You have power when it comes to your health. Physician, author, thought leader,  and prolific TED speaker Dr. Pam Peeke explains how our choices affect our genes, and presents the “three m’s” for increasing healthspan: mind, mouth, muscle. She shares the epigenetic benefits of finding joy, moving your body, and prioritizing sleep and offers straightforward advice for becoming your own health advocate.

“Take that whole idea of lifespan and pitch it...the goal is to just have the most kickass healthspan you can for as long as you can.”

https://drpeeke.com

Books by Dr. Pam Peeke

The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware

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Can CBD really improve our health? Scientific research indicates great potential for treating everything from anxiety to Alzheimer’s to autoimmune diseases. Martin Lee, journalist, author and co-founder of California-based non-profit Project CBD, discusses the latest findings, the difference between CBD and THC, and how athletes are using CBD for both pre-covery and recovery. 

“I would go so far as to say I don’t know a better drug, or a better substance, for anxiety.”

https://www.projectcbd.org/

Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana by Martin Lee

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Is the year 2020 an epigenetic risk factor? Yes, she says. What you are thinking and feeling affects your health through the epigenetic effect on your genome. She also says nature, community, exercise, and even our favorite Netflix shows have an effect. The physician, psychiatrist and executive board member of the Aspen Brain Institute explains how our environment and actions influence epigenetics, how this affects our genes, and the role this plays in our health and aging process. Breaking down some intimidating terminology — genetics, genomics, and epigenetics — she helps us understand how to take control of our health through many small actions.

“You are the epigenetic engineer of your body”

http://ronniestanglermd.com/

https://aspenbraininstitute.org/

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Riku Campo believes in timeless beauty. The Finnish born, LA-based makeup artist, editor, and author recently published his third book, I Am Beauty, which is a celebration of women over 40. Featuring a diverse cast of real women, the book both honors the natural appearance of the women, and explores a fresh, playful approach to makeup and style. 

Riku discusses the genesis of his latest book and how the culture around beauty and age differs between Europe and the US. He also shares great skincare advice, which had David making a shopping list.

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I Am Beauty by Riku Campo

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Model and actress Carré Otis-Sutton, after surviving an abusive marriage, sexual assault, heroin addiction, and gunshots, turned to Tibetan Buddhism to embark on a new path. We have the power to dramatically change our lives, and our minds. A daily meditation practice helped her face and make sense of her suffering, and gave her the opportunity to apply her experiences toward helping others. She tells David how her spiritual practice informs every aspect of her life, what inspired her to create the Bare Mama Project, the importance of showing up for yourself, and how her silver hair is just one more beautiful silver thing she gets to wear. 

"We have to be active participants in our change”

Bare Mama Project
Beauty Disrupted: A Memoir by Carré Otis
This Naked Mind by Annie Grace
Tara Mandala

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How to overcome the inner voices that say we can’t or shouldn’t try. SuperAge host David Stewart openly describes his journey, complete with the fears, failures and learning curves, and looks at how we can all find our unique purpose. In his mid-fifties, he left a successful career as a photographer to become the founder of AGEIST. Our brutal inner critics combined with the negative messaging of the media can make life transitions like this feel impossible and David, too, had to overcome this. He had found himself in a “metaphorical wilderness” as his long-time industry collapsed and he searched for his purpose in life.

“For me, part of purpose is having a sense of agency in the world…and having a community. And, in my case, we created it and we brought like-minded people together, which is — I can’t tell you how orders-of-magnitude richer and more fulfilling my life is now than when I was a photographer.”

www.weareageist.com

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A few years ago, John Peine’s digestive tract effectively shut down. Acute pancreatitis had caused his body to cease producing the enzyme levels needed for a healthy digestive system. The experience piqued his curiosity, and he began deep research that led him to the creation of the  digestive enzyme supplement FRISKA.

John and David discuss the link between gut health, emotional well-being and cognitive function, the difference between probiotics and prebiotics, and what it's like to launch a new product at the height of a pandemic.

“If you want better health, there’s really no better place to start than a healthy gut.”

www.getfriska.com

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Full of energy and vitality, actress Cheryl Ladd, known for fighting crime as one of Charlie’s Angels, is fit, active, and ready for action. When she was diagnosed with cataracts she wasn’t about to accept the limitations they imposed on her life. As with so many of the things we needlessly fear, cataracts now have good solutions. She shares her story with us, reminding us how far cataract surgery has come in the last few years. And David is relieved to understand that his future cataracts will not be debilitating. 

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Jonathan Cheung, recently Head of Global Design at Levi’s, cultural anthropologist, denim Jedi and voracious reader, sits down with David to discuss his SuperAge books: how we read, why we read, and the intricacies of three top non-fiction picks:

Antifragile by Nassim Taleb
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, PhD
Breath by James Nestor

These three books are full of wisdom and life lessons, as well as addressing our health and vitality in powerful ways: gaining strength from stressors, the importance of sleep for physical health and cognitive performance, and the surprising benefits of breathing through your nose.

Blinkist
Oura ring
Anders Olsson
Wim Hof Method

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Robin co-founded Chōsen Experiences to help people establish a lifelong habit of curiosity and learning. Through her journey from a competitive martial arts athlete to leading clean-tech venture capital investments, she personally saw how stress and pressure negatively affects people’s health and decision making. Her quest is to change the world by helping people expand their comfort zone and take on big challenges of all kinds. We all avoid the difficult things we don’t understand, but by facing these challenges with good support around us we learn these can be good and promising. She tells us how to create a default plan of daily self-care: movement, brain health, proper nutrition and, most importantly, recovery.

“The key here is starting to build people to a place where they can be comfortable being uncomfortable.”

https://www.chosenexperiences.com/
https://www.thisischosen.com/

Robin's List of Influential Books
Non-Violent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg
The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer
Any books by Brené Brown
The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

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