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Slates podcast on Health and Wellness.

I'm Kavita Patel.

And I'm Maya Fucker.

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 a hundred.

God help me to live past a hundred 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 looked at basically

that the share of the years of their lives free of all the diseases and chronic illnesses

that you and I come to know, I hate to say it as day-to-day work.

And so there are so many both developed and developing nations that are all asking for time to focus on just thinking about healthy aging.

But it's even more interesting because I personally find like, well, so when do we start

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