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From savoury breakfasts to sardines, Dr Mark Hyman’s life-lengthening diet tweaks can make all the difference. When you picture yourself in old age, you may assume you’ll be frail, have limited mobility and be suffering from an illness, whether that’s dementia, heart disease or osteoporosis. But longevity guru Dr Mark Hyman, 64, who helped to popularise functional medicine (the idea that food should be the first line of therapy) and overhauled Bill and Hillary Clinton’s diets, urges people to think again.

His advice is taken as gospel by his 3 million social media followers and the thousands he has helped to better health since the publication of his 2013 book The Daniel Plan , which interestingly was co-authored with Christian pastor Rick Warren, and encouraged readers to lose weight and focus on their faith. “Most of what we see as ageing is actually abnormal,” Hyman says. “The decline that happens is modifiable and we can reverse our biological age by how we eat, exercise and manage stress, even as we get chronologically older.



“Food is the most important lever we have to pull on this and people need to understand that what they eat is transforming everything about their health at every moment.” The bestselling author and podcast host, whose latest book The Young Forever Cookbook promises youth-promoting recipes, shares the principles behind eating for a longer and healthier life. 1.

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