By Julie E 
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A new tool that aims to “reboot” your biological age says that thanks to fast progress in the field of longevity, people who live into their 90s could feel like they are in their 40s in ten years.
Great Age Reboot, which is run by Dr. Michael Roizen, chief wellness officer emeritus at the Cleveland Clinic, and Silicon Valley entrepreneur Corey Bridges, made the program and app that go with it. They are releasing them on Tuesday.
The program and app are meant to get people to start good habits that will make them feel younger than their actual age.
. “The goal is to help you stay younger and keep up with new discoveries in the field of longevity without being misled.” “The goal is to help you stay healthy and stop doing things that aren’t good for you.”
“Sometime in the next 10 years, we think you’re going to be able to—because of the exponential advances in 14 areas of aging mechanism research—reboot yourself, so that if 60 is now the new 40, 90 will be the new 40,” he added.
One of the 14 areas of research that Roizen is most interested in is therapeutic plasma exchange, a method that includes taking out blood plasma and replacing it with blood products that have been donated.
This method was shown to slow down several parts of cognitive decline in people with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease in a well-known study. Studies on animals have shown that it can slow down the age of the skin, pancreas, muscles, and heart
The team behind Great Age Reboot looked at thousands of scientific papers to help them make the app’s material, which includes brain games, short videos and articles. The app is designed so that each user has a unique experience. Doctors can even use it to keep an eye on their patients’ growth.
Bridges said, “What we’re doing builds on Mike’s life mission.” “It’s not about living longer so you can spend 30 more years in a nursing home.” It’s about giving you 30 more years to do what you love and what makes you happy.
Continuing, he said, “The app is interactive because it learns about your progress, what your starting point is, and what you want to focus on in order to go back in time.” It wants to teach and motivate you.
The app focuses on making changes to habits in a number of important areas of life that study has shown are important for living a long life. These include managing stress, diet, exercise, sleep, and brain health.
Rouizen says that having “posse and purpose”—that is, making friends and having a goal—is the most important thing for dealing with stress.
To be healthy, Roizen said, “Food is a relationship. You should only eat food that you love and that loves you back.”
He went on, “And with that, eating at the right time, the right amount, and cutting back on food for five days every three months.” And eating only 750 calories for five days turns back all of your aging signs to how they were when you were younger.
Getting enough exercise…. This is because exercise can affect both how long and how well you live. Roizen says that walks, cardiovascular exercises, resistance training, and jumping are all important activities.
“There is validation in the 10,000 steps a day [goal],” he told me. “It’s the turning point in the development of chronic diseases.” Even though it was made by a Japanese company that makes pedometers, the data it contains is correct.
According to Roizen, there are more than 30 healthy things you can do for your brain that will slow down the aging process. For example, eating a tablespoon and a half of olive oil every day or playing games that test your brain’s speed.
“And with that goes the component of sleep—getting rid of brain waste as you sleep longer and better,” said Roizen.