‘People get treated like idiots’: Norman Swan on the secrets of living younger, longer

“Vitamins are a waste of time,” asserts the youthful-looking 69-year-old, sipping a cup of tea, having already had four shots of coffee by the time we meet at the Four Seasons hotel cafe.Antioxidants “don’t work”; we’re better off eating the fish than the fish oil; fasting is “oversold”; and the evidence for anti-ageing pills is “pretty much entirely lacking”, he adds in the book.

“One of my drivers has been a subversive thing about giving people the information they need to ask the right questions,” says Swan, who trained in paediatrics and who has been Aunty’s health expert since the 1980s. While we’re waiting on the magic pill of youth, there is “spades” of evidence for exercise and eating a Mediterranean-style diet centred around extra virgin olive oil, mostly plants and legumes, herbs and spices. Sex also “brings together a lot of things that are important for living younger longer” like intimacy, social contact and fitness.

This might be remedied by tweaking the dose, duration or combination of anti-ageing supplements, he adds: “What some people are saying is maybe what you should be doing is having multiple versions of these anti-ageing compounds, really small doses and maybe only once a fortnight. But we don’t know that yet.

But it’s never too late to take charge of our health and turn back the clock, he says. Swan’s childhood diet included “enormous loads” of saturated fat, fatty meats, chips every day and second-hand cigarette smoke. “I remember going to my aunties’ apartments, and you couldn’t see through the room for the smoke”.

sarzberry This man is violating ABC, please remove him. He is allowing for propaganda for criminal intent and actions. It is horrible because as a tax payer I pay for that. Not in my name do you do that.

sarzberry I stopped listening to health report because normanswan continuously said we shouldn’t do anything that makes life good. He needs to read more of that much more intelligent Scot DavidHumeQuote

sarzberry Why do people listen to that bloke?

sarzberry 'live longer' and also a jibby pusher.

sarzberry His Boosters Booster needs another Booster

sarzberry Interesting, as ever Norman Swan

sarzberry Norman said this?

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