The #1 Predictor of How Fast You Age After 50 (& How to Fix It)

The real reason your body ages after 50 years old, and it's not what you think. Scientists tracked 120,000 [music] people over 8 years, and when they were done, there was one single measurement that predicted who would die the earliest. More than people who smoked, more than people who had diabetes, more than people who had heart disease. And

no, it wasn't the cholesterol, it wasn't your weight, it wasn't your blood pressure. So, when we're looking at aging, we're looking at the rate at which your body is aging, and the question is, what measurement would give you the best indication of aging? And that measurement is VO2 max. So, I want you to ignore the name VO2 max right

now. Just realize VO2 max is the measurement of how fuel and oxygen go through the energy factory, the mitochondria, to make energy. Here you are, you cleaned up your diet, you got rid of the sugar, you're taking fish oil, you added collagen, you're taking a bunch of supplements. Maybe you do intermittent fasting. Yet, in the

morning, when you get out of bed, you kind of don't jump out of bed anymore. You kind of ease out slowly. And let's say you work out, and you're running up a hill, and you just you can't quite make it up there. And it might be more difficult to recover from the workouts.

Because a lot of people have never heard of this, and they end up focusing on the wrong things. They might start taking supplements to extend their life, which turns out to be very expensive urine. One thing keeps popping out over and over and over, and maybe you've heard of it before, they call it metabolic

disease. What's happening at the cellular level is, even though there's fuel present, it doesn't go into the mitochondria. So, they're usually fatigued and tired. If you have bad mitochondria, inefficient mitochondria, you're going to have all sorts of problems, diseases, you're not going to live as long. So, in reality, a lot of chronic diseases are mostly about not