Sep 29, 2026 · 56 min · 11 segments
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Iñigo San MillánGuest
Stacy SimsGuest
Eugene TeoGuest
Dan GinaderGuestIf we want to harness the power of mobility in health span and aging, we must be concerned with the entire skeletal system.
How many of you have been told you need to lift weights to build more muscle? How many of you have been told that you eat, need to eat more protein? How many of you have been told that you need to jump? You've been told.
In fact, I am telling you, and I'm even doing the research to prove that when you do that, it matters in the long term.
I mean, you can't argue with it, that exercise and mobility is the key to health span and longevity.
But here's the catch, because I take care of about three million of you online and you write to me.
When I say to you, "We need to build muscle, we need to eat protein, we need to jump up and down," you say to me, "Got it.
We want to feel like ourselves again and we want to exercise, but we can't because our knees hurt, our back hurts.
My total body aches." And it made me stop and think about what I believe about longevity.
I do not believe that longevity is just this timeline that, oh, we're trying to reach 120, 150 years.
You know, that's what you will believe if you just listen to one side of the longevity conversation.
If we want to harness the power of mobility in health span and aging, we must be concerned with the entire skeletal system.
How many of you have been told you need to lift weights to build more muscle? How many of you have been told that you eat, need to eat more protein? How many of you have been told that you need to jump? You've been told.
In fact, I am telling you, and I'm even doing the research to prove that when you do that, it matters in the long term.
I mean, you can't argue with it, that exercise and mobility is the key to health span and longevity.
But here's the catch, because I take care of about three million of you online and you write to me.
When I say to you, "We need to build muscle, we need to eat protein, we need to jump up and down," you say to me, "Got it.
We want to feel like ourselves again and we want to exercise, but we can't because our knees hurt, our back hurts.
My total body aches." And it made me stop and think about what I believe about longevity.
I do not believe that longevity is just this timeline that, oh, we're trying to reach 120, 150 years.
You know, that's what you will believe if you just listen to one side of the longevity conversation.
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