One of the most frequent questions that doctors receive from their patients is what they can do to increase their longevity – the ability to live a long life.
Longevity is about more than years; it’s also about vitality. Maintaining a consistent exercise regime, a healthy diet, good sleep, stress-management strategies, and building and sustaining social connections are all recommended by White Plains Hospital experts.
Those experts include Dr. Rafael E. Torres, Chief Quality Officer at the Hospital, and Dr. Gregory Pontone, a cardiologist, and the Hospital’s Associate Medical Director of Ambulatory Quality & Physician Services.
Both physicians endorse the following resources to those looking for advice on how to live a longer, healthier life:
Lessons About Improving Your Longevity
The Peter Attia Drive is a podcast that offers advice and insight to help you optimize performance, health, longevity, critical thinking, and life. It’s hosted by Stanford Medical School graduate, health and medicine conference TEDMED speaker, and longevity expert Dr. Peter Attia.
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity: Dr. Attia’s book, which he describes as an “operating manual for longevity,” challenges conventional medical thinking on aging by revealing a new approach to preventing chronic disease and extending long-term health.
One Habit That Could Help You Live Longer: This Men’s Health article explores how small, consistent workouts, just 30 minutes a day, can be the key to lasting fitness and a longer life.
Four Risk Factors That Lead to 99% of Heart Attacks & Strokes: This article, appearing in ScienceAlert, challenges previous studies claiming that major cardiovascular events may occur without certain risk factors.
The most important tip is to be proactive about your health. To find the right physician for you, call 914-849-MyMD or visit wphpa.org.
Dr. Rafael E. Torres is the Chief Quality Officer at White Plains Hospital. To find the right physician for you, call 914-849-MyMD.
Dr. Gregory Pontone is a noninvasive cardiologist and the Associate Medical Director of Ambulatory Quality and Physician Services at White Plains Hospital. To make an appointment, call 914-849-4800.