Niall Moyna: “Within four hours of this treatment, 18,000 bio-molecules are produced in your body”
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What insights does Niall Moyna share about aging and health?
Now, we all have them, ageing bodies, so we're going to talk about them now with Niall Moyna, who is technically Professor of Clinical Exercise Physiology at the School of Health and Human Performance in DCU. But I like to think of you, Niall, as the national PE teacher. Good morning. How are you? I'm doing great, thank you. Great to be here. And Niall, you put us all to shame because you do really practice what you preach. I know you eat very well, you exercise, you look after yourself. What age are you? 67. Do you feel 67?
No.
How old do you feel, do you think?
Probably in my early 40s.
Really, yeah. Yeah, basically, yeah. And you're not retired.
That probably helps, does it? Yeah, I've decided to keep working until I'm 70. I have research students, so basically that would take me up until I'm 70. But I think it gives me purpose. I think mindset is hugely important because we're socialised, you know, we get the pension at 66, you know, you retire in your 60s. And it sort of socialises us into thinking, Actually, we're old, we're decrepit, you know, we're on the downside of the curb. So I think mindset is hugely important.
Okay, and that people should keep going a bit longer, maybe have a sense of purpose.
Purpose is very, very important.
Okay. Have you done, by the way, you know those tests on what your biological age is? Have you done it?
No. But I regularly would test my fitness in the lab. And based on that, my aerobic fitness will be comparable now to someone in their top 30% for someone in their 30s.
Wow. Okay. If we start at the beginning, what's ageing? What happens?
Well, you know, in the simplest terms, it's the decline in how the body works. You know, all of our organ systems, from our brain to our lungs, our heart, they functionally decline. Now, the rate and pace at which they decline varies greatly and depends... on complex interaction between your genes, your lifestyle in particular, and the environment of whether you're exposed to toxic elements or whatever, or sun exposure. So it's a complex thing. But we all age. That's inevitable. It starts roughly around mid-30s, 30 to 35. We start to see this deterioration in all of our organ systems.
How can mindset influence our perception of aging?
But very importantly... you can significantly influence the rate at which they decay. And coming back to the question about biological ageing, we now can actually measure the rate of decline in each of your organ systems. So we can tell you what the biological age of your heart, your lungs and your kidneys are, if people are interested.
Okay. But people who, there are people we notice that seem to age faster than other people. That is, that part of it is avoidable. Age not avoidable, but you can avoid the rate of decline, if you will.
Just think of this line, straight line going down. And you can have a line above it or a line below it. If you're on the line above it, it means you're ageing at a much slower rate versus someone who's ageing at a faster rate. You know, there's a study done in America based on around 270,000 men and women. And they looked at their lifestyle. They identified eight lifestyle risk factors, like smoking, were you active, did you drink alcohol, take drugs. And they then looked at, compared to someone who adopted none of these healthy lifestyle risk factors, if you adopted all of these lifestyle risk factors, you reduce your risk of all-cause mortality by 88%. But the really take-home message in this was, if you got to the age of 40,
and you adopted no healthy lifestyle risk factors, you would live an extra 23 years. You would live to 63. Wow. If you were a male and you got to 40 and you adopted all eight of them, you lived an extra 47 years.
That's extraordinary.
Extraordinary. That's a difference of a quarter of a century.
The other thing I'm hearing there as well is that redemption is possible. You can get up to the age of 40 living maybe how you'd like, and then it's never too late, is it, to cop on?
Well, let me talk to the 66-year-olds out there because there was a paper published yesterday of an 81-year-old man in Spain who did not exercise until he was 66.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What insights does Niall Moyna share about aging and health?
0:00–2:14
2
How can mindset influence our perception of aging?
2:14–4:19
3
What is biological age and how can it be measured?
4:19–7:48
4
What lifestyle changes can significantly impact longevity?
7:48–15:32
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Is it ever too late to start exercising for health benefits?
15:32–15:50