
Young Forever: The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life

Young Forever Function Health Panel A new company, Function Health (functionhealth.com), gives you access to a complete set of tests at a low cost with periodic retesting every six to twelve months to measure your progress.
Mark Hyman M.D. • Young Forever: The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life
However, despite how critical exercise is to our health and longevity, you cannot exercise your way out of a bad diet.
Mark Hyman M.D. • Young Forever: The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life
you are doing weight training and aerobic exercise, you may need 105 to 140 grams a day
Mark Hyman M.D. • Young Forever: The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life
The key is to give your body a break from the constant influx of calories on a regular basis.
Mark Hyman M.D. • Young Forever: The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life
However, if you want to achieve maximum benefits, you must focus on three key aspects of fitness: 1. Aerobic conditioning (to optimize your VO2 max) 2. Strength and muscle mass and function 3. Flexibility and agility
Mark Hyman M.D. • Young Forever: The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life
While it is impossible to optimize for all the good stuff or eliminate all the bad stuff all the time, it is important to build a lifestyle that automatically makes all of it just a little simpler and habitual.
Mark Hyman M.D. • Young Forever: The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life
Loss of a sense of agency, rejection, loneliness, social isolation, and trauma impact our immune system, our hormones, and our gut.26
Mark Hyman M.D. • Young Forever: The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life
The key to a healthy gut is a whole foods diet high in prebiotic (fiber) and probiotic foods and abundant in phytochemicals from colorful plant foods.
Mark Hyman M.D. • Young Forever: The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life
Only 23 percent of Americans get the recommended amount of daily physical activity.16 And half of us are completely physically inactive.