How a Small Italian Village Inspired My Longevity Protocol

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Ketone-IQ and Lifeforce. We know that community and stress management greatly influence longevity and overall health. Yet, many people find themselves feeling isolated or lonely amid their busy lives. Today’s episode will inspire you to build and nurture connections to optimize your health, as well as the health of your family and friends. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, we have a special compilation episode featuring Dhru's conversations with several guests on the importance of social connections for long-term health. Dr. Rose Anne Kenny shares the fascinating story of the Roseto, Italy, immigrants and how their deep-rooted community bonds helped them maintain optimal health. Dhru also explores the concept of Moais and how he built a strong community through his Man Morning group. Group members share their personal experiences, what surprised them the most, and how this community has positively impacted their lives. In this episode, Dhru and his guests dive into: A study on happiness (1:30) The town of Rosetta, Italy (2:57) Health assessment of the mini Rosetta town (4:25) Social engagement and its impact on good health (6:20) Behaviors of the townspeople that led to good health (7:15) The concept of Moais (10:05) Man Morning Thursdays and the question of the week (12:51) Vulnerability and surprising revelations (14:30) Creating a safe space (17:35) Weaving community into daily life (22:00) Rose Anne Kenny holds the chair of medical gerontology at Trinity College Dublin and St. James’s Hospital and is director of Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing. She has published extensively on cardiovascular risk factors for falls and cognitive decline in aging. Her recently published book “Age Proof – The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life” was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2022. This episode is brought to you by Ketone IQ and Lifeforce. Right now, my friends at Ketone-IQ are offering 30% off your first subscription order & a free six-pack of Ketone-IQ when you order using the link ketone.com/dhru and promo code DHRU. Right now, you can save $250 on your first diagnostic and get personalized suggestions. Optimize your longevity and track your progress; go to mylifeforce.com/dhru! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, Drew Prote here. Today we're talking about a tiny Italian village outside of Rome that
0:06.6	ended up migrating its inhabitants and its citizens migrated to the US and something pretty amazing happened.
0:14.8	Something that really shocked the scientific and the medical community at that time
0:19.6	here in the United States and we have an incredible storyteller for you,
0:22.3	Rose Ann Kennedy, a scientist, a researcher,
0:25.6	past podcast guest that's going to tell you this story. But before she tells you this story,
0:30.0	which is coming up right here in one moment, I'm going to tell you why we're telling you this story.
0:34.6	See this little Italian village that ended up popping up in the United States discovered something incredible,
0:41.5	and that discovery was so amazing that it's had all sorts of reverberations on how we think about health.
0:50.0	In particular, this idea that our relationships, how we live, the close-knit nature of our friendships actually has a massive, a massive freaking impact on our health span and potentially even maybe our lifespan.
1:07.1	You know this isn't news for a lot of people.
1:09.1	In fact if you've been paying attention to the headlines, one of the biggest studies that got so many eyeballs and
1:15.1	media hits last year was a study which was the longest study ever done on
1:20.4	happiness. The study which was led by Harvard University, it started in
1:25.0	1938 and it followed 724 young men from all sorts of socioeconomic
1:32.4	backgrounds throughout their lifetime to gain an insight into the factors
1:36.2	that influence adult development and healthy aging.
1:38.8	So researchers, they collected a wealth of data points on the participants over these years.
1:42.7	Every two years, they sent out these questionnaires and they collected all sorts of
1:46.1	information, medical information, and they even did interviews with the participants every 10 years.
1:52.4	So as the study progressed, they discovered with the participants every 10 years.
1:52.5	So as the study progressed, they discovered that the men who aged, the best, were also
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