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Live Life Better: Blood test can tell how old you really are

Where we are all about helping you live life better. But what about living life longer? Well, now you might be able to reverse the clock and it all starts with a simple blood test. So I'm here with health physician, Doctor Jeremy Walker to learn a little bit more about this. Now, Doctor Walker, as you know, I already took a blood test, got my results back and found now some very interesting things. One of the great things about this Op Ed health test is uh the op health test is that it tells you how old your blood says you are now, I am 43 in a number of years. Don't tell anybody. But how old did the blood test say I am? Yeah. So this is the first time we got to see this, right? Yeah. And believe it or not, you ready for the drum roll? Drum roll? 28 shut the front door. Ok. Ok. Your boy 28. I like that. I was gonna so worried that you were gonna say like 55 I was gonna be like, oh my gosh, what am I doing wrong? So what determines this? Number to say I'm 28 years old. So that that calculation is based on some biomarkers that we test in your blood panel, right? And they have great predictive value at sometimes how old your organ systems are aging and possibly verse your chronological age. Right? So a lot of people don't understand there's a difference between chronological age, which is the number of birthday candles on your cake and then your biological age, which is how fast you're aging inside, right? And so that's where personalized uh longevity, medicine is heading is that have to do a lot with what you're eating, what you're drinking, like if you're doing a lot of smoking and drinking alcohol, all does that have a big impact on that organ health and what your blood says you are. Yes, of course. So we focus a lot on lifestyle inputs and that's probably one of the strongest contributors that you can do as an individual to slow down that pace of aging and reverse it. And we focus on six like fundamental pillars, you know, of of health optimization, nutrition, inflammation, your hormones, exercise, movement, stress and sleep, and through, through those, you know, key categories and some biomarkers, right. Then we can get a better idea of where you stand biologically and implement, right? Very targeted therapeutics to slow down that pace of aging. And of course you're really aging, slow, look at you, you look great, but they say black don't crack. So I already had a head start. But uh but I'm glad to see that my blood is agreeing. What are some of the other things that this blood panel can tell us? Yeah. So the blood panel does cover a lot of specifics that sometimes you might not be able to capture through your primary care doctor because we're in the business, right of being proactive. So we're gonna take a much more aggressive stance at, looking at some at some biomarkers, right, that have greater clinical predictive value uh so that we can again get ahead of these diseases, right? Or chronic diseases. Why wait for the wheels to fall off, right? And come, come to your doctor when and you know, you should not be concerned at that point. You we have to do this now come in while you're healthy. So another one on your, you know, biological panel there, uh insulin levels, your insulin level was very good and that could affect if you're getting sleepy too soon or, you know, getting too much energy like a boost of insulin with weight loss as well. Right. Exactly. And so insulin is definitely the hallmark of longevity too because it, it too much of a good thing, right? That goldilocks can be uh very harmful. Uh but it is an important bio marker in the body. Ok. So before you go, we're gonna change some life tiles for people right now, what's one or two important things we can do to try to extend our life span first. You have to enjoy the process, right? And that because your, your perspective and attitude on, on these lifestyle interventions are very, very important. There's even, you know, studies showing that just being spontaneously gregarious, you've got a great sense of humor and you're out here interacting with all the people, right? They can shave off seven years of your life. Yes. So that's very important. Right? And then too just be very conscious, I think food. Um today there's so much noise. You know, what is the right diet to follow? I don't one specific one for any individual, but at some point you just have to, if it's not working for you, it's time to change course. Right? And experiment. All right. So get out there. Be happy and eat healthy. I like that. All right. Thank you so much for Doctor Jeremy Walker health physician. We appreciate your time and your tips. Thank you.

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