Aging Mechanisms

Aging Mechanisms

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21mins
"By keeping people biologically younger, we can enjoy a longer health span, a longer period of healthy life where we're active, where we're happy, where we can engage in our hobbies, and play with our grandkids and great grandkids."
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54mins
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"This will help people take meaningful steps to slow the rate of aging and increase what we call their health span or their kind of time of life expectancy free from disease."
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15mins
“Until very recently, I thought I would die with the same genome that I was born with.”
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13mins
“Over the last 10 or 15 years, scientists have really started to understand the fundamental underlying biology of the aging process. And they broke this down into 12 hallmarks of aging.”
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1hr 13mins
“Nothing about human behavior makes sense except in the light of culture and in anthropology, and we need to understand the cultural component to our behaviors as well.”
A man is walking towards a crate with the number 60 on it.
6mins
People are living longer than ever, challenging our assumptions around milestones like retirement. Economist Lynda Gratton explains a “multi-stage life,” and how retiring later isn’t necessarily something to fear.
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3mins
Age expert Dr. Morgan Levine explains why living to 100 is the wrong goal.
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4mins
Former Yale professor Dr. Morgan Levine shares 3 ways to change your diet to extend your life.
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9mins
Your chronological age and your biological age aren’t the same thing. This ex-Yale professor explains how to tell the difference.