Outlive

Summary:

The author studies longevity, which is to live long and healthy.

Key Takeaway:

1. Working on longevity when you are still young is like delay gratification, you will only see the benefit later. 

2. Sleep, eat well, exercise!

Notes:

• Current medicine focuses on helping body maintain after injuries but not prevent it from having injuries or disease.

• Aging make the body vulnerable to disease

• Understand the difference between metabolic dysfunction vs. obese.

• What’s good for the heart is good for the brain. Low ApoB , low inflammation, and low oxidative stress.

• What’s good for the liver is good for the brain. Metabolic health.

• Time is key, think about prevention early

• Exercise

• If there is one type of food that I would eliminate from everyone’s diet if I could, it would be fructose sweeten drinks, including both sodas and fruit juices, which deliver too much fructose, too quickly, to gut and liver that prefer to process fructose slowly.

• Reference from David Brooks “the road to character”, we should also think about the eulogy virtues in addition to resume virtues.

• People get old when they stop thinking about the future. If you want to find out someone’s true age, listen to them. If they talk about their past, and they talk about all the things that they did, they’ve gotten old. If they think about their dreams, their aspirations, what they’re still looking forward to, they’re young. Staying young, even we grow older.