Want To Live To 100? Neuroscientist Shares The 3 Anti-Aging And Longevity Secrets You Should Know About

1. Prioritize sleep

Prioritizing sleep is one of the most powerful (and underrated) anti-aging tools you have. During deep sleep, your body goes into repair mode—producing growth hormone, regenerating cells, and fixing damage caused by stress and environmental factors. This nightly “reset” helps keep your skin, organs, and even brain functioning optimally.

“If you ever get a bad night of sleep, you don’t look good the next day. It ages your skin, it ages your brain, and it increases the amount of plaque in the brain, and it's very, very hard on the body,” he says.

2. Remove ultra-processed foods

Ultra-processed foods (like chips, sugary cereals, fast food, etc.) are packed with additives, refined sugars, and unhealthy fats—all of which trigger inflammation. Chronic inflammation speeds up aging and increases your risk of conditions like heart disease, diabetes, and even dementia.

“Ultra-processed foods have chemicals in them that can damage our brains; they’re neurotoxic, and they also age us. They create inflammation, and inflammation is one of the primary causes of aging.”

3. Take healthy supplements

Lastly, Love recommends taking healthy supplements that can “repair your body, repair your DNA, and have healthy mitochondria.” He recommends coenzyme Q10, which “improves energy production in the mitochondria." NMN can help repair DNA. Finally, lion's mane can help “lower inflammation, improve sleep, and reduce stress; stress is a major factor of aging.”