AGING SUCKS-BOOK LAUNCH-THE HALLMARKS OF AGING WITH RED O'LAUGHLIN

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[00:01:15]>> Aging sucks, does it? Does it for you?

[00:01:19]It's interesting when I mentioned the title of my new book coming out literally I guess Saturday July 4th and I'm going to say 19 out of 20 about 95% of the people said yeah it really does.

[00:01:30]Uh but I get that 5% of the people said no not really. Uh and so why do some people not think that it sucks and others do? Well that's kind of the follow on from what we had we talked a little bit about this morning Dr. Jacqueline was uh the host of the the book launch show about two hours ago and I decided to take my show today and rather than have a guest and plus the fact it's also on the July 4th weekend it's kind of hard to get a guest but anyway so today you follow up a little bit um in follow up right on the title I mentioned earlier that if you remember the old telephone switch banks where you saw the operator sitting there in chairs and they were constantly pulling out things, putting things in. That reminds me very very definitively of our bodies.

[00:02:22]Our brain is that big switchboard and we're constantly talking to other parts of our body. We're sending signals going here, there, and yonder. And so the signals go in, they go here. Well, depending on which direction the signal is going in and what it's coming from, it has a an order. It says do this.

[00:02:39]Okay? If it's breathing, you breathe. If it's your heart rate, your heart if I need to increase my heart pulse because something's happening. Uh but all of these things are happening digestion all sort you know going going to sleep we have these signals that are going all over the place and that's part of our our process. So when you look at your body in the big scheme of things, uh your body is always listening and it's your lifestyle it's listening to. Every meal you eat, every walk that you take, every night's sleep, uh the stresses you encounter every day, uh the environment you live in, they all send signals uh to your to your brain and then your brain says, "Okay, this is what I need to do to adapt to that particular signal path." So if you're listening to the wrong signals over a long period of time, you may end up being obese, may have heart disease, or you may be an Olympic runner. It it's all listening to those signals. So that's kind of the the direction I want to go to today when we're talking about about the show. But uh Real Laughlin, uh researcher, uh writer, over a thousand original content articles on LinkedIn. Uh I think this is my eighth or ninth book. I'm not sure. I had one book that I published a long time ago that I can't find because the author the company's gone and I don't have a copy of it.

[00:04:01]But anyway, most of my books are on health and wellness longevity. Uh I look primarily at the aging processes. Uh treat a cause and you usually can fix a problem.

[00:04:14]If you treat symptoms, you'll always be treating symptoms and the cause could get worse. Uh could disappear. Uh but generally speaking, you don't know what's happening to the cause. So that's that's the primary focus that I have with regard to aging. You got to know what the causes of aging are, and you got to know what the causes of other things that support your your health.

[00:04:36]So, we'll get into a lot of detail on that, but our program here on the USA Global TV and Radio Network is found on YouTube, a couple different channels there. Uh, the USA Global TV uh network and radio network and Dr. Jacqueline Kurbeck. If you're not a subscriber, really truly appreciate you seriously considering subscribing for us. Uh we're also found on E360 TV, Amazon Fire, um a lot of social media channels, a lot of places out there. So the background on me, um my civilian background is reliability engineering, quality engineering, logistics engineering. My military background, 31 years in the military. I did four and a half on active duty and got an invitation to Vietnam. did 20 in the reserves. Uh then went back on active duty for six years.

[00:05:30]My last two years were at Stoodgard, Germany as responsible oversight for 5,500 reserves in 89 countries in Europe and Africa as deputy director of reserve affairs. So I got an invitation to Bosnia at the end of my career.

[00:05:44]Uh retired almost 31 years in the military and almost retired uh getting close and closer to to 30 years. Uh married. In fact, tomorrow is my 58th wedding anniversary. I said I do to the Navy on a Sunday afternoon. The following Wednesday night, I said I do to my wife. 31 years at the military, 58 years and counting starting tomorrow. Uh with my wife, we have two kids, three grandkids, and one great grandson. A little over, I guess, a little over two and a half right now.

[00:06:16]And I coach people writing books. I publish books, public, you know, over 50 books probably that I've done for other people, um, public speaker, host on the USA Global TV and Radio Network, and last year 2025, I was the, uh, number one most valuable team player and number three overall host. I think that's most about what I am. I'm sure there's a couple things I left out, not critical, but as I get into the book, I think you're going to see that there's some things that I looked at a little bit differently. So, I wrote a book 10 years ago, longevity secrets for healthy aging. And my two primary premises were human growth hormone and the loss of the telomeir at the bottom of your DNA. It's like a protective cap. Uh, and in 10 years, things have changed. We went through a pandemic. Things uh actually started getting to be a little bit better defined. Uh, and I want to alert my production engineer that I do want to have a commercial break in about 20 minutes. So we'll figure that one in and I'll do my best to remind it at that time. So my my premise is that 10 years ago when I was doing my research was probably 16 was when the book was published at 14 and 15 around 2013 Carlos uh Lopez Otin is a professor biochemistry I believe at uh at Spain at University of Oviala and he and a bunch of other senior gerio ontologist were really and truly trying to define what exactly causes us to age.

[00:07:59]And the output of that was a list of things they called hallmarks of aging.

[00:08:06]And these hallmarks are very very explicit. Boom. Boom. Boom. And each one has a tendency that left unchecked will cause you to age. However, as I'm founding out, as I wrote my book, not one of them operates by itself. they all kind of bump shoulders with each other and say, "Hey, come join the crowd." And so you end up with several pathways going down at the same time. Well, that started about 2013. By the time I got my my book written, I was unaware of at that time. Something else going on, who knows? And the pandemic occurred. I said, you know, maybe I need to update my book just to kind of see what's out there. So, I kind of fiddled a little bit with it a couple years ago. Oh, here's some information. So, hallmarks of aging. I said to myself, well, I wonder if there's hallmarks of health.

[00:08:53]And sure enough, same guy, uh, Carlos Lopez OT OT otin n uh, wrote the hallmarks of health. Well, at the same time that he written the hallmarks of aging had gone from 8 to 12 definitive physiological molecular level activities, chemical processes in the body that they said this causes Okay, I got to fix that one. It's not a result of aging. It's a result, but it's not an indicator. It's an indicator.

[00:09:55]That's probably the best way of saying it. Yeah, you're getting older, your hair turns gray, whatever. Wrinkles, lots of things. It's an indicator, but it's not a level down below where it's a cause. So, in the my book, I explain why that happened and what's going on. Well, Carlos also came out with these hallmarks of health. this about 2021 I guess and you know a year or so later they say well maybe there's a ninth one and so right now there's 12 hallmarks of aging nine hallmarks of health and so I said okay that kind of says what's going on I have aging I have health what are they really doing and when I start going into PubMed and some of my other sources they talk briefly about the hallmarks of aging cause disease the hallmarks of health support repair. Your body is under attack every cell, every second, 24/7, 365, your entire life. Things happen to you that cause damage everywhere in your body.

[00:10:58]But your body is very resilient. It has the ability to to to counter all of those individual cellular level, molecular level causes of of damage. So if you're able to maintain a [clears throat] good repair capacity capability, you can overcome those that aging accumulation that that dem damage. So when repair is greater than than the damage, you're generally a healthy you person. However, on the other side, when the accumulated damage gets to a point where our bodies can't keep up with that level of damage that's occurring, now we start seeing two things happen. number one our aging accelerates and number two our risk of disease increases. So those are the two things there that that happen and you start seeing that you know generally speaking you know up through our 20s we're yeah bulletproof nothing we don't care but eat anything do anything we just everything out 30 okay maybe start feeling it 40 yeah start looking it starts feeling it by the time you get 60 or 70 really starting to get into that uh things that just don't work the way they used to work um in my case I I found out about see six years ago being in Vietnam um Agent Orange I had no problems up till about you know my mid early to mid70s zero problems no drugs nothing then all of a sudden boom boom boom things happen sometimes disease skin cancers take a long time some diseases take decades to start forming and and becoming a problem So just because you're healthy at age 40 doesn't mean that at age 60 you're not going to be seeing and feeling things.

[00:12:51]So I started looking at this thing and saying to myself, okay, repair and damage that that makes a lot of sense.

[00:12:57]Who else is saying the same thing? Well, obviously Carlos is saying that there's a couple other people out there, but it's not a widespread uh I'm gonna say fact. It's probably I I think it's a fact, but it's not real widespread out there in the in the world. You know, five years ago, if you said what causes aging, you'd get an answer. Nowadays, you plug that into Google and it's going to say hallmarks of aging. So, there's been a change in the way things are researched. So, I start putting these things together. I Okay, I'm going to have my book. I'm going to talk about my repair versus damage. Then, my hallmarks of aging. Then I'm going to have my hallmarks of health. And then I want to have a section in there that I want to talk about three or four or five. How did disease progress through the body?

[00:13:46]What happens? And then what's the solution? There is a solution. And ironically, the solution is the same whether it's health or whether it's damage. Uh and I'll get a little bit more into detail that in in a moment.

[00:14:01]and then you know wrapped things up talked about what's what's emerging out there that might be the new thing coming down the road and then got all that written I wrote wrote that in 10 days uh put everything together and just I was a rolling dermish just no disruption just actually writing I didn't stop to correct anything boom and then I sat down and said okay now I start need to do some editing so I start going in there let's verify is this true or not true uh because little things pop in your mind as as things you go there. So, I have I finally have my AI after about two years of constant attention where I'm good brainstorming back and forth.

[00:14:39]Okay, what did I miss? Uh, what do you think? And sometimes I get a word, well, that word's a bit outdated. Okay, fine.

[00:14:45]I'll change the word. And so, we go back and forth. And then I go into Grammarly, which in the old days, not that many years ago, was pretty good. Just, you know, grammar, spelling, diction, syntax, those kinds of things. Excellent tool. Nowadays with AI, there's about 10 extra functions. You can go in there and do all sorts of things with AI. But one of the things I really like with the Grammarly is that I can go in there and they can take a look at what I've written and said, well, I have a citation from PubMed or the World Health Organization or some other institute of health and say this is exactly what you're saying. So now I have a citation that says what I'm saying is true. But in that same Grammarly, it has a fact checker and I can put down here's seven things in this chapter that are absolutely true. Here's my my citation that I'm quoting the source. Uh, and the fact checker will come back and say, "Yep, yep, yep. Whoa. No, no, no, no.

[00:15:41]That source says this. That's not what you're saying." And so now I have to either go to the source and correct what I have on there or in the case that says that source never said anything about that. Well, then I have to remove that that source. And so I go through that.

[00:15:56]And another thing the Grammarly does is does a plagiarization check. Am I plagiarizing anybody? Even though I didn't. In fact, I had one funny thing happened to me. I wrote something and it says, "Ah, yeah, you're plagiarizing Red Olaf." I'm saying, "Okay, well, that's kind of neat." Uh, so I found me somewhere else saying that this is what I said. Uh, and that's accept. So anyway, sometimes is this you're plagiarizing this, but it's such a common thing. Inflammation causes disease. Well, you know, 14,000 people probably said that. So, it's not taking something out of a specific. So, anyway, I go through the that part of the story and I'm copying, pasting, copying, pasting, copying, pasting. I do some more. I take it back to AI. I would run it through that one for a little bit. Uh then I take it back out and I do a quick uh review of it. Okay. Put it to bed.

[00:16:44]Next, next, next. Get everything put together. Now, I have a coherent book.

[00:16:49]Uh, I sent it out to some beta readers, but now I need to sit down and I gave it to my wife to read. She's my first line of defense on everything. And so she's reading it. Okay, here's some here's some things, some thoughts because I want her not she's not going to correct grammar and syntax and diction. But she's going to correct I don't understand this. This doesn't make sense to me. That's what I need that I take complex topics and I make them very, very, very easily understood. So if I'm talking to you about something that has some weird names to it in the book, I give it plain English. So if there's a concept there, I'll say plain English.

[00:17:24]So not only is a technical word there that if you want to do your own research, I chose a plain English term that says, you know, this is what's going on. And so it makes it a little bit easier to understand because some you know the the clin clinical gerontologist they have to have the exact technical language for what's happening in the body at that point in time fine very very clear uh but for me you know if I'm talking about inflammation well inflaming okay so I'm talking about a smoldering fire you know we in our bodies we have a smoldering fire it may be just a little fire like that or it could be a huge flame But that fire is the inflammation. And then when it gets to the next stage of oxidative stress, you know, then we have other terms. So as I'm going through each of these hallmarks, I'm talking about them in plain English. If I'm introducing a new word in that particular book, okay, here's plain English definition of that. And so at the end of each chapter, I have a key point. At the end of each chapter, I say, well, during the chapter, I say, what makes it what happens when it gets worse? So I have here what it is. Here's what happens. What happens if it gets worse? U what happens when it gets activated?

[00:18:40]What other typical hallmarks of health or hallmarks of aging are affected that get activated as a result of that one?

[00:18:48]So, I'm giving you kind of the broad these are all the interconnections.

[00:18:53]Here's the big telephone bank. Okay, this girl over here has this one. This one over here has that one. when they're all back and forth, she's like, "Hey, connect [clears throat] up there." So, you get the big picture that this one is not operating by itself. It's actually activating other ones, too. And then when you get down to the end, I say, "Okay, what causes this to happen?" I end up with, okay, maybe diabetes, maybe heart disease, maybe something else.

[00:19:19]Well, how did I get there? because they're different diseases, but they all started with chronic low-level cellular inflammation in the body caused by free radical damage. That inflammation is unchecked. It grows a little bit, becomes oxidative [clears throat] stress. It grows a little bit more. The DNA mutations are not being held at bay anymore. Now, you're starting to get new things growing in your body that become a problem down the road. 30 years from now you end up with a tumor or 40 years now you may end up with a melanoma on on your head or whatever. So a lot of things don't happen overnight. Sometimes they do with COVID literally overnight it seemed like. So that was the the focus that I did. But it turns out that with each one of those categories let's say inflammation. Well in order to treat inflammation I need to do this this and this. So I look at what are the I can't say two primary causes because there's not two inflammation's involved in a lot of things. So if I say I have inflammation left unchecked becomes chronic inflammation. However, that chronic inflammation affects our mitochondria and the mitochondria is not providing the level of energy, the level of power it's supposed to be, is actually creating problems. It's called dysfunction, dysfunction, dysfunction.

[00:20:44]And now that dysfunction creates inflammation, creates oxidative stress which creates more inflammation which now increases the inflammation level which increases the mitochondrial damage which increases the oxidation. So you end up in these circles and so this particular circle depending on which part of the DNA is attacked and your DNA is pretty smart. It's got five or six different automatic responses. you know, this gets tacked here and automatic fix because it recognizes it. But sometimes we can't get those fixes done as quickly as possible. So now this thing has a mutation. It starts a life of its own.

[00:21:22]Maybe your immune system will go there and take care of it. Maybe it won't.

[00:21:26]Maybe it'll just hold it in bay for a while. So as it turns out, our lifestyle choices can either increase damage or increase repair capability. What are our lifestyle choices? Well, diet, I call it nutrition, uh, just to keep it out of the word of diet. So, nutrition, uh, exercise, stress management, the quality of your sleep, and the environment you live in.

[00:21:53]So, if you look at it in the old bell curve that comes up and down, that middle section, I call it the Goldilock zone because, you know, Goldilocks is either too hard, too soft, or just right. So if you're doing your lifestyle choices just right, all the communication is going to your body is just right, you're in that healthy mode, everything's being maintained. But if you're over too little or too much, those signals are going out and telling the body, activate this hallmark of aging or activate this one over here because that's the way the body is wired. And so those things happen. And maybe the activation is for a neuro regenerative pathway that goes to our brain. Maybe it's a pathway going to our heart, our liver, our kidney, our lungs.

[00:22:37]So those pathways are going all over their body telling do this. And I see that my commercial break has passed. So I'm going to go ahead and take a commercial break uh at the time that my production engineer can make it happen and I'd appreciate that and we'll just come back to it.

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[00:24:13]Laughlin again. was talking just before the commercial break about the lifestyle choices that when you're too little or too much of something like eating too much, not eating enough, exercising too much, not exercising enough, getting good quality sleep, not getting good quality sleep, not managing your stress, managing your stress. Those are the things that that either cause more damage or they build up resilience in your body so you can basically fix the damage that's occurring and move on. So, as I'm writing my book, I'm trying to think of this thing. Okay, as a naval officer, there's a certain way I look at things. Put that hat on. Okay.

[00:24:52]Um, and I'm I'm reading it and I'm actually writing in a tone of voice.

[00:24:58]It's kind of between my military and my civilian management deal. In my civilian life, I was a reliability engineer only primarily at failure analysis. My tap routt was a a program I used quite a bit. As a quality engineer, I'm trying to look at what is good, what is bad.

[00:25:14]So, I'm looking at is this true or is it not true? Trying to validate that. as a uh chemist. Uh my first degree was in chemistry. Got five different degrees, seven different professional certifications. So I'm looking at the chemical aspect of it, the biological aspect of it. So there's a lot of complexities going on there. And so I'm putting on a different hat and looking at that. Does that make sense? Can I say that a different way? Is it clear enough?

[00:25:42]And then uh AI, what do you think? Um okay. And so I use AI to brainstorm and so I get they I can remember I used the word quaint once for something in there and he says that word is really outdated. Okay. So I'll have to find another word. So I I use that quite a bit. So I get down to the end. And so one of the things I started doing is read aloud. So I'm a speaker. You hear things and I'm listening to every word, every chapter in the book. Okay. Pause.

[00:26:12]Fix it. Pause. Fix it. Fix. And so I go through there, I listen, fix it, fix it.

[00:26:18]And now I'm going through editing, proofing, and the book is finally to a point where it's ready to go. However, comma, this is the part that just frustrated the living whatever out of me. I'm all ready to publish. I'm a I'm a Yeah, that's what I do for a living. I publish books and I'm ready to get into the final format, get everything lined up, get the books, uh, paging numbers, all that stuff, and it's not working. Uh, so I asked my AI, "What's going on?" Well, we had worked on one of my clients books about two weeks ago, guys. first book I did in German publishing and I was having a problem with it and we we probably spent about 45 minutes, the two of us analyzing why Word is not doing what Word's supposed to do when you push these buttons. Well, it turns out there's, you know, way down in the roots, the root cause of Word, there are things that are supposed to be turned on and off and whatever. And there little markers there at the top. So, literally almost an hour went in before finally figured, okay, fix that one. these other ones automatically fall out. And so now I'm having a similar problem. Not the exact same one, but it turned out later on that I did have a similar one with with numbering, but I'm having a major problem. I think to myself, okay, from a failure, you know, my failure analysis mind says, why did it fail? And from a tap routt perspective, you know, okay, it failed for this reason. Why? Okay, why did that happen? Why did that happen? And so you go down about seven levels of why to figure out what's the root cause. So if I can figure out the root cause, I can fix that. Then these other ones tend to go away. But if I never fix the root cause, I can't can't fix the problem.

[00:28:02]And so from a failure perspective, I'm looking at what's causing the problem and try to fix that within the word hierarchy or architecture or whether it's a sub routine that's being run. So we lot of problems. I mean, unbelievable. I I spent three different days, hours working with AI trying to figure out what's wrong. Okay. From put my reliability hat on. Why did that happen? Well, as I'm putting my book together, I'm copying pasting, copying, pasting, copy, paste, cop hundreds of times, well over a thousand times. And every time you copy and paste, you're bringing in the existing structure of whatever that paragraph, that phrase, that line item, uh, whatever that is. You bring it in, it has hidden characters. You don't see them. You bring them in, you merge them with your document, you tweak them a little bit, but those hidden characters are still there. And there are ways of going down and finding out where they are and how they're labeled and uh going through the book and I'm click click click click click click click every single line item but certainly almost every paragraph for sure u and making tweaks to change and so part of the problem is I'm copying and pasting hundreds of things from multiple different sources and putting it all in one book and expecting no problem. Well, Word will do pretty well for about 20 30 pages, but you get a couple 300 400 pages and it doesn't operate the same. So, that was a lot of frustration. Got through that. Uh, but it turns out that if I had copied and pasted as a text with no hidden characters or pasted as a merge, which are those are the options, couple of options outside just the the paste. I could have eliminated all of those hidden characters. So now new red Laughlin copy paste with merge and I don't have to worry about coming back later. But yeah, it was a a pain in the butt for that part. Uh so there's there's a lot of things on that one that that created all sorts of problems. And I dropped something. What did I do with it? I guess those things happen. I thought I had something. There it is.

[00:30:15]Okay.

[00:30:18]So I used all my different hats to look at the book to put it together and try to figure out what makes sense at a non-complex level. And that's that's what I want. So uh if you say what can you do to reduce the level of damage that's happening in your body? Well, you're eating every day, you're exercising every day. In fact, exercise is one that just kind of blew my mind. I didn't realize how important exercise was because your mitochondria provide power. That's the energy source of everything that goes on in your body.

[00:30:53]When you exercise, one of the thing, two things happen. Number one, you have these this the stress, it's called acute stress. These are minor things. You lift weights, you get a little bit of sore arms or muscles or you run, you get a little bit sore legs. That's acute stress. It's stress. It's temporary.

[00:31:09]It's shortterm. It's a stress that your body needs to become resilient. So, you stress that, your body makes the repairs, you recover, you adapt, and then you get stronger.

[00:31:22]However, if I'm stressed out because my boss, my wife, my co-worker, uh the weather, the traffic, it doesn't matter what it is. It's really not truly what's happening to you. It's what you reach out there and grab a hold of and you won't let go. That is the problem with stress. Most people won't let it go. And so that stress builds up, builds up, builds up, and that becomes a a major problem. So the stress is there. Lots of things are interfering interfacing with that. So when I'm looking at what can you do? Well, maybe one of the first things is smile.

[00:31:58]Uh I'm in a traffic light. I know that only three or four cars are going to get by. I'm number four. And maybe I'll get by, maybe I won't. And sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. But if I'm in a hurry, I really need to get through that. I know I'm stressed just sitting there because somebody was texting or who knows what, doesn't matter. Didn't make it. You know, smile. I'm in a grocery store and somebody in front of me is taking forever. Just, you know, it just things. Okay. Just take a smile.

[00:32:28]That kind of it's an instant distresser.

[00:32:31]Uh eating simplest thing. Go to a salad plate.

[00:32:34]Just put your food on a salad plate.

[00:32:36]Don't go back for seconds. Your body adjusts. If you really and truly listen to yourself when you're eating, there's going to be a point when you're you're actually full. And your body's going to tell you. It's going to communicate back and forth between your stomach and your and your brain. Okay, that's good. And before I knew that, I really did. But it it went that quickly. Boom. But once you're listening for that signal, you're getting to that point where, okay, I can stop right here and I'm happy. And so that's another thing is just really paying attention to what your body is telling you about what you're eating.

[00:33:09]You know, you have your taste, you have your texture, you have a the aroma, you have a lot of things about the food and sometimes you say, "Darn, that tasted good. Need some more. Need some more."

[00:33:18]And you go back and it's not one cookie, it's two cookies, it's three cookies, or whatever it may happen to be. We had the same thing, you know, one beer, two beers, three beers, three glasses of wine. We keep adding on and on and on.

[00:33:31]Uh, I lost oh probably 40 45 pounds with Atkins back in the mid 90s. Kept it off for six years or more. Uh, the only factor I found was the fact I I used to run 68 miles pretty easily, good hour without a problem. And now all of a sudden I couldn't run two miles. I could live with that. I don't have to run more than two miles. But I noticed that was the only thing that was a factor. There were other things that happened down the road which I talk about in the book, but I found that a single meal does have no effect on my my Atkins diet. So if I wanted one day every two weeks to have a spaghetti dinner with lots of garlic bread, no problem. But if I had that two days in a row, I would notice immediate weight gain. Well, I'd go down to Italy for a week. I was living in Germany. I go down to Italy for a long weekend, come back 12 pounds heavier. Two weeks later, I'm back at my regular weight. So, you know, we're creatures of habit.

[00:34:31]Habits are hard to break. But sometimes if the issue is really important for you, then you got to have a taste of that ice cream. Have a taste. Satisfy that taste. Just keep it in your mouth.

[00:34:44]Enjoy it. But tell yourself ahead of time, that's all I'm going to have. And pretty much you can do that. that that need disappears pretty quickly. How fast does that need disappear when there's no more ice cream, no more cookies, no more cake, no more pasta, no more bread? You know, once it's gone, it's gone. But that same feeling can be translated into it. So, I tell people, get a small salad plate, fix it the way you want. Uh I'm not going to go into a lot of details about what the actual nutrition breakdown is, but that's pretty important. How often you eat pretty important. A lot of things there are important, but it's one of those things that you make the decision. What are you going to do for for your exercise? Like I say, every walk sends a signal. Every time you spend an hour sitting on the couch, it sends a signal. Every time you get stressed over something you see on TV or hear on the radio or what lots of things cause stress, it's what you hang on to that creates a problem. And if that stress is great enough, it's probably going to affect the quality of your sleep. So those are things that we need to be looking at on a regular basis as far as what can I do to help me live a healthier, longer life. Now, my book is not about health. It's not about anti-aging. It's not about longevity.

[00:36:04]It's about understanding the complexity of the human body. It turns out that the side effect is the fact that yes, you can have probably a healthier life. Uh but that's not the purpose of the book.

[00:36:18]The purpose of the book is for awareness and education. And it's a complex system in our bodies and it's it takes some time to to really and truly appreciate what's going on.

[00:36:29]And as you look at each one, okay, fine.

[00:36:30]I can do that. I can do that. But don't try to fix everything at one time. Take one or two little things. Yeah. Take one thing. work on it three, four, five weeks, master it, get to the next one. So, maybe you get the salad plate and you get that one down. Then maybe the next thing I got to look at the plate. It can't be all mashed potatoes and and and steak. It has to have some other colors in there somewhere. Uh, so look at what's going on, what makes sense, what you can do, because those are the things that are really and truly going to make a difference in the quality of your life as you start getting into your 50s, 60s, 70s, and I'll be 80 here literally in September. So, it's getting to that point in time in my life also. So, I'm going to leave you with those thoughts and I look forward to continuing this educational process and talking heads as we're going down the road. So, I'll be talking here very very shortly about let's see about 23 minutes I'll be talking about what does health look like and I'll be going a little bit more detail into the lifestyle choices. So, please join me if you can on on that uh on Talking Heads on the USA Global TV and Radio Network. Brett Olaflin signing off and I look forward to catching you next week. Bye now.

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