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170: Why aging may be a disease we can reverse, with microbiologist David Sinclair, Ph.D.

The mindbodygreen Podcast

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

If you're going to take healthy aging advice from one expert, you might want to take it from Harvard geneticist and Professor of aging biology, David Sinclair, Ph.D. He sits down with mbg founder and co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to truly optimize our longevity. Tune in to find out why we should view aging the same way we view disease, as well as why we should add more stress to our lives. You’ll learn easy, tangible hacks to trick your body into thinking it’s ten years younger. To contact the mindbodygreen team with comments, questions, or speaker ideas, please email [email protected]. For all sponsorship inquiries, please email [email protected]. Want to join our podcast email newsletter? Sign up here!  Enjoy this episode! And don't forget to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher, and sign up for our podcast newsletter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Have you ever had an instant connection with someone? You see them and you just know.

0:04.6

Butterflies in your stomach, wedding bells ringing, the whole enchilada.

0:08.8

It's more than just compatibility. It's a special connection.

0:13.2

They're the one.

0:14.4

The yin to your yang, the ketchup to your chips, the gravy to your Sunday roast.

0:18.9

The Samsung Galaxy Buds FE to your Samsung phone. New Galaxy Bud's FE, the perfect match for your

0:26.4

phone. Discover in store and online at Curries.

0:29.2

Dr David Sinclair is a professor in the Department of Genetics and co-director of the Paul F.

0:38.4

Clean Center for the Biology of Aging at Harvard Medical School, where he and his colleagues study certuans. of as well as chromatin, energy metabolism, mitochondria, learning and memory, neurodegeneration,

0:58.0

cancer, and cellular reprogramming.

1:01.3

He is also the inventor on 35 patents and in 2014 he was on Times list of the 100

1:08.0

most influential people in the world and listed his Times Top 50 in health care in 2018.

1:14.0

In his latest must read book, Lifespan, Sinclair suggested that aging is a disease.

1:20.0

Yes, and it's one that is potentially treatable.

1:24.0

In this show we talk about everything from the latest studies on anti-aging.

1:28.0

Yes, I said anti-aging, to optimal lifestyle and nutrition choices for longevity to boosting NAD.

1:36.0

Sinclair says we could argue that NAD is the most important molecule in the body,

1:41.0

and without it, we're literally dead. We here at

1:44.0

M. B. G. are particularly excited about the developing science around N. A.D.

1:48.4

and the boosters available to all of us. It is an honor to have David on the show today. David, welcome. Thanks to have me on. It is an honor to have you here. I'm a big fan of your work and congrats on the new book, Lifespan. So what you say in the book is so there's so many

2:06.6

interesting things I'm gonna start the highest level where you say

2:09.7

aging is a disease.

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