Speed Improvement Focus: YOU CAN SLOW DOWN THE AGING PROCESS AND LIVE LONGER

YOU CAN SLOW DOWN THE AGING PROCESS AND LIVE LONGER

There is much a coach can do to slow the aging process and live a longer, healthier life, regardless of the stressful nature of the profession. Researchers who compared the life span of 21,000 same-sex identical twins who were raised together with those separated at birth found that genetics account for only one-third of the differences in life expectancy. What are the other two-thirds? After eliminating factors over which you have no control (accidental death, radiation exposure, and everything in between), lifestyle has the single greatest influence on longevity and the risk of age-related deaths from heart disease, stroke, Type 2 diabetes, and most cancers.

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