9 Simple Tips to Live Longer (LONGEVITY HACKS!)

If you want to lengthen your lifespan then you need to see these 9 simple tips that you can start instituting starting today. The goal of this video is to reveal life hacks and tips for improving longevity to get you not only living longer, but a higher quality life with less illness along the way t

Jeff: Uh, you want to live longer? Jesse: Uh, always. Jeff: Anybody out there want to live longer  too, I’m going to help you as well, because today I want to share with you ways or even  just simple hacks to extend your lifespan. Jesse: Oh. Jeff: Actually-actually-I actually call it health span.

Jesse: Health span? Jeff: Yeah. Because it’s not just about  a longer life. If you lived the last 40 years of your life in shitty shape  wouldn’t that not really be ideal. Jesse: That would be far  less than ideal, actually.

Jeff: Right, so let’s make sure that  we’re not just going for the quantity, but the quality too. Jesse: Quality of life is always important right off the bat. Jeff: How’s your sleep been, pal? Jesse: Oh, shit. I’m not  living very long, am I?

Jeff: How’s your sleep been? Sleep is a  very challenging thing for most of us. But I can tell you this, you cannot sleep on your  sleep-in terms of extending your lifespan. Jesse: Right. Jeff: It literally is the place where our bodies do all the things,  we need to do to restore our health.

It’s the one opportunity a day when our body shuts  down and it attempts to restore itself. Jesse: Yeah. Jeff: Now make sure you’re sleeping in a cool room. Jesse: Okay, that makes sense. Jeff: Your body needs to cool itself down by  one to three degrees in order to optimize this recovery process.

So, you want to make sure  that you’re using extra blankets if need be, but make sure that the room is cooler. Jesse: Okay. Jeff: A lot of us don’t like to sleep in  really cold rooms, but I’m telling you, for the benefit of your long-term  health, it’s actually a good thing. Jesse: I’ll tell you, I love sleeping in a cold  room, and I end up throwing my blanket off the bed in the middle of the night because I’m so hot. Jeff: Yeah, well, the other thing, I heard you like to sleep naked.

Jesse: That’s — Well, how do you know that? Jeff: Next thing is, you want to make  sure that you are also waking up and going to bed at the same time. Jesse: Okay. That’s something I struggle with immensely. Jeff: Interestingly, even if you are not sleeping as much as you should, which  you should, and there’s-there s you get a lot of debate about what the ideal amount of sleep  is, even if you’re not sleeping, let s say the ideal is seven hours a night.

Jesse: Yeah. Jeff: If you’re at least going to bed at the same  time and waking up at the same time, you’re going to see better benefits in terms of recovery. Jesse: Okay. Jeff: And our good friend Andrew Huberman  talks about the benefits of making sure you have exposure to natural sunlight early  in the morning to reset that rhythm. Again, that’s — these are practices that you want to  make sure that you’re starting if you’re not doing them right now.

Jesse: Okay. Jeff: Because sleep in the-in the regularity  of sleep is very, very important. And one last thing regarding sleep too, fighting the  drowsiness at night. Not a good idea. Jesse: Really?

Jeff: No. Give in to it and go to bed. And again, ideally, you’ll start  to teach your body to kind of shut down at a certain time and that will help you to maintain  that regular bedtime every single night. Jesse: Okay. Number two.

Jeff: Actually, this is interesting for you and other young guys. Jesse: Okay. Jeff: Do you ever get regular blood work done? Jesse: No. Jeff: You should.

Jesse: Really? Jeff: Yeah. I mean, regular bloodwork is one of  the most impactful ways that you can get ahead of the game when it comes to seeing if there’s  something going wrong before it’s too late. Jesse: Okay. Jeff: And especially when it comes to the younger population out there, having your regular  blood work done early gives you a good baseline for reference down the road.

Jesse: Okay. Jeff: I wish I was doing blood work years ago,  but I didn’t really see a need for it in my 30s and I wish now I could look back and see what  I was doing and what my blood work was like, you know? And especially nowadays, guys are sort  of being very focused on their testosterone levels or their-their ability to-to perform in the gym  or even in the bed. And they don’t know-they don’t know what they were doing before. They don’t know  what their status was when they were younger.

Jesse: Almost like what their baseline was. Jeff: Yeah. Or even PSA levels for men, prostate. Like if you have your baseline  levels and you know what you should be, even sometimes the higher levels that are —  that appear a little bit out of range might be normal for you if historically you’ve been  there. So, make sure you get your bloodwork done regularly.

And again, even if you have to sort of  pay out of pocket, I think it’s an expense that’s well worth it. If you can have some of that  insight that you may not have right now. Jesse: What if you’re like me and  you can’t read that bloodwork? Jeff: There are more than enough resources  out there, even free resources now where people understand what the bloo work is. I always  point people to Peter Attia, Dr.

Attia, because he actually tells you certain blood work parameters  that you should be looking at that a lot of times your doctor doesn’t even give you, right? Apo B  things like that. The next thing on that note, don’t skip your physical. Jesse: Oh man, I haven’t gone to a physical in like ten years. Jeff: Right.

My dad is a is a physician. I don’t want to go to my dad for a physical, it just  feels a little awkward. But I think he’s instilled in me the-the benefit of making sure you go for  a regular physical. Because it’s not always just the internal chemistry that you’re on the lookout  for, it could be external signs, swollen glands, swollen lymph nodes. Right?

Things that are that  are outwardly visible that a trained physician will be able to notice. And again, you can get  ahead of the game. I think the hardest part about recovering from health issues is waiting too  long. We’ve all had the grandfather who said, I’m just going to ignore it because I  don’t want to hear the bad news. Jesse: Yeah.

Jeff: That’s just not good because there’s a lot of advances these days that allow us  to get ahead of the game and do something about it if we only know what’s going on. Jesse: Okay. Jeff: And I implore my viewers out there to  make sure that they’re going for their physical, they’re getting a regular bloodwork. Jesse: So, so far, I’m 0 for 3 on this one. Jeff: You re 0 for 3, you re not doing — Jesse: I m not-I m not going to live very long.

Jeff: You’re not doing you’re not doing so good. Next thing, mobilize— this is something  you’re good at, mobilize your thoracic spine. Jesse: I am good at that. I put that  into practice big time when you, uh, when you worked on my posture. Jeff: Hundred percent.

For those that are unaware what we’re talking about, the  thoracic spine is right about from here to here. Okay. From here to here, I can’t even show you,  there we go. Right here. This area of your spine, I believe, is the epicenter of postural breakdown  and performance breakdown.

Because once you start to lose mobility through that area of your  spine, everything else comes with it. People like to focus on the pelvis saying it’s the  center of mass. The problem is as the spine, because it’s a connected unit, it starts to bend  and fall forward and lose its mobility, the pelvis will come along with it. So, posture starts to  break down from the top down and from the bottom up because of the loss of the thoracic spine. Jesse: Okay.

Jeff: Movement through the thoracic spine  is limited to a total number of degrees. So, you have a certain amount of degrees of-of