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Extending Your Go-Go Years: EDU #2633

Extending Your Go-Go Years: EDU #2633

Published 1 month, 3 weeks ago
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Chris’s Summary
Jim and I are joined again by Dr. Phillip Snider as we continue looking at narrowing the gap between healthspan and lifespan and extending your go-go years. We discuss a listener-submitted article on health-adjusted life expectancy, which argues for concentrating retirement spending in the first decade of retirement rather than following a static, Monte Carlo-based safe withdrawal rate. Dr. Snyder updates his coronary artery calcium scoring correction, introduces the CCTA angiogram for non-calcified plaque, and outlines the four components of exercise, cardio, strength, balance, and flexibility, for maintaining function as we age.

Jim’s “Pithy” Summary
Chris and I welcome back Dr. Phillip Snider to pick up right where we left off, because folks, this whole thing, all of it, is about extending your go-go years, and I’ll admit this episode gave me some homework of my own. Dr. Snyder corrects something he got wrong last time on coronary artery calcium scoring, breaks down a newer angiogram option for catching the sneaky non-calcified plaque a clean CAC score can miss, and even mentions a blood test called PLAC2 for folks who can’t do the angiogram.

A listener sent in a short article about spending more in your first decade of retirement instead of hoarding it for some rainy day that never comes, and it is basically what I have been calling the Fun Number™ for years. You spend your whole life saving, and then you’re too scared to spend it. My dad used to warn me about the Debbie Downers in his retirement community, folks with plenty of money left but no health left to enjoy it. Nobody wants to be that person, and nobody wants to be the wealthiest person in the graveyard either.

Dr. Snider walks through the four pieces of exercise you need as you get older, cardio, s

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