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Age Less / Live More

530: The Truth About Reverse Aging with Morgan Levine PhD

Age Less / Live More

Lucas Rockwood

Love, Detox, Food, Yogabody, Pranayama, Vegan, Selfimprovement, Self-improvement, Relationships, Meditation, Breathing, Education, Emotions, Mental, Vegetarian, Inspiring, Leader, Balance, Motivating, Weightloss, Flexibility, Habits, Health, Motivation, Yoga, Nutrition

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🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

How long do you want to live? How healthy do you want to be in your later years? For many podcast listeners, healthspan is more important than lifespan, but it’s difficult to figure out what–if anything⁠–can stack the deck in your favor. On this week’s podcast, we’ll meet PhD researcher and author, Morgan Levine, who is actively working to answer these questions.

Listen and learn:

  • Why exercise is probably the greatest anti-aging tool
  • Metformin and rapamycin: do they work?
  • Human age potential
  • Heritability vs. epigenetics

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Morgan Levine’s Book

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Morgan Levine was an Assistant Professor in the department of Pathology at Yale University. She now works with Altos Labs, where she leads a research group on
bioinformatics, cellular biology, and biostatistics. She is the author of, True Age: Cutting-Edge Research to Help Turn Back the Clock.

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0:00.0

for everyone that I talk to, there's this moment when you realize that your youth is behind you

0:08.4

and maybe you look in the mirror and your skin is losing elasticity, maybe it's some wrinkles around

0:13.1

your eyes, maybe it's a receding hairline, maybe you're starting to get forgetful. For me,

0:17.8

I just noticed my recovery time from yoga or exercise is a little bit slower and if you're like me

0:24.4

and like many people, it kind of freaks you out. I think that many of us would like to increase

0:29.9

our lifespan, but also more than anything, increase our health span. We want to have healthy,

0:34.7

high cognitive, high physical capacity years and when you start looking around reading books,

0:40.3

trying to figure out what to do to get there, it's really confusing. There's the obvious stuff like

0:44.7

don't smoke, don't drink, try to reduce stress, but when you start to actually quantify like,

0:49.4

hey, what kind of activities, what kinds of foods, what kinds of things can I do that I can take

0:54.3

the bank that are going to help me be able to move and get it off the floor in my 80s and pick up my

0:59.7

grandchildren and go skiing and that's a challenging thing to figure out because there really isn't that

1:05.6

much reference for it. So a hundred years ago, quite literally a hundred years ago, someone my age

1:10.4

would be on their deathbed and so we don't really have a bunch of data to think about, but there's

1:14.4

more and more data coming and as we move into the decades with the oldest population, the largest

1:21.0

size oldest population ever in human history, I think we're going to learn a lot more. On this week's

1:25.6

podcast, we'll dive deep into slowing down aging and potential future, exciting things on the horizon.

1:32.4

If you're new here, it's Lucas Rockwood show. I'm a yoga teacher, a teacher trainer. I'm a serial

1:36.0

entrepreneur on the father of three kids. I like to learn things. I use this podcast as a way to

1:40.8

find people doing research, PhDs, medical doctors, yoga teachers, meditation teachers, try to bring

1:46.0

their best research here so we can live more inspired lives. If you would like to support the show,

1:52.0

leave a review and whatever app you're listening on. I have a YouTube channel. I'd appreciate if you

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