'MythBusters' star Adam Savage explores longevity and life hacks: 'There's no magic secret'

Former "MythBusters" prima Adam Savage is exploring the subject of longevity, asking however manner choices, accent and adjacent slumber impact however agelong we live.

Savage, present a YouTube creator and caput of the transmission Tested, has partnered with wellness exertion institution Medtronic to prosecute successful discussions astir longevity. While not a researcher himself, helium has taken a heavy dive into technological insights from experts and reflected connected his ain experiences.

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Adam Savage speaks astatine MegaCon Orlando 2025 astatine the Orange County Convention Center Feb. 8, 2025, successful Orlando, Fla. (Gerardo Mora/Getty Images)

He credits his "MythBusters" acquisition with fueling his passionateness for technological exploration. 

"Making that amusement legitimized the signifier of subject and engineering to me," Savage said. "It made maine recognize however overmuch of our satellite tin beryllium tested, questioned and improved done experimentation."

Through his discussions with radical connected the thoroughfare for Medtronic, Savage has uncovered cardinal manner factors affecting longevity. He noted a taste displacement successful what we see to beryllium aged age, highlighting that radical contiguous see themselves "young-ish" for longer. 

Savage besides pointed to Blue Zones, regions known for agelong beingness expectancy, but questioned whether longevity determination stems simply from determination oregon taste practices.

"There’s nary magic secret. It’s a premix of regular habits — what you eat, however you move, however you interact with your community, however you grip stress. All those things matter."

Savage has taken a idiosyncratic involvement successful investigating antithetic longevity strategies successful his ain life. He spoke candidly with Fox News Digital astir his travel with intermittent fasting, which helped him suffer 25 pounds and destruct slumber apnea. 

"It’s brainsick however overmuch of a quality it made," helium said. "I didn’t conscionable suffer weight. I felt sharper, I slept amended and I stopped snoring. It was similar flipping a power connected my health."

He besides reflected connected his past smoking habits and what it took to quit. 

"I had to admit I wasn’t smoking for enjoyment," Savage said. "I was conscionable doing it retired of habit. Once I realized that, it was casual to quit."

Medtronic is investigating however subject tin widen our lives. Savage believes that manner choices and assemblage person been beneficial successful his ain life. (iStock)

On alcohol, Savage dismissed the thought of a cosmopolitan approach, arguing that studies conflict. While helium personally chopped back, helium emphasized that radical shouldn’t consciousness blameworthy astir their manner choices. 

"I'm a large believer successful not feeling blameworthy astir the things that you bash to the core, whether it's smoking, whether it's watching thing dumb oregon puzzling for 100 hours astatine a time," helium said. "I don't attraction astir immoderate of those. We each bash these things to benignant of bring relaxation and down regulate. I conscionable deliberation that intoxicant is an particularly mediocre down regulator successful the last analysis."

Beyond manner choices, aesculapian advancements are playing an progressively captious relation successful extending some lifespan and "healthspan," the years we unrecorded without superior disease. Medtronic, which focuses connected healthcare exertion globally, has developed aesculapian devices designed to negociate chronic conditions, amended bosom wellness and beforehand minimally invasive surgeries.

According to Medtronic, arsenic radical unrecorded longer, the absorption is shifting toward enhancing not conscionable lifespan but prime of life. The company’s latest innovations see artificial intelligence-driven healthcare monitoring, robotic-assisted surgeries and precocious pacemakers, each aimed astatine improving semipermanent wellness outcomes. Savage besides spoke astir the intelligence aspects of aging, emphasizing that mindset and assemblage play a important relation successful longevity. 

"That's truly what subject foreshadowing is," added Savage. "It's astir asking these questions and seeing, ‘OK, what numbers are unrealistic.’ I deliberation 40 years ago, 150 would person seemed radically unrealistic. Today it seems much realistic, and I deliberation it's wholly tenable that, let's say, by 2040, we whitethorn each person a antithetic taste reply to that question."