100 Year-Old Nutrition Professor: 7 Keys to Longevity | Dr. John Scharffenberg

[Applause] I'm Dr John scharenberg 100 years old Chris and I invited 100-year-old Dr John scharenberg to speak at tedex Boston on October 1st longevity day so he could share his keys to longevity in just 15 minutes Dr shenberg is that giggly guy we interviewed on this channel his interview got about 2.3 million views in under a year e breakfast about 6:30 and then lunch come 12:31 and then I don't eat anymore I'd called Dr scharenberg expecting him to say that he wouldn't be able to travel so far he said he wouldn't be able to make

it to Boston at that time because he'd be lecturing in Slovakia at that time where he's gone annually the past 10 years in fact he'd recently returned from speaking in Madagascar about 20 hours of flying in total he travels completely alone he only uses a wheelchair in the airport if the time between flights is very short like it was when he was laying over in Paris he's returning to Madagascar this year to lecture then the Czech Republic in September and he's in Guam right now to speak all that is to say Dr John scharenberg is

jet setting around the world to educate people at the spritely age of 100 he says traveling isn't tiring at all not surprising for a man who at age 80 climbed Half Dome in yosee we recently visited him to learn more about his adventurous life you'll see more of that coming up on this channel by the way for his H 100th birthday he drove over 3 hours to go to a home to celebrate it with his family and he regularly drives that long to give lectures all without a GPS since Dr scharenberg couldn't make it in

person at tedex we decided to film him giving his 15minute talk we'll show it on October 1st at tedex and you'll see it right here coming right up he delivered this talk at one of Chef AJ's potlucks we enjoyed lunch together there where he shared that he always gets standing ovations and boy did he get one here too he didn't even need a microphone we could all hear him delivering his rousing speech Chris and I still aren't sure how the heck we filmed this we had so many issues with cameras lighting the stage all before

our star spoke Dr shenberg typically stands while presenting for over an hour at a time we had him sit for this talk so we could get the camera at eye level with him at the last minute somehow everything fell into place must have been the scharenberg effect how does Dr scharenberg stay so healthy and vibrant you're about to find out thank you everybody I'm so happy to be here and tell you something that's just happened in my lifetime I never expected to happen in my lifetime we now know the m major cause of disease and

death in all industrialized countries is cardiovascular disease that can be prevented with proper lifestyle without any medicine we just have to avoid seven lifestyle risk factors now you should know I'm a 100 years of age it's taken a 100 years for all this to happen I'm starting on my second hundred years I've been a vegetarian all my life but there's seven risk factors you must know about and I can't be in Boston in October because I'll be overseas in Czechoslovakia I'm going to be in Guam this year I was in Madagascar once I'm going back

in July to Madagascar and then I'll spend a month in shech Republic and a month in Slovakia so I'm traveling quite a bit by myself everybody asks you drive a car still of course I drive a car I got a red Toyota PR but the seven risk factors you should know about number one is tobacco we've known that for a long time now 1964 surgeon general's report everybody knows not to smoke but did you know that some people like people with Alzheimer's disease they have less smokers cuz they don't get old enough to die from

Alzheimer's disease you know they'd already died before they get Alzheimer's so they don't get Alzheimer's but alcohol is another risk factor women should know about this particular because it has to do with breast cancer alcohol now we used to say two drinks a day for men one for women was probably safe but Max griswell doctor in the University of Washington did a big study the biggest ever done in 195 countries around the world he's a social Drinker he want to know how much is safe to drink he got the answer zero any little bit of

alcohol you take increases your risk of dying from something he says he has to review his lifestyle now too his study was funded by Bill Gates who has a home just behind the University of Weston his article was published in the Lancet Journal so it's tobacco and alcohol are two risk factors we must avoid the next one is inactivity lack of exercise we need to exercise every day that's very important I have outlived my two brothers 13 14 years 17 years they already passed away and every year that's going to increase another year and I'm

not going to die next year so it's going to keep going up but exercise is extremely important I had a lady who helped me with the the PowerPoint lectures she was a graphic artist she did it for living for advertising purposes she did a lot of work for me but she was kind of big I mean big big big I said to her one day you know I've got to talk to you about your weight I'm a prevented medicine doctor I must talk to you her face fell I said do you want the bad news

first or the good news first she says tell me the bad news first you should understand that overweight increases the risk of dying from almost every disease we know but now let me give you the good news even though you are obese if you exercise every day you will live longer than the woman who's normal weight who doesn't exercise a man who smokes has hypertension has high blood cholester all but if he exercises every day he will outlive the man who doesn't have any of those problems who doesn't exercise you got that to be le

mean is good only if you exercise otherwise it has no Advantage exercise is extremely important now you should know the age at which it's most important it's during midlife 40 to 70 years of life that's when you should exercise that's when people get more money to relax and do Le less exercise and eat more they need to turn it around exercise more as they get older and eat less as they get older okay exercise is extremely important the next risk factor overweight we already mentioned a little bit about overweight okay we need to figure out

why people are getting so fat we have a new idea they're addicted so we can divide the overweight people in different different categories now and some are psychologically affected they crave something psychologically other people they have a real addiction because they're making opiates in the body we need to differentiate these two and treat them in a different manner okay the next big risk factor was a problem with too much meat and and uh too much sugar now sugar for the first time we've discovered increases heart attack risk too much sugar cani heart attack f i

remember that Mr fishbeck from Redlands he went through my program his cholesterol and triglycerides were Sky High it took me a long time to find out his problem he wasn't overweight he wasn't eating a lot of meat what was his problem I hit the right question do you like ice cream oh yes I like ice cream I said then you mean sometimes after your meal you have a dish of ice cream well it's not quite like that well how is it it's before I go to bed at night now the usual Bowl isn't big enough

I go out to K the kitchen and get a mixing bowl and I put in my scoops of ice cream well how many scoops do you put in well I'd mash it up so my wife wouldn't know but you know how many is it well it's at least three then I put frozen strawberries on top but you know they aren't very sweet so I Whi sugar into it and then I put whipped cream and you know whipped cream isn't sweet either so I Whi sugar into the whipped cream I said how long have you been

doing this every night for the last six months wow no wonder he was having high cholesterol high triglycerides okay so sugar but now the question of cutting down on meat that irritated the American public they didn't like that they like their meat so what we're going to do about that the Heart Association changed the recommendation eat more fruits than vegetables but really they me meant eat less meat but it didn't say it so they had another recommendation don't eat more than 5 to 6% of your calories as saturated fat now let me tell you the

secret that means vegetarian diet but they didn't use any bad words vegetarian or meat they didn't talk about it just saturated fat cut down your saturated fat that's the animal fat the dairy fat if you're going to use milk make sure it's nonfat or 1% fat only that's the standard Heart Association recommendation so get rid of the pork fat the the lard and that sort of thing see animal fat is a big problem now they added to this hypertension high blood pressure and high cholesterol but the first five if you do those they keep you

from having high blood pressure pressure and high cholesterol I'm so excited about what we know we can do we can lower heart attack risk 80% the first stroke risk 80% diabetes risk 88% by lifestyle without any pills no medicine now it's not just me talking the World Health Organization agrees to this the American Heart Association promotes it the European Cardiology Society agrees to it so this is scientific but it's hard to get the doctors to agree to it practicing Physicians they have been told for many years if your cholesterol goes up you should take the

Statin pills any of you heard of the statins you know 24 million Americans in this country are taking stattin to lower their blood cholesterol they did a study on life expectancy and they discovered for 93% of the people it didn't help them one be bit they didn't live any longer because they took the pills or didn't take the pills didn't make any difference for 7% of the people it did help those were the ones who really had heart disease and they lived that they took the pills they lived 8 and a third or 8 and

A2 years longer so it was worthwhile for those our problematically is we don't know how to tell who has aosc crosis heart attacks and needs those pills and who doesn't we've been going by cholesterol level now in 2015 the US government was advised by their medical scientists to tell everybody the optimum diet is a vegetarian diet can you believe it the vegetarian diet is an Optimum diet it'll help reduce the risk of these diseases but when it got to the leaders of the agriculture department and the health department they said that's too too strict they

added lean me to that Optimum diet but the scientist didn't want them to do that but they did it but the optimum diet is a vegetarian diet everybody should know this it's not something unusual everybody needs to know this now it's exciting that we know what we should do our next breakthrough is going to be to get people to do what they know they should do that's why we have to have experts helping them to go ahead and do what they know they should do but here a doctor writes a prescription to this overweight lady

you will now exercise one hour every day she comes back in one month little fatter did you follow my prescription no after they have a 100 patients going through their office like that they don't want to continue that nonsense telling people to do something that they aren't going to do they know should they should tell them we have another problem a group of doctors they're practicing in groups now 20 together the leader calls the group together and says now look you got to see another patient every 10 minutes or we're not going to make any

money on this 10 minutes is not long enough to teach anybody anything and then a lady comes in says what shall I eat for breakfast tomorrow morning the doctor thinks he hasn't had a good nutrition course in medical school so he thinks what did my wife feed me this morning that's crazy they need a good medical course in a nutrition course in medical school they don't have it they need it but the exciting thing is you and I don't have to wait for the doctor to tell us if we live the right lifestyle we won't

get these heart attacks and The Strokes so I pray that all of you will live the right life lifestyle and tell your neighbors to do it [Applause] too thank you thank you