Dr. Michael Greger

Right, but in general, and it's because primarily the obesity epidemic.

So we are raising.

the first generation of Americans set to live shorter average lives than their parents, right?

And this was before COVID.

It continues to drop down.

We are 39th in life expectancy around the world.

So, like, Slovenians live longer than Americans.

So we've got a lot of work to do, but the good news is, again, we have power over how we live and what we eat.

Okay, and so then smoking cessation, critically important.

No, so what else?

Smoking versus vaping.

Well, the concern, the primary concern about vaping is the nicotine addiction will lead people to smoke.

And so it's safer than smoking.

But because people who vape tend to smoke that, unfortunately, you know, these kids getting addicted to nicotine can face a lifetime of cigarette addiction and then die.

dramatically cut their life short from something like lung cancer smoking so so yeah so it's really remarkably you know 80 of the way there is the simple basic common sense lifestyle behaviors i know it's a big book and i go into all the details don't want people to get kind of lost

or intimidated, it's really the basics.

So, you know, a decade of life is possible just through not smoking, not being obese, exercising, even like 20 minutes a day, five servings of fruits and vegetables, really basic stuff.

Now, you want to go beyond that?

You want to tweak those 20%?

I've got, you know, hundreds of cool things you can do in the book.