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Vagal tone

How to increase Vagal tone? Relationship of Vagal tone with HRV

Red Meat Consumption

Discuss risks or benefits of red meat, and saturated fat is their actually any risk? Etc Red meat and cancer? Red meat and atherosclerosis? Saturated fat and atherosclerosis? I know you have touched on these things in many podcasts but there has never been a one stop shop for discussion on it.

Staving off osteoporosis

First, a short story to validate your longevity practice. About two months ago, my dad, now 101 years old, went beyond his capacity lifting weights. He collapsed a vertebra, ended up in the er with pain, and is now rehabilitating in a nursing home. He has been obsessed with exercise all his life. He also may have a longevity gene: his mom died at 102 (never exercised), his grandfather died at 97. His experience leads me to my question. Even with exercise, bones can become brittle. What does the research say about preventing osteoporosis in aging patients. And, when bones do degenerate and cause pain, what new treatments are being researched to treat the condition?

Is there now a longevity focused network to connect patients and doctors?

Early on in your AMA podcasts you addressed the question of how to find a doctor who looks at the longevity factors as a baseline for practice. At that time, there was no network established to link patients and physicians. Is there one now? If so, I am searching for a really good lipid/preventive cardiologist to help me sort through weird lipid/ calcium score findings.

Do life-long learning disabilities confound the accuracy of diagnosing dementia?

I am so reassured to hear that you “cannot spell”. Me neither. This trait and related “learning disability” issues are life-long and might confound the assessment for age-related dementia your specialists discuss. Is there research that specifically accounts for life-long learning issues apart from dementia warning flags?