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. 

“People are on their phones, so I had to go there,” he tells Fortune in a sit-down interview at the HLTH conference in Las Vegas this month, where he spoke about health misinformation.