The Longevity Mindset: Building a Healthspan-First Lifestyle

Longevity Framework and Mindset, Defining the Environment and Setting SMART Goals.

Let’s start by defining what we’re doing and why we think it’s important, how can we

frame our understanding of what it means to be healthy? Our personal health and

wellness should not be a complicated process or routine. At the root of it, it is a lifestyle

based on an understanding of how our body functions and how we delay the onset of

aging and prevent disease. Basic logic and reason tend to give us the foundational

footprint to get us started on the right path. We instinctually know we need to eat to

provide the right amount of fuel to move and complete our daily mental and physical

tasks, we sleep to rest, recover, and grow, and then we require relationships to provide

community that fills our mind and soul with love and purpose. These are the basic

necessities that years of modern research, philosophers, and ancient culture have

continued to prove as fact.

The human body is an impressive complex organism that requires many years of multi-

disciplinary study and hands on experience to completely grasp and understand it, this

is why we have physical therapists, chiropractors, nutritionists, psychologists, and

strength and conditioning coaches, etc. These experts provide us the knowledge,

guidance and coaching we need to live our busy lives but remain healthy and reduce

our risk of chronic illness and disease. We live in a modern world that runs on instant

gratification and extreme convenience, we want to challenge ourselves to slow down

and recommit to a quieter, more connected life, fueled by loving relationships and

naturally existing foods, and inspired by purposeful movement and mindfulness.

We cannot stop the body’s natural aging process, but we sure as hell can decrease the

rate at which we age and improve our overall quality of life. Think about your car, it has

a numerical age based on when it was built. We can compare this to our biological age

or our lifespan. However, we can also read the odometer on the same car to assess

how many miles have been driven on that frame, engine, suspension, how is the paint

holding up, has it been in the shop for routine maintenance and tune-ups, etc. The car

may very well be 50+ years old, but still in pristine condition because it was well

maintained and cared for and loved. This gives us a relatable analogy when we think of

our own healthspan. What is the quality of the life that our biological age represents, are

they equal, or better yet, can we possibly extend our lifespan? We can in fact increase

our healthspan by establishing simple habits with a slight nudge from a good coach

helping to keep us accountable as we develop our personal discipline in sustaining

positive lifestyle habits and a positive mindset.

Our world is now connected more than ever before, the age of digital communication

has overcome society with information at our fingertips which often makes it difficult to

navigate through the noise of science and opinion. This is why we strive to build a

community who desires knowledge and seeks truth in restoring their personal

ownership of their health and wellness, a community who is driven to live their purpose

to the fullest extent possible and understands to do so they must respect and nurture

their need for movement, nutrition, mindfulness, and deliberate recovery.

This is why we started Longevity Institute, we wanted to create an environment of

preventative health modalities that work together under one roof to provide holistic plans

of care for our clients. This model has historically only been available to collegiate,

Olympic, and professional athletes, Special Operations Forces, or the extremely

wealthy, we wanted to change that. We have personally witnessed and observed the

success of these models and the positive impacts they have had on those communities;

it was time to provide that to our own local community. In the mission of improving

healthspan and maximizing longevity, our bodies and soul require different care and

training in different doses at different times. To understand what our bodies need we first

test, assess, and evaluate where we’re starting at. If we go back to the car analogy, we

start with running the diagnostics and taking the body around the track for a few laps.

We do this by movement, strength, body composition, biological bloodwork, and

mindset testing to give us a complete understanding of the factors science has shown to

best indicate overall health and wellness, the factors that define our longevity. This

information helps us decide what phase of care program is right for you as we start your

journey. across a three step process, feel better, move better, LIV better!

Next, we need to establish goals, are there areas that need repair and rehab, or do we

want to return to an activity that we love or are we looking to perform and optimize at a

new level. We’ll work across three phases: feel better, move better, and LIV better. No

matter where we are or the goals we want to achieve, we must build a plan or a map to

get there. As with most things in life, it’s a much easier and enjoyable journey when we

have a partner, a coach, a guide, versus trying to do it alone. Then we set out on the

journey and hold each other accountable along the way, pushing at an appropriate pace

and tempo and leaning into the knowledge and expertise of our coaches and staff. We

establish check points along the route and retest to evaluate how the body and mind are

responding and then adjust accordingly, knowing that our North Star continues to be

increasing our longevity and achieving optimal human performance and quality of life.

We want to help make the most of every moment, every day!