Howdy friends. I'm coming to you from America as is this podcast but not the same trip podcast land

sometimes has a odd sense of serendipity when it comes to the scheduling. So today I am sitting down with

Professor David Sinclair from Harvard Medical School. Now first her David on Jorugan's podcast and was blown away by his

insight. He's an expert in anti-aging and longevity. He has more companies than I think even he can remember and has essentially the same as a

knighthood in the UK but the Australian version. Oh yeah and he's one of Time magazine's 50 most influential health professionals on the planet. So in short he knows what he's on about.

Today we're learning about what makes us age. How are cells and genes degenerate and get damaged over time and what techniques are available to actually slow, stop and reverse this process. That's right. Making animals younger than they are. Sounds like science fiction but it's just another day in the life of David's laboratory. So yes, strap in and get a note pad and pen out for this one. Also I'm going to predict a number of inquiries.

About who inside tracker are after me and David both extol their virtues on this particular episode. So if you're interested head to www.insidetracker.com to find out more about their service David uses it and if it's good enough for him. Pretty certainly it's good enough for the rest of us but for now please welcome.

Professor David Sinclair. Oh yeah, PS there's some special behind the scenes footage of David's laboratory and Harvard Medical School along with me taking far too much caffeine on the YouTube channel so go and watch the episode on there if you fancy it.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. I am joined by Professor David Sinclair of Harvard Medical School. How are you today? I'm very, very glad to be here. I'm off to see your friends at inside tracker later on. I'm going to go straight over there and have a sit down with them and go through my my results. See what they've got to say. Oh really? You've had your blood drawn. I haven't had that. I'll be excited. I went to Quest Diagnostics week and a bit ago in California.

And I went through my results with Stacy if it's not if she's not called Stacy I'm going to be in so much bother with one of the analysts inside tracker and they took me through all of my stuff earlier on actually. She's super interesting.

So are you older or younger than your actual age? I am 31 in real years and the inside of my body's 36. Oh, that is because glucose being out of range.

Waits very heavily. And the only thing I've got is slightly out of range glucose and my lipids are a tiny little bit out as well. So I need to eat soluble fiber.

Yeah, you'll enjoy that.

Um, soluble fiber when I was looking at the list of potential groups of foods, it was just 20 different types of beans.

I was like, I have, I have no types of beans in my diet, like a baked beans like does that count as a bean?

I'm sure it does. It has the desired effect. I bet it does indeed. So the first question I've got for you. What, what do you do here?

I know we're in a medical school. I haven't got the first idea about what it is that you do.

Well, so I come in every day to my lab. There's about 30 to 35 people in my lab.

And I instruct them to discover really cool stuff. That's basically my job. And they'll come to me and I'll say,

I've got an idea to discover something and I'll say, that sounds good. Go do it. Or that sounds really boring. Don't bother doing it.

And by the way, how much is that going to cost? And I'll tell me it's going to cost about two million dollars.

So it's my job to bring in the money and let them figure it out. But the theme of my lab is focused on aging and has been since I started the lab

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