Longevity

I'm your host, Val, world champion, entrepreneur, editor-in-chief, and someone who spent a career watching people choose the freer path.

Today I'm joined by Dr. Abid Banzal, a surgeon, hospital director, and advocate for preventive health healthy aging beyond his work in surgery and medicine he is exploring longevity regenerative medicine and the blue mind philosophy the idea that our relationship with water and our surroundings can play a meaningful role in our well-being so we are going to separate longevity myths from the meaningful habits talk about what happens when stress takes over our lives and explore how founders can build success without sacrificing their health in the process because the last 10 years of your life aren't something you you know to think about when you get there there's something you can start preparing for now uh hello Dr Arpit it's a pleasure to have you here today

Hey Val, thank you so much.

Lovely, very excited to be here finally.

You are traveling a lot.

It was not easy to schedule this podcast, but I'm happy that we have this conversation today.

I think before jumping into the longevity part, maybe you share a little bit more about your journey.

It's like what brought you to medicine, how this happened.

yeah it does all right

cool so going to just move on from that into kind of a bit of a segue into truly my favorite topic I touched on earlier, which is longevity.

So when we talk about longevity, I like to always kind of up top talk about, I'm not just talking about what number can you stay alive until.

We aren't just looking at quantity but quality of life here so how long can you stay independent how long can you continue to do the things that you enjoy doing how long can you continue moving with you know relatively pain-free of course as we age there are just our body starts to rebel a little bit but it shouldn't Every step shouldn't send searing pain up and down your body.

And what can we do to prevent that happening in the future or even try and reverse it if that's already where you're at? So when it comes to the long-term effects of what kind of fitness we are practicing, the stakes are actually pretty high here.

So, you know, those things will happen.

But the more you can try to stay upbeat as much as you can, the better off you're going to be from a longevity standpoint.

Yeah, well, that's fantastic.

And I think, you know, this is such a timely subject as more Americans are retiring or facing this, you know, we're in an aging society right now, and the number of retirees is only going to increase.

So those are the best places to find me.

I'm also doing some writing for the Stanford Center on Longevity magazine.

If you're interested in things relating to longevity, you can find me, but lots of other great writers there as well.

And I also do a fair amount for Kipplinger magazine, which is a great personal finance magazine.

Yeah, so let's jump right into the first story, which is Japan.

What were your thoughts when you first saw it? You came across this through, Elias, in my newsletter that we put out through the Health Bank Collective last week in Longevity.

So I'm so glad you're reading it.

Well, and if and if you're out there and you're listening to us and they're on LinkedIn, it's an you guys do an excellent job with this.

So, uh, I'm not knocking it either.

I do wanna talk about, uh, Bitcoin, uh, though, 'cause we haven't ever talked about that to the Longevity audience.

You went to a Bitcoin conference in, I can't remember what year it was, and you were amazed at how smart the people in the room were.

And I f- I, I agree 100%.

Gary, thank you.

Uh, hope to see you soon.

This is the Ultimate Longevity Journey.

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Sean started out as a corporate lawyer, moved into the music business, and in 2009 co-founded Wanderlust, which brought yoga, meditation, music, and nature together in one gathering, and grew into festivals in more than 20 countries.

After Wanderlust, Sean turned to a new question: What happens when wellness grows up and meets longevity science? His answer is Eudaimonia, a summit in West Palm Beach that has grown from 2,700 people in the first year to an expected 8,000 people this November.

Hands down, my favorite longevity summit.

Amazing people, amazing vendors, everything.

So really highly, highly recommend it, and why I'm so excited to have Sean on today.

The name comes from the Greek idea of eudaimonia, a life well-lived.

Today, we explore what flourishing really means, how to separate science from hype, why community may be the most underrated longevity tool, and where longevity events are heading next.

Please enjoy.

Oktober findet in Marienkron das Retreat "Wissenschaft trifft Retreat" statt.

Ein Wochenende, das wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse rund um Gesundheit, Ernährung, Fasten und Longevity mit praktischen Erfahrungen verbinden möchte.

Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei der One Health Gedanke, Gesundheit nicht isoliert zu betrachten, sondern im Zusammenspiel mit Mensch, Umwelt und Lebensweise.

Was steckt hinter diesem Ansatz und was können die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer ganz konkret für ihren Alltag mitnehmen? Darüber plaudere ich jetzt mit der Geschäftsführerin des Marienkron Retreat and Health Resource, Elke Müller.

Stuart, we've got a wonderful program that you and the team have put together here, and including myself.

The Longevity Revolution.

We are all living longer.

I've got some numbers to back it up, and you are going to give us some ideas of what we need to be paying attention to.

The longevity revolution, it isn't just about have you saved enough for your retirement.

There's so many other factors that you need to consider, including your taxes, your health care strategies, timing on your social security, estate planning to help make sure you protect your assets, not just for yourself, but for the next gen. We're going to talk about all of that more when we get back with Stewart Willis, your wealth advisor, right after these messages.

Welcome back to the Asset Preservation Hour with Wealth Advisor, Mr. Stewart Willis, the Longevity Revolution.

I'm going to throw you a curveball you don't know coming.

And there's a lot of history here.

We want to touch on a bit of it, 'cause it, it's actually super interesting, and it's also potentially an indicator of what will happen With the world's first longevity drugs that we think are coming down the line.

Longevity is about 20, 30 years behind obesity.

So let's look how these classes of drugs were developed, and I think that's gonna serve as an indicator of where we're headed with longevity.

But it actually goes back, the whole story of this whole class of drugs is about 100 years old.