Men of Letsrun: what are you Anti-Aging secrets?

Strangely, most posts here contain both good and counter-productive advice, so be careful.

There's a growing body of research on longevity. For a practical book with a fairly up-to-date summary of the literature, I recommend The Switch by James Clement. (Much better than you would think from the title and the cover design.) You'll learn that many things that make you feel good in the short run (e.g. high testosterone and growth hormone) are awful for you in the long run.

A couple tid-bits beyond good genetics:

- Eat primarily plants.

- Either cut out or cut down on: highly processed foods, alcohol, meat + animal products, and sugar + other high glycemic foods.

- Keep your protein and carb intake in check (i.e. fairly low).

- Consider some form of intermittent fasting and generally keep your calorie intake low.

- Get Omega-3s in abundance (DHA and EPA).

- Stay fit with both aerobic exercise and strength training.

- Sleep well.

When I was young I started using a high quality facial moisturizer morning and night as part of an acne battle. I’ve always used high quality facial soap and moisturizer since. I’m over 50 now and people have always told me I look younger than I am and have good skin.

So yeah, puts the lotion on.

I been on here for years this the first dude i seen with HAIR privilege oml

Don't worry about it. Problem solved.

"Don’t prioritise your looks, my friend, as they won’t last the journey.
Your sense of humour though, will only get better with age.
Your intuition will grow and expand like a majestic cloak of wisdom.
Your ability to choose your battles will be fine-tuned to perfection.
Your capacity for stillness, for living in the moment, will blossom.
Your desire to live each and every moment will transcend all other wants.
Prioritise the uniqueness that makes you you, and the invisible magnet that draws in other like-minded souls to dance in your orbit.
These are the things which will only get better."

Judi Dench

Take care of your teeth. Flossing is essential.

If you live long enough your teeth will eventually break down, but you can keep them a very long time if you are careful.

Mindfulness weights fluids fruit and veg moisturizer

It's interdental brushing you have to do these days not floss

Doesn't matter much to me now but floss is old school

You can try all kinds of ointments, eat whatever, or exercise or go to witch doctors. But just keep in mind: FATHER TIME IS UNDEFEATED!!!

be courteous, kind, and forgiving.

be healthy, eat hearty, be wise.

be honest and love all your neighbors.

PUT A LIVE CHICKEN IN YOUR UNDERWEAR!

how to keep mice young:

Metformin

rapamycin

resveratrol

NMN

cold exposure

moderate cardio and weights

intermittent fasting

lifespanpodcast.com

The Science of Looking Younger, Longer

https://www.facebook.com/davidsinclairphd

In Episode 6 of the Lifespan podcast, Dr. David Sinclair and co-host Matthew LaPlante discuss cosmetic aging and how to improve skin, nails, and hair.

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- Lift weights & develope a muscular but aesthetic physique.

- 100% organic whole-foods diet with emphasis on high-quality animal protein.

- Drink tons of water & stay hydrated year round.

- Take a lot of supplements & vitamins. D3 is the best - keep optimum levels & your health will thank you for it.

- Work hard to look good. If you look good...you feel good...if you feel good...you do good.

About 20 years ago, I resolved to be a role model for healthy aging. I'm 74 and I'm succeeding so far. Here's my suggestions.

Weight: Never allow yourself to get more than 10 pounds over your ideal weight.

Exercise: Moderate running/cardio. You can do more intense levels of resistance training and weights, but not to competitive levels. Avoid marathon training after age 40 or 50 at the latest. You can still jog an occasional marathon if you must. It's not running the marathon itself; it's the serious marathon training for years on end that keeps cortisol levels chronically high. High cortisol levels have been linked to lots of conditions. Not to worry, even if you disregard this advice, you'll still be a LOT healthier than your sedentary peers. It's just that high level endurance training is not optimal for antiaging. On the other hand, intense resistance training is optimal for healthy aging.

As you age, switch more to weights instead of distance running. Endurance running reduces testosterone. Resistance training and sprint drills (short hills, flying 150) boosts testosterone levels. These short sprints (30 seconds or less) are called Sprint 8s. You can do them on ellipticals, treadmills, hills, track, road, spin bike or with weights. Do sprint 8s. Look it up. It works.

Determine what foods are unhealthy FOR YOU and avoid or eat those foods only rarely. This is very much an experiment of one. You can test for food allergies, of course.

Hair: Stop using shampoos that contain sodium laurel sulfate... an extremely common shampoo ingredient. Avoid wearing caps except when you must be in the sun. Wash your hair daily. The sweat and that soap (sodium laurel sulfate) clogs the pores of your scalp and gradually causes hair loss. Get tested for the male pattern baldness gene. If you have it, take more aggressive steps. I don’t have it so I haven’t researched this. For many years I used only Folicure shampoos and conditioners. In the years prior to that, I used baby shampoo. It doesn't contain sodium laurel sulfate.

Nutrition: At some point in aging, your cell factories become less efficient in using raw materials. A partial solution is to ensure that the cells always have enough of these important vitamins and minerals. In spite of what nutritionists tell you, it's not practical to expect to get optimal doses of vitamins and supplements just by eating healthy. Also, the RDA (recommended daily allowance) is based on an adequate level of these vitamins. The optimal level is often much higher than the minimum (RDA) level.

I take about 20 supplements per day. Some are to provide raw materials, some are (to hopefully) keep the cell factories more youthful and working properly. Several are to strengthen the immune system. Keeping your immune system healthy (and avoiding inflammation) is absolutely essential to antiaging and healthy aging. Almost every disease of aging has been linked to inflammation and a weakened immune system.

Be proactive about your health. Get checkups to catch disease in the early, treatable stages. As much as possible, see experts at the top of their respective specialties.

Be proactive about traditional medicine. Traditional medicine is great, but it has limits and doctors aren’t gods. When traditional medicine fails and then it continues to fail, it's time to proactively research alternative medicines.

Water: Avoid tap water when you can. There’s a reason why bottled water doesn’t contain chlorine. It’s a poison. I've been drinking filtered water since 1985. You can refill jugs with reverse osmosis water at Walmart for 39 cents/gallon. I can see the difference on my skin when I shower with a chlorine filter. It seems silly for people to spend hundreds of dollars on cosmetics and then use chlorinated water that dried and ages the skin.

95% of the people here should be fine. Most of you have never broken a sweat in your life

nothing complicated. you're already halfway there if you're a runner.

never lose your love of running, never lose your routine of running every day.

eat well during the week. eat fruits and vegetables. sleep well during the week. limit or eliminate red meat.

if you drink, if you go out, if you chase women, do most of it on the weekends. don't hold back for the sake of holding back in your late 20s or early 30s, you'll regret it in your later 30s.

don't marry the wrong woman. it's the quickest way to age. find the right one and when you do, love her with everything you have.

animals and children keep you grounded.

sleep under the stars whenever you can.

even if you're not really training for a race, every once in a while, no matter how old you get, no matter how sad the stopwatch might start to look to you, find a 400 meter tartan oval somewhere and just rip out a 15 or 20 by 400 like it's mid-January in the midst of your sophomore year indoor track season and you can solve all your problems and world hunger itself if you can just beat every single last f#$ker that did you wrong in cross country come spring

and,

wear sunscreen in the summer.

Certainly this is the case with this post.

I'm 37 and have been taking finasteride for 7 years now and feel great. Morning wood, very strong sex drive, hard as a rock. And I haven't lost any more hair. Take it for what it's worth, fellow hair losers, and knock on wood...

Over the past year or so, didn't you post a photo of yourself with your shirt off showing your muscular, aesthetic body & 6-pack abs? I think you were in a pair of jeans & had a full set of hair? If that was you, you should post it again. That's quite a physique for a man your age & you've seem to have the fountain of youth.

Also, distance running does produce increases in growth hormone but it has to be long, moderately paced type running. The first 15 or 20 minutes of running doesn't initiate any GH, but after that GH gets going for about up to 90 mins of continuous running where after that time frame the production starts diminishing.

Since you take a lot of supps, what's your opinion of DHEA? This study caught my attention where just an acute dose 50mg dose administered 12 hrs before a HIIT workout with middle-aged men, significantly increased free testosterone & improved the testosterone-to-cortisol ratio post-workout.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235649631_Effect_of_acute_DHEA_administration_on_free_testosterone_in_middle-aged_and_young_men_following_high-intensity_interval_training

--Wear sunscreen religiously. Face, neck, arms, hands

--Avoid stress

--Avoid negative people

--Don't eat too much. Avoid eating until you are full

--Don't drink too much or do too many drugs while you are young

--Do some form of exercise you enjoy. You don't need to be a gym junkie. Mix it up if you get bored, but never give it up.

As an aside... I had 3 seperate groups of people try to guess my age yesterday. I am 53 & they all guessed early to mid 30s. It actually is a bit annoying... I sometimes lie about my age to avoid the conversations.

I am also an ex-pro athlete that used to spend a lot of time in the Aussie sun, but used sunscreen religiously & never got burnt.

I have also never had a real job & any real stress!