Dr. David Sinclair
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It is the best marker for cardiovascular inflammation and also we use it as a predictor of
longevity and its levels go up with
mortality.
And so this is an association, but there's enough data that I would say if you have high levels of CRP, you need to get your levels down quickly.
And the levels usually go up with age and with levels of inflammation.
So the ways to get it down would be to switch the diet, eat less, try to eat more vegetables.
You'll find it will come down.
There are also drugs that can do it.
Anti-inflammatories can do it as well.
But CRP is, it's actually HCRP.
There's a high sensitive or HSCRP.
Your doctor will know.
Get one of those readings because if you've got normal blood sugar levels, your doctor, or fasting blood sugar levels, your doctor might say you're fine.
But a lot of people have normal blood sugar but have high CRP, which is just as bad for you long-term and can predict a future heart attack.
What do you do?
Well, we know that aerobic exercise in mice and rats raises their NAD levels and their levels of SIRT, one of the genes goes up to actually number one and number three.
I base my exercise on the scientific literature, which has shown that
Maintaining muscle mass is very important for a number of reasons.
The two main ones are you want to maintain your hormone levels.
I'm an older male, losing my testosterone and muscle mass over time.