Why emotional health is so important for longevity

This clip is from episode #311 ‒ Longevity 101: a foundational guide to Peter's frameworks for longevity, and understanding CVD, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, nutrition, exercise, sleep, and more

In the full episode, we discuss:

- Overview of episode topics and structure
- How Peter defines longevity
- Why healthspan is a crucial component of longevity
- The evolution of medicine from medicine 1.0 to 2.0, and the emergence of medicine 3.0
- Overview of atherosclerotic diseases: the 3 pathways of ASCVD, preventative measures, and the impact of metabolic health
- Cancer: genetic and environmental factors, treatment options, and the importance of early and aggressive screening
- Neurodegenerative diseases: causes, prevention, and the role of genetics and metabolic health
- The spectrum of metabolic diseases
- Why it’s never too late to start thinking about longevity
- The 5 components of the longevity toolkit
- Peter’s framework for exercise—The Centenarian Decathlon
- Peter’s nutritional framework: energy balance, protein intake, and more
- Sleep: the vital role of sleep in longevity, and how to improve sleep habits
- Drugs and supplements: Peter’s framework for thinking about drugs and supplements as tools for enhancing longevity
- Why emotional health is a key component of longevity
- Advice for newcomers on where to start on their longevity journey
- More.

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[steveabrams]

Having good emotional health like being calm and having inner peace is really needed for longevity. You can eat healthy and exercise, but if you are constantly stressed, it will affect your health, and you will shorten your lifespan. Being in a calm environment and having calming energies in your circle is very important, and I think it will help you live a live long life along with other factors like genetics, diet, etc.

[averageguy]

So true. Life is about cultivating experiences that enrich your life and those around you.

[xixxxrw]

Gosh I pray that I will always have the will to choose joy over all obstacles that come my way. I see many specialized doctors and each comment something similar to "I know you live in pain and every day is a new challenge but I've never met anyone with such positive attitude, always smiling and always polite". I sometimes project how I want to be seen and that is someone with no pain! but that's not my life and I choose to see life as a glass half full because the alternative will age me a lot quicker and the physical pain, inflammation, will be that much greater. Sadness comes but I'll be damned if I let it control me. Working out has been a tool, that for 7 yrs, I forgot I had. Excruciating pain for past two days but I kept moving without making things worst. Called these REST days and today I was able to strength train legs with no lower back spasms. Mind over matter (not always!)

[MrDjhealth]

my grandmother was angry, unhappy, and cantankerous for the majority of her life, she still made it to 100

[bartstienen]

Yes, the software can be re-written but only once you see that this is possible.. if you have no examples growing up or sufficient guidance life seems to happen to you without you having anything to say about it which obviously keeps you trapped in helplessness till the point you become aware that you have a say in the matter, nobody chooses to be ignorant 🙏❤️

[newyorkguy]

Most people are not miserable, lonely and angry and their problems are circumscribed, so that they don't interfere with, or not too much, with their daily functioning. And, yes, we can always make changes in our thinking to make ourselves happier. So mental health is very important. But not as important as diet and exercise, both of which can positively impact our mental health and our physical health at the same time. And this is the key point- we can change diet and exercise patterns very quickly with an instant impact on our health. Psychological problems can take a long time to correct.

[tommydinob]

If the internal condition is stable, the external conditions are much more trivial.

[yasminbowman]

Ace! You are the most sensible and knowledgeable Dr out there and expert on epigenetics. And I follow a lot of them! Thank you Dr. Attia!

[ASMRiHaveADream]

Wishing All a life well lived and full of happiness 🙏🏼🍀✨

[TruthSeekerX]

I would rather live a happy fulfilled satisfied life for a short lifespan rather than living 90+ years with a miserable lonely life.

[sylviarochelleamaro]

Let’s just wake up, stand in front of the door of happiness and feel your own
Joy pop over everything that ever hurt you. Believe it is and watch Joy come alive ✝️

[robynhope]

Alas, some ppl are born with disadvantages...and some of us cannot overcome them😢

[paulbrinkman]

"Potentially more important?" Quite a revelation from a scientist and a practitioner. He goes deeper into this in "Outlive." I truly appreciate Dr. Attia's contributions to our "health conversation" and his evangelism around Medicine 3.0.

[_ross]

I used to be happy and productive. Some shit happened, in a few different aspects of my life, and now it seems i can't remember how to be like i was before.

[NoName-usvq]

Just like places can be run down and haunted, people can be run down and haunted. Let them be. You cannot rid the earth of contrast.

[darkclownKellen]

"If you're all alone, then you might aswell be dead" -John Conway

[AbdullaHernandez]

I would be really, really interested to hear what we can do about this.

[rickeyfreeman]

True! The question is when your life is spiraling out of your control whether it be from back luck or happenstance hard times are a part of life and if you don’t have the Monetary resources it can shake your confidence and taxing your mental toughness to the breaking point of doom and gloom where to you even start to heal while your still sinking in a pool of quick sand without a soul in sight or a branch to grab on to that is a vexing question I would love to her the answer that would remedy that scenario?

[lesliebarnes]

I'll live till im 100 years old.😢

[nickpolizzi]

How exactly does one CHOOSE to be lonely, miserable and angry?