Dr. Mark Hyman

I use bands mostly because I travel with them.

Do more movement throughout the day.

Get up, walk around, do stuff.

And I write a lot about what kinds of exercise, how much exercise, how to optimize it in the least amount of time.

I cover all that in my book, Young Forever.

I want to share a little bit about a study that reflects the power of this.

It was an 80-year study called the Harvard Study of Adult Development.

It had been producing data on so many different things on who lives longer, happier, healthier lives.

They wanted to understand not what makes people sick, but what makes people thrive, what makes them well.

What were the lessons from this study?

It was an 84-year study, right?

A long study.

They were tracking the same people and over generations asking thousands of questions, hundreds of measurements to find out what really makes people healthy and happy.

And these people were giving regular updates on their life, their health, their income, their employment, their marital status.

They

filled out questionnaires and were part of interviews where they revealed their fears and their hopes or disappointments or accomplishments or regrets, life satisfaction and lots more.

And this had a really incredible impact by providing lots of data.

The researchers use this data to assess how people's lives, their experiences, their attitudes affect their wellbeing.

And one of the thing that was so powerful from this study was sort of surprising.

It wasn't career achievement, it wasn't exercise, it wasn't a healthy diet.