Rhonda Patrick· PhD
People who age happier and healthier tend to do 7 things: They don’t smoke, exercise regularly (but not excessively), maintain a healthy weight, and are mindful with alcohol or other substances.
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People who age happier and healthier tend to do 7 things: They don’t smoke, exercise regularly (but not excessively), maintain a healthy weight, and are mindful with alcohol or other substances.
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So there's that you've heard of the Harvard study of adult development, the grant study that's following the same cohort 85 years now starting in the late 30s, people who are in their sophomore year at Harvard, which is not a representative sample. It was all like, you know, white men above average income. But then it was matched up with a a sample of men who were lower, you know, not they were economically lower class. They were they didn't actually have even high school degrees largely. And then it expanded to their spouses and then it expanded to their kids. And so now it's representative of the population and it's been following them and it says what do they do if they were going to wind up in the quadrant that's both happy and healthy when they're old.