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This is Later with Lee Matthews the
Lee Matthews Podcast. More what you hear

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weekday afternoons on the Drive. David
AGAs is the author and international sensation of

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the End of Illness, A Short
Guide to a Long Life and the Lucky

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Years. His newest creation, the
Book of Animal Secrets, Nature's Secrets for

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a Long and Happy Life, is
out now and taking the country by storm.

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David Aegis, thanks thanks for joining
us today. Thank you, Lee.

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Excited to be here. Mother Nature
has a lot to teach us in

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the animal kingdom. Oh yeah,
you know, we've been on this earth

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a million years humans, but so
have all these other creatures, and we're

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all adapting to the same conditions.
So I went to the experts and I

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said, you know, here in
the hallmarks of Alzheimer's heart disease, cancer

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and longevity, what can I learn
from you? So the world's experts and

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giraffes and elephants and ants, all
of these creatures, and the lessons are

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tremendous. Jellyfish and dolphins. I
like to swim with the fishes. What

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can I learn from those two creatures? Well, it turns out that dolphins

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are the only other creature in nature
that gets Alzheimer's. So you can see

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a demented dolphin if you will,
and it's actually a lot when you look

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into dolphins. What accelerates the Alzheimer's
or the brain decline is influent. And

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so it really is a lesson for
us that if we can start to keep

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our sugar or it should be our
hemoglobe anyone see, which is our ninety

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day average sugar routine test at your
block doctor's office. If we can keep

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that low, we can significantly delay
the onset of Alzheimer's disease. And I

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think that's a tremendously important lesson for
us. We're a society that eats more,

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that eats all the time. You
know, the kitchen cabinet didn't exist

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till two hundred years ago, so
we were met to have our meals at

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the same time every day and nothing
in between. We need to go back

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to that, literally fasting in between
meals because then instulin comes down one stack

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in between the meal. Some almonds
and apple will throw you off for two

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or three days. So critically important
to fast in between meals. Actually,

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I find that also a good way
for weight loss because your metabolism seems to

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have a chance to reset at least
maybe oversimplifying it. No, I mean

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that's the data, right, is
that you fast in between meals, metabolaism

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actually goes up and you will lose
weight on the same amount of calories as

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if you eat all day. Kind
of amazing giraffes and blood pressure. From

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what I understand that the giraffes have
one of the largest hearts of the land

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animals. It is size doctor,
oh my god, a hosstile right away,

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and they're able to maintain that high
blood pressure. And they need that

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high blood pressure, get that blood
all the way up to their head,

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which is obviously way above the ground. They got to fight gravity. There

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are a couple of amazing things we
can learn from the giraffe. But first

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of all, the reason they don't
get cankled, they don't swell in their

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ankles is they have very tight skin. That skin is just like you know,

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you see that the professional basketball players
who wear those those tights underneath their

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shorts, those are compression stockings and
they mimic the giraffe skin. In fact,

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our spacesuits for astronauts because there's no
gravity there and things could leak out

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are made like the giraffe skin so
very tight. The compression stockings important if

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you want to reduce as well.
But what else from the giraffe is If

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that giraffe the reason it has that
big heart is to push blood, we

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don't have that big heart. So
at night when we sleep, it's best

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to have your heart and your head
almost at the same level. If you

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sleep standing is sitting up, you're
not going to get deep sleep because you

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don't have the energy to push as
much to the brain and it's not is

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relaxed. So we need to sleep
what we call ape of gravity, which

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is our head and our heart at
the same level, while lesson is sleep

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from area. Maybe that's why I
sleep so much sounder when I sleep on

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my stomach. Yeah, it is, and that's what people who have shoulder

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surgery, for example, I'll have
to sleep sitting up, never get good

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deep sleep. We're talking to David
Aegis, MD, author of the book

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of animal secrets, Nature's Secrets for
a Happy and Long Life. Pigs.

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We know they're the smartest of the
of the barnyard animals, but what else

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can they teach us? The pigs
are you know, kind of out in

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many regard and their socialization is they
are a pack animal that we are.

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But they also have a power of
positive thinking. So if a pig is

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injured and you they notice a meal
coming, then that pain goes away.

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And it really is a message for
us that pain is under our control.

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And if we're optimistic and we have
positive thinking, all of the sudden,

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oh that man, I have that. And the other thing that can do

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it in a pig is altruism.
If a pig shares its food with another

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pig, believe it or not,
they feel better and there's plenty of data

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on that. The same is true
with humans. If you do something for

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somebody else, you will feel better. Actually, pain will go down,

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and that's been measured and it's better
for your loan health. Thanks for listening

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