back now with more of our special series living to 100 this week we've taken you to places here in the US and around the world where people are simply living longer this morning Dr mad Oz host of The Dr Oz Show is here with seven great tips to help get you there doc good to see you good morning before we get to your tips here how much of this is just plain genetics two3 of how you AG is your lifestyle not your genes really especially by age 50 most of what's going to happen in your
life is going to make it you know be be altered by the lifestyle tips and the ones we're going to present today the most important but there are many others that are beneficial but here's the big story if you can hear my voice right now and you're healthy you should be able to live to age 100 and feel like you're 60 all right let's tell people how the first thing you say you want to drink some black tea or coffee every day turns out that the caffeine actually has a huge benefit number one source of
antioxidants in America is coffee uh so you want to get those antioxidants to help you rejuvenate your body and keep your cells how much a day two to three cups a day you want about 200 milligrams of caffeine so depending on how powerful the cup of coffee is you'll alter it h the nice thing about this though is you can Ty rate because tea will give you things besides caffeine that are beneficial as well but in addition they reducing cancer rates they help with lots of other things including keeping your brain sharp reducing Alzheimer's I
love cinnamon you say that's a good thing hugely important maybe the most important thing I'm going to say today is put cinnamon in your coffee or tea not sugar here's why if you're a diabetic a type two diabetic or pre-diabetic you'll reduce the chance of you're becoming uh you know suffering high blood sugar by almost 30% if you make cinnamon your main beverage as rather Spice in your beverages it actually helps your liver deal with insulin more effectively I'd eat more nuts every day what kind of nuts work all nuts from trees work but his
is breaking news it turns out that peanuts which are legumes they come under the ground they work as well people say I don't want to have nuts I'll get fat not true all the data we have shows that people who eat nuts actually lose weight and reduces mortality rates by 20% if you have a handful of nuts every single day of the week but again these kind of not honey roasted nuts or things like that where you put all kinds of junk on IDE raw nuts that are authentically and not irradiated get more purple in
your life harvesting the power of the sun think about the rainbow all those colors come into fruits and vegetables you want that nutrient Source in your body it can come in the form of brain berries with like blueberries they help your brain actually blackberries red wine counts too blue potatoes anything with the color blue that's naturally blue that comes out of the ground looking that way is helpful all right let's take a little walk now because that is one of your other tips you say take a daily walk and then something interesting on the other
side of that so A Million women study just came out from the United Kingdom showed that women who walked only 10 minutes a day were're able to dramatically reduce their their mortality rate so we're learning more and more about little activity can benefit you but here's the big deal lift the foot up do it with me let's see how you can do this you can do the uh the tree pose you know can you do this you balance on one leg yeah why because Frailty is the number one killer of all of us Matt if
I get rid of all the cancer in America we live maybe three years longer that's it what kills us is we get so frail we can't wether the storm of getting a bad diagnosis we can't you persevere in times of difficulty and it takes us out if you actually break your hip 20% chance you'll be dead that year because what's really happening is you're so weak your hip couldn't hold hold you anymore right all right let's move on uh next thing is sleep you say get more sleep the reason I like sleep is because uh
if you can get one hour more dramatically affects cancer rates high blood pressure rates listen 30% less chance of being hypertensive if you get one extra hour of sleep hypertension is the number one Ager of all and so you can treat it with sleep rather than medications why not try it getting an hour sleep is not easy you got to work at it but it's worth the investment sleep's single most underappreciated problem we have in America not underappreciated around here let's get to the last thing and you say reach out to one friend a day
why is that going to help me live longer the human species has weathered storms of adversity because we talk to each other we create social networks and and now we have tools to make it easier I prefer you go visit someone but you can call them right now text someone that you care about build that social framework it actually reduces death rates 20% if you can get a team around you you see that red wine I showed you over there walk with me for one second we can beat cath Le and hod to the wine
today all right so if you take some of the food we talked about natural foods beverages combine them with a little bit of a a conversation that's why these work it actually allows us to look at each other's eyes and realize that we're drops of rain falling into the ocean of humanity this is what lets us live longer if you give your heart a reason to keep beating you'll live longer well put and again 2third of longevity lifestyle and diet not genetics cheers good to see you and you can catch more of Dr Oz's advice
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