#385 - AMA #82: Applying the tools of longevity in the real world: disease prevention, DEXA scans, artificial sweeteners, injury recovery, stability training, habit formation, protein intake and mTOR activation, and more

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So without further delay, here's today's sneak peek of the Ask Me Anything episode. Welcome to Ask Me Anything AMA episode 82. In today's AMA I answer listener questions across a wide range of topics. Less about deep dives and more about how I think through real-world trade-offs and apply the science in practice. So what are we talking about here today?

We can talk about how health priorities and strategies should shift across different decades of life, which chronic diseases feel toughest to manage and how I think about that hierarchy of risk, which emerging interventions look most promising beyond exercise. Wearables, which consumer metrics are actually useful in practice, DEXA scans, what optimal screening intervals look like and how to interpret the results over time, behavior change, what patients struggle with most in health routines and how to help changes stick. Training for balance, stability, and injury resilience and lessons from some training setbacks. High protein diets and mTOR, how to think about mechanisms versus outcomes, diet sodas and non-nutritive sweeteners, how to evaluate them, and frankly, what to compare them to, plus a grab bag of some additional listener questions, including health fads, emotional health, and sleep routines. So without further delay, I hope you enjoy AMA number 82.

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