Three Pillars of Longevity Program

Relational Health

Relational health, physical health and mental fitness are the important pillars of Wellbeing and a long healthy and happy life.  Where should we place our limited resources of time, money, and energy? What should we prioritize? 

Here is a list that can help us get started and gain perspective on the broad range of factors that create wellbeing.

What reduces your chances of dying the most? (or, increases your chance of living longer and happier?)

1. Weak ties (Dr Jillian Sandstrom))

2. Strong ties (Blue Zones + Harvard Men’s Study)

3. Quit Smoking

4. Quit Drinking

5. Flu Vaccine

6. Cardio Rehab (if you’ve had an event)

7. Exercise (Movement is key, Blue Zone)

8. Lean vs Overweight (Plant slant, 80% rule, Blue Zone)

9. Hypertension (Stress Relief, Down shift Blue Zones, DASH Diet)

10. Clean Air

– Read Full Article: Longevity and Relational Health

Harvard’s 8 Intelligent Behaviors Test

Creating Good Friends Creates Good Longevity

Americans more than ever have no friends. We evolved to live in small groups — not just with blood-related kin, but with friends. Friends worked together to secure resources, seek justice, and protect each other.  The more cooperative and supportive the group was, the more likely it was to survive and pass on its bond-seeking genes. The result is that we are wired to want close, enduring friendships.

• The number of friends people have peaks around age 25, but then substantially drops around age 30, when work and the nuclear family take over.

• Working longer hours and we are more likely to move for work than ever before. 

• The last decade has seen a startling further fall in the number and quality of friendships.

We have fewer close friends. According to the May 2021 American Perspectives Survey of over 2,000 adults, 

• under 3% in the 1990s now up to 12% of Americans report having no friends. 

• In UK the number of young adults who report having only one or no close friends jumped from 7% to nearly 20% between 2012 and 2021. 

We are not nourishing our friendships 

We are spending substantially less time with the few friends we have. 

• Prior to 2013 people spent just under 7 hours per week with friends, now we are spending less than 3 hours per week with close friends. 

Loneliness is deadly 

58% of the US are considered lonely  a recent study by Cigna 

People without good friends die younger. 

• Loneliness reduced longevity as much as severe obesity or smoking 15 cigarettes a day. 

• Those without close friends were nearly four times more likely to die from their cancer. (A study of over 2,800 nurses diagnosed with breast cancer) 

Finally, being lonely just feels bad. When around friends, your brain releases “feel-good” neurotransmitters like dopamine and serotonin. When you feel lonely, your brain pays more attention to negative things, like social threats and rejection. Feeling socially excluded activates the same brain regions involved in physical pain. In fact, loneliness predicts pain, fatigue, and depression.

– Read Full Article: Cultivating Good Friends Creates Good Longevity

Longevity and Retirement Planning

Taking stock of our lifestyle and behaviors, then learning exciting new skills to strengthen factors that promote our wellbeing can give us a roadmap.  Setting a Reployment plan for a more fulfilling, healthier, and satisfying next chapter sets your GPS to create a healthier and vitality-filled, 2.0 adventure. Most businessmen would not dream of investing time and money into a new business without a well-researched business plan.  So, let’s transform your unfocused retirement plan into an exciting, well researched Reployment plan.

Dangerous Retirement transformed into a Vital and Healthy Reployment. The reality is harsh… an unplanned retirement can be a dangerous stage of life to navigate.

– Read Full Article: Longevity and Retirement Planning

Mental Fitness and Resilience

Stress relief impacts physical and mental health and mental performance dramatically. It becomes a marker of resilience or a risk factor. The Stress-Relief Program can improve your stress resilience in just 5 weeks.

Learning a 20-minute Stress Relief Technique can improve how your body and mind responds to stress by slowing your heart rate, reducing your blood pressure, slowing your breathing rate, increasing blood flow, improving the immune system, lessening muscle tension and much more. We know stress is harmful to our health … the toll it can take on our quality of life can be devastating. Learning how to switch-off stress daily protects us on many levels. Decades of studies on the impact of negative stress has shown that it can change us genetically, change our brain chemistry, suppress our immune system, and create a pro-inflammatory and pro-angiogenic (supportive of cancer growth) condition in our bodies.

The good news is we know how to switch stress response off! Look at the studies that proved just 20 minutes a day of stress reduction audio can have profound impact over 5 weeks.

• 80% Lowered High Blood Pressure, 16% off BP Medications  

• 64% Decreased Stress 

• 31% Improvement in Severe PMS 

• Increased Fertility. 

• Chronic Pain Patients Reduce their Physician Visits by 36%. 

• 100% of Insomnia Patients Reported Improved Sleep and 91% Either Eliminated or Reduced Sleeping Medication Use. 

• 57% Reduction in PMS 

• Increased Self-Esteem: 

• More Effective at School Inner city middle school students improved grade score, 

– Read Full Article: Longevity Mental Fitness and Resilience

Longevity and the Cultivation of Mental Health and Resilience

What are the behaviors, attitudes, and lifestyle habits that contribute to resilience in the highest concentrations of centenarians in the world?  The Blue Zone populations show much less incidence of degenerative diseases and what are now called “lifestyle” diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes to name a few.  How can we learn from them and reduce the impact of these diseases in our own cities and towns.

Experiential Wisdom Meets Science

We can draw upon the obvious behavior patterns documented from studying these cultures and from the social science research being done in our own country.

Let’s start with a wisdom of one of the main pillars of health… relaxation!

– Read Full Article: Longevity and the Cultivation of Mental Health and Resilience

Longevity and Physical Health

Exercise. Move naturally such as gardening, yard work, walking to work are how the Blue Zones exercise, although in our culture joining a gym may really help. Want to feel better, have more energy and even add years to your life? Just exercise. The health benefits of regular exercise and physical activity are hard to ignore. Everyone benefits from exercise, regardless of age, sex, or physical ability. Need more convincing to get moving? Check out these seven ways that exercise can lead to a happier, healthier you.

Diet. Plant slant, eat more plants. While most people in the Blue Zones areas only consume small amounts of meat on rare occasions, all of them eat a rich array of fresh fruits and vegetables, which are packed with disease-fighting nutrients.

Sleep. In 2014, the CDC (Center for Disease Control) declared sleep deprivation to be a public health epidemic. Mind-Body Program to improve your Sleep over 5 weeks.

One in every two Americans experienced some difficulty falling asleep last year; one in three experienced insomnias on a regular basis. Some turn to over-the-counter medicines to help them sleep, while 10 million rely on prescription medicine. Many drugs that help induce sleep are not designed for long-term use, having serious side effects, leaving a hung-over feeling in the morning, and further disrupting sleep patterns. Other surveys have found that 27% of Americans reported using complementary medicines for fatigue, and 26% have used them for insomnia. Close to 40% of American adults say that daytime sleepiness interferes with their daily activities for at least a few days a month, and about 20% say it affects their daily activities a few days a week, according to a 1998 poll cited in the study. The two main causes being psychological, or stress induced and interaction of foods, drinks, medications. 

Stop Smoking.  Smoking Cessation Program can help over 21 days.

Hypertension, Lower Blood Pressure Program

High Blood Pressure Relief Program guides you through the DASH diet, and natural supplements support lowering blood pressure. Obviously work with your Medical Doctor, but there is a lot that you can do to naturally support their recommendations.

Medical evaluation with your Medical Doctor. Get a regular checkup Wellness visit and work-up.

Wellness evaluation with a wellness practitioner Get a lifestyle evaluation of your diet, exercise, which could lead to a targeted plan of nutrition, dietary supplements and vitamins, stress, basic preventative medicine, consider a wearable device like a Fitbit, to understand your sleep patterns, blood oxygen, resting and variable heart rates, etc. 

– Read Full Article: Longevity and Physical Health

Basic Supplements

1. Delphinol

2. Green Power Drink

3. Power Mushrooms

4. Multi Vitamin

5. Theracumin