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Hello, I'm Kimberly King, and welcome to the mother's market radio show, a show dedicated to the Truth, Beauty and Goodness of the human condition. On today's show, the fountain of youth may be a MIT, but people are living longer these days. Today, we give you the tools you'll need to live a great quality of life for many years to come, but first up, we're joined today by another prominent physician when it comes to alternative medicine. Dr. Allan sasson is certified in Internal Medicine and nephrology, the study of kidney disease, he is the founder of the Institute for progressive medicine. Dr. sasson is experienced in the traditional methods of diagnosing and treating disease. Over the last 30 years, he has developed a system of Nutritional Lifestyle and alternative therapies, he specializes in management of heart disease, diabetes and hypertension, bio-identical hormone replacement, and platelet-rich plasma and proline for joint pain. And we welcome him back to the mother's market radio show, Dr. saw, and how are you?

I'm good, Kim, how are you?

Great, thank you. Before we get to today's topic, please fill us in on your mission and your work... Well, over the years, I've gotten more and more into the belief that working with lifestyle, working with nutrition, with exercise, with non-drug and non-surgical approaches has helped more people and preventing more problems than doing things the conventional way, the conventional way has usually been... You come in with a problem and here's your medication, and it's actually, I think, happening even more these days, because doctors are more pushed for time than they were, they have to see a patient every 15 minutes for every seven minutes. And how much are you gonna be able to talk about breakfast, lunch, and dinner choices, in that length of time, you have to come to a conclusion and offer a solution quickly, and that works against lifestyle management. So we don't do things that way. We spend more time, we look into the things that affect... That impact the person's well-being, and we directly go after those... Not just medication.

Well, that's very good, and that's why we're anxious to talk to you today, we're talking about aging and how we can all live longer and stronger, and... So Dr. Susan, what is aging?

Aging is getting older.

And once, I mean, you know... Are you aging gracefully? Are you aging on gracefully truth is. The population is getting older, the population around the world is getting older, so people are living a lot longer than they used to live, and it's not just from death, early in life, from childhood illnesses, it has to do with having interventions that allow people to live longer and we're not dying on average at 70 anymore, we're dying on average at 80, so there's been a 10-year increase in survival over the last 40 years or so, that's enormous as one you have to deal with people in their 70s, in their 80s, in their 90s, when they didn't used to be around, so what are those health problems and how do we deal with them? And I think in particular, as people get older, lifestyle becomes more important as far as having a quality of life, and you can do things that aren't the best when you're 20 and 30 and get away with them, but if you're doing... When you're 70 and 80, you don't get away with them, and if you do them until you're even you're ready, you definitely don't get away with them, there needs to be change occurring earlier, and there's a lot of effort being made for that, there's children being taught to eat properly when there are two, three and four and five years old, that then used to be the case.

I remember years ago when I was a little bit younger, you know, my favorite food was... She's burger fries and a vanilla milkshake, dreamy stuff. Used to have it all the time. I don't do that anymore.

Yeah, that's true. It's getting a condition to think towards the future, and also putting our mind as far as aging, it's where you put your mind for aging, so it's how we think about that.

Are there certain diseases associated with aging, specifically, there are diseases... Well, cardiac disease increases as you get older, diabetes increases because partly because the pancreas is less able to make insulin as you get older, the one that people probably worry the most about is Alzheimer's disease or dementia, and that definitely increases as you get older, you don't tend to see that in people in their 50s, and people in their 80s and 90s is becoming more and more common, there's more and more people who become unable to care for themselves and handle the activities of daily living, meaning that they become a burden to their family and how does that get handled? That's a very, very complicated issue. I've had to deal with that in my family on both sides, and it's not easy, you really want to set up something that will keep a person healthy as long as possible, and there's an idea that's out there that has to do with the compression of morbidity and I heard that about 20 years ago, and what that means is being sick for a shorter period of time before you pass away, so you're 90 years old and you start to fail and you pass at the age of 90 and a half... Were 90 and one month. That kind of becomes the ideal, as compared with starting to get sick at the age of 60, having heart attacks, having strokes, getting osteoarthritis, getting operations falling down, getting demented and dying 20 years later, so that's 20 years of progressive disability and burden on other people.

One of the toughest things I see is a daughter or a son who has an aging parent that's getting demented, that's getting Alzheimer's disease, how do you handle that that person is no longer able to live in his or her own home. They can set the house on fire. They put the Stein, they forget to turn it off. They're still driving when they shouldn't be, they fall down, they get hurt, all of these things occur, and it's the kids if there are kids that have to take care of that, and when do you move an elderly person from their home that they never wanna leave into a nursing home. Because they can't stay home anymore.

We've been through that. And it's very, very difficult. It's very, very complicated. And some nursing homes are better than others, some do a fantastic job and some you kinda get stuck in there like you were in a warehouse, and you see people watching television all day long doing nothing sad, it's a sad situation and it's happening with millions of people and I don't have the full answer to that, I have partial answers, I have ways of helping people keep their minds together and being more active, but I don't have the answer to it is it seems to be a trend that's happening right now with the Baby Boomers but you write about keeping mine to active with where people are moving toward right now, even as you say, teaching our children to eat healthy, but also stay active, no matter what age group we are as we move into the future. Always keep our minds active. Always, great, always keep our passions, and as we grow into our golden years, always want to keep learning so that Alzheimer's isn't going to be prevalent, I think that's really the main issue. I have a patient who's like 77 years old, studying calculus... Wow.

'cause he didn't do well in high school. They're college or whatever, you doing it now, if patients in their 80s who play bridge all the time, which is really good for the mind, there's all kinds of things that people can do and need to do to sit and watch television three and four hours a day, so unless you're watching a particular kind of show, I don't know what that show would be, maybe wildlife or something, it's the wrong way to go, it needs to be mental activity, there needs to be communication, which is key, and these days we're having problems with communication because everyone's communicating by email and cell phone with texts, and that's not the best way to... One needs to be direct, like you're sitting across from me, I'm sitting across to you, from you and we talk to each other, right. And there's that communication line as people get older, things happen, the husband dies, the wife dies, someone gets death, someone stops being able to see very well. Communication fails because the other person is not there to communicate with, or the facility to communicate is not there, and all of these things will lead to progressive deterioration, loss of mental functioning, so it's really important as much as we can do in the old days, people stayed with the family, there was a family unit, so you'll always stay with the family, and there's many countries on Earth, the more primitive ones, they say, Where you stay with the family, 70, 80, however old you are, you're part of the family, you live with the family, you're with them, they take care of you.

We don't have that so much here for many different reasons, but it's all part of the problem, a big part of what's going on though is degenerative cardiovascular disease, because 50% of dementia estimated is a consequence of cardiovascular disease, so small strokes, big strokes, hypertension, those kinds of things cause deterioration of blood flow to the brain, and the brain doesn't work as well, the brain... Parts of the brain will atrophy, and even in situations where they're calling in Alzheimer's disease or they're calling it dementia, there's a strong cardiovascular component, so the things that we do to prevent those from happening, like control blood pressure control, we get cholesterol down beyond the right diet also must impact the incidents of Alzheimer's disease, why don't people age at the same rate... Aging is hereditary to a degree, but I think it's mostly lifestyle, so a person who uses drugs, meaning illicit drugs, recreational drugs, alcohol, people who smoke, they're gonna age faster, there's vascular damage that occurs, there's a loss of nutrients in the body, those folks are gonna age faster, now, I have patients coming in and say, Well, my grandfather lived to be 96 and he smoked and drank his whole life, and the answer to that to me as well, if he hadn't done that, he might have been to live to 126, and you will probably live to be 126, because people are living longer, largely because they're taking better care of themselves in some ways, and cigarettes have certainly gone down in this country, but we have suffered a little bit from the loss of the activity level and the loss of interest, things have gotten really complicated as far as commercial activities and big companies and where do I have a place here? What can I do? And it's important not to really retire, so if you leave being the CEO of a company, you need to find something that you can go and do... Some people can get by with... Travel travel is a wonderful thing. So if you can work that out, and I have patients who retired when they were 50 or 60, or you 70 or 80, and they're traveling all the time and they're doing great, but it'll be good to have some kind of hobby to have something like music. Or dancing, I have 80-year-old patients who go dancing, all of those things would ever interest you, whatever turns you on is the thing to do, 'cause that's what's gonna keep you young and keep you alive, and if those things don't exist... You might even say, what's the reason to be alive?

Right, and find maybe a community where you're with others that you can share your passions and you know, I think... Yeah, share your interest and be with others.

What... Do medications prevent aging?

Medications prolong survival. I don't think they prevent aging, I think they can promote aging to the degree that they control diabetes and control cardiovascular disease, they probably slow aging, but aging to me is much more of a lifestyle situation, it's much more exercise and what you eat and what your attitude is and what your stress level is and how much you produce, and how you feel about what you produce, I think those are really the phenomena that affect aging.

Well, this is all very interesting information and there's plenty more to learn, and we're again, talking about anti-aging from Dr. saw, and so please stay with us, we'll be right back.

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Dr. Hasan with supplements. Should we use... Or do you use...

I take about 15 different things a day. I have patients, you take more... I think the basic items that people should be on, and this is highly controversial, if you look it up, you will see there are a lot of experts, so to speak out there saying nobody should take any supplements because they don't do anything, it just gives you... Expensive urine that's bright yellow, you should be able to get anything that you need through your diet, but very few people have perfect diets, I have a couple of patients who don't take any supplements and they're getting organic fruits and vegetables and their diets are perfect, but that's a couple of patients that the rest of them are not perfect and I'm not perfect, and the truth about supplements is they don't hurt, you know, you're not gonna get sick from taking fish oil unless it gives you gas, you're not gonna get sick from it.

And I've seen many articles written by people who are conventional anti-nutrients saying, Wow, this hasn't been tested, and how do we know this, and how do we know that, and where's all the studies and the studies haven't shown this, and they come out with studies every so often showing, the last one I saw was fish oil didn't prevent heart disease, these kinds of things come out all the time and say, Well, it was the dose of the fish, it was one gram.

Well, I gonna take one gram, I take two grams, I have patients who take four grams, so what does that mean? But the fact is that supplements are safe, vitamin C is safe, vitamin, the B vitamins are safe, B12 is a, zinc is safe, except with certain ones where if you take really a lot, you can hurt yourself few and far between. I don't think there's any dose of vitamin B12 or folic acid that's gonna hurt anybody, and we know that certain supplements in certain conditions are preventive, policed supplements are recommended for pregnant women because they prevent spin, obeid and brain problems, we know that. So what's wrong with taking folic acid and if you're not pregnant, there's just many things like that, I see no reason not to use supplements, I take Nias and every day for the last 30 years, it lowers my cholesterol. I take something called bergamot, which lowers my cholesterol and my blood sugar, which has not been a problem, I take fish while every day, I take a greens powder that has a lot of natural materials, and then I think if you take greens every day... That's reasonable. I take calcium every day, magnesium every day, I take a little bit of DHEA, which is a hormone. Every day, other items, I take things a call carnitine for my brain, I take off a IPO acid for my brain, I take a verity for my brain and a few other things. So if you look at the supplements I take and you had all the ingredients of all of those supplements, there's probably 100 different things a day.

Wow.

And is that making me younger, is it making me live longer, was it raising my IQ? I don't know, but I'm not gonna stop. And you're still working and you still look fabulous, so... That's pretty amazing. You mentioned hormones. Do they help?

Hormones definitely help, you know. You've gone through that and the people I see who are older and on hormones are doing better than the ones who are older, not on hormones, and you say, Well, they might have been doing better. Anyway, maybe there are people who are doing so many other things and they're taking hormones as well, and that's why... And I don't know for sure, and those people... But the pattern of what I see is that people do better with hormones, men do better with testosterone, women do better with estrogen, as long as you're monitoring them and you're following the prostate and the blood count, and men related to test Aston and you're following their breast situation in women and any bleeding type of thing, they're gonna be safe, these are safe items, it always should be done under professional guidance, in my opinion, but these are safe procedures.

What about exercise? Which exercise is best?

I think stretching is the most important thing because people get stiff as they get older, and you watch people and the posture is poor and they're bent over in their stiff... And if you examine them, you'll find tender points all over the place, and I find them in the buttocks, I find them in the thighs, I find him in the shoulder as I find him in the neck, stretching is what handles these things, and you need to have the right stretching exercises, that should be, in my opinion, professionally instructed, so you know what you're doing, there's books you can get, there's a low back pain book that I've used and studied related to trigger points, and I think people ought to know about trigger points.

What they are and they should be examined then seeing if they have them, I see people who come in with all kinds of physical problems with pain, and my examination tells me this is a trigger point problem, and I refer them for myofascial, which is massage therapy, and stretching and they get better.

So these are the types of exercises. As I mentioned, I think any exercise that you like is good, if you enjoy doing it, don't do one you don't like doing... 'cause you're not gonna do it.

So if it's walking, I think running past the age of 50 or 60 is probably not a good idea, if you do running, don't do it on a hard surface like asphalt or concrete, which I used to run on for years and help do my knees in a little bit. I think it's good to run on soft surfaces, but walking is a much safer thing, swimming is about the safest, dancing is very safe.

All of these other things are safe, bicycle writing is safe, I see dozens of people every week and riding bikes on the road and be non-Herod isn't always so safe, but writing a bike otherwise is very safe, and these are all good exercises, they're all great. They should always be accompanied by stretching.

Okay, that's great. Good advice there.

What about the brain? Let's talk about how we can protect the brain, rain is best protected with brain activity is just like the body is best protected with physical activities, so the exercise for the brain is a brain action, communicate, right letters, talk to people, call him up on the phone if you have to do it with texting on your cell phone, then do that too. It's a lot better than nothing, but I think all in all, the best way of keeping the brain going as person-to-person communication, so it's either together with that person, I invite them over for lunch, take him for a walk, going a hike, do some group activities, there's a lot of groups out there. There's a leisure world, and here our office has dozens and dozens of activities with ceramics, with painting, with music, with reading, all of those things, anything that has to do with the arts. To me, is a wonderful thing. If you like to make ceramic balls, by all means, do that because it's good for the brain and it's good for the body. So anything that a person enjoys doing is what should be done about... Is it genetic? Is Aging genetic... There's genetic factors, there's a tendency toward diabetes, which is a phenomenon that makes you age faster, that tends to be in families, there is tendencies for cardiovascular disease, which is an AI aging phenomenon, Osteoporosis have some aging characteristics... Parkinson's disease can run in families. A lot of things can tend to be in families, but the other side of that is you don't see it in all the members of the family, and you see people whose parents died early and who are now 80 and 90 years old doing fine. So lifestyle Trump's genetics by far, most of the time.

That's an interesting answer there as well, how long can a person live and still enjoy life?

I've seen a 102, but I've seen interviews with 110, and I think 115 and Methuselah lived a long time then I think... So I think we don't know how long a person can live and be productive and still enjoy life, I suspect, and many people have said in the 120 range is reachable for a lot of people, and I think if we're not smoking and we're not eating poorly and we're getting our exercise and we're productive and we don't do bad things to ourselves and other people in ethics is a very important part of survival, we don't do well when we do bad things, and that could be any number of bad things, it doesn't mean you're... Just cheating the income tax people, you could be creating your wife or your husband, it could be cheating your kids in one way or another, there's all kinds of ways of not being ethical, but the ethical person lives longer handles better... No question in my mind, it may not be wealthier. But they're gonna have better lives.

And you said that the average age now that I think you said in the beginning is up until 80 years, about 80 in this country is really a higher... In Japan, I think it's more like 84 in Japan, but it's going up in this country too, and it's... You're gonna be many, many people, millions of people living into their 90s and hundreds.

Wow, amazing. Well, this was really very interesting information as... We've really enjoyed having you on. But thank you so much for your time, Dr. Sawan, and we look forward to having you on again. But in the mean time, you can catch more of Dr. sasson on his website, I progressive Med dot com, and learn more about his passion for alternative medicine and other great things he's involved with. We look forward to our next visit. Thank you, thank you.

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