Speaker 1: This is later with Lee Matthews the Lee Matthews Podcast.
Speaker 1: More what you hear weekday afternoons on the Drive.
Speaker 2: Doctor Mike Hyman is the founder and Senior Advisor of
Speaker 2: the Cleveland Clinics Center for the Functional Medicine and founder
Speaker 2: of the and director of the Ultra Wellness Center, and
Speaker 2: host of the leading health podcast The Doctor's Pharmacy. Also
Speaker 2: a best selling author of numerous best selling cookbooks, the
Speaker 2: latest of which is called The Young Forever Cookbook more
Speaker 2: than one hundred delicious recipes for living your longest, healthiest life.
Speaker 2: Welcome doctor, Oh.
Speaker 3: It's so good to be here with you. So living ola.
Speaker 2: Living young Forever. What's the key to it? Other than
Speaker 2: eating your recipes?
Speaker 3: Well, that's a great question. I think most mistink that
Speaker 3: aging is something that's inevitable, that we have to get defrailed,
Speaker 3: decrepit and decline in our function. But we don't if
Speaker 3: we know how our bodies work. So Young Forever in
Speaker 3: the Companion Cookbook is really a roadmap for you for
Speaker 3: how your body works and how to turn on the
Speaker 3: longevity switches through the right food, through exercise, through the
Speaker 3: right nutritional supplements and sleep app activation and many other
Speaker 3: amazing tools we've learned about how to activate our bodies
Speaker 3: longevity switches, and food is the biggest switch. If we
Speaker 3: regulate our biology through food, and it's not just calories,
Speaker 3: it's information, it's basically instructions or code that can upgrade
Speaker 3: your biology with every bite, we can live a long,
Speaker 3: healthy life. It's not just to live longer, it's to
Speaker 3: live healthy. I mean, who wants to be fraily? To crapit,
Speaker 3: most people live twenty percent of their life in poor health.
Speaker 3: You don't want that. You want your health spam, which
Speaker 3: is how long you're healthy, equal your life span, which
Speaker 3: is how long your life. So Boom lives to one hundred.
Speaker 3: Go for a nice hike, make love with your wife,
Speaker 3: have a nice loss of wine, and then drop dead
Speaker 3: in bed.
Speaker 2: But I do love your attitude that it's not about
Speaker 2: denial and it's not about self denial and self. It's
Speaker 2: not like it requires a whole hell of a lot
Speaker 2: of discipline.
Speaker 3: Opposite, just the opposite.
Speaker 2: Tell let's go over some of the recipes and the
Speaker 2: Young Forever cookbook that you deal with roasted pepper and
Speaker 2: zucchini for tata.
Speaker 3: Well, the fritata is great because it's something I love
Speaker 3: to make. And you don't actually have to follow the
Speaker 3: recipe because you can, and we'll just give you instructions
Speaker 3: about how to make something simple. But actually I love
Speaker 3: forritata because you can take all the leftover stuff in
Speaker 3: your fridge, like onions, gar like you stir fry them
Speaker 3: up with a little olive oil, chopped up whatever vegetables
Speaker 3: you have, carrots, zucchini, tomatoes, whatever is in there, greens,
Speaker 3: and then you just weep up the eggs, pour it
Speaker 3: over the top, you throw it in a pan that's
Speaker 3: good in the oven, like a cast iron pan. You
Speaker 3: pop it in the oven and it's delicious. This actual
Speaker 3: recipe has a lot of good things in it like
Speaker 3: spices like clothes, and has red pepper, spinach, obviously, eggs,
Speaker 3: and also some fresh herbs pepper in your cheese, which
Speaker 3: is some sheep, and it's just a yummy and simple breakfast.
Speaker 3: I love these because you can break it for your
Speaker 3: family friends that they come over for a brunch, and
Speaker 3: it's it's something that you know, you think that's a
Speaker 3: fancy dish from a fancy restaurant, but it's just so
Speaker 3: yummy and easy to make.
Speaker 2: Well That's the thing about a lot of these right.
Speaker 2: I'm finding the more that I study different types of food,
Speaker 2: whether that be Italian or or even British or even
Speaker 2: the Oriental, it's it's it's they're doing the same things
Speaker 2: we want to do now in this in this day
Speaker 2: and age. Is you want to make the most of
Speaker 2: what you got in front of you.
Speaker 3: You bet? Yeah, you bet?
Speaker 2: Uh, doctor Marcus, such a it's such a go ahead.
Speaker 3: No, just it's such an important thing to realize that
Speaker 3: people need to take back their kitchens. You know, they've
Speaker 3: been hijacked by the American food industry and we're used
Speaker 3: seeing processed food. And this is really all about learning
Speaker 3: how these food is medicine, upgrade your biology so you
Speaker 3: can feel good and and live a long healthy life
Speaker 3: and and and avoid a lot of the medications and
Speaker 3: complications that are really caused by our ultra process diet.
Speaker 3: And this is just an attempt to give you yummy
Speaker 3: and delicious, easy to make recipes and guide you how
Speaker 3: to activate your lung heavy switches.
Speaker 2: Oh you're playing my song, doctor. That's one of the
Speaker 2: things I've worked on over the past ten or fifteen
Speaker 2: years is better ways to preserve some of the things
Speaker 2: that I do make so that I can get another
Speaker 2: meal out of them. Better ways to preserve the ingredients
Speaker 2: that I want to make. Some of the best things
Speaker 2: that I want to be the freeze ability or vacuum
Speaker 2: seal ability of certain foods so that when I do
Speaker 2: get home at the end of the day, I can
Speaker 2: throw together something that isn't processed.
Speaker 3: Exactly exactly. And it's just about a little skills, and
Speaker 3: we don't learn those skills home mech is Gone with
Speaker 3: Betty Crocker was an invention of the food in the
Speaker 3: tree to get processed food into your home recipes like
Speaker 3: Campbell's cream and mushroom soup in this cast role or
Speaker 3: rich crackers on that you know whatever. Oh God, that's
Speaker 3: a fake person, and I thought it was a real person.
Speaker 3: But we need to take back our kitchens because we
Speaker 3: need to eat real food from real ingredients and learn
Speaker 3: how to cook simply and easily, and it doesn't take time.
Speaker 3: I made last night, for example, I worked all day
Speaker 3: six I made dinner in like fifteen minutes. I put
Speaker 3: some fresh wild salmon in the oven. I made some
Speaker 3: broccoli steamed, it made some lemon olive old dressing, A
Speaker 3: nice simple salad took a whole thing, took about fifteen
Speaker 3: minutes to put together, and you don't have to make
Speaker 3: it complicated and just made simple, real ingredients, and it
Speaker 3: will help you stay feeling good and actually enjoying your life,
Speaker 3: which is not what most people get when they get older.
Speaker 3: They get all kinds of chronic illness and spend more
Speaker 3: times in doctor's visits than they do doing what they
Speaker 3: love to do.
Speaker 2: A lovely wife and I got into a I won't
Speaker 2: call it an argument, but a disagreement over food.
Speaker 3: One.
Speaker 2: They say, why can't you make a nice castle like
Speaker 2: our grandmother, my grandmother used to make? Can? I say,
Speaker 2: because your grandmother used to make this broccoli, rice and
Speaker 2: cheese casserole, I'd rather have the broccoli by itself, the
Speaker 2: rice by itself, cut back on the cheese, and instead
Speaker 2: of the cream of mushroom, I'd rather just have the
Speaker 2: sauteed mushroom. There. You got it all right there on
Speaker 2: a plate, and they all bring that enough flavor to
Speaker 2: the party. Yeah, Doctor Mark Hyman Young Forever Cookbook, go ahead.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, no, I just add you think it was
Speaker 3: such an important moment in America, we were seeing a
Speaker 3: health crisis, and you know, some people trying to talk
Speaker 3: about it. I think Trump and Robert Kennedy talked about
Speaker 3: in their campaigns, but most people are not talking about
Speaker 3: the chronic, the disease epidemic that's costing us over you know,
Speaker 3: four trillion dollars a year, that's leading to so much
Speaker 3: suffering that's really fixable by food and and people need
Speaker 3: to understand how much power they have in their in
Speaker 3: their kitchen to transform their lives.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've had, but I bet I can count
Speaker 2: on no, Actually I can't. It takes two hands to
Speaker 2: count the amount of people that I know in my
Speaker 2: life that I've lost because they didn't take care of themselves.
Speaker 3: Exactly, I mean exactly. It's it's it's it's something that
Speaker 3: we don't learn. Most of us are not given a
Speaker 3: codebook or a manual for our bodies. And this is
Speaker 3: what I've written is essentially, here's an instructure manual, here's
Speaker 3: how it works. You know, most people know better how
Speaker 3: our iPhones work than our bodies work. And that needs
Speaker 3: to change if you want to actually feel good and
Speaker 3: enjoy your life, because that's what it's all about. Right,
Speaker 3: then you need to learn how your body works. And
Speaker 3: you know, if you have a dog, you're not going
Speaker 3: to feed it French fries and McDonald's and give it
Speaker 3: give it a big Coca Cola for breakfast. I mean,
Speaker 3: we feed our bodies and it's insane. We wouldn't feed
Speaker 3: our dogs what we feed to our kids.
Speaker 2: And you can read more about these great recipes and
Speaker 2: the Young Forever Cookbook a definitive guide to understanding how
Speaker 2: food can help keep the body and sould young forever.
Speaker 2: I'm noticing a distinguishing characteristic as well in corporation of
Speaker 2: lots of greate fruits and vegetables in your recipes.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, you know what, in the plant world, there's
Speaker 3: all these amazing medicines who call these phytochemicals, and the
Speaker 3: Rock Foundation is spending two million dollars to catalog their
Speaker 3: medicinal properties. And you don't have to think of them
Speaker 3: as as tasting bad medicine. This is tasting good medicine.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And the chemicals in the food, the phytochemicals, regulate all
Speaker 3: these longevity pathways. So when you eat foods that support
Speaker 3: your biology, you end up having this incredible benefit of
Speaker 3: who that tastes good and woo that you love and
Speaker 3: the food it loves you.
Speaker 2: Back the Young Forever Cookbook Doctor Mark Hyman, and you
Speaker 2: know him as the Young Young Forever bestseller. And this
Speaker 2: is more than one hundred delicious recipes for living your
Speaker 2: longest and healthiest life. Thanks for joining us and thanks
Speaker 2: for the good.
Speaker 3: Food all right pleasure.
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