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The High Price Of Avoiding Your Health
The One Shift That Will Enable You To Be Healthy And Happy ( Instead Of Utterly Miserable ) In Your “ Marginal Decade ”
BY CINDY PANETTI CYR
Would you rather live long or live well ? Most of us would choose “ both .”
While no one has yet found the Fountain of Youth , Peter Attia , M . D ., author of the # 1 New York Times best-selling book Outlive , says you can apply the principles of longevity science to ensure a better quality of life as you age .
Still want to walk your 100-pound dog when you ’ re 75 ? Golf or garden at 80 ? Play on the floor with your great-grandchildren at 90 ? Attia says you can increase your odds of doing so if you start training now for your last decade of life .
Without intervention , however , many of us will face a decline in our final decade , unable to do the activities that bring us joy . “ If you don ’ t do something about it , you ’ ll end up decrepit and miserable the last decade of your life ,” Dr . Attia notes .
At a recent event with more than 300 top-tier MSP business owners in attendance , Robin Robins — founder and CEO of Technology Marketing Toolkit ( TMT ) and MSP Success — interviewed Attia who explained that longevity science focuses not just on living longer ( lifespan ) but also on living better ( healthspan ) until your last breath .
What follows are highlights of how you can profoundly improve both your lifespan and healthspan by applying the principles of longevity science .
Lifespan Vs . Healthspan
Longevity consists of lifespan and healthspan . “ Lifespan is binary — you ’ re alive or you ' re dead ,” Peter explained . “ One part of longevity is therefore living longer .”
Healthspan , on the other hand , is a measure of how well you live .
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