TikTok’s Doctor Mike says you can over-optimize your health in the name of longevity. Here’s his best advice for living longer

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Since he began practicing medicine, Dr. Mikhail Varshavski has wanted people to feel invested in their health and empowered to ask questions from the seemingly mundane to the controversial.

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00:00 I have no daily habits that I have to do every single day

00:03 because the way that I approach each day

00:05 is with a flexibility mindset.

00:07 When you approach things with a flexibility mindset,

00:10 it allows you to adapt to each day.

00:12 The people that tell you that you have to follow

00:14 a specific pattern every single day,

00:17 a lot of times they're setting you up for failure.

00:19 And the way that I like to do it is by saying,

00:22 these are the things I'd like to accomplish today,

00:24 setting a little list for myself,

00:26 and then taking them all one challenge at a time,

00:28 starting with the smallest first.

00:31 Each small challenge that is met

00:33 gives your body a little kick of dopamine,

00:34 those neurotransmitters that make you feel good,

00:37 that you accomplish something

00:38 and allow you to continue accomplishing things

00:40 throughout the day as things get harder.

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