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I am just reading Attia’s latest book, Outlive, and I appreciate the proactive focus on extending health quality rather than just the number of years lived. The good news is that it’s possible to improve our health and fitness as we age.

If you’ve been wanting to invest in your health, you probably have so many questions and need answers to gain a better understanding of your health and what you need to address. In our conversation, we explore the detrimental effects of over-nourishment and explore three transformative approaches to address this imbalance and unlock the path to optimal well-being. We also discuss the concept of glucose control and its profound impact on our overall health. Finally, we explore the consequences of consuming nutrient-deficient plants and what we can do to rectify that. Here is a direct video link.

Also see, Food is Medicine. How your diet can prevent disease. Stanford professor & researcher Christopher Gardner, PhD shares the importance of personalized nutrition, evidence-based research, and why diet is the most under-appreciated, underutilized factor for preventing disease.

Chief Strategist of QI Research Danielle DiMartino Booth points out that downward revisions in economic data are revealing the truth about the economy far too late and when few are paying attention. As many hail a new bull market, Danielle sees a number of alarming indicators that are outside the focus of the mainstream media that she thinks investors should be wary of. Here is a direct video link.

In the second quarter of 2023, distressed commercial real estate volume grew by $8 billion–the largest quarterly increase since the second quarter of 2020.

The WSJ reports that Wall Street firms are raising new funds to acquire office buildings, apartments and other troubled commercial real estate at a fraction of the price investors paid a few years ago. See, Wall Street Is Ready to Scoop Up Commercial Real Estate on the
Cheap:

“Commercial-property values already have fallen about 10 to 15 percentage points from their peaks in the third quarter last year, and might fall a total of 20 to 25 percentage points.”

Converting commercial into residential space will be part of the rebalancing process needed. Lower prices are part of the equation.

With housing in short supply, developers are converting more empty offices into apartments. But not all buildings are candidates for reuse, even as more than one billion square feet of office space sits vacant across the U.S.

Smart money is waiting for gravity to take its toll on property prices. Real estate busts are a process that typically take quarters and years to complete. See China’s homebuyers are waiting out the property slump:

After a short-lived sales rebound earlier this year, China’s property market has fallen back into a deep slump, developers are having more cash-flow problems and Chinese authorities are trying more ways to revive housing demand.

Potential home buyers are expecting prices to fall and think better deals will emerge if they sit and wait.