It's HERTIME with Cody Sanders
Sep 15, 2026 · 49 min · 11 segments
Send us Fan Mail Longevity is everywhere right now—but aging well isn’t simply about adding more years to your life. It’s about protecting your…
Cody SandersHost
I'm sure that it feels so much more fulfilling to be able to know that you're helping people not just manage symptoms, but you're able to actually help them thrive through their life.

I think with modern medicine, we have been able to expand lifespan so much, but the quality of that life, even though it may be longer...

And so that's why I think this is exciting for us all to know that there's people out there that have really dedicated their time and their energy to understand how to support the body to be able to thrive and be able to not just live longer, but actually enjoy the life that they're living as we go on.

You know, I think most people think that aging is just simply the passage of time.

But when you look at aging as a physician, what do you actually see that's happening inside the body?
Well, one thing that is a huge sort of hallmark of aging is this inflammation.
And inflammation causes what we think of a lot of the disease of aging and a lot of the things that we think of as aging, like getting tired and stiff and weak.
And there's actually a term inflammation, which is like inflammation and aging kind of combined that...
There's, you know, there's I think another key driver of aging that I've, you know, it's really started to recognize and is recognized sort of in the longevity space is muscle loss.
And we lose about, you know, five to eight percent of our muscles per year after the age of 30.
And so unless you're actively doing something to build muscle, you're losing muscle.
And that's a lot of what we think of, you know, the problems with aging that we think of as well are actually just due to muscle loss.
You know, we think of someone being weak and not being able to, you know, do the things they used to enjoy doing because they're too weak.
It happens because you lose muscle and you can't, you know, you can't do the things that you, your body needs the muscle to do the things that you did before.
So there's, you know, many, many more examples I could give you, but that's one big underlying factor.

I'm sure that it feels so much more fulfilling to be able to know that you're helping people not just manage symptoms, but you're able to actually help them thrive through their life.

I think with modern medicine, we have been able to expand lifespan so much, but the quality of that life, even though it may be longer...

And so that's why I think this is exciting for us all to know that there's people out there that have really dedicated their time and their energy to understand how to support the body to be able to thrive and be able to not just live longer, but actually enjoy the life that they're living as we go on.

You know, I think most people think that aging is just simply the passage of time.

But when you look at aging as a physician, what do you actually see that's happening inside the body?
Well, one thing that is a huge sort of hallmark of aging is this inflammation.
And inflammation causes what we think of a lot of the disease of aging and a lot of the things that we think of as aging, like getting tired and stiff and weak.
And there's actually a term inflammation, which is like inflammation and aging kind of combined that...
There's, you know, there's I think another key driver of aging that I've, you know, it's really started to recognize and is recognized sort of in the longevity space is muscle loss.
And we lose about, you know, five to eight percent of our muscles per year after the age of 30.
And so unless you're actively doing something to build muscle, you're losing muscle.
And that's a lot of what we think of, you know, the problems with aging that we think of as well are actually just due to muscle loss.
You know, we think of someone being weak and not being able to, you know, do the things they used to enjoy doing because they're too weak.
It happens because you lose muscle and you can't, you know, you can't do the things that you, your body needs the muscle to do the things that you did before.
So there's, you know, many, many more examples I could give you, but that's one big underlying factor.
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