So Liz, you've been on this podcast a few times. I feel like you're a regular guest, but there's always more we can talk about. And today is a really exciting day for me, but more exciting for you. So can you just explain why it's so exciting? Oh my gosh. Well, thank you, Louise. Thank you so much, having me back on. Today, publication day,

How to Age. Now, you know about this because you're featured in this tone. And it's been a real labour of love.

It's my best book yet. I don't know whether you feel that about new books when you write them.

But I think we gain knowledge, don't

mean experience and passion. And yeah, it's a good one. So I'm thrilled. So thank you for having

me on today. Oh, I think it's brilliant because, well, there's lots of good things about the book.

But one of the great things about you is that you're very evidence-based and you research things.

So although you have a massive connection of people who you lean to and ask for advice,

you don't just take their opinion.

You use it as a vehicle to get more information.

And then some of the so-called experts that you might connect with are not then the ones that you think are quite so credible because you work it out for yourself.

And you've always been, you know, you're, I guess in some ways, very similar because you're very quizzical.

And you ask lots of questions and you're very reflective.

You don't just absorb and take things as face value, which a lot of people could do.

Well, I think it's kind of you to say I'm very fortunate to connect with a lot of

world-class academics and medics and researchers and people like yourself, real experts in the

field, because I'm not a medic.

You know, I'm not a doctor.

I'm not an academic.

I'm not even a scientific researcher.

I think my role is as a communicator and somebody who can go in without a medical or scientific background and ask those questions. And I always think, you know, if I can understand something, if I can ask these amazing academics and people working in their ivory towers and their labs, whatever, to explain things to me, really in a simple way, I can then hopefully translate that and give that information across to the public, you know, particularly when you look at something like

ageing, because, you know, we're all aging and there's so much that's really super interesting

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