This is Later with Lee Matthews the Lee Matthews Podcast. More what you hear weekday afternoons on the Drive. David AGAs is the author and international sensation of the End of Illness, A Short Guide to a Long Life and the Lucky Years. His newest creation, the Book of Animal Secrets, Nature's Secrets for a Long and Happy Life, is out now and taking the country by storm. David Aegis, thanks thanks for joining us today. Thank you, Lee. Excited to be here. Mother Nature has a lot to teach us in
the animal kingdom. Oh yeah, you know, we've been on this earth a million years humans, but so have all these other creatures, and we're all adapting to the same conditions. So I went to the experts and I said, you know, here in the hallmarks of Alzheimer's heart disease, cancer and longevity, what can I learn from you? So the world's experts and giraffes and elephants and ants, all of these creatures, and the lessons are tremendous. Jellyfish and dolphins. I like to swim with the fishes. What
can I learn from those two creatures? Well, it turns out that dolphins are the only other creature in nature that gets Alzheimer's. So you can see a demented dolphin if you will, and it's actually a lot when you look into dolphins. What accelerates the Alzheimer's or the brain decline is influent. And so it really is a lesson for us that if we can start to keep our sugar or it should be our hemoglobe anyone see, which is our ninety
day average sugar routine test at your block doctor's office. If we can keep that low, we can significantly delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease. And I think that's a tremendously important lesson for us. We're a society that eats more, that eats all the time. You know, the kitchen cabinet didn't exist till two hundred years ago, so we were met to have our meals at
the same time every day and nothing in between. We need to go back to that, literally fasting in between meals because then instulin comes down one stack in between the meal. Some almonds and apple will throw you off for two or three days. So critically important to fast in between meals. Actually, I find that also a good way for weight loss because your metabolism seems to
have a chance to reset at least maybe oversimplifying it. No, I mean that's the data, right, is that you fast in between meals, metabolaism actually goes up and you will lose weight on the same amount of calories as if you eat all day. Kind of amazing giraffes and blood pressure. From what I understand that the giraffes have one of the largest hearts of the land animals. It is size doctor, oh my god, a hosstile right away,
and they're able to maintain that high blood pressure. And they need that high blood pressure, get that blood all the way up to their head, which is obviously way above the ground. They got to fight gravity. There are a couple of amazing things we can learn from the giraffe. But first of all, the reason they don't get cankled, they don't swell in their
ankles is they have very tight skin. That skin is just like you know, you see that the professional basketball players who wear those those tights underneath their shorts, those are compression stockings and they mimic the giraffe skin. In fact, our spacesuits for astronauts because there's no gravity there and things could leak out are made like the giraffe skin so very tight. The compression stockings important if
you want to reduce as well. But what else from the giraffe is If that giraffe the reason it has that big heart is to push blood, we don't have that big heart. So at night when we sleep, it's best to have your heart and your head almost at the same level. If you sleep standing is sitting up, you're not going to get deep sleep because you don't have the energy to push as much to the brain and it's not is
relaxed. So we need to sleep what we call ape of gravity, which is our head and our heart at the same level, while lesson is sleep from area. Maybe that's why I sleep so much sounder when I sleep on my stomach. Yeah, it is, and that's what people who have shoulder surgery, for example, I'll have to sleep sitting up, never get good deep sleep. We're talking to David Aegis, MD, author of the book of animal secrets, Nature's Secrets for a Happy and Long Life. Pigs.
We know they're the smartest of the of the barnyard animals, but what else can they teach us? The pigs are you know, kind of out in many regard and their socialization is they are a pack animal that we are. But they also have a power of positive thinking. So if a pig is injured and you they notice a meal coming, then that pain goes away. And it really is a message for us that pain is under our control. And if we're optimistic and we have positive thinking, all of the sudden,
oh that man, I have that. And the other thing that can do it in a pig is altruism. If a pig shares its food with another pig, believe it or not, they feel better and there's plenty of data on that. The same is true with humans. If you do something for somebody else, you will feel better. Actually, pain will go down,
and that's been measured and it's better for your loan health. Thanks for listening to Later with Lee Matthews the Lee Matthews Podcast, and remember to listen to The Drive Live weekday afternoons from five to seven and iHeartMedia Presentation