# Can We Avoid Death? Biological Age and the Importance of Health

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2068885647994089877
- Source account: [@thirdmetax](https://x.com/thirdmetax)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 0:51
- Published: 2026-06-22
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Qctb895aWw8D/en/can-we-avoid-death-biological-age-and-the-importance-of-health

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Qctb895aWw8D/en/can-we-avoid-death-biological-age-and-the-importance-of-health) We are the first generation that won't die.

[0:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Qctb895aWw8D/en/can-we-avoid-death-biological-age-and-the-importance-of-health?t=2) What do you mean? We are the first generation who will not die.

[0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Qctb895aWw8D/en/can-we-avoid-death-biological-age-and-the-importance-of-health?t=5) Like, die as in, like, actually? That's right.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Qctb895aWw8D/en/can-we-avoid-death-biological-age-and-the-importance-of-health?t=7) So you don't plan on dying? That's right.

[0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Qctb895aWw8D/en/can-we-avoid-death-biological-age-and-the-importance-of-health?t=9) How old realistically do you think you can live until?

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Qctb895aWw8D/en/can-we-avoid-death-biological-age-and-the-importance-of-health?t=11) I'm chronologically 47, but biologically, you know, my cardiovascular ability is age 18.

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Qctb895aWw8D/en/can-we-avoid-death-biological-age-and-the-importance-of-health?t=15) My lung capacity is age 18. My telomeres, my end of chromosomes, are age 18.

[0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Qctb895aWw8D/en/can-we-avoid-death-biological-age-and-the-importance-of-health?t=20) So my body functions in many ways like an 18-year-old.

[0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Qctb895aWw8D/en/can-we-avoid-death-biological-age-and-the-importance-of-health?t=23) So when you start measuring the biological age of your body, it's very different than the time at which you were born.

[0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Qctb895aWw8D/en/can-we-avoid-death-biological-age-and-the-importance-of-health?t=27) So that's what I wish I would have learned.

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Qctb895aWw8D/en/can-we-avoid-death-biological-age-and-the-importance-of-health?t=28) Typically, people perform very well in their youth.

[0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Qctb895aWw8D/en/can-we-avoid-death-biological-age-and-the-importance-of-health?t=32) There's skill sets, there's physical ability, mental ability, emotional ability...

[0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Qctb895aWw8D/en/can-we-avoid-death-biological-age-and-the-importance-of-health?t=35) ...that peaks typically in like early life stages...

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Qctb895aWw8D/en/can-we-avoid-death-biological-age-and-the-importance-of-health?t=38) ...and then it declines with older stages, especially that's true if you're grinding very hard.

[0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Qctb895aWw8D/en/can-we-avoid-death-biological-age-and-the-importance-of-health?t=41) And so this is why I say making health your top priority...

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Qctb895aWw8D/en/can-we-avoid-death-biological-age-and-the-importance-of-health?t=44) ...because if you do so, you're going to be in peak performance.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Qctb895aWw8D/en/can-we-avoid-death-biological-age-and-the-importance-of-health?t=46) Like, the difference between being healthy and non-healthy when you're thinking is like night and day.