Emotional health, happiness, and well-being are crucial for longevity and healthspan.

“it was really impactful because it was like well he kind of need the whole picture like it's just not health like Reich health or health isn't just exercising this and you know it's like you need emotional stability you need balance”

“even today to certain war zones no one's going to be listening to podcasts about how to self-actualize and be the best you they're going to look at podcasts about what to do and your females shutting out of your leg or you have type 2 diabetes and no insulin so that's going to be a bigger concern fair enough but for most of the industrialized and western world probably we are at the point where we need to think about our emotional well-being even because it has a huge impact on our physical well-being and our longevity and our health”

“talk about these five core things that help to increase our chances of longevity as it relates to our health span”

“tend to our emotional health take it very seriously because we're living in it day in day out”

“perhaps with the ception of emotional health that's one that can be you know such a binary thing um that you know if you if you take a person who you know for example like me where you know that house is not in order you know until that's addressed all the exercise in the world wouldn't fix that either”

“I think the most important thing for the purpose of this discussion is that this entire area is as important potentially more important than all of the others because without this one in check the other ones don't matter”

“I think there is enough evidence um though you could never prove it that um that you know a person who's um managing their stress better who's happier and who has relationships probably also lives longer um certainly the epidemiology suggests all of that”

“let's pretend that being miserable lonely and angry helped you live longer and that if you were happy and you had great relationships and you were in harmony you would live shorter who would choose the former when you frame it that way why would you ever choose to be unhappy it doesn't make sense”

“this entire area is as important potentially more important than all of the others because without this one in check the other ones don't matter”

“I think social a social support network and and some sense of purpose might be the single most important part of of of the emotional health toolkit as it pertains to to living longer”

“you can do everything right you can eat the right diet you can sleep right you can exercise but if your emotional health is lacking then it's like you won't live as long”

“But if your emotional health is lacking, then it's like you won't live as long. It's possible.”

“you can do everything right you can eat the right diet you can sleep right you can exercise but if your emotional health is lacking then it's like you won't live as long it's possible but I I would say even more than that regardless of how long you live if it's if it's unhappy why bother”

“So, so let's say you let's say you do live a long time, but you're alone or you're miserable. Uh in in some ways, that would be the ultimate purgatory.”

“uh I think I think social a social support network and and some sense of purpose might be the single most important part of um of of the emotional health toolkit as it pertains to to living longer.”

“So you can do everything right. You can eat the right diet. You can sleep right. You can exercise. But if your emotional health is lacking, then it's like you won't live as long.”

“And then the the final bucket would be kind of all the tools that we would have at our disposal to improve our emotional health and well-being.”

“You can do everything right. You can eat the right diet. You can sleep right. You can exercise. But if your emotional health is lacking then it's like you won't live as long.”

“uh I I think social a social support network and and some sense of purpose might be the single most important part of um of of the emotional health toolkit as it pertains to to living longer.”