Dr. Mark Hyman

We may not get a buzz, but our bodies don't get the buzz if we eat protein and fat before.

Combined with diet, exercise is really...

the most powerful tool for staying healthy and extending your life.

My mom used to say whenever she had the urge to exercise, she would lie down until it went away, which I think she got from any young men or some comedian.

But she followed that advice, unfortunately, and she didn't exercise despite my hounding her.

Of course, parents never listen to their kids.

I mean, kids, whatever, something like that.

Parents never listen to their kids.

And she ended up being pretty frail and disabled the last decade of her life and not too functioning.

So when you start thinking about how to take this approach of incorporating movement and exercise in your life, you can get really amazing benefits.

I'm just going to kind of go through them because they're just so profound.

It actually unlocks the body's longevity switches, the regenerative and reparative systems that are built into our biology.

It activates all the longevity switches that I talk about in the book, particularly the four that have to do with nutrient sensing pathways that are sort of meta to everything else.

Insulin signaling, mTOR, which is really important in terms of autophagy and cleaning up your cells, sirtuins, which are important in DNA repair, and also AMPK, which helps regulate blood sugar

insulin sensitivity, inflammation, and many other things.

So it's pretty darn exciting.

It also activates the body's antioxidant systems.

It improves your cognitive function and your mood.

It supports, I mean, they found that just walking helps prevent dementia, which is pretty cool.

It supports your microbiome.