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September 24, 2025 47 mins
In this week’s episode, Dr. Taylor reveals how a simple test can uncover your true biological age—beyond the number of candles on your birthday cake. We dive into the science of epigenetics and explore how hormones, lifestyle, environment, and even your mindset influence the way your genes express themselves. Explore the keys to slowing the aging process. This is a must-listen for anyone curious about living not just longer, but healthier!

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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Welcome to to Ask Good Questions Podcasts, broadcasting live every Wednesday,
six pm Eastern Time on W four CY Radio at
w four cy dot com. This week and every week,
we will reach for a higher purpose in money and life,
as well as a focus on health and wellment. Now,

(00:49):
let's join your host, Anita bell Anderson as together we
start with Asking Good Questions.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Hello, and welcome to the Ask Good Questions podcast. This
is your host, Benita bell Anderson, and I'm so happy
that you're here today. We have got a fantastic guest
and topic to talk about today. We're going to talk
about how fast you are aging. So with that, let
me invite to the proverbial podcast stage, doctor Eldred Taylor.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Hello, Benita, Hey, how are you doing? So good to
see you again.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
I know it's so good to see you. I'm so
excited for this this episode because we are going to
delve into I want. I want you to tell me
how I can really slow down my aging. That's what
I want. Okay, Taylor, Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
All right, okay, right, all right, we'll do.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
I want to give just a brief intro for him
and then have him say a few words about his background,
because this is a medical professional that has really stepped
up his game as far as how to take care
of the whole person. He's really getting the hormones and
lifestyle and your brain and how how everything with your

(02:09):
mindset fits in.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yeah, yeah, so I wanted.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
To I knew that he was really delving into this
whole thing with slowing the aging process, so that's why
I wanted to have him come on and chat about this.
Do you want to say a few more words about
your background?

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Well, okay, I am. I am originally an obguy. N
That's what my training was in. I trained at Emory University.
I live in Atlanta, and that's where emory is that's
what got me here. I'm married to another doctor and
we worked together. But I started out being interested in
bioidentical hormone replacement, and my wife and I wrote a
book called Are Your Hormones Making You Sick? So that

(02:47):
was my initial kind of divergence from conventional medicine. And
then from that I started to get really interested in
stress and how stress affects hormones, and we wrote a
book called Stress Connection. And then as I have become
older I'm sixty five now, I went I came to
a crossroads and it's like, am I going to get

(03:08):
better at sixty five or am I just going to
retire and fade away and sit in a rocking chair
until death comes? And I took the other road. I
was like, instead of me just sitting around waiting on death,
you know, maybe I can get better, Maybe I can
reverse my aging. Maybe I can do even more than
what I did when I was younger. So I set

(03:30):
out on a path to do that. And that's what
created this ageless blueprint, is that I tried to find
that blueprint for myself. And you know, my chairman of
my department in my ob Juan said, never do anything
to a patient that you wouldn't do to yourself, or
to your wife, or to your mother. And so if

(03:51):
I'm going to do that for me, I feel almost
obligated to try and share that. And you know, anybody,
you know, when we talk about being ageless, you know,
you can be forty and feel like you're eighty, or
you can be eighty and feel like you're forty, and
it's it's a process to that, and that's what we'll
you know, we can talk about today. How do you

(04:13):
how do you how do you process that? What processes
helped you to reverse aging?

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah, well, you know, I don't know anybody that doesn't
think about this. You know, pretty much all of us
are wondering about this topic. So let's kind of start with.
You know, I have had my my biological age tested,
and but what's the difference between the chronological age and

(04:42):
the biological age.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
Well, you know, your chronological age is how many years
have passed since your birth certificate says you were born,
So that's your chronological age. But your biological age is
how fast or how slowly is your are your organ
systems aging? All right? And the primary aging aging process

(05:07):
is stress. And when I say stress, stresses can be
physical stress, it can be emotional stress, it can be
environmental stress. And when we talk about reversing aging, that's
going to be the number one thing we're going to
talk about. There's really five points I want to make
and we'll get to that. But yeah, your chronological age
is what's on your birth certificate and what is and

(05:29):
how many years have passed, But your biological age can
be vastly different. You can be ten years younger than
your chronological age because your organs have been treated correctly
by how you eat, how you think, how you sleep,
are you can abuse your body. All we've seen people,
you know, let's say drug addicts who have not taken

(05:49):
care of themselves. They look sixty and they're thirty, you know,
because they have abused their body, and you can see
it on their face, you can see it in their skin,
you can see how they walk, how they talk, and
you can say, you know, that person looks old. And
there's a song that says everybody wants to live forever,
but nobody wants to grow old. And that's, you know,

(06:09):
that's kind of how life feels. We want to live,
but we don't want to grow old.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Well, are you saying that there is a test that
can really actually reveal your biological age.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
Yeah, now there's a couple. Now, one is it's a
test that I use, and I think there's some other companies.
It's called true Diagnostics, where it looks at epigenetics, and
epigenetics means you know, you have your genes. And a
lot of people think, oh, while it's in my family,
you know, I got this genetic you know, whether it's
hypertension or cancer or whatever. But that's not true. You

(06:44):
don't really have a gene for cancer, you don't have
a gene for a high blood pressure. Really, it's these
things called epigenetics, these triggers that either turn a gene
on or turn a gene off, and they are primarily
turned on and off by your lifestyle. And so if
you can change your lifestyle, if you can change what
you eat, how long you sleep, how you think, and

(07:08):
how you think about age, it's probably the most important.
You know, when I said, hey, am I just going
to sit in a rock and chair and die? If
you if you think like that, that is exactly what
will happen. You know, as a man thinks in his heart,
so is he. But if you look at age as
something that you know, the way I look at it

(07:29):
is that I am wise. Now, you know, wisdom only
comes with experience. So there's a lot of people who
are talking about a lot of different things. But when
you look at aging as something that is enviable, that hey,
I am you know when they I had patients asking
me if I was going to retire, and I'm like,
why would I retire? I know more, I've experienced more,

(07:50):
I've seen more patience, I've had more experiences. So I
look at aging is that I'm I'm that wise person
who can help younger people navigate this thing called life.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, well, is there some one thing that really surprised
you when you first really started learning about the difference
between biological and chronicle age? What surprised you the most?

Speaker 4 (08:15):
What surprised me the most is what you were talking
about as mindset? Okay, what you think? Your thoughts have
so much power that you really don't understand. And I'll
tell you, I don't know if you know Joe de Spenza,
he's big on this IP.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
I spent a week as because of you. You reminded
me of him and I was listening to one of
his He has these nighttime meditation things on YouTube right.

Speaker 4 (08:45):
Right, nighttime meditations, daytime meditations, and he talks about and
he can prove it scientifically that meditation changes your biology
and there's no doubt about it. We did a seven
day advance workshop and it was all about meditation and
guided focus and all this. And he had a group

(09:08):
of people that he measured some biological markers before the
seven day conference and then afterwards, and there were dramatic
changes in inflammatory markers, in markers of GI inflammation, all
kinds of markers that he looked at. In just in

(09:29):
seven days, he changed the genetic expression of most of
these people. And just being in the room was really experienced.
It was over two thousand people there and we did
over thirty five hours of meditations in seven days. And
that's something that I couldn't I couldn't have done a
year ago. It's no way I can meditate for that
long because it is a practice that you have to learn.

(09:52):
You have to practice meditation, and so that was probably
the most surprising thing. It really is about how you
think about yourself and about your environment, and that's what
stress is. Stress is your perception. And so if you
perceive something is stressful, you set off all these chemicals
that begin to aid you prematurely. But if you can

(10:14):
perceive your life as being joyful and grateful and loving,
it changes your whole biology instead of being judgmental and
angry and hateful. Those thoughts aid you because they set
off chemicals in your brain and your body that start
to well, really is inflammation, but it just starts to

(10:39):
aid you prematurely. So that's probably the most surprising thing
because a lot of people think, you know, it's what
kind of medication or exercise or whatever, And exercise is important,
but meditation is the most important. And I apologize to
my patience and every time I talk that for the
first twenty eight years of me practice in medicine, I

(11:01):
did not advocate meditation. And meditation is probably the one
self healing thing that you can do and it doesn't
cost you any money.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Well, you can make it up now, right.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
Yeah, I am, I am making.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
It up now. Well, okay, let's stop for a minute again. Okay,
so you've said a couple of times that term epigenetics,
and I'm beat. And there's probably some people that are
not familiar. I don't know if I could give a
good definition. How would you define epigenetics.

Speaker 4 (11:33):
So epigenetics means it's above your genes. So you actually
they said that you only really express about ten percent
of your genes. But all of those genes have a purpose.
So the best way to explain it is that genes
are like piano keys and the epigenetics that is what

(11:55):
plays the music. So you can play something that's in
perfect harmony and it's great, and that's when your body
is in balance and in harmony and your epigenetics are
playing all the right genes all right, so that you
live healthy and you live a long life and all that,
and that's influenced by the stress. How well you sleep,

(12:17):
how well you eat, how well you move, and how
well your social connections are supporting you. So those are
the five pillars, the five lifestyle pillars that play the
right music. Okay, so just think you have all of
these genes that can be either turned on or turned off.
So there's genes that aid you and those are usually

(12:39):
the stress hormones. When you're under stress, is fight or
flight are you can have what we call the reparative genes,
which is parasympathetic, which is what we call rest and digest,
and those are the ones that making sure that all
of the keys are in tune. You know that they're
playing the right music. So that's the best explanation I have.

(13:02):
You have a piano, what keys are going to be played?
And you know if you play a flat note, everybody here,
you know, everybody knows that that's off and it throws
off the whole music. And so that's how you have
to look at your genes. If your sleep is off,
if your stress is off, if your nutrition is off,
it's a possibility that your epigenetics will play the wrong key,

(13:23):
and then if you don't correct that, it ends up
with disease and even death. So that's that's probably the.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah analogy. Yeah, Well, so you're talking about genes expressing themselves.
So I think of two things. I think about the
environment and lifestyle choices. That seems to be is that
the biggest things that will make a determination on which
genes are expressed lifestyle.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
Environment, lifestyle. And again it's it's stress. And you got
to think of stress being any kind of everybody thinks
stresses emotional stress, but there's environmental stressors the air that
you breathe. Now you're in Hawaii, so your air is
probably a lot cleaner than it is in Atlanta.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
But that I'm close to Honolulu. You should see the
traffic here. Yeah, I do have these great trip Like
if I went out on that deck right now, there's
a wonderful trade wind that blows around. But yeah, no
idea it no like air quality.

Speaker 4 (14:29):
Yes, it's air quality the stressor. And you know the
pesticides that are used, those are stressors. Those are what
we call hormone disruptors, so they disrupt your harmones. So
and that if your hormones anything is out of is
out of balance in your body, your body sees it
as a stressor. So you want to have a lifestyle

(14:49):
that eliminates as many stressors as possible. So you know,
if you're talking about environmentally, you want to try and
eat organic foods. You want to try and avoid pesticides.
You want to try and avoid chemicals that can be
absorbed in your skin because they can stress out your
immune system. So that's a part of your environment. And

(15:10):
then lifestyle choices is really getting enough sleep and what
you eat. Those are the two things. Because the way
you are. The way you give your body what it
needs to repair itself is by what you put in
your mouth. And that can be food, that can be
supplements or whatever. But you have to give your body
what it needs to create energy, to be able to

(15:31):
repair itself, to be able to regenerate itself. And then
the only way you can do that is with rest.
And that's why sleep is so important. So I can
give you every supplement known demand, and I can feed
you every organic fruit and vegetable there is. And if
you don't sleep, nothing happens, because that's when you use

(15:54):
whatever you've put in your mouth. That's when your body
repairs this and regenerates that and eliminates this if you
don't sleep. So that's always my first priority. If a
patient says that they're not getting sleep, then that is
my number one goal. First, we have to get you
to sleep well.

Speaker 3 (16:12):
Then probably one of the first things that when you
and I started to connect it was on hormones. How see,
if you can give me just a short little how
does hormones fit in with this whole aging process thing?

Speaker 4 (16:30):
Because hormones affect everything, especially especially in women and in
men too. Hormones they affect everything. And as a woman,
you know, it affects your mood, it affects your weight,
it affects how you feel, it affects everything. And when
those are out of balance, that can be a major stressor.

(16:52):
All right, And a lot of times women aren't familiar
with why they're feeling a certain way. And a lot
of doctors and this I told you I kind of
steered away from conventional medicine, is how do you identify
a hormone imbalance? And I talked about this on the
last one. I'll just say, and what I didn't learn
in medical school is how to measure hormones, especially in women.

(17:15):
And now I measure them in saliva and it shows
me that imbalance. So you want to try and identify
and correct any imbalances, whether it's in your gut or
your hormones or whatever, so you can remove those physiological stressors,
because that's the other part you gotta you know, we
all think of stress as some emotional stress. I got

(17:37):
a divorce or some my parent dad. But those physiological
stressors that you're unaware of, they are aging you faster
than you know. And hormones is hormones is a is
a major part of that. And it's not just estrogen
and progesterone, the testosterone. The biggiest cortisol your stress hormone,

(17:59):
and when you are under stress, that cortisol is catabolic.
That means it breaks you down faster. And we all
know when you know, when you're under stress, you look
broken down. I mean you can see you can see
it on a person's face, and so you want to
avoid that at all calls. So estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and cortisol,
they're all intermingled and if one is off, it throws

(18:20):
off everything else. So that's why hormones are so important,
because if you don't get your hormone straight, you're going
to have difficulty sleeping. And most women know that when
they go through menopause. And you know, when you're stressed,
you have a hard time going to sleep, or you
wake up in the middle of the night thinking about
what you're you know, what you're stressed out about. So hormones,
that's always my basic pillar. First we're gonna start with

(18:43):
your hormones. Then we can work with your mind and
your mindset, and then the third thing we try and
do is try and have a social connection and a
spiritual connection. And I took a longevity course and they
always talked about how important it was to have some
type of spirit. Your connection to think beyond yourself is

(19:03):
that think that there is a greater purpose than just
you being here as a human being, that you actually
have a purpose and a and a higher calling, and
that gives you purpose and gives you a reason to live.
You have to have a reason to wake up every morning.
You know you have to have something that you feel
is your purpose, that this is why I'm here is

(19:24):
to do this, and you know that that has helped
that helps you to live longer when you say I've
got something that I have to do tomorrow, because you
got to think for your purpose. You're the only one
that can feel your purpose, and that's how you have
to think about that. You have to think about yourself
as being unique and that if I don't do it,

(19:46):
it won't get done. So I'm determined to do this well.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
It seems like the first big AHA is all around
stress and identifying what are the stressors in your own
and because everybody's stressors are going to be different, so
that would be a big AHA to delve into more
after the podcast. All right, I want to go into
you know, because it's like I know, I know, on

(20:11):
these podcast episodes, I only have a certain amount of
time with you. We're going to go into the test
and what it reveals a little bit. So you've been
talking a little bit about this test. What does the
test measure and how accurate is it? You think it's
really accurate and what it does.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
Yeah, So what it looks at, It looks at methylation
and methylation is how your genes are marked. And so
there's I could show you if I hadn't known you
once say it show it. But it is looking at
the methylation of these different genes, and the more methylated
it is, the more it is aging. All right. So

(20:52):
that's how it looks at it. And methylation is a
little marker that's put on these genes and as they
are are being expressed, they're methylated. So that's what that's
what is measured, the methylation. And we've all heard of
m t h f R when you have problems methylating,
and so that's what is protecting or either it's either

(21:13):
turning the gene on all yeah, yeah, okay, And so
so that's and so it looks at different organ systems.
It looks at your cardiovascular system. Is that aging you prematurely?
Then we know that, Okay, that's what we have to
focus on. Is it your GI system? Is it your
immune system? Are you are things being inflamed and a

(21:35):
lot of people call aging inflammation inflaaging is that the
more inflamed you are, the more the quicker you're going
to age. So the number one goal is to decrease inflammation.
All right. So stress causes a suppression of your immune system,
so it makes you more susceptible to inflammation eating inflammatory

(22:00):
foods like processed foods, those are inflammatory if you're eating
foods that you're sensitive to. So a lot of times
we will look at food sensitivity testing because if we
see inflammation and we can't you know, and you don't
have an acute, acute inflammatory process, we start to look
at food sensitivity to see if the food that you're

(22:22):
eating is causing this low level of chronic inflammation. And
that low level of inflammation eventually will show up in
skin disorders, it will show up in arthritis, it'll show
up in hype, in Hashimoto's disease, any kind of autoimmune
disease that you have is more than likely due to

(22:44):
a problem with inflammation and food sensitivities. So that's why
nutrition is so important when we're talking about lifestyle choices
and aging. You don't want to you don't want to
set up this chronic inflammation eating foods that you're sensitive to.
And here's the deal. You would think, see people think

(23:07):
of inflammation from food that hey, I'm allergic to shellfish,
so I eat shellfish and my face blows up and
I can't breathe. So that's what we a. That's what
we call an acute or in immediate sensitivity. But then
you can have these low level inflammation that you don't
swell up like that, but you have this low level

(23:28):
of inflammation that kind of is like when you think
you're about to have a cold, but you don't really
have the cold yet, but you know how your brain
gets foggy and you don't you're kind of achey and
you don't just feel right. A lot of people go
through life feeling like that, and really it can be
due to the foods they eat. The foods they eat

(23:51):
and the chronic inflammation that's being set up. So I
think we lost our host. Why are you still there? Hm?
There we go? Yeah, there you go? Yeah, I said
we lost our host. I asked that Jan was still there.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
So all right, Next question? How often so somebody does
this testing and then they're trying to make some lifestyle changes,
how often should somebody retest to track progress? Because I'm
guessing you start trying to diligently make some differences in
your life, you would need to retest, wouldn't you.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
Yeah, that's the whole thing. I'm big into testing. Hey,
what's the problem. What interventions should I do? If? What
interventions should I implement? And then let's retest it and
see if those interventions actually did what we wanted it
to do. And if it didn't, we need to change,
you know, change our whatever we implement it so that

(24:56):
we can get the desired results. So we usually say
in three to six months now lifestyle changes and all
that stuff. Those those are great and they work well.
And there's also some things I'm really getting more involved
with using peptads to try and stimulate and what what
peptads do? They are these messengers that can kind of

(25:19):
reignite some of your regenative processes. So there's there's peptads
that can help with ligaments. There's peptads that help with
your immune system. There's peptads that help with your skin.
And peptads are these small so peptads means small proteins.

(25:39):
They are these little chains of amino acids, and that's
what glp ones are. They're they're peptads. And so just
like those peptads can alter your insulin resistance and alter
your hemoglobin A one C, there's other peptads that can
alter your thymus clan and your pineal gland and there's

(26:00):
all and even your overs any kind of biological regulatory system.
They can help boost it and make it act like
it's younger. And you have a lot of these peptads
when you're younger, and so you can repair yourself. You
can recover from injury, and we all know as we
get older, it gets harder for us to recover and

(26:20):
to repair ourselves. But peptads can help to promote that.
So we want to start with the lifestyle changes. But
if in that epigenetic testing we see something that is
definitely aging you more quickly, we may want to use
peptads in order to focus on regenerating that particular system

(26:41):
because they're they're they're discovering more and more peptads every day.
And I have patients who come in and say which
peptads should I take? And I say, I don't know.
Let's see where the problems are and then I can
tell you what peptads will help to correct that particular system.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
Well, there is there certain lifestyle factors that would be
have the biggest impact on you know, because this could
be overwhelming, right, yeah, it could be overwhelming. So is
there certain lifestyle factors that you think would have the
biggest impact that maybe focus on one particular thing.

Speaker 4 (27:19):
Okay, I'm gonna I will say it again, and this
is this is so I'll tell you A great book
to read is the telomere Effect. Okay, okay, And and
do you know what telomeres are? Let me explain what.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
On your mitochondria.

Speaker 4 (27:35):
Well, they're on your DNA. So you have you have
your chromosomes. Yeah, so you have your chromosomes. You know
the chromosomes you've seen us in valley. They look like this.
So the ends of your chromosomes, those are what open
up and they're what they or what replicate and make
new sales all right. So every time your DNA opens
up and it and it and it duplicates itself, then

(27:57):
it has to go back together. So the the the
telomeres are like the shoelaces on your shoes, all right,
So that what happens is they keep those ends from
fraying so that stays organized. Now as the every time
you your sales divide, those telomeres shorten, all right, and

(28:18):
so the shorter the telomeres, the shorter the lifespan of
that chromosome, all right. So that's how you can look.
And that's another way you can tell, is how short
are your telomeres. And the person who wrote the telomere effect,
she won a Nobel Prize for understanding there's this enzyme
called telimeraates that can lengthen telomeres. So all of these

(28:40):
lifestyle changes that I'm telling you about are things that
she that she discovered with her you know, research group.
How can you lengthen those telomeres? All right? So Number
one was stress that shortens your tilameres, and that stress
and and one of the number one of the biggest
stressors was being a caregiver. Okay, it's a caregiver. Yeah, yeah,

(29:08):
that was one of the biggest stressors is are you
a caregiver? Are you in a dangerous or a unsafe environment,
Whether you live in a bad neighborhood or you live
in a bad home, you know where you're always under
this chronic fear and stress. So those are the two
big ones. But the thing that no doubt about it

(29:31):
is meditation was the one to combat it. So you know,
my four step stress formula is, if at all possible,
get rid of the stress, whether it's a relationship, whether
it's a physical stress, where it's environmental stress, emotional stress,
try your best identify it and get rid of it.
If you can't, you have to change how you respond
to the stress. And that's where meditation and breath work,

(29:54):
all of that comes in, and that's been shown to
reverse aging, no doubt about it. Meditation, breath work, and
energy work like tai chi and she gong, those are
all stress relievers. When you cannot get rid of the stress,
the third thing is repair the damage caused by the stress.

(30:16):
So if it's a damage, if it is damaged your
gout or your hormones or whatever, try to repair that
and then prepare yourself for future stress. So stress is
the number one, So number two would be sleep. You
want to get six to eight hours of good, RESTful sleep,
and I like to monitor my sleep. Do you have

(30:37):
an R ring or any of those? Do you have.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
A I have, I'm about to I'm thinking about replacing this.
This is a galaxy, a Samsung Galaxy five. Well, I
think the latest one is like the eight and it
can do all kinds of but this thing has been great.
I have learned a lot by tracking my sleep.

Speaker 4 (31:02):
Yeah, and that's why sleep is so important. And I'll
tell you I was banned with that, especially during COVID
and stuff. My sleep was awful. I was monitoring it.
But now I've come up with a routine. I routinely
get six six and a half hours of sleep, and
that's really good for me. Some people my wife needs
eight hours, no doubt about it. It's almost impossible for

(31:23):
me to sleep eight hours. But I know that I'm
getting good ram sleep and I'm getting good deep sleep
and I can feel it that next morning. So sleep
is of utmost important. And then nutrition, and you want
to stay away from inflammatory foods things that your sister too.
You want to stay away from inflammatory oils. Like olive oil.

(31:45):
You want to use avocado or coconut oil, olive oil.
Those are the things that you want to use. The
fourth thing is exercise. And you don't have.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
To run America exercise because yeah, don't you think you know?
You can hear so many conflicting ideas, and exercise is
one of those where you get all kinds of opinions
about how about if exercise really makes a difference on
your biological age.

Speaker 4 (32:15):
What do you think, Well, yes, you don't want to
over exercise because that will stress you out and that
and that's been shown in these long distance runners and
marathon runners. The more they do it, they wear their
bodies down. I mean, you just can't do you can't.
You can't over exercise. What is suggested is you're supposed
to do one hundred and fifty minutes of some type

(32:38):
of aerobic exercise and it can be walking, it can
be are either one hundred and fifty minutes of that
all they say you do high intensity interval training like
three times a week. You want to do some strength training,
and again you want to do what is appropriate for
you and for your stage and your exercise journey.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
Thirty minutes five times a week.

Speaker 4 (33:01):
Yeah, thirty minutes, five times a week. Yeah, So I mean,
and can be walking around the neighborhood. It can be
just enough where you're a little bit short of breath,
you know, so you want to take some heels and whatever,
where your breed, where your respiratory rate is a little
bit you know, elevated, your your cardiovascular rhythm is a
little bit elevated. And so that's it. You don't have

(33:23):
to go and and do you know boot camps five
days a week and you know, and you come out exhausted.
Always tell people here's how you measure exercise. When you finish,
do you feel satisfied and you feel better or do
you like crawl out on all hands, on your hands
and knees and you know, drag yourself to the car.
You've over exercised. So I just left the gym. I

(33:46):
finished an hour ago. I came home, I showered and whatever,
and I go out there. I mean, when I finished exercising,
I feel like I've done something, But I don't feel
like I'm totally wasted. And I you know, I come
here and i'm you know, I'm I'm totally you know, exhausted,
But I feel proud of myself that I did something
that I promised myself how I was going to do.

(34:06):
And then the fifth one is social connection, and I
think that's really important. Human beings are meant to be
social beings. You are not meant to live isolated. And
you know, you see these movies where people are in
solitary confinement and after about three or four days they
go absolutely crazy. You know, you need that connection. And

(34:28):
one example is and on my podcast, I said, you know,
men need women and women don't necessarily need men because well,
this is why I say that is that when you
have a couple that's been married thirty forty years and
you're a man and your spouse dies, it's statistically, it's
been shown statistically that that man will die usually within

(34:52):
a twelve month period if he does not have his
children or someone around him to take up that social
connection that he had, or he needs to get remarried.
So if you, you know, if you're a child and
your dad's a widow or widow or whatever, then you
need to encourage him to go and find another mate. Now,

(35:13):
women they can you know, they can be they can
be without a man for twenty thirty years, and it
just it doesn't.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
Buy at all. We have our girlfriends, we have we
do our stuff with our girlfriends.

Speaker 4 (35:27):
Yeah, right, right, So that's why I'm saying men need
women and women you have a man if you want,
But if you don't, that's fine. I'll just hang out
with my girls. But but yeah, that's social connection. Like
I said, you have a social connection. Uh so we
are social beings and so you want to make sure

(35:48):
that you try and maintain because in that book, it
was like, do you have somebody you can talk to
when you're feeling down or depressed? You know? Do you
have someone that you feel loves you unconditionally? And you
don't need thirty friends, You need just one or two
who are real friends. I used to always tell my kids.
They's like, oh, my friend this. I said, No, you

(36:09):
have a lot of acquaintances. But believe me, you only
have a few friends, you know. And that's that's how
I feel, is that if you have one or two
good friends, you are very fortunate.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
Well, you know, we've kind of touched on the fact
that there's a lot of information out there. How in
the world do you separate legitimate science from hype and
all the anti hing stuff that's out there.

Speaker 4 (36:36):
Yeah, I know, and that's why I like testing, Okay,
because and you're right, you know, there can be you know,
so like the telomere effect. She won a Nobel Prize
for that discovery. So that's pure science. Yeah, that's pure science,
and so we can go with that. But hey, I

(36:57):
you know, I've been in this anti aging world or
twenty twenty five years, and you're right, there are a
lot of fats out there. There's a lot of people
promoting a lot of stuff. But I'll tell you just
this is what I tell you about mindset and meditation
and all that. When you start to become familiar with

(37:18):
your inner self, with your true being, your intuition will
tell you a lot Okay, a lot of times we
try and you know, disregard our gut feeling. But through meditation,
I have learned how to listen to my self. And

(37:39):
I think that's really important. If you really understand yourself
and you're comfortable with yourself, you will And women know this,
women have women that women's intuition is real and men
have to work at it. We have to work at it,
you know. And I figured out women's intuition. When I

(38:00):
first got married, we had some friends and my wife said, oh,
it was really actually my medical partner. I hope he's
not listening well when we decided. When I decided to
join him and we started our practice together, my wife
came home she said, I don't know, I just don't
feel right. And I was like, uh, you know what

(38:21):
are you talking about? You know this guy, we're going
to have a practice. Well, she was right. After about
six or seven years, we broke up. It was a
nasty divorce. I'm telling you, being a partner in a
medical practice is like being married. So it was a
nasty divorce. And my wife was absolutely right. And since then,
if my wife says something, I just say okay, and

(38:44):
she's like, I don't know why, I don't know why
I feel like this, but I'm telling you, ninety five
percent of the time her intuition is correct. And so
I really value women's situition. And you know, I was
an obgui n and I would tell my patience I
never argue against a woman's feeling. And I always tell them, Hey,

(39:05):
if you don't feel right about what I'm saying to you,
don't do it. Okay, so I want you to feel
right that I'm telling you, and I want you to
I want you to pay attention to that gut feeling.
And if that gut feeling is telling you it's not
right for you, then hey, I need to switch gears.
So so yeah, I don't know how I got on
that button.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
Well, you know what they say, happy wife, happy life.

Speaker 4 (39:30):
Hey, I've been married thirty nine years, but I'll tell
you it took me ten years to understand that. And
I'll tell you my wife will tell you the first
ten years we're like this. But for the last twenty
nine at least for me, I've learned that, hey, whatever
keeps her happy, keeps everybody happy. And so so yeah,

(39:50):
I'm a staunch believer in that happy wife, happy life.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
Well you know these episodes always go so fast, right
I you know it's just like, well, first of all,
I have a bonus downloads place on my website where
people can get We'll make sure that whatever you want
to where people can click on your information and get

(40:15):
information about you, then that'll be there. But okay, let's
kind of end up with what is one habit today
to slow their aging? What would be one habit that
you would recommend.

Speaker 4 (40:32):
Stop eating processed foods. Don't eat I mean, that's that's easy.
Is just you know, if I tell you to meditate,
that takes it. That takes a while. You got to
learn how to do it. You got to get a headband,
all that stuff. Stop eating hot dogs and baloney and
all the stop eating processed foods. I'm not telling you
to stop eating meat. Stop eating processed foods, Okay, that

(40:55):
would be the first thing. Stop, you know, that's easy
to do. Pick another type of food. I would tell
you to stop eating meat. But there's some good meats,
you know, if it's not doesn't have hormones in it,
doesn't have growth factors in it. But the processed meats
are probably the worst chemical And I'll tell you some
other things. Don't don't eat halfh fruit, toase coin SYRP,

(41:18):
you know, and don't eat things that have transfats in it.
Because again, this is how you have to look at it.
Your gut is the same is protecting your inside like
your skin protects your outside. Okay, so if you are
constantly putting damaging stuff inside you, your gut is like

(41:43):
a filter and it ends up damaging that filter. Just
like if you have a bunch of scratches on your skin,
and it opens you up to all kinds of things.
So it's really really important what you put in your
mouth because that is going to affect every cell in
your body. So that's the easiest quickest way to reverse
aging is by changing what you put in your mouth.

(42:06):
And that's something you can do today. Go in there
and take your hot dogs out and stop eating them. Okay,
that's something you do right now.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
Okay, so before we say goodbye today, talk to talk
to me and give me give me an invitation for
people to check out your ag less ageless.

Speaker 4 (42:27):
Oh okay, yeah yeah. So in ages poof print, why
did I start that one to have a community because
communities are important. You want to have life like minded people, uh,
talking about things talking about being ageless. So it's primarily
people who are forty and over who are there to

(42:48):
try and learn how to become ages. So give I
do an ass tip of the day. I have three
courses in there. It's one it's harmone clarity, it's five
u uh five pillars of age is living. And then
I have mindset Mastery and I'm about to open up
one this beginning a beginning course on peptids, and so

(43:09):
all those courses, it's ten dollars a month. I'm on
their live at least twice a month. I answer questions.
I do all this, and so it's a community where
I'm trying to impart what I've learned and what I
am learning, and so we're on this path together. You know. Again,

(43:30):
I'm sixty five. I hope that we're doing this for
another twenty or thirty years. I call myself the Colonel
Sanders of medicine. I'm starting a new business at sixty
five and hopefully as successful as a protective question chickens, Yeah,
without the fried chicken. But he started KFC when he
was sixty five. So that's what I'm trying to do.
You know. My whole practice has been as I have

(43:54):
aged and as my wife has aged, I've kind of
done things to go along in that age bracket. I
was doing ob when I was younger and we were
having kids. I started talking about hormones when my wife
was going through perimenopause and menopause. Now I'm in sixty five,
so now I'm concerned about how am I going to
live the rest of my life. So I've walked this

(44:16):
path for the last thirty years, and so this is
you know, this is just another stage in my life.
And as I try to improve, I try to convey
that information to whoever else is interested.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
Well, I predict that you are going to make a
big difference to a lot of people, and you're just
gonna continue to get better and better.

Speaker 4 (44:39):
That's that's gonna go. Go ahea, I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
Yeah, yeah, no, And I see that, and it has
been something that has really impressed me. Is because man,
you need good, solid, truthful voices in this world. Yeah,
and so you know, to me, you know, being a
financial if you don't have your health, it doesn't matter

(45:04):
how much money you might have or whatever other successes.
If you don't have your health, then nothing else really matters.

Speaker 4 (45:12):
Yeah, they tak Yeah, they say health as wealth. Yeah,
that's that's yeah. So yeah, you can have all the
money in the world, but you're sitting in the bed,
you know, and can't breathe with action. What does it matter?
Somebody else is just gonna they'll be spending your money,
you know. So but uh yeah, I yeah, you know,
I'm really passionate about this and I'll tell you. One

(45:34):
reason why I started doing podcasts and Instagram is that
I had patients come and tell me, hey, I heard
this on Instagram. I heard this on that and it's totally,
you know, crazy stuff. And one of my one of
my patients said, Doc, you got to get on social media.
I'm sorry, you just got to do it. You have

(45:54):
to be able to have a reasonable voice on social media.
And so let me tell you at sixty five, it's
not easy learning social media. I'm telling you I had
to hire people to help me this TikTok and Instagram. Yeah,
And so that's a part of my learning curve is
that that patient said, we need a reasonable voice on

(46:18):
social media, and I'm trying my best to be that.
And so that's kind of my purpose is to be
the you know, be the voice of reason in this
crazy world of social media and followers and influencers and
all of this stuff. So I'm jumping in head first

(46:39):
and we'll see if hopefully I can float up to
the top. I'm trying. I'm trying my best.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
I'm pretty sure you will. You will.

Speaker 4 (46:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (46:49):
So with that, I want to thank you so much
for being here today.

Speaker 4 (46:53):
Well, thank you so much for having me. I really
appreciate it and I hope this helps somebody, and I'd
love to see you in the ass Blueprint.

Speaker 3 (47:03):
Well, you know, I'm always I'm always about asking good
questions and I think we did that today. So thank
you so much for joining the Ask Good Questions Podcast.

Speaker 4 (47:13):
Thank you so much. I hope I gave you good answers.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
Yes I did.

Speaker 4 (47:18):
All right, okay, all right, thank you so much for
get it all right, bye bye, all.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
Right, ay bye.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
Today's episode is over. But we did ask good questions again,
didn't We don't miss out as we broadcast live every
Wednesday six pm Eastern Time on W four CY Radio
at W four cy dot com. Joined Venina Bellmerson next
week for more conversations with experts on finances, retirement, behavioral

(47:47):
finance issues, health and wellness, and more. Until then, remember
to ask good questions.
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