On today's episode, we have one of the world's most cited professors in nutrition,

who's going to be sharing six longevity nutrients that are underserved and under-talked about

that can preserve your strength and your muscles and help you age better.

Hi, I'm Dr. Rupi. I'm a medical doctor and nutritionist.

And when I suffered a heart condition years ago, I was able to reverse it with diet and

lifestyle. This opened up my eyes to the world of food as medicine to improve our health.

On this podcast, I discuss ways in which you can use nutrition

and lifestyle to improve your own well-being every day. I speak with expert guests and we lean

into the science, but whilst making it as practical and as easy as possible so you can take

steps to change your life today. Welcome to the Doctor's Kitchen podcast.

In today's episode, I'm joined by Professor Elsa Welch.

She's a leading expert in nutritional epidemiology at the University of East Anglia,

and we're going to explore silent yet powerful

changes that begin in midlife and how aging affects our muscles, our bones, metabolism,

and why prevention particularly in your 40s, 50s and 60s is key.

Everything from sarcopenia and osteoporosis, frailty and fracture risk, we're going to unpack how

these conditions interact with one another and what the latest science says about how you can

maintain strength and vitality as we age using specific nutrients. She's going to share some really

compelling insights from her decades of research on how

diet interacts with the biology of aging, including inflammation, oxidative stress, mitochondrial

function. We're going to unpack exactly what all those things are. And we're going to discuss

these key nutrients. Now, I've said six longevity nutrients, but of course,

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