18 Longevity Secrets to Live a Healthy 100 Years

Living to 100 isn’t just about good genes. I’ll share 18 science-backed longevity tips you can start today to boost your chances of living to 100 years and beyond.

Today we’re going to talk about how to live over a hundred years. Then we’re going to get into 18 scientifically proven tips on exactly how to do it in a practical way. I’m going to make it super simple. I’m also going to give you a summarization after I dissected certain countries that have more people that live over 100 years old than any other country in the world. I don’t know if you know how old I am or my history, but I’m six years old and I am way healthier now than I was in my late 20s.

And I’ve done a lot of deep dive into this topic of longevity. So, I’m going to share with you some really important information that’s going to be practical. But I want to start out showing you this clip on how medicine or science justifies longevity. When we were all in the caves, half of everyone born was dead before the age of 30. Fast forward to 1840.

Sure. That number went up to 35. Half of everyone born was dead by the time they were 35. So in the tens of thousands of years between living in caves, >> Yeah. >> and the middle of the 19th century, we got since then with advances in medicine.

And by the way, everyone back then was eating organic. Just saying. And the water was clear, the air ran pure, the the game was free range. Didn’t make a damn bit of difference. Science matters here.

Okay. All right. You can run around and eat all the organic you want. You’d be dead by the 30 unless some doctor came in and said, “We can we can increase your life expectancy using science. ” >> Now, let me just dissect that clip a little bit because there’s a bit of cherrypicking going on.

Um, in the 1900s it is absolutely true that the average person only lived to 32 years old. Okay, that’s that’s pretty low. And then as time went on, uh, people started living longer and longer. And the question is, is it all because of science and medicine? That’s the big question.

Because in most people’s mind, science and medicine is vaccines, antibiotics, and medications, right? But the only problem with that, the big spike in longevity occurred before the broad use of vaccines and the invention of antibiotics. The big spike in longevity actually occurred because of plumbing and sanitation engineers. They cleaned up the sewage in the cities. And they didn’t just do it in America.

They did it in France, the UK, different countries. And they showed similar spikes in longevity simply because of this one omitted fact back then over half of the children died before they were 15 years old. If we take that data and we exclude it from this mathematical formula you would see the longevity would be much much higher. And that is because most of these children were dying of certain infections chalera, typhoid and dysentery which had a chronic diarrhea component to it. So once the plumbing and the sewage situations was cleaned up, those conditions literally went away.

Now it’s absolutely true that medicine then came in with antibiotics and it extended the life longer. There’s no doubt. But the big question is this. If we’re talking about longevity, do we want to manage disease or do we want to create health? These are two completely different things.

When you manage diseases, you’re not correcting causes because you still have to take the medication. You’re dependent on certain drugs to keep certain things in check. I mean, right now, we have the ability to get everyone to live to be 100 years old. We just put them on life support, right? keep them alive.

But what about the quality? The quality of someone’s life. Personally, I only want to live as long as I have the quality of my health. I do not want to end up in a nursing home with dementia and all sorts of problems where people have to change my diapers and dress me and feed me. That is not living.

So, today we’re going to focus in on this right here, which is very different than this right here. I’m talking about increasing your fitness reserve so you have more capacity for health. The V2 max is probably one of the best tests that you can do to determine your fitness reserve and also to predict how long you’re going to live. So creating health is different because we’re optimizing function. We’re increasing the quality of your existence.

We’re making your metabolism more flexible and your hormones more sensitive so they can work. We’re making it so you have tremendous stress tolerance and you can adapt to life much much better. Having a very strong parasympathetic nervous system. So when you go to sleep, boy, you go into a nice solid sleep 8 hours and you wake up feeling refreshed. Creating health also includes maintaining your muscle mass as you age because there’s a thing called age- related muscle mass or sarcopenia that a lot of people end up in where you lose the muscle mass and a lot of your health goes down the tube.

So sleep quality is very important. Gut and microbiome is very important. Making sure you don’t build up visceral fat that’s the fat around the gut is super important. And then let’s compare and contrast that to uh medical care. uh if you have a sleeping problem, they will basically just give you a medication.

Does that increase the quality of sleep? No, it just allows you to be unconscious for a longer period of time. I mean, even blood pressure, are they correcting blood pressure? No, they’re just lowering it. They’re thinning the blood.

They’re giving you beta blockers to block this enzyme so then your blood pressure goes down. And then let’s just take acid reflux or bloating or indigestion, right? You take a drug. Wow. Does that ever fix anything?

No. It just suppresses the symptom until you have side effects and you need more medications. So, I’m not disagreeing. This model does extend your life, but at the expense of side effects and lower quality of existence. So, now let’s talk about Japan.

Okay, Japan is the country that has more centinarians, people who live over a 100red years old than any other country. Presently, they have 95,119 people that live over a 100red years old. That’s mind-blowing. And so, we’re going to dissect and go down the list and actually learn from what they’re doing so we can apply it, too. There is another place where people live longer than Japan, and that is Hong Kong.

Now, Hong Kong is not as large, so it doesn’t have as many centinarians, but people in Hong Kong live a very long time. And I have some very interesting information that’s very counterintuitive to why you might think people are living longer. What’s so unique about Japan? The first thing that stands out is their school system. They have a very unique food and nutrition educational program that is mandated by a law.

These kids are educated by dieticians that are not nearly as influenced by the junk food industry like they are in America. So, they’re actually teaching these kids a tremendous amount of great information on food and nutrition early on that is going to help them in the long run. Could you imagine if you ate healthy as a child? Like, I wish I ate healthy as a child. I ate pure junk.

I mean, in America, kids do get some education, but it’s only like eight hours for the entire year. And then the big elephant in the room question is what is the quality of that health and food information since it comes from dieticians that are severely influenced by the junk food industry which is a known fact. If you have any doubts of that I will put a link down below so you can learn more about that. So the question is what do these kids eat? They do have rice.

In America, we are fed more wheat and other grains in a highly refined way, industrial starches. But in Japan, that rice is less refined. It’s not genetically modified. So, it doesn’t have glyphosate. Now, it is true that the wheat