7 things longevity doctors do to live longer – with Dr Harpal Bains
Age Better with Liz Earle
Liz Earle
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
What if you could dial back your biological age – not through expensive treatments or extreme diets – but with surprisingly simple habits that longevity doctors actually use themselves? Dr Harpal Bains joins Liz to reveal the practical strategies that could genuinely add years to your life.
In this episode:
- Why your heart, cells and organs could all be different ages
- The pulse wave velocity test revealing arterial stiffness before symptoms appear
- The impact of stress on heart health and longevity
- How much exercise is too much?
- The truth about LDL cholesterol and oxidative stress
- Microdosing GLP-1 medications for longevity (not just weight loss)
- HRT as a longevity strategy beyond symptom relief
- The 70% rule and why joy might be the most powerful pro-ageing tool
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| 0:00.0 | Some of the subpopulation that I'm getting are those who seem normal in every single aspect. |
| 0:04.9 | Cholesterol is good. |
| 0:05.7 | Triglycerides is good. |
| 0:06.6 | Every single thing is good. |
| 0:07.9 | And suddenly their age is coming back as anything from 5 to 10 years older. |
| 0:12.1 | And what I find is that a lot of them tend to be women. |
| 0:15.0 | A lot of them tend to be type A personalities and the level of stress that that causes and the hormonal and the, all the things |
| 0:22.3 | that's released because you're a high stress personalities impacting your blood vessels. |
| 0:26.3 | I now have evidence that your blood vessels are stiff despite the fact that everything about you |
| 0:33.0 | is okay, including your epigenetic clock. |
| 0:36.2 | Well, how old did you turn at your last birthday? |
| 0:39.9 | Harple Baines is a doctor whose focus is on longevity. |
| 0:43.5 | She says your heart, cells and organs could all be a different age to you. |
| 0:49.5 | Welcome to Age Better with me, Liz Earle. |
| 0:52.1 | My mission is to change the conversation around aging, |
| 0:55.6 | because what I've learned through the years of research and personal experience is that |
| 0:59.8 | decline is not inevitable. Aging well is a journey, and I truly want you to discover just how good |
| 1:06.2 | it can feel to age better than you ever thought possible. Now, over 7.6 million people in the UK are living with heart or circulatory disease. |
| 1:18.4 | So Dr. Arbel-Bain says that as one of the leading causes of mortality in the UK, heart disease and vascular aging, |
| 1:26.0 | should be right up there with the top priorities when considering |
| 1:29.6 | longevity. And she should know Harfle is a very well-respected medical doctor specialising in |
| 1:35.8 | longevity medicine, functional medicine and bioidentical hormones. She's the founder and medical |
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