Friday Favorites: How to Increase Your Life Expectancy by 12 to 14 Years

Date: 2025-05-16 11:59:55

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What can physicians do to promote healthy, life-extending, lifestyle changes?

For more on lifestyle medicine, see:
• Lifestyle Medicine: Treating the Causes of Disease (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/lifestyle-medicine-treating-the-causes-of-disease/)
• Convincing Doctors to Embrace Lifestyle Medicine (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/convincing-doctors-to-embrace-lifestyle-medicine/)
• What Diet Should Physicians Recommend? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-diet-should-physicians-recommend/)
• The Actual Benefit of Diet vs. Drugs (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-actual-benefit-of-diet-vs-drugs/)
• Why Prevention Is Worth a Ton of Cure (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/why-prevention-is-worth-a-ton-of-cure/)
• How Many Meet the Simple Seven? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-many-meet-the-simple-seven/)
• Never Too Late to Start Eating Healthier (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/never-too-late-to-start-eating-healthier/)
• What Percent of Americans Lead Healthy Lifestyles? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-percent-of-americans-lead-healthy-lifestyles/)
• The Scientific Consensus on a Healthy Diet (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-scientific-consensus-on-a-healthy-diet)
• Lifestyle and Disease Prevention: Your DNA Is Not Your Destiny (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/lifestyle-and-disease-prevention-your-dna-is-not-your-destiny)
• The Best Diet for Healthy Aging (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-best-diet-for-healthy-aging/)

Check out my AMPK anti-aging pathway series:
• Naturally Boosting AMPK with Caloric Restriction for Life Extension (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/naturally-boosting-ampk-with-caloric-restriction-for-life-extension/)
• Naturally Boosting AMPK with Exercise for Life Extension (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/naturally-boosting-ampk-with-exercise-for-life-extension/)
• Does Metformin Work as a Life-Extension Drug? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/does-metformin-work-as-a-life-extension-drug/)
• Side Effects of Metformin as a Life-Extension Drug (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/side-effects-of-metformin-as-a-life-extension-drug/)
• The TAME Trial: Targeting Aging with Metformin (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-tame-trial-targeting-aging-with-metformin/)

AMPK is one of the anti-aging pathways I highlight in my longevity book, How Not to Age (https://nutritionfacts.org/book/how-not-to-age/).

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-Michael Greger, MD FACLM

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