Transform Your Mental Health Through Gut Health for Longevity | Dr. William Li

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0:38Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to The Daily Motivation Show.

0:50Based on what I'm hearing you talk about, it almost sounds like if we stop thinking about mental health, not stop thinking about it, but focus more on get health, it sounds like it connects to the brain and the mind and it'll create more alignment in ease versus dis-ease. More, it's a new frontier. It opens up the avenue for more solutions. And by the way, because the gut also connects to other parts of our body as well, you know, again, remember I told you, like, I'm all about the common denominator. Pull that bow back and send a single arrow through as many things, many problems as you can. Imagine if we could actually tackle mental health, mental wellness, and physical wellness all at the same time.

1:31And, you know, gut bacteria clearly plays a role. It's not, you know, it's not the only thing. But, you know, it is the undiscovered country. Because there's a, who is the doctor? Dr. Emmerin Mayer, I think it is. I don't know if he's got a book called Gut-Brain Connection. I think it's somebody like that that's talking about these things as well. and it seems like a lot of the things that are stemming from the brain disease or challenges is in the gut yeah and it's also linked to longevity it sounds like as well exactly exactly well this is what we're beginning to really uh i would say unravel and take you know go into the layers of the onion to say all right if gut health is important for you in your you know normal active of adult life, which we now know it is, what role could it play towards actually fostering, supporting, maybe even triggering those signals for longevity?

2:24I mean, maybe, listen, I mean, so I always talk about our body like this. We're all different. You know, we've got different genetics. We've got different, you know, like, of course, most people say they've got different metabolisms. But it turns out that when we are born, it's like taking a laptop out of the box. our operating system is all set. When you and I are born, my operating system and your operating system, pretty much the same. Our OS was exactly the same. Exactly. All right. And so why is it that our, I mean, maybe your metabolism, my metabolism are closer than more different, but, you know, cause we take care of ourselves, but why is it that people develop such divergent, so different metabolisms, for example, or maybe longevity patterns.

3:11And it turns out, Just like your laptop, if you take care of your laptop, you turn it off at night, you clear the case. Yeah, you update the software. You make sure that you pad it when you're traveling. Clean it. Clean it, all that kind of stuff. And let's say I'm not so careful. I drop it. It gets really hot in the car. I spill coffee on it or whatever. What do you think is going to happen to our operating system? Or I download all kinds of stuff. Let's go break. Well, what's going to happen is that your computer operating system of mine are going to diverge. You're going to go this way. I'm going to go that way.

3:48And actually, definitely for our metabolism, but probably for our longevity as well, that's actually what happens. We start to diverge our patterns. We're all born the same way. And the reason I'm bringing this up, because I think for anybody who's listening to this or watching this, people tend to think I'm the fate of my genetics. There's nothing I can do about it. So screw it. I'm just going to do whatever I want to do, whatever, drink, whatever. Yeah. You know, what I want to really emphasize is that we are all hardwired to actually heal. We can get back to that healing. We can heal to get back to our original state, which is designed like the laptop to function its entire life of the device with an intact operating system.

4:33You know, what do you do with your what do you do with your computer? You know, you know, hopefully you don't have to reinstall the operating system. Take good care of it. But if you don't take good care of it, clean the cache, do a virus scan, you know, like clean it up. Take good care of it. And that's kind of how I think people should think about longevity is that it's not like just set a number. OK, this is not like booking a seat in a movie theater online. I'm going to get that number and that's what I want. OK, good luck. You know, I think that, you know, it's a journey. we need to focus on today and keep focusing on as far as we can actually see and keep doing that.

5:12You know, it's like longevity. You know, there's a quote from E.L. Doctorow, who is a novelist, who once said, like, writing is like driving at night. You can't see beyond your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. And that's kind of how I think about longevity, living as long as you can go. I mean, you know, but you want to actually make sure that you're enjoying yourself and you're fully aware of what you're doing along the same way. Yeah, 100%. And seeing what's in front of you, not just only focusing on how do I make it to 100 or 110, just enjoying the moment.

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