Can Health Become an Idol w/Dr. Sean O'Mara

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It's really a very big moment for the human race.

Right now, death is inevitable. You know, whether it's an expectation of 79 years, you just plan out your life. We're now entering an era where lifespan may begin extending longer than our horizons imagined. 1995, 100, 120, 130, where at some point we say, huh, are we the first generation who aren't going to die? Now, that does not mean more immortality. It means that lifespan may begin extending longer. So really, this is the moment where we begin rethinking how long and how well we can live. I think the therapies are on the way.

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That was biohacker Bryan Johnson talking to Fox News about defined death. I don't know, have you thought about that?

How long would you want to live?

I don't want to sound too macabre. I mean, of course, my wife has an aunt who's 96 years of age. And people always said to her, oh, you want to live to be 90? It's like, she'll ask me when I'm 89, right? When you're knocking on 90, you're probably like, yes, 91, I'd five. I think none of us look forward to necessarily dying. But I remember being with a nun one time, a beautiful little lady. Her name was Mother Catherine. I was just sitting there talking with her. Her eyes just, they radiated a light. She was, she had holiness from within her, right? And she loved God. And she said to me, I can't wait to be with Jesus. She said, not that she wants to die tomorrow or today, but there's this hunger in her soul to want to be with God.

And that really resonated with me. And I feel the same way. I look forward to eternity, where we're free from the travails, the sufferings, the limitations of this life. And we are truly free. We're truly in union with God. Where there is no sorrow, there's a joy that is ever new and a love that we can't define and realities that go far beyond anything that eye has seen or ear has heard. Right? I mean, it's spectacular what awaits us.

But it's interesting. Today, people on this side of the veil, they want to acquire as much money as they can. They want to live for as long as they can, and they want to do whatever they can to make sure that's the case. There's a man named Bryan Johnson, who's a wealthy tech entrepreneur.

He's a so-called biohacker, right? A biohacker is somebody who thinks he's found the way to extend his life, mostly by constantly monitoring what's going on in his body and making whatever adjustments that he thinks he needs to make in order to extend his life. Sounds like a lot of work to me, right? I mean, how many of us have difficulty just scheduling time to take a walk or working out or cooking the right foods? But Johnson's become well known. He's one of these really well known biohackers been putting his effort out to the general public, down to the minutest detail. And as the New Yorker was reporting, there was a piece I saw in it. His slogan is, don't die.

And he's called himself the healthiest person on the planet and he tries to prove the claim by documenting every single blit, every squiggle that measures his health, whether it's his blood count or his heart rate or the visceral fat content or all these other personal factors, even taking more than 100 supplements in a day. My wife laughs at me because I talk to Dr. O'Mara, who's going to be joining me here in a second, but I take a handful of these supplements. You take your Zincs, your Ds, you do the whole litany. I had a physical and I said, what are you taking? And the nurse was getting a hand cramp by the end of it. One doctor said to me, you don't need to do that. He says, just get your nutrients and your minerals and your vitamins from your food. But this guy takes, as you said, 100 in a day. He recently ran into a major roadblock, though. He was diagnosed with an autoimmune gastritis, a condition where the body attacks certain cells in the stomach that are responsible for making your acid. And it leads to iron and B12 deficiencies, which are associated with brain fog and actually hair loss. If you have brittle nails or neurological complications, or even elevated risk of stomach cancer, this is all connected. So it made him to actually, it was kind of a wake up call for him, it led him to rethink this. And he posted on X, he said this, quote, been thinking things over and wonder if I made this whole longevity thing, have I taken it too far? That's what he said in the quote. So Mark Brumley of Ignatius Press asked this question about him on Facebook. He said, a reasonable effort to maximize physical health is fine, even commendable, but what constitutes reasonable?