Thank you.

Hey, everybody. Dr. Josh Axe here along with Dr. David Sinclair, really excited to have him on today. He is a PhD and a professor at the

Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and so we're going to talk a lot about today.

We're going to talk about longevity. We're going to talk about genetics and so much more.

Dr David, hey welcome to the podcast.

Hey Josh, thanks for having me.

Well great, well again, you know I've spent a little time reading

about some of your research online and what you do and again it's always so

impressive anytime I get to interview a Harvard you know teaching at Harvard who has a PhD, but want to talk about

longevity, want to talk about genetics and how to live longer, healthier lives.

So starting off, let's go ahead and talk about this like what is sort of the you know the framework that you sort of see aging in and how can we slow it how can we live more fully what's your what's your take

yeah well the good news is that genes are not your destiny we've learned from

studying twins that if you lead a healthy lifestyle you can do you know the top five

things be eat healthy don't get obese exercise get enough sleep have friends these things

can extend your lifespan by 14 years or more just by doing

the basics and it turns out that an estimated 80% of your health and longevity is not genetic. It depends on how you live your life.

And actually now that we have a very simple test we can, Josh I could take your blood today and tell you biologically how

old you are in fact very accurately within a few percent error and predict when you're

going to die that that's not bad news that says we're able to not just measure aging but bend the curve so even if you're

50 60 70 you can now change that rate of aging by doing the right things.

Wow, I mean that's pretty incredible to be able to do a blood test to be able to sort of tell

your your age.

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