Uncovering the Keys to Wellbeing and Longevity: A Deep Dive with Dr. Roizen Part 1
Season 13: Ep. 595
Our daily choices can shape not only how long we live, but how well we live. Dr. Michael Roizen challenges us to rethink aging by exploring how nutrition, movement, prevention, and personal motivation can influence our health trajectory.
Drawing from decades of medical experience and longevity research, Dr. Roizen shares why finding your personal “why” is essential to lasting change and how wellness can benefit individuals, families, and communities. His message is hopeful and empowering: we can take meaningful steps today to live younger, longer, and with greater purpose.
Key Takeaways:
- Our daily choices around nutrition, movement, tobacco, stress, and other lifestyle factors can significantly influence our health trajectory and quality of life.
- Finding your personal motivator is essential because lasting behavior change becomes more meaningful when it connects to something you genuinely care about.
- Staying well is not only a personal responsibility but can also contribute to healthier families, stronger communities, and a more sustainable healthcare system.
- Wellness programs can create meaningful change when organizations make healthy choices easier and support people in building sustainable habits.
- Longevity science is rapidly evolving, giving us new opportunities to extend not just lifespan but the number of years we can live with strength, independence, and purpose.
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About Dr. Michael Roizen:
Dr. Roizen served as Cleveland Clinic’s first Chief Wellness Officer from 2007 to 2019 & founding Chair of its Wellness Institute. The Clinic’s Wellness Programs helped the clinic not spend over 1.250 billion dollars for its 101,000 employees & dependents over 11 years compared with national averages and help over 43.6% of participants achieve 6 normals+2 ® for health. This reduced their rate of aging and time of disability equivalent to 12.5 years over an 80 year lifespan.
Dr Roizen is a recipient of an Emmy, an Elle, the Paul Rogers best medical communicator award from the National Library of Medicine, & the Bennett Family Award from GlobalWellnesSummit. He initiated & developed the RealAge concept to motivate behavior change. That started the concept that 60 could be the new 40. He believes that soon 90 will be the new 40—how you can prepare for it is described in his recently released book and app-newsletter, The Great Age Reboot and 4 YOUngevity.com Ai coaching program & free newsletter.
He has authored over 195 peer reviewed scientific publications (he really is a science nerd), four New York Times #1 best sellers, 9 overall top 10 bestsellers including his initial #1 Bestseller in 5 countries, “RealAge: Are You As Young As You Can Be?”, “AgeProof—Living Longer without breaking a hip or running out of money” and his book that displaced Harry Potter from #1 on Amazon for 177 days, YOU: On A Diet, The Owner’s Manual for Waist Management. He served 16 years on FDA advisory committees, including chairing one for two years. His books have been translated into 44 languages and been number 1 in 5 countries in addition to the USA. He helped start 14 companies including his current Therapeutic Plasma Exchange Company, Lifespan-Edge.com, , co-invented a drug approved by the FDA, co-invented the Cloud (US Patent # 2004/0205055A1 ; his coinventor –who took it from him—was just awarded 673 million dollars from Amazon)and has a weekly podcast now in its 1268th+ week; he and Dr Oz coauthored a daily column syndicated to over 68 newspapers that translates current scientific reports into actionable steps for lay audiences. When Dr Oz declared his candidacy for public office, Dr Roizen has continued the column alone, but have recently started writing it together again, but he has restarted alone as Dr Oz is now USA’s CMS Director-Administrator.
He is a recipient of The United Way of Cleveland Humanitarian of the Year Award. He has won over 75 trophies in class A squash competition. His wife is a developmental pediatrician also listed in the Best Doctors in America. The Roizens have two children: Jenny, a PhD organic chemist working for the US Energy Department, and Jeffrey, an MD/PhD faculty member in pediatric endocrinology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Roizen is devoted to helping people live younger. He consults with patients in Cleveland Clinic’s Executive Health and Wellness Programs. He teaches them the 80% likelihood that they can be 40 at calendar age 90, and how to prepare for that.
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