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Dr. David Agus

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Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

Many of the new devices, the Apple Watch, the Oura Rings and others measure something like heart rate variability, which is actually a surrogate for that. You can measure, do you have that adrenaline response or not? Very important for athletes or anybody who wants to perform.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

So talking to some of the experts in those, they talked to me about child rearing. There are three types of gorillas, right? There's one who says to their kid, hey, do whatever you want, fall out of the tree, get beaten up. I'm just going to go about my daily life. Those kids have a relatively short life expectancy. Then there are the parents who don't let the kids get into any fights.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

So talking to some of the experts in those, they talked to me about child rearing. There are three types of gorillas, right? There's one who says to their kid, hey, do whatever you want, fall out of the tree, get beaten up. I'm just going to go about my daily life. Those kids have a relatively short life expectancy. Then there are the parents who don't let the kids get into any fights.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

So talking to some of the experts in those, they talked to me about child rearing. There are three types of gorillas, right? There's one who says to their kid, hey, do whatever you want, fall out of the tree, get beaten up. I'm just going to go about my daily life. Those kids have a relatively short life expectancy. Then there are the parents who don't let the kids get into any fights.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

When they start to climb the tree, they pull them down. Those kids are always followers and never leaders. Then there's the kids who the mother looks at them with the corner of their eye, and once they get to a certain level in the tree, they bring them down. They let them start to get in the fight, but when it gets too aggressive, then they intervene.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

When they start to climb the tree, they pull them down. Those kids are always followers and never leaders. Then there's the kids who the mother looks at them with the corner of their eye, and once they get to a certain level in the tree, they bring them down. They let them start to get in the fight, but when it gets too aggressive, then they intervene.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

When they start to climb the tree, they pull them down. Those kids are always followers and never leaders. Then there's the kids who the mother looks at them with the corner of their eye, and once they get to a certain level in the tree, they bring them down. They let them start to get in the fight, but when it gets too aggressive, then they intervene.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

Those are the kids who know how to deal with conflict, know how to take some risk and become the leaders. So what's amazing is, is that Jane Goodall can look at a pack and identify who will be the next leader by the parenting behaviors.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

Those are the kids who know how to deal with conflict, know how to take some risk and become the leaders. So what's amazing is, is that Jane Goodall can look at a pack and identify who will be the next leader by the parenting behaviors.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

Those are the kids who know how to deal with conflict, know how to take some risk and become the leaders. So what's amazing is, is that Jane Goodall can look at a pack and identify who will be the next leader by the parenting behaviors.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

Yeah, but if you look at the mummies in the Egyptian time, most of them died of cancer or they died of heart disease. And so they're dying of the same things and they died at a much earlier timeframe. We're living longer. We're still dying of heart disease and cancer, but you're right, we portend for longer. But the key is, right? I really think we can stop most disease at an early age.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

Yeah, but if you look at the mummies in the Egyptian time, most of them died of cancer or they died of heart disease. And so they're dying of the same things and they died at a much earlier timeframe. We're living longer. We're still dying of heart disease and cancer, but you're right, we portend for longer. But the key is, right? I really think we can stop most disease at an early age.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

Yeah, but if you look at the mummies in the Egyptian time, most of them died of cancer or they died of heart disease. And so they're dying of the same things and they died at a much earlier timeframe. We're living longer. We're still dying of heart disease and cancer, but you're right, we portend for longer. But the key is, right? I really think we can stop most disease at an early age.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

So all of us can go to our ninth or 10th decade and die of something. Until the 1950s, you could die of, but it was made illegal after that, something called old age. Ever since the mid 1950s, a death certificate needs a cause of death and old age isn't a cause of death anymore. I want to go back to dying of old age, right? You don't want to die at age 50 of pancreatic cancer.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

So all of us can go to our ninth or 10th decade and die of something. Until the 1950s, you could die of, but it was made illegal after that, something called old age. Ever since the mid 1950s, a death certificate needs a cause of death and old age isn't a cause of death anymore. I want to go back to dying of old age, right? You don't want to die at age 50 of pancreatic cancer.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

So all of us can go to our ninth or 10th decade and die of something. Until the 1950s, you could die of, but it was made illegal after that, something called old age. Ever since the mid 1950s, a death certificate needs a cause of death and old age isn't a cause of death anymore. I want to go back to dying of old age, right? You don't want to die at age 50 of pancreatic cancer.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

You don't want to have a heart attack at age 53. What you want to do is live till there's general engineering failure until your quality of life at that point starts to go down, which is normally the end of the ninth or 10th decade and live quality until you get there. And I believe you can, if you do the preventive strategies, many of which we can learn from the animal kingdom.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

You don't want to have a heart attack at age 53. What you want to do is live till there's general engineering failure until your quality of life at that point starts to go down, which is normally the end of the ninth or 10th decade and live quality until you get there. And I believe you can, if you do the preventive strategies, many of which we can learn from the animal kingdom.

Something You Should Know
Lessons on Health from the Animal Kingdom & How to Manage Your Emotions

You don't want to have a heart attack at age 53. What you want to do is live till there's general engineering failure until your quality of life at that point starts to go down, which is normally the end of the ninth or 10th decade and live quality until you get there. And I believe you can, if you do the preventive strategies, many of which we can learn from the animal kingdom.

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