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Eight Habits of Health

Your Body is Like a Car or Household Appliance

It Needs Maintenance

Question:

If you could only have one car or one particular household appliance to last your entire lifetime, what good maintenance practices would you establish to make it last your whole life? More importantly, with the one and only body you will ever have, what maintenance practices are you implementing so that your body will stay optimally healthy through a long life?

Eight Habits of Health

  1. Maintain a Fat Burning Mode
  2. Consume Essential Nutrients for Cellular Health
  3. Detoxify and Reduce Toxin Load
  4. Optimize Movement & Recovery
  5. Embrace Beneficial Stressors
  6. Sync with Your Body’s Natural Rhythms
  7. Supercharge Brain & Cellular Health
  8. Make Your Mind, Relationships & Environment Work for You

 

The Goal: Die YoungAs Late in Life As Possible!

What should be the ultimate health goal?

Preserving biological youth for as long as human potential allows. This means keeping your cells, tissues, organs, and entire system functioning at their peak—so you stay strong, flexible, and sharp, free from pain, stiffness, and decline.

  • Prior to the invention of antibiotics, medicines, and surgeries, people routinely died at young ages (often before 50). They usually died from injuries or bacterial infections (especially gastrointestinal infections).
  • In the 21st century, “past probabilities" of dying from trauma or infection are removed due to medical advancements. That means most people today can live for as long as the quality of their self-maintenance permits.
  • Recently gained scientific understanding regarding methods for opposing and reversing aging are so significant that nearly every person being born today could live to 120 years of age and beyond if they applied this new knowledge to their lives. In fact, it is virtually certain that some people alive today will live to 150 years of age.
  • Unfortunately, most people are completely ignorant (including most doctors) of what to do to stay biologically young.
  • Therefore, most people suffer from poor health and exit mortal life decades sooner than could have been the case.
 

To stay biologically "young" for up to decades longer than most people do, a person needs to adopt lifestyle practices that will allow him or her to minimize glycation , oxidation, interruption in micro-biome and, cellular-communication-processes that damage most people's potential health-span and longevity.

One's goal must be to implement what sages and scientists have learned about eliminating these anti-aging factors. Unfortunately, most people don't know how to carry out effective lifestyle and dietary habits in their daily life for stopping these processes. As a result they grow old, and suffer and die long before what might have been.

Even though it's possible, few people know how to rejuvenate old cells and tissues and make them young again.

That's why we teach these important methods for maintaining and rejuvenating the human body to a state of optimal functioning. As you study the Eight Habits of health you will learn what practices can permit you to age much more slowly.

Once you know, it is up to you to implement the Eight Habits of Health in your daily living. If you fail to implement the habits of health, you will continue aging at fast, life-shortening rate. You will suffer poor health for many years — prior to dying too soon. On the other hand, if you do embrace these habits in your life, you will stay young for decades longer, or possibly reverse the aging process and become biologically younger, mentally and physically.

Take Care of Your Body — It's the Only Place
You Have to Live

only place to live

What You Don't Know About Health Preservation Can Destroy You 50 Years Before Your Time

The average person lives to about 78 years old and begins experiencing declining health around age 63. However, many people suffer from poor health even earlier and don’t reach that average lifespan. But things don’t have to be that way for you,

Imagine living in vibrant, youthful health well into your 100s — 110, 120, or beyond. Your lifespan and healthspan are largely determined by the daily choices you make, and by following the 8 Habits of Health, you can dramatically extend both.

The Harsh Reality of Aging and Disease

  • Most people spend at least 15 years in poor health before they die.
  • Many die 20 to 50 years sooner than they could have.
  • Lifestyle matters far more than genetics when it comes to longevity.

Typical Lifespan and Causes of Death

  • 60s–70s: Most deaths occur in the late 70s, often due to heart disease, cancer, and other degenerative illnesses.
  • 80s: Those who prioritize their health or have slightly stronger genetics tend to live into their 80s, but chronic conditions still claim many lives.
  • 90s+: A smaller percentage make it to their 90s or beyond, often due to strong genetics and better lifestyle habits.

The Choice Is Yours

You don’t have to be part of these statistics. You have the power to extend your healthspan and lifespan by implementing the 8 Habits of Health now. Small, consistent changes can make all the difference—giving you decades of vibrant living instead of years of decline.

Question of the Modern Age:

100 year old man
If you could maintain excellent physical and mental health to 120 plus years of age, would you like to live that long?

It’s a fascinating question especially since with the right diet, lifestyle, and commitment to healthy habits, thriving well past 100 is not just possible but increasingly achievable (there are now over 100,000 people in the U.S. who are 100 or older).

  • Centenarians are the fastest-growing age group both in the United States and globally — and their numbers are expected to quadruple over the next 30 years..
  • Of course, the real focus shouldn't be just living longer — it should be living healthier. One's primary goal should be having a long healthspan (longevity will be a side effect of that). Helping people live healthy is the precise reason for this website. Extra years on earth mean little if they are punctuated with poor health, physical decline, and cognitive deterioration.
  • Unfortunately, most people don't understand how to remain "youthfully healthy" into old age. Studies show that most people "subconsciously plan" that between 50 to 65 their health will decline. That's their inner belief system and true to that belief system, by age 63 almost 95% of Americans have symptoms of one of the major chronic diseases (cardiovascular disease, cancer, kidney disease, Alzheimer', etc.).
  • It is ironic that while the number of centenarians is going up, average longevity peaked nine years ago and is now going down (as shown in this chart).
  • The reason average mortality is going down is because:
    1. toxicity in the human body is going up
    2. and nutrient intake is going down
  • Paradoxically, at the same time as average longevity and healthspan are going down, enlightened people are living longer and healthier than ever before. Many people now have biological markers (functional age) that are 25 years less than their chronological age (IE 40 years old biologically while 65 years old chronologically). Many anti-aging experts say they are aging backwards (getting younger) and that they believe than anyone who desire to can live to 120 and beyond.
  • The reality for the average person who doesn't follow optimum health practices is that they will begin to feel old in their fifties or sixties, suffer chronic disease and never become centenarians — not because it's impossible, but because most people aren't willing to choose the type of diet and lifestyle that supports either longevity or sustained vitality. Even medical professionals, despite their medical knowledge, die at the same average rates as the general population.
  • Just taking vitamins won’t get you there. The United States consumes more vitamins than the rest of the world combined, yet has some of the worst health statistics. Clearly, vitality and longevity isn’t found in taking a few pills which is why most Americans are happier to suffer poor health and die 30 to 40 years too soon rather than adopt a different lifestyle.
  • The truth is living a long, healthy life requires a different approach than most Americans are taking. It requires a lifestyle of ensuring no toxicities (fasting, sweating, and not partaking of damaging substances and energies), ensuring no nutrient deficiencies (by eating a wide variety of foods, supplementing intelligently), and a lifestyle of demanding performance from one's cells (exercising the body and mind). It also requires being willing to appear "weird" in the eyes of others by choosing a lifestyle that deviates from societal norms. The truth is that most people would rather lose decades of potential healthy life than deviate from societal norms.
  • This website is for those who are willing to be different. We teach how to slow down aging and preserve both the body and mind through lifestyle and nutrition. Longevity isn’t about luck or good genes — it’s about strategy. And if you’re ready to embrace a new way of living, the potential for a longer, healthier life is within reach.

The dietary and lifestyle diseases that kill most people and or cause people to suffer in poor health needlessly for the last 20% of their life are shown in the graph below. Virtually all of these could be prevented through an understanding and application of optimal lifestyle and diet.

morality rate 2019

While the average human lifespan currently ranges between 75 to 80 years, the possibility of extending life to 120 years or beyond has been a topic of scientific exploration. Several reputable scientists suggest that, with appropriate lifestyle choices, achieving such longevity may be feasible.

Scientists Who Believe in the Possibility of Extended Lifespans

  • Dr. David Sinclair, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, has conducted extensive research on aging. He posits that it's possible to reset the body's age and potentially extend human lifespan significantly. In a 2023 interview, Sinclair stated, "In this paper, we're showing it's possible to reset the age of the body up to as much as 50 percent." (Source)
  • Dr. Steven Austad, an expert in aging, believes that living beyond 120 years is attainable. He has engaged in academic discussions about the potential for humans to reach 150 years, citing ongoing research and advancements in understanding the aging process. (Source)
  • Dr. Ernst von Schwarz, a cardiologist and stem cell researcher, has expressed optimism about extending human lifespan through medical innovations. He suggests that, thanks to stem cell research, humans could potentially live up to 150 years by the end of this century. (Source)

While these perspectives are promising, it's important to recognize that extending human lifespan to 120 years or beyond involves genetics and environment plus lifestyle and diet. Achieving such longevity awaits pioneers. The masses aren't likely to be involved until they see the pioneers doing it.

Body Maintenance is a Choice

Why is dying at 75 to 80 the defacto choice for most people? And why is it that highly educated people and wealthy people tend to add a decade to those numbers?

  • Studies have found that the richest American men live approximately 15 years longer than the poorest men, while the richest women live about 10 years longer than their poorest counterparts.

The first answer is that wealthier people have lower rates of smoking and healthier dietary habits. In other words, wealthy people do a better job at keeping their bodies from being deficient in nutrients and filled up with toxins. Better Health always boils down to being more free from toxicities and having fewer nutrient deficiencies.

A second answer is normalcy bias.

  • Most people believe they will die between 75 and 80.
  • Most people think of 90 year olds as being anomalies.
  • And, as with everything in life, what you believe, IE, whether you believe you can or can't, you're right.

What kills most people today are lifestyle caused diseases (cancer, heart disease, respiratory diseases, strokes, Alzheimer's, Diabetes, and kidney disease). These are virtually entirely avoidable for those who choose to ensure no nutrient deficiencies or toxicities.

  • So living the lifestyle that creates those lifestyle diseases is just about as nonsensical as allowing one's gasoline powered car to be destroyed because one cannot be bothered to change engine oil or keep fluid in the radiator.
  • Worse than early death, those lifestyle-caused diseases cause most people to live that last 20 percent of their lives in a very low quality of health. What is so sad is they could be enjoying far more the years after work requirements end.

Suffering and dying of those diet and lifestyle caused diseases is becoming totally optional for people alive today because each person could choose a lifestyle and diet that would give a different outcome. It is ignorance of what are those better lifestyles and diets (as Hosea in the Bible said, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge".

And, as always is the case with new paradigms, don't let the nay-sayers stop you from doing what many others are doing, IE, living in perfect health into their one hundreds.

Do You Want to Choose a Different Way?

The truth is that many anti-aging experts are aging backwards, that is getting younger biologically, not older. Many believe that they will live for many hundreds of years, but they are very strict about a couple of things:

  • Sleeping eight hours every night
  • Maintaining very low blood sugar
  • Maintaining excellent muscle strength
  • Monitoring nutrient levels and utilizing supplements to ensure that they have no nutrient deficiencies
  • Having an eating window of less than eight hours a day so that their body can detoxify itself and repair itself optimally daily

Everyone has to determine for themselves if a long and healthy life is worth the discipline it will take to achieve, or if they want to get chronically ill and die at a normal age like most everyone else.

We hope that your goal is to live in a biologically young body for a very long time — for your body to work the way it should, without pain and without lack of energy, all the way to your last telomere. The way to achieve that goal is to implement the Eight Habits of Health.

Don't Delay to Implement the Eight Habits of Health
  • For every month you delay to implement optimal habits of health you can plan on losing from 2 to 7 days of healthy lifespan that you could have had, but will forfeit because of that delay.
  • Those forfeited days just keep adding up. After just 5 years of delay, that's from 120 to 420 healthy days of enjoying life to the maximum that you'll never be able to get back.
  • or if you wait 10 years to implement better lifestyle choices that's 240 to 840 healthy days that are gone from your future.
  • In your later years, you would pay almost anything to get just a few more weeks or months of healthy living.

Let deteriorating health be a wake-up call. Most people heave signs of chronic health problems before age 63 (95% of people). If this is you, meaning you're on the road to pain, suffering, and early death, we suggest that you back up fast!

  • Many people say that they don't want to outlive their friends and children. We don't have an answer for that. You get to choose.
  • Other people say that they might do everything right and still die of an accident — so, why bother trying. Again, we don't have an answer because there no guarantees in life and it is true that 5% of all people die from accidents. So, if you want to ignore your 95% chance of not dying of an accident, we won't be able to dissuade you.

For those who can find a desire to live a long, healthy life and a belief that planning for no accidents and planning to not suffer and die 20 to 40 year too soon is a worthy goal, we welcome you to Health Living.

Good Health Exists Where People Live the Eight Habits of Health

There are many places around the world where people do not suffer the health problems that are common in industrialized countries. None of the causes of death listed above are known there. Instead, they simply die in their sleep, very late chronologically in life. The kind of health problems most people have really boil down to not having healthy cells, tissues, and organs because they allowed toxicities and deficiencies to develop.

dr ron rosedale - longevity

Ron Rosedale is an Internationally known expert in nutritional and metabolic medicine whose work with diabetics is truly groundbreaking. Very few physicians have had such consistent success in helping diabetics to eliminate or reduce their need for insulin and to reduce heart disease without drugs or surgery.

Dr. Rosedale was founder of the Rosedale Center, co-founder of the Colorado Center for Metabolic Medicine (Boulder, CO USA) and founder of the Carolina Center of Metabolic Medicine (Asheville, NC). Through these centers, he has helped thousands suffering from so-called incurable diseases to regain their health.

One of Dr. Rosedale's life goals is to wipe out type II diabetes in this country as a model for the world. He also has written a book,"The Rosedale Diet", covering his proven treatment methods for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, osteoporosis and other chronic diseases of aging.


Anti-Aging Experts on Longevity

1. Dr. Valter Longo

Dr. Valter Longo, a professor of gerontology and biological sciences at the University of Southern California, is renowned for his research on fasting-mimicking diets and their impact on aging and longevity. He advocates that specific dietary patterns can activate cellular regeneration and promote a longer, healthier life.

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2. Dr. Luigi Fontana

Dr. Luigi Fontana, a physician and researcher, has extensively studied the effects of calorie restriction and plant-based diets on aging. He posits that such dietary interventions can significantly extend lifespan and healthspan. In his book, "The Path to Longevity," he discusses how a nutrient-rich, low-calorie diet can promote longevity.

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3. Dan Buettner

Dan Buettner, a National Geographic Fellow and author, has identified regions known as "Blue Zones," where people live significantly longer lives. He attributes this longevity to lifestyle factors, including plant-based diets, regular physical activity, and strong social connections.

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4. Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn

Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, a Nobel laureate, has conducted pioneering research on telomeres—the protective caps on chromosomes—and their role in aging. She suggests that lifestyle choices, such as a balanced diet, stress management, and regular exercise, can maintain telomere length and promote healthy aging.

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5. Dr. Peter Attia

Dr. Peter Attia, a physician focusing on the science of longevity, emphasizes that lifestyle interventions, including nutrition, exercise, and stress management, can significantly impact lifespan and healthspan. In his book, "Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity," he explores these concepts in depth.

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Anti-Aging Research and Proof

Bryan Johnson's Project Blueprint

Tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson has embarked on an ambitious endeavor known as "Project Blueprint," aiming to rejuvenate his body's biological age. Through a meticulously structured regimen encompassing a strict vegan diet, precise supplementation, regular exercise, and advanced medical interventions, Johnson reports remarkable results. He claims to have reduced his biological age by over five years, effectively aging only eight months for every chronological year. This suggests a significant deceleration in the aging process, offering a glimpse into the potential of dedicated lifestyle modifications and medical innovations.

Read more about Bryan Johnson's Project Blueprint

Dr. David Sinclair's Groundbreaking Research

Harvard geneticist Dr. David Sinclair has been at the forefront of aging research, proposing that aging is a condition that can be targeted and potentially reversed. His studies have demonstrated that certain molecules, such as NAD+ boosters, can activate sirtuin genes associated with longevity. Notably, Sinclair's lab has successfully reversed age-related vision loss in mice by reprogramming cells to a more youthful state, highlighting the profound possibilities of cellular rejuvenation.

Read more about Dr. David Sinclair's research

Emerging Therapeutics

Beyond individual efforts, the scientific community is exploring various compounds with anti-aging properties. For instance, the diabetes medication metformin is under investigation for its potential to mimic the effects of caloric restriction, a known factor in extending lifespan. Additionally, research into NAD+ precursors like NMN shows promise in enhancing cellular repair mechanisms, thereby slowing down aspects of the aging process.

Read more about NAD+ precursors and aging research

Conclusion

While these developments are promising, it's essential to approach them with a balanced perspective. Ongoing research and clinical trials are crucial to fully understand the long-term implications and safety of these interventions. Nonetheless, the convergence of disciplined lifestyle choices and cutting-edge science is paving the way toward a future where extended youthfulness could become a reality.

Watch More

For a deeper dive into Bryan Johnson's approach, you might find this video insightful:

I Delivered My Results to Bryan Johnson (YouTube)

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