Inflammation and longevity.

0:01 Speaker 1 Well, it’s Sunday, the weekend after the great election and the biggest one of our century. We got with this doctor Peter Michelos are in house genius and we have nicknamed him Lived Long and prosper because our objective is to get all the sixty year olds and above to live to be a hundred. Doctor Peter Mihelosa, what is

0:28 your tips this week?

0:31 Speaker 2 Well, today we’re going to talk about a fascinating topic because as we hear a lot about aging, anti aging, and in the end, the most important thing is our mental and physical health and as we age, those things deteriorate.

0:46 And we’re going to talk about something called inflammaging because inflammation is involved in the aging process, and inflammating is the chronic inflammation that happens over time that’s sterile and not uninfectious, but it slowly eats away at our body.

1:03 And think about this, it’s a real balancing act. We have something go homeostasis, which is a balancing act. Like when you’re driving your car down the road and there’s no indicator lights going on. That’s homeostasis, but suddenly the engine light comes on, the oil light comes on, and think about that as abnormal laboratory values. Now, inflammation is

1:23 needed so we can fidle things like viruses, bacteria, and even the healing process. When you get cut, it’s inflammatory cells.

1:33 Speaker 1 What does the test you take for that? I remember I had it. It goes on a scale of one to twenty.

1:41 Speaker 2 Yeah, well, there is the ESR. So what happens is there are ways to measure inflammation as we age, and one of them is the ESR, which is the sedimentation rate, which measures the level of inflammation. We have something go homo systeine levels, which is another marker inflammation. We have another one that is used very commonly and it’s pretty accurate,

2:00 highly sensitive c reactive protein or the CRP test. We even have other tests called TNF, the tumino crosis factor, and we have things called interluken and these are all inflammatory markets. And even the one for uric acid called uric acid test is also when you have rising uric acid, it’s a sign of inflammation in the body. And that

2:23 some of the anti aging conferences that I’ve heard about, they basically talk about even giving a medicine for gout called culture scene that controls that uric acid, and they said that taking a low dose of that can also be anti aging. And also these things have been found to be stimulated by our diet. And inflammation is associated

2:48 with everything from art disease, dementia, depression, and even cancer is involved in inflammation. And what are the foods that we should not consume too much of to a avoid inflammation? Because there’s a list of actual inflammatory foods and the top of it is red meat such as steak, hamburgers, processed meat such as maloney, bacon, sausage, and lunch meats,

3:11 and commercial bait goods like cake spies, cookies, brownies and the bread and postamate with white flour is not exactly healthy. And of course deep fried items such as French fries and chicken and doughnuts, especially in vegetable oil. So we really want to avoid those refined carbohydrates, hyproc those corn syrup, too much alcohol, the sweet drinks, and we want to

3:35 try to avoid those things, you know, like trans fats. You know, you know hot throgs.

3:42 Speaker 1 Bottom line, if you test yourself and take the right tests, then you know what you’re doing wrong on your body to be able to do it right right.

3:55 Speaker 2 You wouldn’t drive down the road without a dashboard. So the same way, you have your laboratory values which you can measure and then you can decide what you need to do with your doctor. And there are many anti inflammatory foods, from eating extra virgin olive oil to eating a healthy piece of fish, omega three fatty acids, having

4:18 some curcumin in your diet, which is a very powerful anti inflammatory that’s used in many diets around the world. Things like green tea. For example, I drink green tea Macha because it has all these polyphenols and anti inflammatories.

4:34 They’re also you know, vitamins, mineral and substances. I’ve recently had a discussion with doctor Macleana Sharzewski about the different anti inflammatory vitamins that you can take and the antioxidants you can take. And that’s why first you have to start up with a good set of labs, go through the entire lab list, and then when you get back

4:54 the results, you can sit down with your doctor and decide what you can do to reduce inflammation, which also helps your gut inflammation and your gut microbiome.

5:03 Speaker 1 And is there a gut inflammation test.

5:08 Speaker 2 Yeah, absolutely, they have a test that’s pretty unbelievable. Now it’s genetic sequencing. It’s called the gut Zoomer test that’s ordered by usually integrated specialists, and you basically take a sample of your poop. They send it out and it tells you down to which microbes viruses, because we have trillions in our gut, and it tells you if you

5:30 have too much of the bad bacteria, too much of the good bacteria, if you have something called CEBO, which is small intestine bacterial overgrowth, and you need to treat that. And you know, there’s people who have like very bad reflux and they’re taking all these inhibitors of acid, but sometimes they just need a good soil based pill that

5:51 is a probiotic, and suddenly these people get better. I just had someone recently that doctor Magleena told to take it recently just ten days and they’re in shock that after all these years of suffering, they’re doing much better.

6:05 But having those types of tests and treatments are very important, and they’re not that expensive. But we’re learning that the gut it’s eighty percent of our immune system.

6:15 Speaker 1 So is doctor Magleana. You open up an office to and specialize maybe in getting all those tests.

6:23 Speaker 2 She already does it in Southampton and Manhattan. Doctor magalenas Arceski already does it. They get it, and people are getting help because they are able to get those tests ordered. And the report comes back, it’s forty pages and it takes hours. They sift through it. Then they tell you take this probiotic. Take that, you know, antibiotic if you

6:43 have bacterial overgrowth, and they tell you what you need to do, and suddenly other health conditions in your body start getting better. They even found that certain bacteria associated with more depression. They even found certain bacteria are higher, for example, in certain cancer. So controlling and keeping your gut healthy turns out to be a very important factor

7:08 in anti aging and long term health and avoiding chronic diseases, especially with our diets that we have. And that’s why those foods I went through are very important. And you know, when you go to your doctor, nobody has time to go through the nutrition and the nutritional aspects of these diets, so it’s very important. Like doctor maclennan’s a Harvard trade

7:30 and the nutrition counselor so they also tell you what to eat that’s healthier to avoid some of these problems.

7:38 Speaker 1 I got it. Sunday morning. Anything else you want to tell the American people. I mean, we all want to live longer, and we want to if we treat our bodies right, we will live longer. And what else would you like to tell the American people on a Sunday morning.

7:58 Speaker 2 We’re going to see a major major change in the healthcare system. From what I’ve been reading under our new administration and some of the new programs and the new approaches, I think that we’re going to be questioning a lot more of our the treatment and I think we’re going to have to be going through the literature a lot

8:19 more carefully and having a larger consensus of scientists to look at what we’re reading, changing our diets, and starting from small children, because the study just came out that young children the first thousand days of life, if they’re exposed to a lot of sugar, those kids have more health problems as they age, which is unbelievable when you

8:41 think of it. So I think in the United States, the school lunchrooms are going to have to change, and I think that our diets are going to have to change. The recommendations. I think some of the you know, advertising and some of these soft drinks that people are consuming and children are consuming from a young age. So we’re

8:58 going to sell America.

9:00 Speaker 1 Change America to stay healthier has to change their diet and to the good and avoid some of those chemicals, some of the twentieth century chemicals they’re putting in off food right.

9:14 Speaker 2 And those are illegal. For example, in the European Union, they found their French fries just out potatoes, salt, and some oil. Ours have like twenty ingredients. My god, I’m ali to preserve and the preservatives we have might slow down bacterial growth and make things last longer on the shelf, but they also damage our microbiomes, damage our cup bacteria.

9:35 So we need to keep listening to WABC for more news, more details on how to live long and prosper.

9:41 Speaker 1 Thank you so much, doctor Mihelos, and travel safe and we’ll see you soon.

9:47 Speaker 2 Thank you John for always getting the truth out on the cats around here.