Unlocking the Secrets of Longevity with Dr. David Bernstein

Join Dr. David Bernstein on his incredible journey as he discovers the secrets to aging successfully. Hear how his story of determination and resilience, influenced by his parents and his passion for research, led him to uncover his life-transforming five-step program. But as he reveals his findings, a shocking discovery awaits that could change everything... Show Notes | Transcript The best antidepressant ever invented is exercise. - David Bernstein Introducing David Bernstein, an accomplished physician specializing in internal medicine and geriatrics. David's mission is to help people unlock the secrets to a long, healthy, and youthful life. As an engaging public speaker and author, he shares his expertise on medical topics with colleagues, the community, and people navigating the intricacies of aging. David's unique approach combines his extensive experience with cutting-edge research, allowing him to develop a strategy for enhancing longevity and vitality. His warm and friendly demeanor makes his advice both accessible and practical, empowering individuals to take charge of their health and well-being. In this episode, you will be able to: Uncover Dr. Bernstein's powerful Power of Five strategy for achieving longevity and maintaining a youthful appearance. Delve into the process of addressing inflammation to lower the risk of heart disease, cancer, and neurodegenerative diseases. Realize the invaluable role of exercise in boosting endorphins, improving overall health, and safeguarding against various diseases. Understand the inextricable link between quality sleep, social interactions, and mental and physical wellbeing. Enrich your life by embracing the GRACE principles: gratitude, relaxation, authenticity, community, and exercise for sustained health. Related Live. Love. Engage. episodes you may enjoy: The Power of Community with Shannon Procise In this episode, Shannon describes how people in communities can be more powerful than the individual alone. Joyfully Managing Midlife Changes with Claire & James Davis Claire & James explain why changing your belief system is foundational to greater health in midlife. Trust Your Body, Love Your Body with Oralia Acosta In this episode, Oralia shares how our thoughts and feelings affect the way we eat. Resources: Connect with Dr. David here Email: David (at) powerof5life.com Join the Soulful Women's Network here Send me a message here ☕ Support the podcast here ❤ Love this episode? Leave us a review and rating here Connect with Gloria: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Twitter TRANSCRIPT Gloria Grace Rand Namaste. I am so glad to be with you for another edition of Live Love Engage. And I've got a wonderful gentleman with us today who I am looking forward to having a discussion with, and I'm going to tell you about him. His name is David Bernstein, M. D. So, he is a doctor. In fact, he is a highly respected, award-winning physician who is board certified in both internal medicine and geriatrics. And he has integrated his experience and practice with up-to-date research to develop a strategy to enhance longevity and vitality. And he's also an entertaining and engaging public speaker as well as an author. And for those of you listening, he's got two of his books right behind him, which we are going to talk about during this interview today, but he speaks with, on medical topics with his colleagues and the community at large, with a focus on individuals and families facing the complex problems of aging, longevity, remaining healthy and youthful. And so, we're going to be talking quite a bit about all those things, I think, today. So, I first of all want to welcome Dr. David Bernstein to live, love, engage. David Bernstein Thank you, Gloria. It's a pleasure to be here. Gloria Grace Rand Well, I'm very interested in what your subject matter is because as someone who is starting to get up there in years, okay. I did celebrate my 60th birthday this year, and I intend to, I would like to go another 45 years. So, I've got high goals, I guess you should say, as long as I am healthy and active and all that while. So, when I learned a little bit about what your specialty is, I'm curious because I'd like to ask our guests a little bit about their journey and kind of how they got interested in doing the work that they're doing now. So, I was wondering, what was it that sort of got you interested in internal medicine, of course, but also but particularly the geriatrics end of the medical spectrum, I suppose. David Bernstein Well, I'm glad you asked. It's one of my favorite topics to talk about because when I was growing up, my dad was an immigrant to this country who fought and was wounded in World War II and was injured and showed me the determination to succeed in life. And that was a really big part of who I am. And he and my mom encouraged me to do something different than what he did in his life, although he was successful as a manufacturer of women's clothes, that's not what I didn't want to be wearing women's clothes. And my brother chose to do that, not wear it, but manufacture women's clothes. So, I was encouraged to become a doctor and use my brain, and that was one of my influences and inspirations. Another was my mom's frustration with the care that her parents, my grandparents, got when they aged because she would come home from visits with them and go into the doctor and said, they don't know anything. They don't care. They don't listen. She said, when you become a doctor, you be nice to old people and be kind and compassionate. And I said, okay, I'll do that, mom. I listened. And sometime in 1973, I saw a National Geographic magazine, and the cover had a man on it. He was an older looking man, and he was a centenarian. And I read this story cover to cover. I saved the magazine. You can do anything with Google these days. I have a cover of it, and it was written by Alexander Leif. And just today I was writing a letter to the editor about my experience with that article because it prompted me to want to learn about centenarians, about what you can do to live to be 100. And it was decades before the Blue Zones were written about, and that was incorporated into my fabric, along with a speaker at my graduation who talked about being an author. And I said, I want to do that, too. So I went to medical school, and I went to college before that and learned about Gerontology. And then in medical school, I wanted to serve an underserved area, and Geriatrics was one of them. And I have a great career of taking care of older adults. Took a lot of pressure off. I mean, it was like juggling multiple balls at one time because there's lots of people with chronic illnesses and how to take care of it. But also there were opportunities to talk to people about what made them age successfully. And even though I may have taken care of a patient from the time they were 60 until they were 90 and I was 35 and I aged, I always felt like I was 35. And it responds to what you said a little while ago, Gloria that I continue to think I'm a little person, a young man, and I don't feel that I'm my age, just like you don't feel your age, and you just feel like it's another day. And I'm still this young, vibrant person, and I got to learn what their lives are about and what made them age, successfully or not, if that were the case. Gloria Grace Rand Yeah, absolutely. And it was interesting. I've got a close friend that I went to college with, and we're still in touch, and her birthday is actually two days after mine. And she's like, Gloria, yeah, I don't feel like I'm 60. I feel like I'm still just 35 or something, because I don't see that. And I know when I think back to what my parents were like when they were 60, they seemed a bit older. And I know my mom had a lot of more health problems than I did. Fortunately, I'm healthy, but she had high blood pressure and arthritis and all these things. But the other thing I was just thinking of too, though, as you were talking about that getting into this specialty. I was just thinking that it's actually a really good I guess the timing, perhaps possibly, of you getting into this or when you were born, to be able to come into this, because of all the baby boomers that are of course, they've been getting into that category. And like I said, and I'm the tail end of the baby boomer generation now, so we're all getting up there now. It's interesting that you said that you also decided that you thought about becoming an author. So, tell us a little bit about that process, because I'm sure you're busy with your medical practice. And then so when and how did you decide that you're going to start writing some books? And then we'll talk more about specifically about those books in particular in a minute. David Bernstein Well, some of it was triggered at my graduation from high school when the author came to speak to us. And I've been in contact with him, and he's a very prolific author. He's been involved in 25 or 50 top 100 books, top best-selling books, because he does a lot of research for people, and he is a ghost writer, but he's very successful. And I think all of us who have any element of creativity, who practice medicine, think about, well, you can't make this stuff up, and I got to write about this, and this is really amazing, or this is an amazing story, and I filed them all away over the course of time. That's the creative part of this. And then I started writing some stuff, and I went to a course for physician authors to learn how to integrate all that stuff into your life and do that. So, I put my mind to it and my effort to it. And the odd thing about it was my first book. It has a funny title. It's a bit sarcastic. I have some good news and some bad news. You're old. I thought it was going to be all the funny things that I experienced o