672: How to Personalize Your Healthspan Journey with Rachele Pojednic
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
When you search online for ways to live a healthy life, you're bombarded by charismatic speakers, some with medical degrees or PhDs, promising miracle cures. From cancer treatments to fat-burning morning rituals and an endless array of supplements claiming to unlock the fountain of youth, the noise is overwhelming.
Some of these claims contain a grain of truth; others are pure fiction. But in nearly every case, they distract from what truly matters—focusing on minor details that won’t meaningfully impact your health tomorrow, next year, or even a decade from now.
The fundamentals of health, fitness, and longevity may not be flashy, but they are essential. In this week’s podcast, we hear from a PhD researcher and educator whose work focuses on healthspan and longevity.
Listen and learn:
- Why the science community often lacks the communication and marketing skills for their ideas
- How quickly simply-sounding health data can be misinterpreted
- The real risk of sarcopenia (muscle loss) and what to do about it
- Why your health in later life is often the compounding of small behaviors over years or decades
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About Our Guest:
Dr. Rachele Pojednic is a researcher specializing in human performance and healthy aging, serving as the Director of Scientific Research at Restore Hyperwellness and a faculty member in Stanford’s Program in Human Biology. She also leads education at Stanford Lifestyle Medicine and is a research affiliate at Harvard Medical School’s Institute of Lifestyle Medicine. With a PhD in nutritional biochemistry from Tufts and postdoctoral training at Harvard, her work explores the impact of nutrition, supplementation, and physical activity on muscle physiology and longevity.Â
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| 0:00.0 | When you go online searching for ways to live a healthy life, you will be bombarded by charismatic speakers. |
| 0:07.0 | Some of them even have medical degrees or PhDs, and they're promising miracle cures and longevity |
| 0:12.5 | treatments. Everything from cancer cures to fat-burning morning rituals, there's all different supplements |
| 0:18.2 | that are designed to unlock the fountain of youth. The noise is really overwhelming. |
| 0:22.4 | Some of these claims do contain a grain of truth. |
| 0:24.6 | That is true, but others are pure fiction. |
| 0:27.0 | In nearly every case, even with some with a grain of truth, they really distract you from what really matters. |
| 0:33.1 | You're focusing on really minor stuff that isn't going to meaningfully impact your health, not tomorrow, |
| 0:39.1 | probably not even next year, maybe not even in the next decade. The fundamentals of fitness, |
| 0:43.7 | of health span, they're not as flashy, but they're really essential. In this week's podcast, |
| 0:48.1 | we'll sit down with a researcher and educator who's dedicated to health span in longevity in a very |
| 0:52.9 | practical, no-nonsense way. |
| 0:54.6 | If you're new here, this is the age less, live more podcast with Lucas Rockwood. |
| 0:58.8 | I'm a yoga teacher and a trainer. |
| 1:00.6 | I'm a serial entrepreneur and I'm a father, but firstly, I'm a student. |
| 1:03.6 | And I use this podcast to research health span strategies and I try to share my best research |
| 1:09.7 | with you through these interviews. To support |
| 1:12.1 | the show, share the show with a friend or leave a review. If you have questions for me, you can message |
| 1:16.5 | me podcast at yogabody.com just to send an email. Lastly, I have a program called Yoga Body Daily |
| 1:22.7 | and we do strength and stretch and steps every day. A couple thousand people just like you. Learn more |
| 1:27.0 | about that at YogaBody.com. Welcome everyone. It's Lucas here. Today's show is called Personalized Wellness, |
| 1:33.2 | and I'm joined here with Dr. Rachel Pajednik. Rachel is a human performance and healthy aging |
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