The 4 Gut Bacteria That Help You Live Past 100 | Dr. William Li

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1:18So first of all, people who live to 100 are called centenarians, right? Cent's like 100. and we think that if you could live to 100, like that's 100 candles on your birthday cake. It's a big deal. That's a big deal, right? That's a big, that's the big birthday. That is. All right. Now, I have to tell you, my great uncle lived to 104. Wow. Okay, I was at his 100 birthday party and I saw 100 candles on his cake. That's impressive. Yeah, so I know it can happen in my own family. Did he have the energy to blow all the candles out? Not only did he have the energy to blow the candles out, He planned the party himself.

1:54Wow. Okay. He invited the guest list. He actually, I mean, he made the guest list. He planned the meal. You know, he hosted the thing. So it's possible. Yeah. Okay. Now, most people think that, you know, living to 100 would be like a crapshoot, a long shot. Like, oh, if I could, in a healthy way, and I live to 100, it'd be great. But you know, because I've been doing some research on this, it turns out today, you know how many people are 100 years old now? I think you said it was close to a million or over a million. Today, there are 722 ,000 people who are centenarians living in the world. You know, almost a quarter, three quarters of a million people that are 100.

2:42That's a lot of people. That's a lot of people. A lot more than most people suspect. And what that means is that it is possible to actually get there, which means that we can begin to study these people. And that's where I think some of the most exciting and provocative stuff actually is. And people are studying their gut bacteria. Yeah, and now we can actually study the poop and the microbiome of people who are 100 and older. So centenarians are people who live to 100. But it turns out that there's something called a super centenarian or an old super ager. And these are people that live to 114, 115 years old.

3:23All right. And like, they're really interesting. So a research study was done out of Italy, looking at people across the lifespan from young adulthood, you know, like 20 to 40, 40 to 70, 70 to 90, 90 to 100. And then like the super agers. Okay. Like 100 to 115 or 114. And in today's technology, all right, like, believe me, I think that wearables are great. I think that, you know, biohacking devices are quite amazing. But I think it's even more amazing that we can actually study the gut microbiome of like these super agers. Sure. So the question is, is there something in the gut microbiome, in superagers, 100 and above, that pop out as important?

4:15It's not present in people who don't live that long. It turns out there are four bacteria that are standouts in people that live to 100 and beyond. Does that mean there are four bacteria in people that live 100 beyond in their gut bacteria that people under 100 don't have? They have more of it. Gotcha. They have more of it. Like, for them, it really stands out as a super big spike. Okay. These four bacteria, you want to hear about them? Yes. All right. They've got names that, one of the names you might have heard of, I think we talked about it on my last time I was on a podcast. But there is four bacteria.

4:56One of them is called Odorobacter. Odorobacter? Odorobacter. Okay. One of them is called Oscillobacter. One of them is called Kristen Cinella. And then the fourth one is our old friend Ackermansia. Okay. And we've talked about Ackermansia before. Okay. which, you know, it's sort of been making the rounds as an important gut bacteria. I think the last time I was here, I was telling you that there have been discoveries that if you have cancer and you're on immunotherapy, which jacks up your own immune system to attack the cancer, it's not chemo. It's one of the most natural ways of approaching cancer.

5:42It's resulting in complete responses, meaning stage four to stage zero. Okay. Wow. It turns out acromantia, having this gut bacteria, may wind up being one of the critical pieces that you have to have to connect the dots for that to happen. Okay? To really get a great response. To help you reverse cancer. Yeah. Help your own immune system reverse cancer. Wow. Okay. Interesting. Gut bacteria talks to your immune system. 70 % of your immune system lives in your gut. All right? And so you've got the right bacteria. bacteria, they know how to speak the right language to your immune system to tell it to do what it's supposed to do.

6:2370 % of your immune system lives in the gut. Yeah, exactly. Where's the other 30 %? Scattering different tissues in your body. Really? Wow. But you know, by the way, you know where the immune system lives in the gut? It's actually in the wall of the gut. Think of your gut as a garden hose. Cut that garden hose open and look in the cross section. There's a little empty stuff in the middle. That's where the bacteria live. That's where your immune system is. Your immune system lives in the wall of the garden hose, inside the wall. And the bacteria is? The bacteria live inside the cavity of the garden hose.

6:55Wow. And they talk to each other like college students shouting at each other through a cheap wall in a dorm room.

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