The Body and Brain Overhaul process started with our participants undergoing a Bioage assessment and a Brain Test. From there, they were put through a rigorous program of exercises for both the body and brain to make positive and lasting changes in their lives.

Lets look at how Jon, Corinne, Russell and Christian improved so much:

In 1978, psychologists Brickman, Coates, and Janoff-Bulman compared the self-reported happiness levels of lottery winners, compared to paralyzed victims and normal people as controls. Surprisingly, lottery winners didn't report themselves much happier than the control group, and although the paralyzed people showed as less happy than the controls, the difference was not as big as you would think. Surprisingly, happiness can rebound from many things, and is not guaranteed even when we reach a cherished goal, nor is endless misery guaranteed when we lose something cherished.

Although most people think of stress as a bad thing, it’s a natural part of the events that drive our brain to achieve, and motivate us to do things quickly. In the normal chain of events in evolution, stress kept us safe and alive. The experience of it created the chemical responses we needed to be alert, focused and driven to do what was necessary to survive.

What builds resilience and how can we age-proof our bodies and brains?

Let me tell you a couple of short stories before I delve into the answer.

Madame Jeanne Calment died at 122. Her secret for longevity was complex, but included a kilo of chocolate a week, and never wearing mascara, as she laughed till she cried each day of her life. When she was 90, a lawyer, himself only 47, offered her F2500 a month for her apartment, payable until she died, at which point he would possess the property. He never did, and his widow carried on paying for decades until Madame Calment died.

All the brain does is process information that is vital to the body, and all the body does is provide a life support system for the brain so that we can reproduce our species and control some of the forces of evolution that try to wipe out our species.  It begins this processing with non-conscious emotional scrutiny of just about every bit of information that comes in, taking just milliseconds to make up your mind for you, as to how you will feel about this information when you finally become consciously aware of it for the first time, a bit later on, at around the half second mark.

The brain is no longer the dark continent it once was: today, thanks to leading edge technology, we can measure most of the most important functions of the brain in less than an hour.  Just like a cardiac stress test, we can assess the brain in under an hour, producing accurate data related to four main domains of brain function.  Emotion (non-conscious physical-emotional processes), thinking (attention, memory, impulsivity, motor speed etc), feeling (depression, anxiety, stress) and self regulation capacity (negativity, emotional resilience, social skills) all combine to produce an integra