Dr. Michael Greger
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So not smoking, not being obese.
regular exercise, which really comes out to like 22 minutes a day, which was what the cutoff point was, and five daily servings of fruits and vegetables minimum, right?
So that's not a lot, and we're not talking about cutting out meat, we're not talking about like any of these like dramatic changes, not all or nothing, like just like these really core kind of, yeah, we heard about five, right?
But it's like,
Wow.
I mean, that that makes this massive amount of difference.
Now, you want to go beyond that and like, you know, tweak even further.
Yeah, we got also there's certain fruits and vegetables that are even better than other fruits.
But let's not get lost in the weeds here.
Let's do the simple things.
That's that.
That'll get us most of the way there.
Um...
Well, I mean, certainly a truth for me, you know, it's always hard to give advice to other people, right?
Obviously.
But what's certainly been true for me is my, what I've dedicated my life to.
This kind of reducing unnecessary suffering in the world.
That has given me, having that
having that that that motivation having that vision having that base truth in my life has like so even if all my good works were to nothing it would have benefited me to have woke up every day and been able to look myself in the mirror and be like you know there's just so many horrible things happening in the world but like i did my part like and so that would be the message it's like
If you can configure your life to not just do what you're good at and not just to, you know, but to do something meaningful for others and to kind of look outside yourself, if you can.