Young Forever: The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life (The Dr. Mark Hyman Library Book 11)

by Mark Hyman

1. Follow the Young Forever Longevity Diet (see Chapter 14), which is low in starch and sugar and high in good fats and phytochemicals. 2. Eliminate or reduce environmental toxins (see “Core System 4: Detoxification Optimization” later in this chapter). 3. Practice hormesis daily (see Chapter 16). Time-restricted eating, intermittent fasting, ketogenic diets, phytohormesis foods and spices, strength and HIIT training, cold and hot therapies, hyperbaric oxygen, hypoxia practices, breath work, and ozone therapy all support mitochondria. Include as many of these practices as you can. 4. Take the Young Forever Supplements (see Chapter 15). 5. Consider additional mitochondria therapy, depending on your health status and testing (with a functional medicine doctor): coenzyme Q10 or PQQ, alpha-lipoic acid, and acetyl-L-carnitine. See Advanced Longevity Support Supplements (here in Chapter 15). 6. Also consider NMN, pterostilbene, and urolithin A (Mitopure) (see Chapter 15). 7. Use red-light therapy (see Chapter 10) to boost energy production in the mitochondria. 8. Consider peptide therapy, such as SS 31, humanin, and MOTs-C. Peptides are little proteins that modulate most aspects of our biology, including our mitochondria. They are now available mostly as subcutaneous injections (see Chapter 11). 9. Consider calorie-restriction-mimicking therapies such as rapamycin and metformin (I do not routinely prescribe these and think we need more data on humans before we recommend their us...