Functional Longevity | Joon Yun | TEDxSanFrancisco

Longevity is a fact, we’re all living longer but how do we make sure our long lives are healthy and rewarding? Joon Yun exposes how we are not solving the problems of aging and how we should build on our resilience and stretch our biological features. Dr. Joon Yun is managing partner and president of Palo Alto Investors, LLC, an investment management firm founded in 1989 with $2 billion in assets invested in healthcare. Board certified in radiology, Joon served on the clinical faculty at Stanford from 2000-2006. Joon has served on several corporate and non-profit boards, and has published dozens of patents, scientific articles, and business essays.
Joon and his wife Kimberly launched the $1 million Palo Alto Longevity Prize in 2013 to reverse the aging process and recently donated $2 million to launch the National Academy of Medicine Aging and Longevity Grand Challenge. Joon is a member of the President's Circle of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@michaelmerto]

What an honor and privilege to have worked for this man. Dr. Joon is functionally brilliant and not just in health sciences (see his work on inclusive stakeholding for example). His knowledge is appropriately varied and I'm happy to say he's super witty like in this video almost all the time. I saw Dr. Yun work out some of this material many times and I gained new pearls every time. No exception here with my favorite being "meditation is great but do something exhilarating. Ride a roller coaster, its the variation that matters in building up capacity."

[@mikesimcoe7115]

Whoa!

[@DeepakKumar-uv3zo]

Thanks

[@ildisiri]

Well I have never heard of this theory before, so I doubt it, until I see results that prove even in animal models that diversity somehow boosts the immune system or any molecular repairing mechanism in the body, I will continue to eat my broccoli (: Was a fun talk still!

[@MrDennisbmennis]

I had high hopes with this talk, sadly it just didn’t deliver. Want to live longer? Get your vitamin d and magnesium both help with epigenetic‘s signaling that can help you live longer healthier life.

[@100YearLifestyle]

What's the point in living to 100 if we don't take time to enjoy life? Take time to enjoy family and friends and be the healthiest, happiest version of yourself you can be.