This Harvard Professor Explains the Secret to Aging in Reverse | David S...

Harvard professor David Sinclair believes that not only can we slow aging down, we can actually reverse it. On this episode of Health Theory with Tom Bilyeu, David Sinclair explains the three levels of aging, and what can be done on each level. He describes the lifestyle changes that slow aging down, the drug treatments that begin to stop aging, and experimental new procedures that may actually reverse aging once they are fully developed.



Summary1
David describes the way that cell stress causes aging [5:20]
David explains what proteins are and how they work [6:40]
David recommends lifestyle changes to slow down or reverse aging [9:14]
David recommends stressing the system by consistent fasting [10:52]
David explains why we don’t live as long as whales [15:01]
David describes resetting the biological clock [16:16]
David explains how to tell when someone is going to die [18:47]
David explains why people are taking metformin [20:03]
David shares his regimen of exercise and metformin [24:18]
David advocates cold exposure [25:28]
David explains work he’s done to try to reset the aging clock [29:01]
David explains why you don’t want to turn the cellular clock back too far [31:37]
David describes the actual process of reversing aging in masses of cells [33:20]
David talks about some results with mice that appear to reverse aging [36:40]
David shares his father’s story of metformin and NMN use [38:10]
David explains the effects of resveratrol [39:07]
David describes the kinds of testing he advocates [43:13]
David shares the impact he wants to have on the world [45:44]

Summary2
1. Exercise (at least 1 hour per day, five days a week; weight lifting is essential)

2. Yoga (30 minutes every morning)

3. Eat clean (consume organic – very important)

4. Diet (reduce meat and increase veg)

5. Stay hungry!

6. Cut carbs to a minimum

7. No sugar at all

8. Monday & Thursday fasting (only fruits and fruit juices)

9. Drink at least 3 litres of clean water (1 litre immediately after you are awake)

10. Sleep (8 hours minimum; Recommendation - 9pm - 6am)

11. Take cold shower

12. Reduce artificial heating and expose yourself in cold weather

13. Use sauna and steam room (Listen, if you are a man, better do this only after you become the father of a child because too much exposure to sauna/steam room/Jacuzzi/hot tub reduces your sperm health)

14. Laugh as much as you can

15. Embrace nature and your true self (go for long aimless walks in the bush, beaches etc. to sense the beauty of nature and to recognise that you are a tiny part of the singularity)

16. Do not keep hatred because it will consume you. Forgive and move on.

Daily Habits of Successful People | Brian Tracy

What are the habits of successful people? How can we learn from them? This great video from Brian Tracy shows you their secrets.




What is it that successful people do habitually every single day, that leads to them being in the top 20% of money earners in our society? Well Aristotle said that 95% of everything you do is a result of habit so the rule is form good habits and make them your masters rather than allowing bad habits to form.

Good habits are hard to form but easy to live with. Bad habits are easy to form but hard to live with.

Now one of the turning points in my life and my study of psychology was the discovery that all habits are learned and can be unlearned actually you don't unlearn a habit you replace a bad habit with a good habit that has more powerful impact, how do you develop a good habit? You develop by repetition. Almost everything you  do from the time you get up is habit. so think what are the best habits to have.

1.Develop  the habit of daily goal setting and goal orientation. 

What does this mean?

1.  When you  go to sleep at night  think about your goals for the coming day
2. Make a list for each day  of all the goals thjat you are going to accomplish that day
3. Keep a journal and write down your goals on a regular basis
4. Throughout the day (e.g. when walking or driving) think about your goals

You do become what you thing about most of the time. You do achieve what you think about most of the time. So all successful and wealthy people think of their goals all the time

2 Be result orientated.

Results orientated people are always thinking of  the most important things that they can do right now to achieve their most important results. They make a list of everything they have to do and set priorities.

Here is a great way to become result orientated. When you have your list for the day, ask yourself If you can only do one thing today (as you will be called out of town), then what would it be. Put a circle around that and start on that immediately first thing  you do and then work on that one thing non stop until you complete that one activity. This simple technique has taken people form rags to riches all over the world for 100s of years. Pick your most important task and start on it immediately and discipline yourself to stay with it until it is completes.

3. Be people orientated

Recognize that everything you achieve in life is going to be with the help of other people . What is it that other people want and need from it. How can I help other people so they want to help me back. If you are in sales top salespeople think about their customers all the time. Who are they, what they want , how they can help them the most, and help them today.

In their relationships successful people are very focused on the most important people in their world in business and personal lives.

4.Be health orientated.

Think of eating less and better food.

Think of daily exercise.

Think of lots of rest. 

Remember to be successful in our competitive world you  need lots of energy. To get a lot of energy you need good food and lots of rest.

5.Stay Honest. 

Always tell the truth no matter the price.

6.Develop Self Discipline 

Self discipline seems to be the foundation habit that makes everything else possible. The best definition of self discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do when you should do it,whether you like it or not. Anyone can do it when they feel like it. It's only when you do it when you don't want to that you develop the self discipline.

What is the one habit you should develop right now to develop your other goals? Whatever it is start practicing that habit every day from now.

Taking Action - Exercise (Babyak et al., 2000)

Here's a great talk by psychologist Shawn Achor on why exercise is good for your success and happiness.



Everyone knows exercise is supposed to make you happier but we tell you the wrong reason for it. Usually we say  if you run enough maybe endorphins might get released and you might get addicted to those. Endorphines, these neurochemicals, they give you short term happiness but we are talking about today is long term quantifiable happiness and what we found is exercise does this but for a completely different reason. Exercise does this because it changes your tetris effect. What it does is people who exercise  also started eating healther on average. Why because their brain says I've been successful in one domain I bet I can be succcesful in  another domain.  which is why we found when senior level executives exercise in the morning they are better at dealing with their inbox at 2 oclock in the middle of the day. Two separate functions at two separate parts of the  day  and yet linked to the same activity. That activity is that you are getting your brain to believe your behaviour matters. If you exercise and go to work and you look around at other people you think I exercised and look at all these people that didn't , Even though that's the fist time you've exercised in a decade. you feel a moment of success and that moment of success translates into the very next action you take and just like we see in sports we see they get into the momentum of success that happens because they have an initial victory which leads to a cascading effect and those individuals start building an entire constellation of positive habits around them based on that first belief that my behaviour matters.