Joel Hayden: Hey guys, today we're talking about
longevity. Not only how to live longer, but how to live better. If that interests you stick around.
Okay. So welcome to the Joel Hayden channel. If you haven't been here before, welcome. Today,
we're going to talk about longevity. The longevity aspect of this channel is really what excites me.
It excites me to think that we can do things to not only live longer, but to live a better
quality life. And isn't that what it's all about? And there's a lot of stuff in here that you've
heard before. And there's a lot of stuff in here that you haven't heard before. I'm
going to kind of glance over or gloss over what we're going to do going forward on our longevity
aspect of the channel. So I'm not going to dig too deep today, but I'm going to give you some great
ideas. At the end I'm going to point out a book to you that I think we should all read or listen
to and I just finished listening to it. It talks about many, many aspects of longevity, by a great
guy. I can't wait to share it with you, but before we do, let's just go through what this channel is
going to talk about with our focus on longevity. So you're wondering where to start.
"I've got a lot going on. Life is hectic. I hate my job. My family is in upheaval over different
stress related things. Where do you start?" I would start in a few different areas. I would look
at your diet. Do you eat a lot of fast food? Are you always on the run? And that's one place where
those Omega-6's in the fast food are killing you. And it is. The McDonald's, Burger King, Pizza Hut.
It's not good for you. And I'm not saying you can't have it.
I'm just saying you could be better at having less of it and eating better. So
that's a good place to start. If you smoke, please do everything
you can to stop. Smoking is probably the biggest reason why people don't live longer,
and it can be for many people, and live better. If you're not getting a lot of exercise, it's a
great way to start out because those endorphins when you start moving and feeling better
is what you need to vault yourself forward more in order to get better in other aspects of your life.
Look at your sleep. See if you can get better sleep. And
this sounds mean, but the stress of life is awful. I don't watch the news anymore. It
doesn't give me any benefit. All they do is try to terrify you. I'm just not a big fan
of watching all the negativity in this world. So I tend not to watch the news.
There are a lot of things that you can do to improve your life. I meditate every day. I think
it's amazing. It may not be your thing and that's okay. There are definitely other ways that you can
improve the way you live. Some of the supplements that have come along in the last few years, from
fish oil, which will help reduce the inflammation that you get from eating those Omega-6's at
McDonald's and Burger King and all those other places is amazing. There is a antioxidant
called resveratrol, which is unbelievable and that alone will improve your life,
I won't say it will improve your life span, but it will definitely improve
your life and it should improve your life span, even if you're not doing everything perfectly.
When it comes to fitness, if you're not moving, get moving. If you're you're moving
and you're doing things, consider making it harder, consider making it a tougher
way to try improve on what you're doing. Just try to improve every day. Tony Robbins talks about
something called CANI, C-A-N-I, and it's constant never-ending improvement, and it's how I live my
life. I constantly am trying to improve on what I do, which is not always the easiest thing to do.
So definitely try to improve, try to pick those areas that you think you could do more.
Even if it's improving your sleep, try to get more sleep, and try to get better sleep.
One of the things I was going to say earlier was try to get away from really stressful people.
And sometimes it's your spouse and sometimes it's your boss. And sometimes it's someone
that you really can't get away from, but figure out how to get away or at least how to minimize
the interactions. And I'm not saying if it's your spouse, if it's your spouse,
that's probably a conversation you should be having, not just avoiding them. But
decreasing the amount of stress in your life is definitely going to help you live longer.
So that's a big one too. So with all that said,
I'm going to dig in and try to put out more videos about longevity and hit all of those topics,
hit stress, hit sleep, hit what can we do to improve our fitness? What can we do to
improve our happiness? And it's a big thing, if you could live happy?
When you look at the people who live the longest, they're happy, and that's not easy. And I'm not
saying they had it easy and I'm not saying they've always lived happy, but they figure out a way. So
I find that really interesting. And we're going to go over a lot of the stuff. The people who live in
those blue zones and they are living to over 100 years old, and I want to know why? And I want to
know what can we do to mimic what they do? It's very interesting. And the book that I
was going to talk about, and the researcher who wrote it, the researcher who wrote it is David
Sinclair. He is out of Harvard University, right here in Boston. It's kind of funny. He came to
Boston within a few years of when I came to Boston and he has worked on anti-aging and he talks about
how our whole medical system goes after cancer. It goes after heart disease. It goes after
Irritable Bowel syndrome and goes after dermatology and melanomas.
And all we do is we wait for something to occur and then we try to treat it as best we can.
And that's been our MO in medicine for years. And David's thought is, why aren't we fighting
aging? If we fight aging, we're going to make all those things happen later in life and that in turn
will allow us to live longer, allow us to live better. And he thinks that the first person to
live to 150 is alive today. And that's a crazy thought. And a lot of you think,
"Well, I don't know if I'm going to live to 150, but I want to live to my last day
as good as today, whether it's tomorrow or whether it's at 100 or whether it's at 120.
I want to live like I'm living today." So I think that's a good way to put it.
Some people do, some people want to live forever. I can't get my head around that one. So
I'm going to talk a little bit more about David's book. His anti-aging research is crazy. The stuff
that he has found in his labs over at Harvard is just unbelievable. It's a great read. I'm going
to put a link to it down below, and I ask you to take some time, read it, listen to it, whatever
you want to do, he actually read the audio book so it was really helpful. I find that I get a lot
more out of that when I listen to it, rather than when I read it. So I would ask you to do that.
I will probably do another video on David himself because he is just a wealth of information,
and look at him. He's my age and he looks 35 years old. He's doing something right. And
he doesn't have any problem telling you what he does. He won't ever get behind a product
because he feels that it's going to affect his truthfulness. He wants to tell you exactly what he
found without having any bias or whatsoever. So he doesn't want to go and say, "I back that product."
Even though he will tell you what's in the product, this is what he has found.
I hope you like what I had to say. I hope you enjoyed the video.
I think that the technology of being able to live longer is going to be crazy. So the more we can do
now to keep ourselves younger, the better our path will be when we're able to live longer.
So I hope all that made sense. And until next time, take care.