The 7 Biggest Health Mistakes People Over 40 Keep Making: And what to do instead

After 40, your biology rewrites the rules — and most people are still playing the old game. In this episode, Dr. Josh Axe breaks down the 7 mistakes that accelerate aging, why the scale is an outdated marker, and what a study of 140,000 people across 17 countries says actually predicts how long you'll live.

In this episode:

- Why muscle loss after 40 is silent, slow, and almost always preventable — and the two-day-a-week fix that reverses it

- The grip strength finding from 140,000 adults that predicts mortality better than blood pressure or cholesterol

- Why GLP-1s and aggressive dieting without strength training leave you metabolically weaker, not stronger

- The blood markers most doctors skip — fasting insulin, ApoB, and high-sensitivity CRP — and why "normal" isn't the same as optimal

- How poor sleep and social isolation are quietly compounding every other health mistake you're making

- Josh's personal protocol after recovering from a spinal infection at 41 — and what his 76-year-old water-skiing father proves is possible

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