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Dr. Snyder collects extensive personal health data that he uses to track changes to his daily routine. He enjoys exercise for its mood-boosting and strength-building benefits. Dr. Snyder focuses on weight training, recently gaining 10 pounds of muscle, in a hedge to stave off sarcopenia — or age-related loss of muscle mass that can lead to frailty. He centers his diet around managing his blood glucose levels and strives to reach his daily fiber needs. In this clip, Dr. Michael Snyder describes aspects of his lifestyle routine that he tracks with wearables.
[Dr. Patrick]: Since you are monitoring all these things, and not only studying other people but yourself, maybe kind of...it'd be interesting to hear your lifestyle routine, like your exercise routine, maybe like your meals or you know, like a sample of what your general meals are, how much...if you do fasting... time-restricted eating?
[Dr. Snyder]: So I do exercise every day as you can probably tell. In fact, I do weight training, You can't tell but I actually gained 10 pounds of muscle mass since I started this. I do whole-body MRI too, from Q Bio. So I do exercise every day, even though it didn't help me with my glucose control. That's how I started, I thought muscle mass would be better for glucose homeostasis, that failed on me. But I still do it anyway because quite frankly, it makes me feel good and all those other benefits we talked about earlier, sarcopenia.
And then yeah, because I am type 2 diabetic I try and avoid carbs, I tend to eat a lot of protein. So you know, eggs and protein-rich foods. One problem with me is that I don't like vegetables, and that's a terrible thing. It's something I've never gotten over all kids have that. So I eat a lot of salads and things. I do like carrots and that sort of stuff. So I am trying to make up for it. You may know that most people are very fiber-poor, meaning what you're supposed to get...depends on whether you're a woman or a man, but you're supposed to get about 30 grams of fiber a day and most people get about 12, sometimes 15. So I'm trying to be conscious about eating more fiber as well from carrots and things like that. But I will be doing fiber supplementation as well to try and get those numbers up. And I eat a lot of nuts, they have omega 3s, things like that.
So, I guess that's my lifestyle. And I don't meditate. I was meditating, that probably is good, that's supposed to be good for, you know, your synaptic neurons and things. So yeah, I need to get back to that, that's something I just haven't found time for but should.
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