I don’t follow this doctor closely, but the information he presents in this interview seems reasonably good.
At 63 years old, Mark Hyman, MD, founder and senior advisor for the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine and host of The Doctor’s Farmacy podcast, is the fittest he’s been in his life—and he’s eager to spill his secrets.
“I think most of us think we have to decline as we get older, but we don’t,” Dr. Hyman tells GQ. Americans take it for granted that as their birthdays tick along, their bodies will stoop, their pace will slow, and their brain will fog. But actually, Dr. Hyman says, that’s abnormal aging. The research is clear, he says: “We can live long healthy lives and then just die.” A comforting thought, in its way.
As Dr. Hyman reveals in his New York Times bestseller Young Forever, increasing your span of healthy years doesn’t require fancy tech or elaborate routines (although Dr. Hyman is himself a fan of saunas, cold plunges, and binaural beats). “It’s just a consequence of doing the basic things to keep your organism functioning optimally,” he says.
Think of it this way, he tells me when we talk: “If you have a million-dollar race horse, you’re going to make sure you know how to train it and feed it and take care of it so it’s fully optimized, right?” Dr. Hyman says. “We don’t do that with our bodies. We feed it all kinds of crap. We eat fries and junk and sugar, and we don’t think about the consequences of how we feel now or how we’re going to feel as we get older.”
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