A day in the life: Longevity expert Dr Mark Hyman

The author and podcast host starts the day with weights and a shake, swears by a cold plunge — and swears off the booze

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I wake up and usually journal for a while, taking some meditative time.

Then I'll work out in the gym — weight training and cardio — and then have a protein shake. I put a bunch of stuff in there including creatine, which is shown to be really helpful not only with muscle building but also cognitive health. Other nutritional supplements I think are important are omega 3, vitamin D, curcumin and oral nicotinamide mononucleotide.

Then I have a sauna and a cold plunge most days. I have a wellness studio in my garage, with a hyperbaric chamber, a Pulsed Electromagnetic Field mat, laser robotherapy and a HYPOXI machine, so I play around with those.

There are lots of interesting developments in longevity. There has been a lot of research around Klotho, which is emerging as a potential therapeutic gene therapy, stem cells, plasmapheresis and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.