What Really Impacts Health & Longevity

May 4, 2012

Interview with Dr. Duke Johnson, author of the book The Optimal Health Revolution: How Inflammation Is the Root Cause of the Biggest Killers and How the Cutting-edge Sceince of Nutrigenomics Can Transform Your Long-term Health

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Mike Carruthers:
Living in an industrialized society may be hazardous to your health - at least as far as heart disease and cancer are concerned.

Dr. Duke Johnson:
Literally, I've got a graph from the Ministry of Health of Japan that shows that heart disease and cancer were not an issue until after World War II. In the United States it started at the turn of the 20th Century - then heart disease and cancer become the major causes of death.
 

Dr. Duke Johnson, author of the book The Optimal Health Revolution, says obviously we can't go back in time but there are some things we can do…

Including eating five to seven servings of fruits and vegetables. Five to seven servings of fruits and vegetables every day have so many benefits that they reduce the risk of cancer, they reduce the risk of heart disease, they reduce the risk of diabetes, and in people who are obese have a tendency to lose weight.

Another fascinating factor in staying healthy and living longer is religious faith.

There are over 1400 studies that have shown that people who have a committed religious faith have better health - it's an area of study at Duke University. Also The National Institute of Health and Harvard are doing research on this.

Specifically what the research shows is that…

People who have what is called an "intrinsic faith" (meaning that they are committed to their faith) have lower rates of heart disease, better recovery from heart disease, lower cancer rates, better recovery, lower drug abuse rates, lower recovery, etc. Science can't tell you what to believe but whatever you do believe, believe it intently.