ALIve Longevity Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Yes, walking the dog counts. So does yard work, grocery shopping, and cleaning the floors. But it's not enough. Dr. Mike is back. He and John Asher are talking about your simple exercise plan and why it's important. We know this, but they get into the details of how different activities affect our bodies. From couch potatoes to bags of bones - find out in this episode how to easily convert to a stronger, healthier person who can fight off diseases.  The second activity in addition to movement is strength training. This is how our body protects us. John tells us about research that shows after age 40, we lose 1% of muscle mass per year after age 70, one and a half. So if you don't do regular strength training after age 40, by the time you're 80, you've essentially lost 50% of your muscle mass. They also discuss the benefits of something as simple as Vitamin D and its effects on our ability to fight off and recover from illnesses, diseases, and injuries.

Listen to his previous episode with Susan Finch here.

Their next session together will be about the benefits of calorie restriction.

Dr. Michael A. Smith received his medical doctorate from the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Smith practiced Internal Medicine and Radiology in Dallas, Texas in the early 2000s and then transitioned to the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries as an educator and consultant. Dr. Smith currently is the Director of Education and Spokesperson for Life Extension® and is the author of The Supplement Pyramid: How to Build your Personalized Nutritional Regimen.. He is also the host of Live FOREVERish, a podcast and Facebook live show for Life Extension®.

How do you engage patients - the ones seeking to improve their health and extend their lives? Engage them. Dr. Mike Smith is our guest today talking about building the history of a patient the old-fashioned way by asking questions, but by using engaging online tools and continuously reviewing and updating published research. It's not about jumping on the latest Dr. Oz "Miracle Cure!", but truly researching and backing up every article and protocol with deep research and evidence. Just like the Asher Longevity Institute, Life Extension is about the long game. We all want to know our patients and followers for decades. Tune in to this episode, "Using Online Quizzes to Engage and Inform Patients" to hear another passionate doctor talk about education and treating the whole person, including all of their history. This episode is guest-hosted by Funnel Media Group's Senior Producer, Susan Finch.

Dr. Michael A. Smith received his medical doctorate from the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Smith practiced Internal Medicine and Radiology in Dallas, Texas in the early 2000s and then transitioned to the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries as an educator and consultant. Dr. Smith currently is the Director of Education and Spokesperson for Life Extension® and is the author of The Supplement Pyramid: How to Build your Personalized Nutritional Regimen.. He is also the host of Live FOREVERish, a podcast and Facebook live show for Life Extension®.

In this episode of ALIve, Dr. Husain continues the discussion of peptides that he started in an earlier episode titled “Best Non-Prescription Ways to Improve Longevity.” Peptides, a generalized term for cell-signaling molecules, have been around for over 100 years. They are isolated from plant and animal sources and have been produced in pharmaceutical labs since the 1960s. Peptides are often talked about in skincare, but they also can help build muscle, promote fat loss, reduce inflammation, and improve immune function. CEO and Co-Founder of the Asher Longevity Institute John Asher interviews Dr. Abid Husain, a Fellow of the American College of Cardiologists and Certified by the American Board of Anti-Aging/Regenerative Medicine. Doctor Husain is a physician at the Boone Heart Institute in Greenwood Village, Colorado, working closely with Dr. Jeffrey Boone on state-of-the-art cardiovascular and stroke prevention programs, combined with a functional medicine outlook. 

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John Asher

John is an experienced international speaker on living a longer, healthy life and key founder of Asher Longevity. In his late 70s, John is vibrant and active, delivering sales training and life longevity information in the USA, Canada, and China. John’s mantra is always “making the complex simple”. He first applied that to growing a highly successful sales training company. Now he has applied it to the principles of living a long and active life. He has taken mountains of information on supplements, new innovative treatments, and lifestyle habits and combined them into a simple system that is constantly updated and refined by the Asher Longevity Institute.

Dr. Abid Husain

Dr. Husain is a cardiologist working closely with Dr. Jeffrey Boone at the Boone Heart Institute in Denver. Located in Denver, the Boone Heart Institute provides corporate wellness and executive health programs. Most other clinics treat heart patients after they have a stroke or heart issue. The Boone Heart Institute sets itself apart by treating the major risk factors of heart disease and working to roll back the damage and reduce your “arterial age”. The proof is in the results, they have never once had any patient under their care suffer a heart attack or stroke!

Do you know what your toxic body burden is? That’s the amount of toxins within your body made up of chemicals absorbed from food, water, air, and even personal care products. While the individual impact of any of the toxins may be minimal, the combination of all of them could be detrimental to your health. Pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizer chemicals are commonly thought of, as are industrial exposures, smoke, and vehicle exhaust; but there also are toxins in construction materials, household cleaners, and even the toothpaste and shampoo you use.

In this episode of ALIve, CEO and Co-Founder of the Asher Longevity Institute John Asher interviews Tim James, Founder, and CEO of Chemical Free Body, a cutting-edge health organization changing our world through results-driven Coaching and Educational Resources along with Detox and Nutritional Supplementation. Chemical Free Body is a mission-based organization that is passionate about helping everybody ignite their highest excitement in life by putting themselves and their health first. Tim is also the host of the Health Hero Show podcast.

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• What are the ways chemicals can get into our bodies?
• How does toxicity change our bodily functions?
• Is the standard American diet safe?
• When can toxicity occur in our lives?
• When are we most vulnerable?
• How can we avoid toxic chemicals entering our bodies?
• What are the ways we can detoxify our bodies?

John Asher John is an experienced international speaker on living a longer, healthy life and key founder of Asher Longevity. In his late 70s, John is vibrant and active, delivering sales training and life longevity information in the USA, Canada, and China. John’s mantra is always “making the complex simple”. He first applied that to growing a highly successful sales training company. Now he has applied it to the principles of living a long and active life. He has taken mountains of information on supplements, new innovative treatments, and lifestyle habits and combined them into a simple system that is constantly updated and refined by the Asher Longevity Institute.

Tim James At Chemical Free Body (chemicalfreebody.com), we believe that every living creature on this planet has a right to live free of man-made chemicals and eat fresh, highly nutritious foods that have not been altered from their natural state. We see an exciting future where mankind comes together in consciousness to live in harmony with nature and support individuals in following their dreams.

We are a mission-based organization that is passionate about helping everybody ignite their highest excitement in life by putting themselves and their health first. Our goal is to rescue one gut at a time with honest, pure and natural ingredients that taste great, and absolutely no harmful man-made chemicals, no binders or fillers, just pure concentrated nature! We dare you to check our labels and give us a call if you have any questions about any

Will this be the Decade of Biotech? Medical investment and research indicate that it might be. Technologies supporting longevity research, including artificial intelligence, big data, CRISPER, gene therapy, and machine learning are growing exponentially. And there’s been an explosion of longevity-related investment from billionaires and at universities and medical clinics. We can readily see what major investment in targeted health programs can mean in extending the careers of super athletes such as Tom Brady and LeBron James. What if you also had access to new longevity therapies, protocols, and technologies to extend not only your lifespan, but also your health span?

In this episode of ALIve, CEO and Co-Founder of the Asher Longevity Institute John Asher follows up on previous podcasts describing the Nine Steps to an Unlimited Life with further details on the major contributing causes of aging and death and what you can do to slow or prevent them.

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John Asher

John is an experienced international speaker on living a longer, healthy life and key founder of Asher Longevity. In his late 70s, John is vibrant and active, delivering sales training and life longevity information in the USA, Canada, and China. John’s mantra is always “making the complex simple”. He first applied that to growing a highly successful sales training company. Now he has applied it to the principles of living a long and active life. He has taken mountains of information on supplements, new innovative treatments, and lifestyle habits and combined them into a simple system that is constantly updated and refined by the Asher Longevity Institute.

Traumatic Brain Injury can come from a violent blow or jolt to the head or body. We tend to think of bomb blasts, athletic impacts, and car crashes with TBI, but its symptoms can arise from non-violent means as well. We also associate medications, surgery, and rehabilitation as treatments, but there can be other treatments as well. In this episode of ALIve, CEO and Co-Founder of the Asher Longevity Institute John Asher interviews Dr. Valerie Donaldson, Founder and Medical Director of the Regenerative Medicine Center (RMC) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and certified in Anti-Aging Medicine, Functional Medicine, and Stem Cell Therapy.

• What are the causes of Traumatic Brain Injury?
• How is Traumatic Brain Injury alike or different from other brain illnesses such as Alzheimer’s or MS or Parkinson’s?
• How did Dr. Donaldson get interested in treating Traumatic Brain injury?
• How is her method of treatment different than others and what is her success rate?
• What types of people does she see for Traumatic Brain Injury and what’s the most common age group?

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John Asher John is an experienced international speaker on living a longer, healthy life and key founder of Asher Longevity. In his late 70s, John is vibrant and active, delivering sales training and life longevity information in the USA, Canada, and China. John’s mantra is always “making the complex simple”. He first applied that to growing a highly successful sales training company. Now he has applied it to the principles of living a long and active life. He has taken mountains of information on supplements, new innovative treatments, and lifestyle habits and combined them into a simple system that is constantly updated and refined by the Asher Longevity Institute. 

Dr. Valerie Donaldson

Nutritional repletion, diet, exercise, and lifestyle changes are the cornerstone of any holistic medical practice and are part of Dr. Donaldson’s RMC, a personalized concierge service designed to offer patients exclusive contact with her and her team. Her approach considers research from a whole-body perspective and spending a considerable amount of time with every patient to attempt to get to the root of their health concerns by connecting the dots of their health and history to shape a unique treatment plan because no two people are the same. In Dr. Donaldson’s words, “I offer hope to people who have no hope. I do this by passionately searching for the cause in order to appropriately treat the underlying dysfunction. I don't believe patients are drug deficient but are out of balance in their biochemical, nutritional, hormonal, emotional, and/or spiritual makeup. One must find where the individual is out of balance and correct it in order to sustain wellness.”

Have you ever wondered what physically healthy people have in common? And why some seem to thrive in the face of challenges? Are they exceptions or can others of us also develop the same kinds of habits to succeed in any endeavor? In this episode of ALIve, CEO and Co-Founder of the Asher Longevity Institute John Asher interviews Nick Shaw, co-founder of Renaissance Periodization (RP), a multi-million-dollar health and fitness company that has improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of clients around the world. Nick has coached world-class athletes including CrossFit Games champions, international medalists in weightlifting, UFC fighters, Navy SEALs, and Olympians. But it wasn’t until 2020 when his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer and facing the fallout of treatment for months through COVID-19, that he had to really lean into the habits he was teaching and put them to the ultimate test. His new book, with the same title as this podcast, details what he learned.

• What are the seven principle habits for success that both athletes and business professionals should master?
• Which are the most important?
• How vital is the concept of internal locus of control?
• What is the biggest takeaway Nick Shaw realized from all this?

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John Asher

John is an experienced international speaker on living a longer, healthy life and key founder of Asher Longevity. In his late 70s, John is vibrant and active, delivering sales training and life longevity information in the USA, Canada, and China. John’s mantra is always “making the complex simple”. He first applied that to growing a highly successful sales training company. Now he has applied it to the principles of living a long and active life. He has taken mountains of information on supplements, new innovative treatments, and lifestyle habits and combined them into a simple system that is constantly updated and refined by the Asher Longevity Institute.

Would you like to break free of confining roles and routines that limit your joy and drain your life energy? In this episode of ALIve, CEO and Co-Founder of the Asher Longevity Institute John Asher interviews Jim Strole, Director of The Coalition for Radical Life Extension and Co- Founder of People Unlimited Inc. He’s a leading anti-death activist and community builder, who has spoken around the world and written on radical life extension and physical immortality for over four decades. Jim is co-author of the book Just Getting Started: 50 Years of Living Forever, and Living Without Death: The Experience of Physical Immortality, and has published Living Unlimited Magazine. He has appeared on numerous TV shows both domestically and abroad and has co-hosted a weekly radio program on radical life extension and physical immortality.

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John Asher

John is an experienced international speaker on living a longer, healthy life and key founder of Asher Longevity. In his late 70s, John is vibrant and active, delivering sales training and life longevity information in the USA, Canada, and China. John’s mantra is always “making the complex simple”. He first applied that to growing a highly successful sales training company. Now he has applied it to the principles of living a long and active life. He has taken mountains of information on supplements, new innovative treatments, and lifestyle habits and combined them into a simple system that is constantly updated and refined by the Asher Longevity Institute.

Jim Strole

Jim Strole is Director of The Coalition for Radical Life Extension, and Co-Founder of People Unlimited Inc. The Coalition for Radical Life Extension is rallying like-minded people to come together to stand up for radical life extension and physical immortality. Powered by People Unlimited, the Coalition is a not-for-profit organization reaching out to groups and individuals who already have an interest in radical life extension and physical immortality, to galvanize and focus our energy into a popular movement that is self-sustaining and expansive. From an early age, Jim was drawn to the purpose of bringing people together to support unlimited life. Jim has dedicated his life to challenging death-oriented beliefs and practices and has coached thousands of people to live healthier, fuller, more vibrant lives. As a successful entrepreneur, he operated several businesses to fund this work.

In this episode of ALIve, CEO and Co-Founder of the Asher Longevity Institute John Asher interviews Dr. Abid Husain, a Fellow of the American College of Cardiologists and Certified by the American Board of Anti-Aging/Regenerative Medicine. According to the Institute for Functional Medicine, it’s a systems biology–based approach that focuses on identifying and addressing the root cause of disease. Each symptom or differential diagnosis may be one of many contributing to an individual’s illness. Dr. Husain explains how he has moved from conventional cardiology medicine treating current conditions to focusing on the future of his patients. He discusses the history of peptides, the role of hormones, and health at the cellular level. Dr. Husain advises three non-prescription actions we can take to slow down the body’s deterioration. Doctor Husain is a physician at the Boone Heart Institute in Greenwood Village, Colorado, working closely with Dr. Jeffrey Boone on state-of-the-art cardiovascular and stroke prevention programs, combined with a functional medicine outlook. 

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John Asher

John is an experienced international speaker on living a longer, healthy life and key founder of Asher Longevity. In his late 70s, John is vibrant and active, delivering sales training and life longevity information in the USA, Canada, and China. John’s mantra is always “making the complex simple”. He first applied that to growing a highly successful sales training company. Now he has applied it to the principles of living a long and active life. He has taken mountains of information on supplements, new innovative treatments, and lifestyle habits and combined them into a simple system that is constantly updated and refined by the Asher Longevity Institute.

Dr. Abid Husain

Dr. Husain is a cardiologist working closely with Dr. Jeffrey Boone at the Boone Heart Institute in Denver. Located in Denver, the Boone Heart Institute provides corporate wellness and executive health programs. Most other clinics treat heart patients after they have a stroke or heart issue. The Boone Heart Institute sets itself apart by treating the major risk factors of heart disease and working to roll-back the damage and reduce your “arterial age”. The proof is in the results, they have never once had any patient under their care suffer a heart attack or stroke!

Cardiovascular health is important for heart function in the aging process, but it’s also vitally important in brain function. The best way to protect the aging brain is to identify and aggressively treat vascular problems as soon as possible. In this episode of ALIve, CEO and Co-Founder of the Asher Longevity Institute John Asher interviews Dr. Jeffrey Boone, named one of the top cardiovascular doctors in America. Dr. Boone is the Founder and Director of the Boone Heart Institute in Denver and also is the Chief Medical Officer of the Asher Longevity Institute. John describes his own experience of increasing brain function under Dr. Boone’s care and Dr. Boone explains how scans can now measure brain function and how new therapies and drugs can help prevent strokes (the third leading cause of death) and early onset of dementia. While the brain is only 2% of the average human body weight, it receives up to 20% of the body’s blood supply. Protecting the aging brain by paying early attention to cardiovascular issues gives you a longer life span and also a longer healthspan.

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John Asher 

John is an experienced international speaker on living a longer, healthy life and key founder of Asher Longevity. In his late 70s, John is vibrant and active, delivering sales training and life longevity information in the USA, Canada, and China. John’s mantra is always “making the complex simple”. He first applied that to growing a highly successful sales training company. Now he has applied it to the principles of living a long and active life. He has taken mountains of information on supplements, new innovative treatments, and lifestyle habits and combined them into a simple system that is constantly updated and refined by the Asher Longevity Institute.

Dr. Jeffrey Boone

Dr. Boone has been a pioneer in the prevention of heart disease and stroke for over three decades. He is an expert in cardiovascular disease prevention with treatments ranging from mental stress reduction to the use of the latest cardiac imaging techniques. Located in Denver, the Boone Heart Institute provides corporate wellness and executive health programs. Most other clinics treat heart patients after they have a stroke or heart issue. The Boone Heart Institute sets itself apart by treating the major risk factors of heart disease and working to roll-back the damage and reduce your “arterial age”. The proof is in the results, they have never once had any patient under their care suffer a heart attack or stroke!