2021 by the United Nations

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