This week is all about longevity! I get to put my nutritionist hat back on.
From habits, foods, movement and cutting edge practices.
This is a topic I love to deep dive so I hope you love this ep!
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Lola x
Get a I'm Lula Berry, nutritionist, author, actor, TV presenter, and professional overshaer. This podcast is all about celebrating failure because I believe it's a chance for us to learn, grow and face our blind spots. Each week I'll interview a different guest about their highs as well as their lows, all in a bid to inspire us to fearlessly fail. Hello, gangles, Now get comfy because this episode is a health and wellness EP with yours truly me for those of you that might not know me that well or a new the pod, I am a nutritionist, so every now and then I do a health based step. I believe one's already come out on detoxification and collect detoxing cleansing. I've done another one on mythbusting, and this one is all about longevity and or anti aging. I know that that like that saying anti aging isn't like I don't know, it's not celebrated so much now. So longevity and aging well and like aging vitally and essentially extending our health span is the theme and topic of today's pod. There are already so many great people out in the pod world talking about this, so this is just a little tip of the iceberg, and it's something that I personally just like love researching. I've recently turned thirty nine, so I am at an age where how I look after myself is potentially going to impact my health span and my vitality as I do age. So I've done some research on this one and I just wanted to share with you what I found. Essentially, But like I said, you've got the David Sinclairs of the world. That Peter as Peter a Tea. He's on that great show I believe called He is a Cold Lifespan with the Chris Hemsworth Discovery Channel, Disney Limitless. It's called It's called Limitless with Chris Hemsworth, and he this doctor Peter A.
Tier I think his name is.
He has all these amazing tools and tips and tricks for longevity. So what I'm trying to say is I'm not reinventing the wheel telling you this, but I'm just going to share with.
You what I have found.
Obviously, living in la it's a really big topic here and there are so many supplements in this realm as well, so I thought i'd just like let you know, Alay the land of what's going on in this space. Let's start with some easy stuff, like some stuff that we can all implement. Now, if you're like, all right, well, I'm in my twenties thirties, I want to move into my forties and fifties really well, Or if you're in forties and fifties, it's about that extending that health and life spam so that you feel as good as you feel now in your seventies and eighties, right, And some of the pods I listened to in preparing for this are really focused on like that one hundred and thirty, like that real like hitting one hundred is the norm kind of thing.
And they have this.
One pot I listened to all about longevity was all focused on hitting one hundred and thirty, and I was like, wowsers. And they were saying, like how to make how to make like fifty the new thirty? You know. Anyway, easy stuff. So, whether you're interested in this pod and this idea of longevity and vitality from an outside like esthetic perspective, or whether you're interested in it from in more internal and just like feeling your best, doesn't matter. They're gonna affect one another. Like if you're looking after yourself internally, it's going to show up externally in a good way. So the first one, and this is a no brainer. I know everyone would already know this. Smoking severely ages you, specifically as well that external piece with the skin, the teeth, but also we know that it's causing havoc in the body. We've all seen the billboards and posters and the pictures on their cigarette taxes. Yeah, the cigarette taxes so interesting. I didn't realize this until I talked to another Aussie. But obviously the cigarettes really expensive in Australia. I've actually never smoked. I'm one of those nerd burgers, but you talk to people about Siggi's in Australia and apparently really really expensive. And I just remember that from mates that smoked when I was like in my twenties. But in America they're still really cheap. So fascinating. Anyway, we know they're bad.
Cut them.
You don't want them in your life, all right, So we know they cause oxidave damage, oxidave stress. We know there, you know the baddies. Essentially they're carthinogenic full stop. So no smoking is like completely important if you want to focus on longevity. The next one that is going to seem like another real duh lola is stress. So stress, there's such a high link to stress and cancers, stress and a whole host of degenerative diseases. And we live in such a high paced, go go go, you know, no stopping kind of fast paced world. I've also learned that in America working for a company, and I'm like, oh wow, the workload is just like bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger, and the pressure and the expectations, it's just like wow. Whereas I think Aussies have got a really great you know, like we get X amount of weeks off a year and taking that time off to recalibrate, to allow yourself to take time to process stress and to understand it and to see what's causing that stress if you have I mean, everyone's got some kind of stress in their lives, but how to better manage that, which brings me to the next point. These all might sound a little like hippy dippy at the start, but like they're pretty integral, and that is like mindset and mental health two different things. So the mindset is if you want to be healthy, making that commitment to yourself and just being like locking in and being like, yeah, I am going to be healthy. Health is now a number one priority for me. It's so important, and so every choice you make is a choice that is either going to make you healthier or take you a little away from that goal. Sounds brutal, but if your mindset is clicked into hey, I want to be healthy, then it's going to be really easy that when the burger and frys are sitting in front of you for you to order the kale salad. For example, this morning, I had a meeting and it was kind of easy because in La and so there are so many healthy options. And I said to the person in the meeting because they also worked at the company I had a meeting with, and I said, what's the greenest, healthiest, loaded full of good stuff smoothie that you have? And she was like, get this one. And I read it and it was like chlorophyll, spirrilina spinach kale like salery. Cheer said like it was just like and it was so green and what made it sweet was a little bit of pineapple and it was delicious. So I think having that mindset of like, hey, I'm going to be healthy because I want to care for myself. It also makes it easy when you set your alarm at six am to go to a yoga class or something like that. So mindset being quite different to mental health. So mindset is yep, I'm making a health my prayer, or yep, I'm making health my priority eighty percent of the time, twenty percent of the time I'm gonna go out and have a martini, or twenty percent of the time I'm gonna have a slice of chocolate cake, which is still a healthy mindset, by the way, but it's just like clicking in and choosing that, making that choice for you right versus mental health just as important. And that's whether that is therapy. You know, I'm super pro therapy, whether that's you know, meditation, journaling, working with a holistic counselor hypnotherapist, like having something in your toolkit that looks after and nourishes your mental health and having regular check ins with it as well. So I would say they're really really important things because if the mindset piece isn't there and the mental health piece isn't there, or it's a struggle or it's like good some days, crap, other days. And I'm not saying you have to have perfect days every day, but with those those two things are kinks in the armor on the foundational level, it's going to be really hard to build on top of that. So you want the clear choice. Hey, yep, I'm making health a priority. That's your mindset. The other one mental health. Yeah, I'm going to make sure that I'm looking after my mental health so that I can be more healthy and so that I can process stuff quicker, so that I can be a better human being, because there are studies done on having a positive outlook and being healthier, more successful, long glass vans, all that kind of stuff. So those two key players. Again, this one's not going to be a surprise movement. So I believe it's around the five hour a week that you want to exercise in some capacity. You know me, I'm a yoga teacher. I'm a big yogi So for me, I try to do three yoga classes a week. I'll throw a hike in and I'll try to do one or two weight sessions to be fully transparent within My weight sessions are short, They're like twenty five minutes, but I just get in there. I do squats, I do a lot of legs, stuff like lunges, I do abs, I do arms.
And then I get out of there.
I just do it because I know how important weight bearing exercise and like doing weights is for women as they age, specifically around like bone integrity and bone health as well. So exercise is important. We have something like eight hundred muscles, Like we've got to use them. I mean you would remember this from school that you use it or lose it, and so I think that as we age, especially with our body and muscles, like just use them. Go for a walk, yogus plats if you don't like yogs, get into a gym. Weight It's like you just got to make it part of a routine. It's always hardest at the start. But again, if you've got that mindset piece of hey, I'm going to make healthy choices even.
When you're away, even when you're.
On holiday, you're gonna see if the hotel has a gym, or walk to that meeting. Leave a bit earlier and walk forty minutes to that meeting. You know, like do little things that make it healthier. Never discount walking and getting those steps in. We know the ten thousand step goal is amazing. It's so good for cardiovascular health, actually really good for cellulite as well. Walking is better than running for cellulite, so don't discount your walking. Movement is key though you want to get movement in. I like to get a little bit of some kind of movement in most days, but I know that, like when we get busy, it's really hard to do that. So yeah, aiming for that five hours a week is a really good set point. And I'm not saying all in one hit. I'm like, get to a yog's class one day, go for a walk another day, little weight session a day after that, you know what I mean. Make it manageable and make it fit into your lifestyle so that you can do it and implement it long term. The other big one is sleep. Sleep hygiene super important. I mean, I'll be the first to admit if I have even if it's a sulfate free or soul fight free beautiful pino or an organic gin martini, I'm not going to sleep great ever, but I love it. I'm a bit I'm someone that loves to have, like once every couple of weeks go out for a martini or have a glass of red with the boo with bosso so on those days, I just know, Okay, well, the day after that, I'm going to my sleep hygiene is going to be through the roof.
It's going to be so good.
I'm going to get into bed a bit earlier and catch up on the potential disjointed sleep I've had because of booze. That said, let's talk about booze. Not the end of the world. I let all of my I tell all my clients to keep it in. But if you're having it in excess, and you're having it consistently, that's when I think it. You know, you don't want to be constantly disrupting your sleep. And I'm pretty sure they say that in some way it will disrupt everyone's sleep. No problem falling asleep. It's the more the quality of sleep that you get during the night. And even I know, like I'll wake up hush, or I'll wake up with a dry all that gross stuff. So booze, keep it moderate, don't go overboard with it. Another thing is like, obviously, like you're organic and pat nats and you know, stuff without soul fates are a great option because you're minimizing chemicals. And then you've got your clear spirits like a like a martiniz gin and vermouth, and I have it with twists, which means lemon dirty is good too.
No judgment here.
I think that comes back to the mindfulness piece too, like if you're sharing it with people you love, like Matt Dad and I went to dinner last night and we were sitting by this beautiful pool at this beautiful restaurant in La. Of course I'm gonna have a martini, you know. I think, just yeah, be mindful about it. The moment that it becomes like, oh shit, this is a fourth night at the fifth night in a row. Give yourself a couple of nights free, you know, reset and you can do that. You can reset with that stuff. Okay, I'm going to end on supplements. The next stuff is going to sound like we've probably tackled it in the myth busting and detoxification episodes, but I do want to touch on it. You got to cut the sugar or at least minimize it. Sugar causes inflammation in the body. We know that also highly addictive. So when you have a little bit, you want more. So it's very hard to just be like, oh, I'm just gonna have this one little I don't know why I want to say sherbet bomb just then, but you know, this one little chocolate and next minute you have had like half the block. We're also coming into silly season, like this being the beginning of the holiday season in America. It's almost Thanksgiving, and then of course you've got Crimbo and all the Crimbo parties. That's my word for Christmas. So it's just being savvy about it. And when you are having more sugary things, I would try to balance it out with like getting your grains in and like like having a side of broccoli when you're making dinner, you know what I mean, Like get the greens and the good stuff in in other ways, like even today, like Boss and I went in, I had a little meal out and we.
Had a slice of pumpkin pine for dessert together. Delish.
But you know what all I feel like tonight is like some steam broccoli and a bald egg. I just am not hungry. And also I want to balance it out, So think about balancing it out. You're going to sleep better when you don't have sugar at night as well, So that's just another thing around the sleep hygiene peace, like do the stuff that works on your side. Some people as well, chili chili will keep them awake at night. So yeah, sugars is highly addictive. We know it causes inflammation. It's one of the no goes with cancer as well. So just like if the sugar off, there are so many great alternatives Stevir, monk fruit out there. Even if you're making a smoothie and you truck a date in a smoothie, it's like pretty much like way more whole food still got a high GI, but because you're having it with if you're making a smoothie, there's probably some fat in there, some protein in there. It's going to decrease the glycemic load. Seed oils I've talked about I think every time I talk to you about health and wellness. If you want to learn more about seed oils, David Gillespie is a great resource. He's got a bunch of books all about this, and he's Aussie and a legend. But the thing about seed oils is they kind of sneak in. They'll be in things like dips and like canola oil is one that sneaks into a lot of dipots and you know, soybean oil all that kind of thing. Sauces there definitelyn't like bad oils and whatnot. Definitely in chocolate bars. If you get anything from a restaurant, often it's fried in yucky oil. So it's easy to control that stuff when you don't eat out too much, or you go to places where they specify the oils. That's where Matt and I went for lunch to day. You can see the oils they're cooking and they have to list them very la But yeah, just be aware of seed oils and if it's a new concept to you, just do some research on it.
It'll blow your mind, you know. Okay. The other cool stuff to.
Mention is things that are really popular and cool to do, like hot cold therapy, infra red saunas versus your ice spas. There's lots like if you listen to any of the David Sinkleer stuff, he's super pro hot cold therapy, and he talks about how ice baths work on the brown fat. The it's like the deep visceral fat or something that's like the more dane fat, and it's the only thing that can kind of like get to it apparently.
So I love a bit of hot cold therapy.
I love saunas, I love exercising in infrared and heat. So all those things that put your body under a little bit of stress are considered to be good and are a lot of studies are done on them, linking them to the longevity stuff. So I'm all for it personally. Water water, water, water water, It's such an easy health hack for every so mainly Aussies listen to this part. It's about seventy percent Aussies, thirty percent American. But for every twenty two kilograms you weigh, you want to lead or a water. So okay, I should be drinking, you know, close to three liters of.
Water a day.
How much do I drink today? I'll probably drink too, So you do need to drink a lot of water. The first signe of dehydration is actually hunger. How interesting. But you want good quality water, so I am pro like getting a filter using filtered water. I'm a big fan of that, and like just like being really clean with your water, Like I love like, I love getting like alkalim water and spring water. And when we lived in Byron, we always like get like water from the like valley, and like we'd get at the farmer's market. It was so good, it was the best water. We flip and loved it all right. So that's the health stuff, like the one oh one stuff. I want to like nerd out over some of the supplements because they're getting so much hype and everyone's talking about them on socials. So you got NAD and it's written in ad pluses like nicotin and dinner. Mine likes really long. David Sinklers who made it famous. It's getting popular in Australia. It's given in America. They sell it as like a sublingual supplement. In Australia usually you get like a booster shot in your butt or an IV drip and that's that. I believe that works on. I believe that works on these longevity genes. So it either works on the statuens or the talomes that because that's kind of what David Sinclair is famous for researching tellomy is basically they shorten as we age, so it works on like extending the length or it may not, but I think that's what it does. And the other thing, the longevity genes are those satuan or cert one genes that over time I think is that that whole epigenetics stuff. I hope I'm saying this right. My point is, go listen to that David Sincler. He's amazing, But NAD is kind of what he's famous for. There's also a precursor to NAD.
I believe it's.
Called NMN or RMN. And he only promotes one of them. I think it's got to who like he earns once my el owns another one. The other one that's getting a lot of love it is euylthina. And I believe Dave Asbury, who's the bolletproof guy, he is into eurolithin a Now this more focuses on gut. I believe it's a type of I wrote it all down pro biotic.
Where are y? Where are you? Mate?
Here? It is so this is all about mitochondrial health and it is made in the gut. And I believe that they create this supplement from pomegranite. It's naturally sourced in pomegranites, walnuts, and almonds. But you'd need like to consume hundreds of pomegranites to get the right amount of eurolithin. A really big in America right now. The people that aren't on the NAD ship are on the eurolithin a ship, so I mean, just something fascinating to research and.
Look into it.
There's a cool backstory behind NAD as well, where I think it was originally used for.
Helping with addiction and.
It affected energy levels as like accidentally affected energy levels and improved like reaction time for people. So anyway, very fascinating lots to look into, just us about like, I don't know how they available is in Australia, and I'm sure it'll start rolling out in skin care as well, because obviously we love the topical side of things. So fascinating though, I think it's all about like looking after our health, essentially delaying the onset of chronic illnesses or diseases, which is, you know, your cardiovascular disease, cancers, neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's dementia, and essentially getting yourself to the stage where you feel vital. I want to say, like eighty ninety percent of the time. You want to feel good eighty ninety percent of the time, and you want to extend that health span as opposed to a lifes family. Let's see how long we can be healthy and stay healthy. For the other thing that I haven't talked about too much is fasting. I love fasting.
I do it a lot. I'm not going to lie to you.
I love getting it up, having a black coffee, going doing exercise, and then breaking my fast about midday. Some days I don't do it. Some days I wake up really hungry and I'll honor that. But usually because I excise first thing, I just find if I don't exercise in the morning, high chances I'm not going to do it. But I feel pretty clear mentally when I fast, especially in the morning, because that's like my work time. But you know, each of their own. A lot of the studies done on fasting are done on the effects of men, and I think it's worth researching the effects on women because our hormones are very different to men's, obviously, And so I think there's a book about it. I don't know what it's called, but there's a book about like timing fasting and with your cycle. Just something to think about. But I mean, I feel good when I fast. Don't do it all the time, but feel good when I fast. And now this is another weird health longevity hack. Read like keep your mind active like read.
Read out loud.
That's really good for lexicon, like building your access to words, you know, to your vocabulary, and nearly every acting school and voice acting school i've done, they also read out loud. They're like reading your spare time, but especially voice acting, they're like, you got to read out loud because it's like a muscle that you're you know, working. Same goes with reading though for the brain. So read, read, read, read, read like you've got to read. And I think with like that age of social media being like as big as it is, you know, we kind of forget it's easy to not read, and I mean go out and read like fiction, non fiction, fan fic, like whatever you want, like find whatever you want to read, because it's great for your brain, great for your vocabulary, great for your access to words. It makes you smarter, literally, Like I think just like that's another like free and easy way to look after your health from a cognitive perspective. Writeof I forgot about anything else. I'm just going over all my notes. I have one more page of notes. I feel like I did like not brutal, like not get to I didn't go too deep with the sleep thing, but like a little thing at night in our bedroom, we have a red light. We switched the light to red at night. You know, we try to to help our screens at night if we can. And getting into bed, like getting to bed before ten o'clock, and just having those little goals like that good eight hour window was ten to six am, and just like getting that good bedtime routine. You know, if you find it hard, you're someone that ruminates, you know, finding little things like isn't making a list for the next day so that you can kind of put that aside until tomorrow.
You know, I think.
Putting in place little practices and that's why I said sleep high gene where you feel really good, you know, like putting your head down on the pillow. We have an air filter in our bedroom, and that's not to be bougie or lux. We just noticed that the air quality in LA didn't feel that great and we were like, oh, we've got a this is a lot like we were waking up with like itchyi's and stuff. We were like, oh, this, We've got to do something about this. So we just got an air filter. We've got a filter on our water. So I think it's just like doing little things to essentially like and I know everyone uses the term biohack, but I mean like just hack your health, like do little things to kind of like level it up. Okay, here, I'm just going over with my other notes as if I miss anything. There's no point saying go out in detox. If you eat really well, eighty percent of the time you're naturally going to your body is going to be naturally clearing things all the time.
So don't feel like you need to.
Okay, Tomorrow, I'm going to start a mega cleans I'm going to take chlorophyll every day.
I'm going to do X, Y and Z.
No. No, I think it's just like slowly hacking it, you know what I mean, Like get the water filter things ordered. Then maybe you go through a little phase of popping some chlorophyll in your water, or you start like Matt and I went through a real phase in Barren Bay of just like green juicing every day. Here, I'll go to a juice bar and juice like just little ways to kind of like.
Level up, level up, level up, level up. That's how I do it.
And keep the inflammation low, so keep the sugar low, keep the stress low. That is also an inflammatory causer or inflammation causer. And don't be afraid of meal prep because it keeps you healthy when you're tired and you can't be eft cooking. So like if you make something for dinner, make enough for lunch leftovers the next day, Like do things that are going to help you stay on the wagon, essentially, Like you don't want to make it harder for yourself than you need to. So I think that like we've hit it. I think it's like keep it simple, make nutrition easy, real food, whole foods, avoid the seed oils, avoid too much sugars. You know that inflammation piece. Kick it to the curb. Focus on your mental health, get your mindset clear, and then anything is pretty possible. You know, like you can you'll have the stick ability and the tenacity to stay in it even when you're stressed, essentially, and have a practice to help you manage your stress. Could be jogs, could be med's meditation is what I was meant to say. Then it could be journaling. It could be having that friend that just you know what they know, they get you, You get them, Like having that person that you can check in with and like share the good, the bad, and the ugly with you know, and just like also like find things that make you really happy as well, and like that happiness peace is linked to like spiritual wellness as well, because all those things together.
Are really really important.
And like taking time out if you're getting burnt out, like know when and how to pull the handbrake up to look after yourself. Like when and I get burnt out at work on my day off, I'll say to Matt, I can't see anyone. I just have to like lay low and like recharge my batteries. And he's like, yeah, gotcha, you know. Okay, Well, I hope that was helpful. That was my rant on longevity. I've put off recording this for a little while because I'm quite attached to it, Like I do love this topic. So if you do have any questions, please write me on Insta. I would love to do a nutrition Q and A episode here on the pod. So if you want me to talk about anything specifically or have a question, send it to me on Insta and I will endeavor to put together some Q and a health a Q and a should I say health episode. The health episodes are definitely sporadic because I just time it in between Like now, we'll go to a guest after this episode as in the following Monday, and then it's moving into Christmas. So I've got all the content done for the year, but please feel totally free to send me any questions you have. You know, like I said, I'm a health nerd through and through and hit help, but also love to do a Q and a app around all around health. All right, I feel like I've waffled enough. Oru have a riper day. Hope you love this app and hopefully I hear from you soon.
All right, big love.
Remember you're doing health for you and your loved ones, but for you. So you're doing this for you because you're worth it and you want to feel vital, all right.
So I wanted to say see you two. Its Oh my god.
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