About this episode

The episode discusses extending go-go years in retirement with insights from Dr. Philip Snyder on healthspan, lifespan, and exercise.

Chris’s Summary Jim and I are joined again by Dr. Philip Snyder as we continue looking at narrowing the gap between healthspan and lifespan and extending your go-go years. We discuss a listener-submitted article on health-adjusted life expectancy, which argues for concentrating retirement spending in the first decade of retirement rather than following a static, Monte Carlo-based safe withdrawal rate. Dr. Snyder updates his coronary artery calcium scoring correction, introduces the CCTA angiogram for non-calcified plaque, and outlines the four components of exercise, cardio, strength, balance, and flexibility, for maintaining function as we age. Jim’s “Pithy” Summary Chris and I welcome back Dr. Philip Snyder to pick up right where we left off, because folks, this whole thing, all of it, is about extending your go-go years, and I’ll admit this episode gave me some homework of my own. Dr. Snyder corrects something he got wrong last time on coronary artery calcium scoring, breaks down a newer angiogram option for catching the sneaky non-calcified plaque a clean CAC score can miss, and even mentions a blood test called PLAC2 for folks who can’t do…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jim Saulnier, Chris Stein

Guest: Dr. Philip Snyder

Topics covered

• healthspan
• lifespan
• retirement spending
• exercise components
• coronary artery calcium scoring

Keywords

• health-adjusted life expectancy
• retirement
• exercise
• cardio
• strength
• balance
• flexibility

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