November 6, 2024 • 29 mins
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Welcome to the Ask the Experts Show on W FOURCY
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your hosts, Spevo and Sophia.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Hey, good morning, Welcome to another Ask the Expert show
where we bring you the top experts in the field
of legal, health, financial and home improvement. Wow, it was
some night last night. I didn't get much sleep last night.
Today's the day after the elections and no matter what
we have to move forward, and I am excited about
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the future. I'm more excited about today's show. I got
to tell you, this is our thirteenth year of ass
the Experts, and we always keep it local. We keep
it by city, by state, and our first expert who's
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with us the first Wednesday of each month. That's how
he started off with us. We start off in Atlanta
and then we included Georgia. But he has offered us
such an important show that we have made this show
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and we've not only have we made it national, we
also replay it, uh every month. Let me welcome to
you one of the greatest m D doctors in the
United States, doctor Elder Taylor of Taylor Medical Group.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Boy, Steve, you got you're gonna have to really bring
it back a note. Uh, that's a little bit too much.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Okay, doctor Taylor, let me tell you something what you do?
And this is how I picture. A patient goes there
doctor and they say, you know what, I don't know
what we don't know? So they go to doctor Taylor
and doctor Taylor, is you your functional medicine is just
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it's a godsend?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Yeah, well, well thanks, you know, uh, I appreciate this
UH outlet, and I think I'm you know, I'm learning
things about UH communication and media and hopefully I'm teaching
you guys, UH you know somethinghow some way that you
can enhance your life. So so I'm glad to be here. Now.
You may hear some banging in the background. I'm actually
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in my home and we're we're taking out our carpage
putting in hardwood floors because that is actually going to
increase our health span and our lifespan. And that's and
that's what I want to start talking about. And you know,
I can give you a little story about that, Steve,
and then and then you know, he further discussion. So
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all right, So you know, I'm sixty four years old,
so I guess now I'm looking back and I'm seeing
how my life has all come together. And so uh,
you know, I I went to medical school and I
didn't know what I wanted to do. And one of
the one our professors was in obq I N and
he said, how great this profession is because you get
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to be involved in people's lives really from birthto death.
You know, you're going to be with the person when
they're having a baby, and then you know you're going
to go with them and hopefully you're going to grow
old with your patients. And that's exactly what has happened
with me, and each each phase of my life, I
get interested in another phase of medicine that is important
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at that time. So at first I was delivering babies
when we were when me and my wife were having babies.
When my wife began to get older and she was
going through perimenopause and menopause, we got interested in hormones,
and so we wrote that book, Are Your Hormones Making
You Sick? And then we got busy with kids and
and I'm going out speaking, and we wrote a book
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about the stress connection, you know, So because we were
under a lot of stress, and now we're in the
we understand we're in the last quarter of our life.
And so now we're talking about longevity and how we
can have our health span equal our lifespan. And so
what I want to talk about I want to start
talking about is simple ways you can even start in
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at thirty. You really got to think about how long
you're going to live when you're in your twenties and thirties.
Don't wait till your sixty and fifty or sixty because
a lot of times you can't fix all of the
things that have happened before. And seventy five to ninety
percent of what the side, whether how long and how
healthy you're going to live, is all about lifestyle. They
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doesn't have anything to do with medication, doesn't have anything
to do with peptidz. It doesn't have anything to do
It's about lifestyle. It's about diet. It's about the activities
that you are in. Do you keep your mind sharp,
do you eat things that are going to help you
maintain your energy. Do you move and exercise and be flexible,
because I'm telling you, when you become immobile, life is
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pretty much over. You know. People get people get to
the point where they're in a wheelchair, they're going to
continually go down because movement is so important. So anyway,
I could talk a long time about this, but that's.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
What you're taking a course now on longevity I am.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
It's actually an official course. It's a six month course.
It's from the Human Longevity Institute, and it's an amazing course.
And what I see it doing all of the things
that I've been doing over the last twenty years. They're
helping me to package it and help me to communicate
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it to the patients. It's about longevity is making your
health span be as long as your life span. So
if you've lived to ninety, you're healthy until you're eighty
nine years old and three hundred and sixty four days,
and then on the three hundred and sixty fifth day,
you just lay down and die. That's kind of my
goal in life is to stay active until the end.
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So and there's simple ways to do it. I you know,
for today, I could give you like four or five
things that you could do right now that really doesn't
cost you a whole really doesn't cost you any money,
and it can actually it's been shown in studies or
whatever that it can actually improve your lifespan and improve
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your health span. And one and probably the most important
thing is to move. And you know, it doesn't mean
that you got to go to the gym and go
do CrossFit and all that stuff. And they say that
that half hour hour at the gym is not nearly
as important as what you do the other let's say
fifteen hours that you're await. Are you doing something that
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actively makes you move and you're not just sitting in
front of a computer like I'm doing right now. But
believe me, I've been doing a lot of moving trying
to get our house ready to pull up all these cards.
So that you know that kind of movement is probably
even more important than you doing CrossFit. I'm not saying
don't do that, but they've shown that if you can
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do that non exercise movement, and it's I think it's
seventy five hundred to ten thousand steps, that you can
increase your lifespan by seven to fifteen years just by
continually moving. And that's all been studying. So that's how important.
Is like the first thing if you want to live longer,
you got to move. We started ballroom dancing eight years
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ago and we continue to do it because that gives
you a spatial perception. As you get older, it gets
harder for you to maintain your balance. If you close
your eyes stand on one foot, you'll see it's hard
to maintain your balance. So dancing, when you have to
move your feet and without looking, and you have to
make sure that you coordinate your hand and your brain,
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it's supposed to decrease Alzheimer's just the ballroom You know,
ballroom dance is supposed to decrease Alzheimer's because you have
to process all of this stuff. So yeah, just so
simple things. It can be fun, gardening, pickleball, all of
that stuff. That's what's important. So the next thing, and
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you can stop me, I'm to keep going.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
You know what, I don't care. You know, I'm thinking
why you're saying all this. I am one of these
people who never drank alcohol. I actually tried it in
college and for some reason it wasn't But I never
drank alcohol. I never smoked cigarettes. I never did drugs.
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I mean, I'm not trying. I'm not saying it was
a good eat two cheese. I just didn't do that stuff.
And I walked a lot. And I see people passing
away in their fifties and their sixties in my early seventies,
and I mean, I think I attributed just to my
lifestyle growing up.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Well it's also it is your lifestyle growing up. And
it's the fact that you still have a purpose. That's
another thing. Okay, just having a purpose decreases all forms
of chronic illness by fifty percent just by having a purpose.
Your purpose is I do this radios. I do this podcast,
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and I have to be somewhere. You have something to
look forward to. You don't have time to die, you
don't have time to get sick. You've got something to do.
So having a purpose throughout your life is important. So yeah,
it's important what you did early in your life. It's
also important what you're doing right now. And it's important because,
like I said, right now, what do do.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
In the Akay, these are people who retired.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Men are more likely to die when they retire. Women
women can retire for fifty years and they'll go in
garden and they take care, they take care of people.
They'll go find a dog, a child or whatever, because
that's their nature. Okay, that's their purpose. They'll find something,
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somebody will, They'll get a bug and take care of that,
and that gives them purpose. Men they have to feel
like they're being productive. They have to feel like they
are they are contributing. Okay. Women contribute through compassion. We
contribute by doing. So that's why I'm gonna I'm doing
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a longevity course. I'm doing all kinds of things because
you have to have a purpose. The other thing that
I'm learning is the importance of spirituality is importance of
quieting the mind, the importance of having intention when you're
doing something. So that's that's that's the next step. But
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I'm just telling you longevity means that you really have
to connect with the fact and this is going to
get a little okay, but you have to connect with
the fact that your soul and spirit does live forever. Okay.
So once you start to get that in your mind,
long takes a whole different it takes a whole different connotation.
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And so that's that's a part of what I'm learning
is that you have to connect with the source that
is eternal. And so that's I mean, that's a whole
new way of thinking. And here's here's what I'll tell you, Uh, Steve,
this is another purpose and be continuing to learn because
if you don't learn or grow, you're going to die.
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If you look at anything out in your garden, if
it doesn't grow, it's going to die. So I am
actually going to in December. I have to look. I
think I'll be here the first winsday of December, but
the last three weeks of December, I am going to Egypt.
And I'm going to Egypt to learn about ancient civilizations
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and how those ancient civilizations actually created medicine. Okay, so
medicine is actually created in what we now call Egypt,
and that's a I'm I'm I have So I'm so
excited about wherever my life is going. I have to
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I have to kind of edit myself while I'm talking
here to not go to you know, not to you know,
just keep carrying on. But yeah, we're going to Egypt
for three weeks and two months ago we just said
we're going to do it. And I don't know if
it's because we are in our last quarter of our lives.
We're like, we got to do it now because tomorrow
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we don't know what's you know, what's going to happen.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
So your wife, who's also an m D. Is your
wife on board with this tour?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Oh? Oh she's the one planning it. We came before
it together. Oh, she's doing all the planning. We're looking
at YouTube videos trying to make sure we understand what
we're going to see, uh, what it all means, and
so you know, So that's that's kind of uh has
lit a spark uh in me, And I think that's
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what you know, that's what you have to have. You
look at these I don't know if you guys look
at the Golden Bachelor read or the Golden Bachelor or whatever.
It's where these sixty and seventy year olds they're you know,
they're embarking on a new part of their lives. They're
not sitting around, you know, taking a bunch of medication
and you know, in wheelchairs and playing uh you know bridge. No,
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they're out, they're out doing so. They're out seeing that
they can have a have another chapter in their lives.
So uh, you know, I don't know, maybe that kind
of inspired us. It's like, hey, you're not as long
as you're not dead, you need to keep living, you know.
So that's that's kind of Uh. I want to encourage
people that you don't have to be rich monetarily to
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be rich health wise. So you know, let me tell
you a couple of other things that can help you.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Let me get this.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
We have a text.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
From Birmingham, Alabama. Okay, doctor Taylor. I love your shows.
I look forward to them every month. I learn so
much from you. I have a question, can you be
over medicated?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Yeah? Most of us are over medicated, you know, you
have to understand medication is not intended to cure anything.
You know, it's just not that's not the goal of
the medication. The medication is to diminish the symptoms for
twenty four hours so or for how long if it's
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an injection that lasts a week, is to to relieve
the symptoms for twenty four hours, so that you'll have
to take another medication in twenty four hours. So you
continue to stay on the medication, it's never going to
get better. It's just and if you stop the medication,
it's going to get worse because it's just covering up
the symptoms. When you figure out what the cause is. Okay,
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if you figure out what the cause is and how
you can reverse it, then you can get rid of
the medication. But yeah, as long as you're on medication,
then whatever is going on, it's not getting better. It's
probably getting worse. And if that's not getting worse the
medication because the initial problem has not been solved, then
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it's gonna start causing other problems down the line. That's
why every medication has side effects. Where if you take
something that is medicine like some herb or some are
even taking a biodemical hertmone. As long as it's in balance,
you don't get side effects. But if you just disrupt
the system by giving medications that only get rid of symptoms,
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then you're going to have You're gonna have problems down
the line. It's almost inevitable.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
So what's the difference between life span and health span?
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Like I said, okay, so lifespan is what's going to
be on your obituary. It's going to be on your tombstone.
It's going to say nineteen thirty to twenty twenty four
or whatever. Okay, so that's your lifespan. That little dash
between nineteen thirty and twenty twenty four, that's your lifespan.
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Here's what I think is more important. How long is
your health span? So let's say I don't know how
many they years were. Let's say that was eighty years. Okay,
So in eighty years, like Steve, you're seventy, you're healthy, right, yes,
So your your health span is right here, hopefully with
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your lifespan. Okay, So now you said your friends they
may be just as old as you, But how do
they look, how do they feel? Or do they have purpose?
Do they you know? Do they do they have a
great out look on life. Are they sitting around saying,
you know, I can't do this, I can't do that.
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I got high blood pressure, I got this, I got that.
And that's how we I mean, that's kind of how
I saw the generation before me, is that once they
hit about forty or fifty, their life steadily went down.
More medication, less activity, more isolation, not being and so
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they just steadily went down. And I saw my parents
do that, and I'm like, that is That's not how
I want to be. So that's what, you know, started
me down, you know, down this road. So uh yeah,
over medicing.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
What's amazing is And I don't know if you know this,
but when you get my age and you go the doctor,
one of the questions they asked you is have you
ever contemplated Susie side. I don't remember having a question
like that when I was younger.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
So let me let me. Let me tell you why
they asked that question. Let me tell you. I'm gonna
give you the behind the scenes look at medicine. Okay,
So here's what happens. The antidepressant pharmaceutical corrupt comes in
and they say, hey, you know you could be underdiagnosing depression.
Let me give you a question sheet, and if they
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answer three out of five of these, they're depressed and
you need to give them antidepressants. That's just marketing they've got.
They've got that doctor convinced that they need to ask
those questions to everybody because they're underdiagnosing depression. No, it's
probably that antidepressant is their Their sales are decreasing, so
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they came up with a new marketing plan to say, hey,
give them this sheet. Okay, So that's why with you
having no indication, you're not coming in at the at
least bit looking depressed. Some pharmaceutical rep was told this
is the new marketing plan and that's why they're asking
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the question. So that's the behind the scenes look between
conventional medicine and they're intermingling with the pharmaceutical industry.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
And I want to tell you, like, if you aren't
strong in mind, I'm very strong in mind. But you know,
when you get in upper age, you hear about people
in their fifties and sixties passing away and you start thinking, wow,
how come you know? And it's a little depressing, but
in your strong mind, like I am, it you get
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to it. But I can see a lot of people
letting that bring them down and causing them a shorter lifespan.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Yeah. And you know, the other thing is a part
of the spirituality. Why it's so important is to be
comfortable with death. Because everybody's comfortable with birth, we need
to be comfortable with the other end of life. And
that's a spiritual journey that each person I think has
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to go on. Okay, and I'm not talking about religion.
You can be whatever religion you want, but any religion
will say I mean, I was a girl Christian. They
all said you need to have a personal relationship with God.
And that's what I figure spirituality is. And everybody has
a different personal relationship, but that is very important and
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that's how you are able to deal with everything in life.
You have to be comfortable with death. It's very hard
to live and really live until you get comfortable with death.
And that's another thing I'm learning in longevity is that
if you are afraid to die, you're going to be
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afraid to live. Okay, So yeah, fear, Yeah, Yeah, you're
too scared to die and you miss out on life
because you're afraid to die. And That's why I'm saying
a lot of longevity is how you think about your life.
If you think that you're going to be old then decrepit,
and you're going to go to a nursing home and
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everybody's gonna forget about you, and you're just gonna that
will that will be exactly what will happen. It will
come to pass. But that's all you think. But if
you think like I I'm trying to think constantly, is
that no, I'm gonna my life is going to improve
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from here on. It's not going to go down. And
I believe that will that is exactly what will happen. Okay,
you can call me crazy, you can call me whatever,
but it's how you look at things, Okay, and Steeves
like you're saying, you know, you can look at death
and be scared and all this stuff, or you can
look at death and say, hey, you know, I'm seventy,
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I'm doing something right. I'm just gonna. You know, I'm gonna,
I'm gonna, I'm gonna keep on doing it, you know.
So I'm telling you so I have this is one
time I made a list so I didn't want to
do it. Uh, you know forgetting things. So moving is
report having a purpose? What do you think how what
do you think is going to happen with your life.
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The other one is it's time restricted eating and it's not.
It's not intermittent fasting. Intermittent fasting is great. But one
of the things is that it says you should eat.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Based on the cycles, like when it's the light cycles,
so as the as the the day goes on, when
you your best to eat prior to two in the
afternoon because digestion kind of goes along with the sun.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
If you think about it, is that when you wake up, Yeah, okay,
that's the time to eat. So you're eating times should
be during the daylight hours and then digestions should take
care I mean it should take place during the nighttime hours.
Now I know where it gets dark. Yeah, when it
gets dark at five point thirty. You know it is
hard to eat before I've thirty. But yeah, the earlier
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you can finish eating, it gives your body more time
to digest to make sure it absorbs all the nutrients,
to make sure it gets rid of all the toxins,
to make sure that it gets rid of all the
bad cells that could end up bleeding to cancer or whatever.
All of that takes place at night. That's why you
need to sleep at least seven to nine hours, and
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that can increase your lifespan and your health span by
up to five years. And then I'm gonna give you
the last one, the last and final one. Just slowing
down your rate of breathing can increase your lifespan. So
that's why when you talk about matt you do that.
It's just it's through meditation and these breathing exercises. I'm
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just now learning is that when you know, you know,
you've heard people do yoga, it's talking about breath work
and all that stuff that increases lifespan because you're breathing
in oxygen. You're oxygenating yourselves, and the slower and deeper
you breathe, the more oxygen and energy you are actually
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you know, breathing in. So slowing down your breathing less
than sixteen breaths a minute, let me give you another one.
Walking briskly increases your lifespan by like six or seven years.
I don't know the exact numbers. So you see older
people they shuffle along. Okay, yes, but you don't have
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to do that you need to consciously think I'm gonna
take big strides. I'm gonna take big strides when I walk,
I'm not gonna shuffle, and just doing that can increase
your lifespan. And and everything I told you doesn't cost
you a dime, right, everything I thows you didn't cost
you a dan. And so you're thinking that you got
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to come to me. Now I still want you to come,
but there's other things you can do but to start
this process. All it doesn't cost your penny. Please breathe. Yeah, people,
they can reach you. Oh, I'm sorry. See, I know
you're time flies when you're having fun. You can reach
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me at Taylor Medical Group dot net. Taylor Medical Group
dot net. And then you can also reach me by
calling the office at six seven eight four four three
four thousand. But please, if you go to my website
at Taylor Medical Group dot net, you will see there's
a whole lot of information there. We blog, there's all
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types of information there, and that doesn't cost you a dan.
But I am We're going to Egypt, and when I
come back next year, we're going to have a longevity
program that we can do online that anybody who's watching
the show. I don't know how it's going to happen,
but that's my plan, and that's my goal, is that
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we're going to have a longevity network where people can
learn how to increase their health span and help it
to equal or make it closer to equaling their lifespan.
Doctor Taylor.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I got to tell you, I walked into the gym
the other day and the lady at the front desk
must have been one hundred pounds overweight. And I got
to tell you what, Doctor Taylor, he actually walks the
walk from his gardening. I mean, you do it all,
you really, and it shows because for those of you
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who are watching on TV, you look like you're in
your early fifties. You look really, really good, Doctor Taylor.
And I got to tell you, you know, I'm a believer,
and Lord's very important. I mean, there is no doubt
that you being part of this show. The Lord has
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something to do with it, because we're going to touch
somebody and we might not ever know about it, but
we will.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
So I'm just so blessed to have you, Doctor Tay.
We'll be running this show again next in two weeks,
and Doctor Taylor, we'll see you again next week I
mean all right, I mean next month. Okay, all right,
all right, have a wonderful Thanksgiving, are you too?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
All right? See you now, bye bye bye.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
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Speaker 3 (00:56):
Hey, good morning, Welcome to another Ask the Expert show
where we bring you the top experts in the field
of legal, health, financial and home improvement. Wow, it was
some night last night. I didn't get much sleep last night.
Today's the day after the elections and no matter what
we have to move forward, and I am excited about
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the future. I'm more excited about today's show. I got
to tell you, this is our thirteenth year of ass
the Experts, and we always keep it local. We keep
it by city, by state, and our first expert who's
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with us the first Wednesday of each month. That's how
he started off with us. We start off in Atlanta
and then we included Georgia. But he has offered us
such an important show that we have made this show
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and we've not only have we made it national, we
also replay it, uh every month. Let me welcome to
you one of the greatest m D doctors in the
United States, doctor Elder Taylor of Taylor Medical Group.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Boy, Steve, you got you're gonna have to really bring
it back a note. Uh, that's a little bit too much.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Okay, doctor Taylor, let me tell you something what you do?
And this is how I picture. A patient goes there
doctor and they say, you know what, I don't know
what we don't know? So they go to doctor Taylor
and doctor Taylor, is you your functional medicine is just
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it's a godsend?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Yeah, well, well thanks, you know, uh, I appreciate this
UH outlet, and I think I'm you know, I'm learning
things about UH communication and media and hopefully I'm teaching
you guys, UH you know somethinghow some way that you
can enhance your life. So so I'm glad to be here. Now.
You may hear some banging in the background. I'm actually
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in my home and we're we're taking out our carpage
putting in hardwood floors because that is actually going to
increase our health span and our lifespan. And that's and
that's what I want to start talking about. And you know,
I can give you a little story about that, Steve,
and then and then you know, he further discussion. So
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all right, So you know, I'm sixty four years old,
so I guess now I'm looking back and I'm seeing
how my life has all come together. And so uh,
you know, I I went to medical school and I
didn't know what I wanted to do. And one of
the one our professors was in obq I N and
he said, how great this profession is because you get
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to be involved in people's lives really from birthto death.
You know, you're going to be with the person when
they're having a baby, and then you know you're going
to go with them and hopefully you're going to grow
old with your patients. And that's exactly what has happened
with me, and each each phase of my life, I
get interested in another phase of medicine that is important
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at that time. So at first I was delivering babies
when we were when me and my wife were having babies.
When my wife began to get older and she was
going through perimenopause and menopause, we got interested in hormones,
and so we wrote that book, Are Your Hormones Making
You Sick? And then we got busy with kids and
and I'm going out speaking, and we wrote a book
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about the stress connection, you know, So because we were
under a lot of stress, and now we're in the
we understand we're in the last quarter of our life.
And so now we're talking about longevity and how we
can have our health span equal our lifespan. And so
what I want to talk about I want to start
talking about is simple ways you can even start in
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at thirty. You really got to think about how long
you're going to live when you're in your twenties and thirties.
Don't wait till your sixty and fifty or sixty because
a lot of times you can't fix all of the
things that have happened before. And seventy five to ninety
percent of what the side, whether how long and how
healthy you're going to live, is all about lifestyle. They
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doesn't have anything to do with medication, doesn't have anything
to do with peptidz. It doesn't have anything to do
It's about lifestyle. It's about diet. It's about the activities
that you are in. Do you keep your mind sharp,
do you eat things that are going to help you
maintain your energy. Do you move and exercise and be flexible,
because I'm telling you, when you become immobile, life is
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pretty much over. You know. People get people get to
the point where they're in a wheelchair, they're going to
continually go down because movement is so important. So anyway,
I could talk a long time about this, but that's.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
What you're taking a course now on longevity I am.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
It's actually an official course. It's a six month course.
It's from the Human Longevity Institute, and it's an amazing course.
And what I see it doing all of the things
that I've been doing over the last twenty years. They're
helping me to package it and help me to communicate
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it to the patients. It's about longevity is making your
health span be as long as your life span. So
if you've lived to ninety, you're healthy until you're eighty
nine years old and three hundred and sixty four days,
and then on the three hundred and sixty fifth day,
you just lay down and die. That's kind of my
goal in life is to stay active until the end.
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So and there's simple ways to do it. I you know,
for today, I could give you like four or five
things that you could do right now that really doesn't
cost you a whole really doesn't cost you any money,
and it can actually it's been shown in studies or
whatever that it can actually improve your lifespan and improve
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your health span. And one and probably the most important
thing is to move. And you know, it doesn't mean
that you got to go to the gym and go
do CrossFit and all that stuff. And they say that
that half hour hour at the gym is not nearly
as important as what you do the other let's say
fifteen hours that you're await. Are you doing something that
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actively makes you move and you're not just sitting in
front of a computer like I'm doing right now. But
believe me, I've been doing a lot of moving trying
to get our house ready to pull up all these cards.
So that you know that kind of movement is probably
even more important than you doing CrossFit. I'm not saying
don't do that, but they've shown that if you can
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do that non exercise movement, and it's I think it's
seventy five hundred to ten thousand steps, that you can
increase your lifespan by seven to fifteen years just by
continually moving. And that's all been studying. So that's how important.
Is like the first thing if you want to live longer,
you got to move. We started ballroom dancing eight years
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ago and we continue to do it because that gives
you a spatial perception. As you get older, it gets
harder for you to maintain your balance. If you close
your eyes stand on one foot, you'll see it's hard
to maintain your balance. So dancing, when you have to
move your feet and without looking, and you have to
make sure that you coordinate your hand and your brain,
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it's supposed to decrease Alzheimer's just the ballroom You know,
ballroom dance is supposed to decrease Alzheimer's because you have
to process all of this stuff. So yeah, just so
simple things. It can be fun, gardening, pickleball, all of
that stuff. That's what's important. So the next thing, and
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you can stop me, I'm to keep going.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
You know what, I don't care. You know, I'm thinking
why you're saying all this. I am one of these
people who never drank alcohol. I actually tried it in
college and for some reason it wasn't But I never
drank alcohol. I never smoked cigarettes. I never did drugs.
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I mean, I'm not trying. I'm not saying it was
a good eat two cheese. I just didn't do that stuff.
And I walked a lot. And I see people passing
away in their fifties and their sixties in my early seventies,
and I mean, I think I attributed just to my
lifestyle growing up.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Well it's also it is your lifestyle growing up. And
it's the fact that you still have a purpose. That's
another thing. Okay, just having a purpose decreases all forms
of chronic illness by fifty percent just by having a purpose.
Your purpose is I do this radios. I do this podcast,
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and I have to be somewhere. You have something to
look forward to. You don't have time to die, you
don't have time to get sick. You've got something to do.
So having a purpose throughout your life is important. So yeah,
it's important what you did early in your life. It's
also important what you're doing right now. And it's important because,
like I said, right now, what do do.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
In the Akay, these are people who retired.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Men are more likely to die when they retire. Women
women can retire for fifty years and they'll go in
garden and they take care, they take care of people.
They'll go find a dog, a child or whatever, because
that's their nature. Okay, that's their purpose. They'll find something,
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somebody will, They'll get a bug and take care of that,
and that gives them purpose. Men they have to feel
like they're being productive. They have to feel like they
are they are contributing. Okay. Women contribute through compassion. We
contribute by doing. So that's why I'm gonna I'm doing
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a longevity course. I'm doing all kinds of things because
you have to have a purpose. The other thing that
I'm learning is the importance of spirituality is importance of
quieting the mind, the importance of having intention when you're
doing something. So that's that's that's the next step. But
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I'm just telling you longevity means that you really have
to connect with the fact and this is going to
get a little okay, but you have to connect with
the fact that your soul and spirit does live forever. Okay.
So once you start to get that in your mind,
long takes a whole different it takes a whole different connotation.
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And so that's that's a part of what I'm learning
is that you have to connect with the source that
is eternal. And so that's I mean, that's a whole
new way of thinking. And here's here's what I'll tell you, Uh, Steve,
this is another purpose and be continuing to learn because
if you don't learn or grow, you're going to die.
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If you look at anything out in your garden, if
it doesn't grow, it's going to die. So I am
actually going to in December. I have to look. I
think I'll be here the first winsday of December, but
the last three weeks of December, I am going to Egypt.
And I'm going to Egypt to learn about ancient civilizations
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and how those ancient civilizations actually created medicine. Okay, so
medicine is actually created in what we now call Egypt,
and that's a I'm I'm I have So I'm so
excited about wherever my life is going. I have to
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I have to kind of edit myself while I'm talking
here to not go to you know, not to you know,
just keep carrying on. But yeah, we're going to Egypt
for three weeks and two months ago we just said
we're going to do it. And I don't know if
it's because we are in our last quarter of our lives.
We're like, we got to do it now because tomorrow
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we don't know what's you know, what's going to happen.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
So your wife, who's also an m D. Is your
wife on board with this tour?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Oh? Oh she's the one planning it. We came before
it together. Oh, she's doing all the planning. We're looking
at YouTube videos trying to make sure we understand what
we're going to see, uh, what it all means, and
so you know, So that's that's kind of uh has
lit a spark uh in me, And I think that's
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what you know, that's what you have to have. You
look at these I don't know if you guys look
at the Golden Bachelor read or the Golden Bachelor or whatever.
It's where these sixty and seventy year olds they're you know,
they're embarking on a new part of their lives. They're
not sitting around, you know, taking a bunch of medication
and you know, in wheelchairs and playing uh you know bridge. No,
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they're out, they're out doing so. They're out seeing that
they can have a have another chapter in their lives.
So uh, you know, I don't know, maybe that kind
of inspired us. It's like, hey, you're not as long
as you're not dead, you need to keep living, you know.
So that's that's kind of Uh. I want to encourage
people that you don't have to be rich monetarily to
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be rich health wise. So you know, let me tell
you a couple of other things that can help you.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Let me get this.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
We have a text.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
From Birmingham, Alabama. Okay, doctor Taylor. I love your shows.
I look forward to them every month. I learn so
much from you. I have a question, can you be
over medicated?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Yeah? Most of us are over medicated, you know, you
have to understand medication is not intended to cure anything.
You know, it's just not that's not the goal of
the medication. The medication is to diminish the symptoms for
twenty four hours so or for how long if it's
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an injection that lasts a week, is to to relieve
the symptoms for twenty four hours, so that you'll have
to take another medication in twenty four hours. So you
continue to stay on the medication, it's never going to
get better. It's just and if you stop the medication,
it's going to get worse because it's just covering up
the symptoms. When you figure out what the cause is. Okay,
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if you figure out what the cause is and how
you can reverse it, then you can get rid of
the medication. But yeah, as long as you're on medication,
then whatever is going on, it's not getting better. It's
probably getting worse. And if that's not getting worse the
medication because the initial problem has not been solved, then
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it's gonna start causing other problems down the line. That's
why every medication has side effects. Where if you take
something that is medicine like some herb or some are
even taking a biodemical hertmone. As long as it's in balance,
you don't get side effects. But if you just disrupt
the system by giving medications that only get rid of symptoms,
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then you're going to have You're gonna have problems down
the line. It's almost inevitable.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
So what's the difference between life span and health span?
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Like I said, okay, so lifespan is what's going to
be on your obituary. It's going to be on your tombstone.
It's going to say nineteen thirty to twenty twenty four
or whatever. Okay, so that's your lifespan. That little dash
between nineteen thirty and twenty twenty four, that's your lifespan.
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Here's what I think is more important. How long is
your health span? So let's say I don't know how
many they years were. Let's say that was eighty years. Okay,
So in eighty years, like Steve, you're seventy, you're healthy, right, yes,
So your your health span is right here, hopefully with
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your lifespan. Okay, So now you said your friends they
may be just as old as you, But how do
they look, how do they feel? Or do they have purpose?
Do they you know? Do they do they have a
great out look on life. Are they sitting around saying,
you know, I can't do this, I can't do that.
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I got high blood pressure, I got this, I got that.
And that's how we I mean, that's kind of how
I saw the generation before me, is that once they
hit about forty or fifty, their life steadily went down.
More medication, less activity, more isolation, not being and so
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they just steadily went down. And I saw my parents
do that, and I'm like, that is That's not how
I want to be. So that's what, you know, started
me down, you know, down this road. So uh yeah,
over medicing.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
What's amazing is And I don't know if you know this,
but when you get my age and you go the doctor,
one of the questions they asked you is have you
ever contemplated Susie side. I don't remember having a question
like that when I was younger.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
So let me let me. Let me tell you why
they asked that question. Let me tell you. I'm gonna
give you the behind the scenes look at medicine. Okay,
So here's what happens. The antidepressant pharmaceutical corrupt comes in
and they say, hey, you know you could be underdiagnosing depression.
Let me give you a question sheet, and if they
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answer three out of five of these, they're depressed and
you need to give them antidepressants. That's just marketing they've got.
They've got that doctor convinced that they need to ask
those questions to everybody because they're underdiagnosing depression. No, it's
probably that antidepressant is their Their sales are decreasing, so
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they came up with a new marketing plan to say, hey,
give them this sheet. Okay, So that's why with you
having no indication, you're not coming in at the at
least bit looking depressed. Some pharmaceutical rep was told this
is the new marketing plan and that's why they're asking
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the question. So that's the behind the scenes look between
conventional medicine and they're intermingling with the pharmaceutical industry.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
And I want to tell you, like, if you aren't
strong in mind, I'm very strong in mind. But you know,
when you get in upper age, you hear about people
in their fifties and sixties passing away and you start thinking, wow,
how come you know? And it's a little depressing, but
in your strong mind, like I am, it you get
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to it. But I can see a lot of people
letting that bring them down and causing them a shorter lifespan.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Yeah. And you know, the other thing is a part
of the spirituality. Why it's so important is to be
comfortable with death. Because everybody's comfortable with birth, we need
to be comfortable with the other end of life. And
that's a spiritual journey that each person I think has
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to go on. Okay, and I'm not talking about religion.
You can be whatever religion you want, but any religion
will say I mean, I was a girl Christian. They
all said you need to have a personal relationship with God.
And that's what I figure spirituality is. And everybody has
a different personal relationship, but that is very important and
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that's how you are able to deal with everything in life.
You have to be comfortable with death. It's very hard
to live and really live until you get comfortable with death.
And that's another thing I'm learning in longevity is that
if you are afraid to die, you're going to be
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afraid to live. Okay, So yeah, fear, Yeah, Yeah, you're
too scared to die and you miss out on life
because you're afraid to die. And That's why I'm saying
a lot of longevity is how you think about your life.
If you think that you're going to be old then decrepit,
and you're going to go to a nursing home and
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everybody's gonna forget about you, and you're just gonna that
will that will be exactly what will happen. It will
come to pass. But that's all you think. But if
you think like I I'm trying to think constantly, is
that no, I'm gonna my life is going to improve
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from here on. It's not going to go down. And
I believe that will that is exactly what will happen. Okay,
you can call me crazy, you can call me whatever,
but it's how you look at things, Okay, and Steeves
like you're saying, you know, you can look at death
and be scared and all this stuff, or you can
look at death and say, hey, you know, I'm seventy,
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I'm doing something right. I'm just gonna. You know, I'm gonna,
I'm gonna, I'm gonna keep on doing it, you know.
So I'm telling you so I have this is one
time I made a list so I didn't want to
do it. Uh, you know forgetting things. So moving is
report having a purpose? What do you think how what
do you think is going to happen with your life.
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The other one is it's time restricted eating and it's not.
It's not intermittent fasting. Intermittent fasting is great. But one
of the things is that it says you should eat.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Based on the cycles, like when it's the light cycles,
so as the as the the day goes on, when
you your best to eat prior to two in the
afternoon because digestion kind of goes along with the sun.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
If you think about it, is that when you wake up, Yeah, okay,
that's the time to eat. So you're eating times should
be during the daylight hours and then digestions should take
care I mean it should take place during the nighttime hours.
Now I know where it gets dark. Yeah, when it
gets dark at five point thirty. You know it is
hard to eat before I've thirty. But yeah, the earlier
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you can finish eating, it gives your body more time
to digest to make sure it absorbs all the nutrients,
to make sure it gets rid of all the toxins,
to make sure that it gets rid of all the
bad cells that could end up bleeding to cancer or whatever.
All of that takes place at night. That's why you
need to sleep at least seven to nine hours, and
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that can increase your lifespan and your health span by
up to five years. And then I'm gonna give you
the last one, the last and final one. Just slowing
down your rate of breathing can increase your lifespan. So
that's why when you talk about matt you do that.
It's just it's through meditation and these breathing exercises. I'm
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just now learning is that when you know, you know,
you've heard people do yoga, it's talking about breath work
and all that stuff that increases lifespan because you're breathing
in oxygen. You're oxygenating yourselves, and the slower and deeper
you breathe, the more oxygen and energy you are actually
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you know, breathing in. So slowing down your breathing less
than sixteen breaths a minute, let me give you another one.
Walking briskly increases your lifespan by like six or seven years.
I don't know the exact numbers. So you see older
people they shuffle along. Okay, yes, but you don't have
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to do that you need to consciously think I'm gonna
take big strides. I'm gonna take big strides when I walk,
I'm not gonna shuffle, and just doing that can increase
your lifespan. And and everything I told you doesn't cost
you a dime, right, everything I thows you didn't cost
you a dan. And so you're thinking that you got
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to come to me. Now I still want you to come,
but there's other things you can do but to start
this process. All it doesn't cost your penny. Please breathe. Yeah, people,
they can reach you. Oh, I'm sorry. See, I know
you're time flies when you're having fun. You can reach
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me at Taylor Medical Group dot net. Taylor Medical Group
dot net. And then you can also reach me by
calling the office at six seven eight four four three
four thousand. But please, if you go to my website
at Taylor Medical Group dot net, you will see there's
a whole lot of information there. We blog, there's all
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types of information there, and that doesn't cost you a dan.
But I am We're going to Egypt, and when I
come back next year, we're going to have a longevity
program that we can do online that anybody who's watching
the show. I don't know how it's going to happen,
but that's my plan, and that's my goal, is that
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we're going to have a longevity network where people can
learn how to increase their health span and help it
to equal or make it closer to equaling their lifespan.
Doctor Taylor.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I got to tell you, I walked into the gym
the other day and the lady at the front desk
must have been one hundred pounds overweight. And I got
to tell you what, Doctor Taylor, he actually walks the
walk from his gardening. I mean, you do it all,
you really, and it shows because for those of you
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who are watching on TV, you look like you're in
your early fifties. You look really, really good, Doctor Taylor.
And I got to tell you, you know, I'm a believer,
and Lord's very important. I mean, there is no doubt
that you being part of this show. The Lord has
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something to do with it, because we're going to touch
somebody and we might not ever know about it, but
we will.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
So I'm just so blessed to have you, Doctor Tay.
We'll be running this show again next in two weeks,
and Doctor Taylor, we'll see you again next week I
mean all right, I mean next month. Okay, all right,
all right, have a wonderful Thanksgiving, are you too?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
All right? See you now, bye bye bye.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
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