Your grip strength is important according to Dr. . Peter Adia. How do you test your grip strength.Well, you can hang from a bar. >> Okay, good. Let's keep going.>> If you look at the correlation between grip strength and dementia onset risk and dementia mortality, it's a staggering association. My best explanation for this is that grip strength is itself a proxy for overall strength. The type of strength that we're talking about here is acquired, not inherited.You had to do a bunch of work to get it. And it ...

Your V2 max is more strongly correlated with your lifespan than any other metric I can generate about you. Right. >> And there's data on that.>> Yes. It's very clear that the correlation between your muscle mass, your strength, and your cardiorespiratory fitness is higher with your all-c cause mortality, which is to say your risk of death, than any other metric about you, including your blood pressure, your cholesterol, or whether or not you smoke. >> Let's go. Go, go, go.So you might ask, so what is your V ...

This is where his patients go through two days of physical evaluation and where we found after just a few hours how intense the 52year-old doctor and his methods are. >> Just show me what you got. Just show me what you got.>> I think this is the neglected part of medical testing is how fit are you. How strong are you. >> All right.>> How well do you move. >> And up overhead. >> And in many ways, these tests are even more predictive of how long you're going to live than what I might get out of your blood wor ...