• Your Healthspan Is as Important as Your Lifespan—and It’s Declining. (Wall Street Journal)

  • Feb 2 2025
  • Length: 30 mins
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Your Healthspan Is as Important as Your Lifespan—and It’s Declining. (Wall Street Journal)

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  • 📲 Want to take action? 🔗 Visit⁠ PerfectHealth.com⁠ to access our Premium Podcast Service—unlock exclusive lessons, personalized longevity strategies, and groundbreaking health insights. 🔗 ⁠Follow Airlocker Training ⁠and experience the life-changing impact of hypoxic exercise. 🔗 Premium Podcast Access. Click below ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/perfecthealth⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Hot Take: The Real Problem Behind Declining Healthspan—And Why We’re Focusing on the Wrong Crisis In this episode of The New Science of Physical Health, we break down a Wall Street Journal article on the alarming decline in healthspan—the number of years we spend in good health. While medical advancements are extending lifespan, the gap between living longer and living well is growing. And in my view, this isn’t just a crisis—it’s the biggest public health problem of the 21st century. 📉 In 1990, Americans spent 85.8% of their lives in good health.📉 By 2021, that number dropped to 83.6%—meaning more years spent battling chronic disease.📈 The years spent in poor health have increased from 10.8 to 12.7 years. We’re living longer, but spending more of those years dealing with obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cognitive decline, and metabolic dysfunction. That’s not a victory for medicine—it’s a failure of prevention. Most people focus on the crisis:🔴 Heart attacks, strokes, and metabolic diseases🔴 Rising rates of dementia and cognitive decline🔴 The growing burden of chronic disease on healthcare systems But these are just symptoms of the real issue. The true problem isn’t that these diseases exist—it’s that we have failed to teach people how to prevent them. 🔵 The REAL Public Health Problem❌ The majority of adults don’t engage in the #1 intervention for longevity.❌ They don’t understand the single metric that most accurately predicts healthspan.❌ They weren’t given a simple, evidence-based framework for long-term health. We don’t need more complexity, expensive tracking devices, or biohacking fads.We need to focus on the one intervention that has the biggest impact for the least effort. ✅ Raising your VO2 Max Score to the top 25% for your age group reduces mortality risk by 400%.✅ It’s a stronger predictor of longevity than cholesterol, weight, or blood pressure.✅ Most adults are dangerously low in cardiorespiratory fitness—and they don’t even know it. This is why I created The Perfect Health Lesson—a science-backed, simplified framework for improving healthspan without the complexity. If we want to close the healthspan gap, we must fix the way we teach health. Right now, people leave school with no real knowledge of how to extend their healthspan—and most never find their way back. We have two choices:1️⃣ Keep focusing on treating disease—and watch the healthspan gap keep widening.2️⃣ Teach people how to stay healthy using simple, high-impact interventions—starting with VO2 Max. The real mission isn’t just helping people live longer—it’s helping them stay healthy longer. And that starts with fixing how we educate the world about healthspan. 🎧 Listen now to uncover:✔️ Why lifespan means nothing if healthspan is declining✔️ The #1 intervention that beats everything else for longevity✔️ How to make health simple so that people actually take action 📲 Want to take action? Visit ThePerfectHealthLesson.com to access a science-backed framework for extending your healthspan—without the complexity. 🔍 Healthspan vs. Lifespan: The Hidden Problem🚨 The Biggest Public Health Crisis vs. The Biggest Public Health Problem🎯 How Do We Fix This? The Perfect Health LessonFinal Thought: Health Education is Broken—and It’s Killing Us
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