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Dr. Ed Park: Important Tips to Stay Young! (iHealthTube)
YouTube video by Dr. Ed Park (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIEV20jG2-8). Transcript is the auto-caption track — verbatim ASR, not a certified transcript.
you have a new book out called uh Tamir Time Bombs. Can you discuss that and what people might learn from that? Sure. Um it's right here tie time bombs and um it basically you can see here it's a time bomb on a chromosome and you have the hand uh pushing back the needle. So the premise is that again um stem cells are ticking down. I mean they're actively lengthening with tomease but it's a constant battle and if the fuses burn to the nub then you get chromosomeal damage. So the entire thing is like a new theory a unified theory of aging and disease which in my opinion will become orthodoxy very soon because there are so many studies there's so many things pointing to tie erosion in you name it across the board. Now everyone's kind of thinking well isn't that a coincidence that this is showing up in my disease of interest or this research. Well, no. I mean, if you just take it on faith that this is a sufficient condition, it's a robust explanation to explain all the diseases, I think um it becomes clear that this is a good explanation for a lot of what happens as we get older. So, it talks about my journey, talks about my patients experiences, it it waxes a little bit on the medical industrial complex, and it gives you some actionable um things to research and to do. So can you give us a clue? What are some of those things that people can do to to maybe you know slow that aging process down? Sure. Um you know I started off in medical orthodoxy trained um as a medical doctor and so things like holistic or alternative and complimentary homeopathic they were buzzwords for quackery you know not efficacious placebo and um I'm starting to realize that actually the the body and the consciousness of the body is a pretty efficient system and it can repair a lot of things. So whereas in the past I would have said you know aerobic exercise which is great you know or fish oil blah blah blah but I think you you really need to be holistically well. So what does that mean? You need to um live well. You need to breathe well. A lot of people um don't breathe properly and so they're all up in their head and they're anxious and they're tight. So breathing is important. Sleeping is so important to regenerate because all the stuff that you wouldn't even know how to fix, the body is fixing while you sleep. So, high quality sleep um is important. Good karma, you know, it sounds flaky and newagy, but if you're sitting thinking about how bad things are and how little you have and then that's going to be a negative perpetuating thought and then your enjoyment of life will be less. But also I think that um you'll age faster and we see that in the presence before they take office after. Stress is a big ager. Some people have a great sense of humor. So that's a great way to defay some of the unst you know. So anything you can do to sort of relax, sleep better, enjoy whether it be, you know, exercise or making love or um what have you. Just laughing, helping others. I mean, that sounds really non-medical, but I really truly believe if you're a happier person, and you see these in my patients that are really old, you know, they live longer. So, if you really want a secret, live a good life, be happy, be in love, help other people, don't be a jerk, you know, these kind of things, believe it or not, and laugh a lot. It's