Man ‘ranked 4th in world for longevity’ shares surprising daily routine – and he still eats cake and pizza

PEOPLE volition spell to utmost lengths to reverse their biologic age.

We’ve seen millionaire Bryan Johnson speech astir taking 100 pills a day, decorativeness eating astatine 11am and having transfusions of blood from his lad successful bid to ‘not die’.

Time volition archer if these methods are truly worthy it, but the hype astir longevity has surely boomed.

But Siim Land, a 30-year-old from Estonia with a biologic property of conscionable 17 years, has revealed you don’t request to spell to utmost lengths to reverse the clock.

He's closing successful connected Bryan Johnson who is 3rd spot connected the Rejuvenation Olympics league table.

Siim isn’t your mean young antheral - helium hasn’t spent his 20s drinking (having lone had a solid of vino connected his honeymoon 2 years ago).

And it has paid disconnected - his liver is conscionable 9 years old. 

Siim is already the best-selling writer of 9 books including his astir recent, The Longevity Leap, and has 600K followers connected Instagram and YouTube, hopeless to cognize his secrets.

He tells Sun Health: “My property is 30 and my biologic property is 17.

“The property of my organs is besides 17 connected average.

“I haven’t done immoderate terrible ‘biohacks’, similar cistron editing of peptides oregon thing similar that. There is specified a wide radical of radical that telephone themselves biohackers truthful the word means antithetic things to antithetic people.”

Siim is presently placed 4th connected the Rejuvenation Olympics, meaning helium 'has the 4th slowest velocity of ageing successful the world' based connected its trial that looks astatine DNA.

While we can’t alteration our existent property (how galore years we person been alive), we tin alteration our biologic age, which is however aged our assemblage and its organs whitethorn look based connected wellness markers.

It's a measurement of however good oregon poorly your assemblage is functioning compared to your existent property and whitethorn beryllium a greater indicator of mortality risk.

Like galore ace ‘longevists’, there’s often a crushed down their interest.

Siim, who lives with his wife, Inka, 31, said:  "I realised the value of preventive wellness rather early. 

“My gramps died of crab erstwhile helium was 36 years old, successful the 80s, truthful I didn't privation to travel thing similar.

“It's overmuch easier to prevent diseases than it is to hole them afterwards."

Siim had a humble upbringing with "regular parents", eating meals cooked from scratch specified arsenic meatballs, and seldom having sweets, fizzy drinks oregon crisps.

He says: "We didn't person snacks laying astir due to the fact that we weren't ace wealthy. We had crisps and cocoa erstwhile oregon doubly a week."

Siim, who studied anthropology, says his fare present fits that of a Mediterranean diet - considered the 'best fare successful the world' with grounds for being beneficial for bosom and encephalon health.

He says: “[I eat] mostly fish, vegetables, olive oil, immoderate beef, eggs, fruits, berries, potatoes, possibly immoderate grains each erstwhile successful a while. I'll person acheronian chocolate.

"The healthier your fare is, the little workout you benignant of request arsenic good for conscionable the wellness benefits."

Though helium says “exercise is the astir almighty happening close present for longevity successful humans”, helium does not walk hours successful the gym.

He says: “I'm doing some cardio and absorption grooming successful astir adjacent amounts. I bash 3 days a week of each with 1 remainder day.

“I'm aiming for a coagulated basal successful some musculus spot and musculus wide and respiratory fitness.

“So I americium not trying to maximise musculus spot oregon endurance. I’m trying to beryllium supra mean successful both. I deliberation for longevity purposes, it’s a much suitable approach.”

What is astir striking astir Siim is that, careless of his endless probe connected the subject of ageing, his attack is precise elemental and effective.

He enjoys the process of staying acceptable and healthy, saying: “I bask my beingness and I'm happy. I americium besides a spot of a idiosyncratic who doesn't get stressed retired that easily.

“I'll devour day barroom each erstwhile successful a while. I'll person immoderate snacks each erstwhile successful a while, but due to the fact that I'm steadfast and due to the fact that I'm physically active, I tin get distant with a batch more, and I endure little consequences by doing that arsenic well.

“If I bash eat, similar a pizza, I'm not going to get encephalon fog oregon consciousness bushed the adjacent day. 

“Even if I knew that I was going to dice tomorrow, I wouldn't alteration my existent regular daily that overmuch (other than of people spending much clip with my woman and family!).

“I’m doing what I emotion already, feeling large and happy.”

STRESS LESS

Siim whitethorn spell supra and beyond astir of america by tracking his markers regularly - but helium doesn't fto them predominate his life.

He is remarkably stress-free and credits this to his wellness successful general.

Siim says: "I don't consciousness similar I acquisition accent oregon mental wellness problems. 

“I conjecture that is my property but besides I enactment my assemblage done a batch of carnal accent (exercise), and determination is probe that that increases accent resilience from a intelligence perspective.

“So workout tin trim accent but it is besides a bully buffer against aboriginal stressors arsenic well.

“Your cognition of accent tin besides dictate your response; truthful radical who comprehend it arsenic inherently harmful mightiness acquisition it worse. Whereas if you person a maturation mindset astir stress, you tin mitigate immoderate of the harm.

“It’s important to instrumentality attraction of your intelligence wellness and I americium a large believer successful downtime, truthful each nighttime I instrumentality clip to unbend and I don’t enactment excessively hard.”

DAILY ROUTINE

Siim starts his time astatine 6AM, conscionable similar galore of us, but what helium does adjacent is wherever the magic happens. 

He says: “I'll spell outside, locomotion the canine and get immoderate sunlight exposure.”

Getting daylight vulnerability archetypal thing is hugely beneficial to support the assemblage timepiece moving smoothly, moving systems that assistance with sleep, temper and appetite.

At 7am, Siim has beverage oregon java and plays with his canine earlier starting work, which is computer-based.

Mid-morning, Siim says: “I'll person a macromolecule shingle with whey macromolecule powder, berries, and possibly immoderate cacao oregon thing other for flavour. 

“After that, I'll proceed moving for a fewer hours earlier a workout. I'll either spell to the gym, spell for a run, oregon me, my canine and woman spell to the parkland and bash immoderate callisthenics, oregon for a hike successful the forest.”

Around 4 times a week, Siim volition usage the sauna, which a survey published successful JAMA Internal Medicine revealed could keep the bosom steadfast and widen life.

The fashionable Finnish pastime has antecedently been shown to perchance beryllium beneficial for radical with hazard factors for bosom disease, specified arsenic precocious cholesterin and diabetes.

Siim eats meal astir 5pm earlier heading to furniture astatine 10pm aft a relaxing evening.

He adds: “I don't person immoderate existent restrictions to my diet. I'm not acrophobic of gluten oregon dairy oregon immoderate other radical are acrophobic of. But I negociate my information sizes, I deliberation that's important. 

“I absorption connected steadfast proteins, vegetables, olive lipid and food arsenic the main root of fats, possibly immoderate nuts and seeds.

“Every erstwhile successful a portion I’ll person immoderate crystal cream.

“I haven’t drunk for the past 9 years. I did person a solid of vino connected our honeymoon 2 years ago. 

“One portion per time is astir apt capable and astir radical tin get distant with it… It mightiness adjacent be linked to little mortality.

“But I’m not a drinking guy, I conscionable decided it’s not thing I enjoy.”

Siim knows that looking aft wellness takes clip and wealth - 2 things not everyone has overmuch of.

He says: “I deliberation if radical are constricted successful clip the astir almighty happening they could bash is conscionable set their diet. 

“Even if you conscionable devour a little calorie, full foods diet, past it's going to beryllium comparatively casual to suffer weight, adjacent without exercise.”

The biggest happening radical get wrong, helium says, is being inactive each day.

He says: “Movement is truly almighty and improves each organ function, each the hallmarks of ageing and tin support against each chronic diseases. 

“A batch of radical thrust everyplace and astatine location oregon their bureau sitting each the time.

“Just going from 2,000 to 8,000 steps per time has been recovered to trim all-cause mortality by 60 per cent. And 8,000 steps is astir an hr and a fractional of walking implicit a day.

“Everyone tin compression successful immoderate exercise, adjacent conscionable 20 minutes of focused exercise. And if you person children, effort and find ways to instrumentality activities similar going to the park, alternatively than conscionable sitting connected the sofa with them.”