509. Longevity Science: Taking Control of Your Healthspan with Dr. Kara Fitzgerald, Dr. Will Cole, and Serena Poon, CN.

Commune with Jeff Krasno

Commune Media

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

As science makes remarkable strides, more and more of us will be living past 100. But the reality is that our healthspans – the years we spend in good health, free from chronic disease and disabilities – is actually going down. In today's episode, we present insights from leading experts in the field of longevity on how to improve healthspan.

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In this episode we cover:
0:08:23 – What is the difference between biological and chronological age?
0:11:11 – What is the difference between lifespan and healthspan?
0:20:42 – How is biological age measured?
0:26:16 – Bio 101: what is the primary function of DNA?
0:31:40 – What does healthspan look like in the West right now?
0:37:07 – How do we make longevity protocols accesible?
0:40:50 – What are adversity mimetics and why are they helpful?

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Transcript

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0:00.0	We attach a lot to chronological age, but it's really just a number.
0:04.3	Health span should be the name as far as what our focus should be.
0:06.9	What are some of those key supplements that you would recommend around Lone Kevin?
0:20.5	Welcome to Commune. My name is Jeff Krasno. Today we're exploring human longevity.
0:27.5	Now the idea of extending human lifespan is not a new one, but as medical science leaps forward,
0:35.3	the notion of making it to a hundred seems more realistic than ever.
0:41.3	Now, there are approximately 100,000 centenarians in the United States today, but that number is
0:48.4	expected to double by 2040 and quadruple by 2050. However, this elongation of life is balanced against a stark
1:00.5	reality. Over the past decade, life expectancy has actually declined 2.8 years in the United States,
1:10.4	from 78.9 to 76.1. And this trend began well before COVID
1:18.3	put its wicked foot to the gas. So indeed, we are seeing a cohort of people living longer
1:26.5	while the average American lifespan is increasingly
1:30.3	truncated. More problematic than the decrease in average solar orbits per capita lifespan is the
1:40.1	average duration of our underlying health span, the period of life spent in good health,
1:46.8	free from the chronic diseases and disabilities of aging. In the modern West, life expectancy
1:54.1	has become concomitant with sick expectancy. 60% of Americans suffer from at least one chronic disease, the most prevalent
2:06.0	of which are heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's and dementia, respiratory
2:11.9	conditions, and body liver disease. 40% of Americans are managing multiple simultaneous chronic diseases.
2:21.4	80% of people 65 years of age have one or more chronic conditions. And if you're lucky enough
2:28.0	to have made it to 80, on average, you have five. The average American spends the final 16 years of their life,
2:38.5	limping through their existence, experiencing a reverse alchemy in which our golden years
2:45.6	have been converted to the base metals of wheelchairs and bed pants. This epidemic of disease has myriad
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