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Welcome to Living Healthy Chicago.
I'm Jane Clauss.
We talk a lot about how lifestyle changes
can help us keep living healthy for longer.
But today we're taking a closer look
at not only aging healthy,
but actually age reversal.
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- I am at The Pazio Institute
with Dr. Alexander Paziotopoulos
to talk about age reversal.
Now, Dr. Alex, we know that we can eat right,
we can exercise,
to stay healthy and stay young,
but you look at aging differently.
- Here at The Pazio Institute
we use medical engineering.
To better understand that,
think of us more as a tech company
than a doctor's office
and that we use engineering protocols
to optimize the human body.
One of those protocols that we use
is age reversal protocols.
It's very important to eat well and to exercise,
take care of yourself,
but there's so many other variables
that we need to take into account.
- So let's talk specifically about age reversal.
How does that work?
- So there's about seven biological things
that happen to you, you know, give or take.
And what age reversal is working on
is actually reversing the damage from those mechanisms
to make you biologically younger than you were.
Biological age, you know, being how old you really are
versus how many years you've lived.
- So Dr. Alex talk about DNA
and how it's related to age reversal.
- You're given your DNA.
A DNA inherently gives you a certain lifespan potential,
but you can do a lot about it,
and we need to find out where is the health of your DNA.
So by doing one test,
which is a biological age test,
which kind of looks at how old you really are
versus how many years you've lived,
and then another test is
what are these little things at the end of your DNA doing
called telomeres?
There's a way of looking at it like a shoelace
and the little ends are those little wraps,
and when they fray the shoelace it's gone,
they only have a certain life expectancy.
So every time your cells replace each other,
you know they're always constantly renewing,
those telomeres keep getting shorter and shorter.
So we wanna do everything that we can
to make those telomeres longer,
or at least prevent them from getting short, fast.
And so that's where the age reversal medicine comes in
and all of the processes there.
So it is all DNA related
and how your DNA is aging
and what we can do to make it younger.
And so there's different medications that you can take
and different therapies that you can do,
and we've actually seen in the labs
and in real life and how people feel
that this is working.
If you can slow down and actually reverse parts of aging,
everything gets better.
- Where do we start?
- Everyone starts with their lifestyle.
Must tackle stress.
What you eat really important, right.
Plant based diets have been shown to be
beneficial pretty much all around.
When you eat, try not to eat before bed.
What exercises you do,
you have to do strength based exercises
and speed based exercises,
'cause those help your mitochondria work much better.
Mostly I think it's important to get the baseline,
so someone can see where they're at,
and that that gives them, you know,
the energy to go forward and do it.
- And the goal of age reversal is to stop chronic illness,
is to help the body stay young.
- As you get older,
it has an exponential effect on all chronic diseases.
So the older you are,
the greater the chances that you're gonna have something,
whether it's heart disease or diabetes or cancer.
If we can keep your biological age as young as possible,
then we decrease your chances for all chronic diseases
across the board.
- I mean, just fascinating what you're doing.
What is the takeaway
that you want people to remember after this conversation?
- If you're older or even if you're younger
and you want to live really a long time in a healthy way,
well, right now we have data showing
that we can extend your lifespan and your health span,
with the technology that we have today.
- Thank you so much.
- You're so welcome.
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