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Dr. Becca Levy is the leading authority on how beliefs about aging influence aging health.

She's a professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health and Professor of Psychology

at Yale University. Dr. Levy is given testimony before the US Senate on the adverse effects

of ageism and is contributed to the US Supreme Court beliefs to fight age discrimination.

She serves as a scientific advisor to the World Health Organization's campaign to combat ageism.

And today, she's here to chat about her best-selling book, Breaking the Age Code. How your beliefs

about aging determine how long and well you live. Becca, welcome. Thank you. Great to join you.

So I love the book. It is fascinating. And like so many books, it starts with a great personal story.

So why this book? Yes, thanks. So yeah, I just felt like it was the right time to write this book.

So we know that from some of our studies that ageism is at all time high, about 68% of people in the

country report experiencing or observing ageism. And at the same time, I mean, also, I think it's

gotten worse during the pandemic. So you probably observe this. So for example, there was this

mean that was really popular at the beginning of the pandemic, calling COVID the boomer remover,

which makes fun of the idea of older people dying from COVID, which is really terrible.

So we know that there's a lot of ages amount there. At the same time, from my research,

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