Eighty Is The New Thirty: A Guide To Getting Older, PART 1

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🗓️ 4 August 2023

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We tend to associate old age with deterioration, especially of our mental powers and memory. But today we are seeing a new cohort of the so-called young-old, people in their sixties, seventies and beyond, who are still healthy, active and fully engaged with life. Neuroscientist and bestselling author Daniel Levitin is at the forefront of research to find out how to lead a long and healthy life and in 2020 he came to the Intelligence Squared to share the findings of his book The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist’s Guide to Ageing Well. Joining Levitin was Camilla Cavendish, award-winning journalist and campaigner, who has travelled the world interviewing leading experts for her book Extra Time: 10 Lessons for an Ageing World. This is the first part of a three-part interview. Join us for more in the following episode. We’d love to hear your feedback and what you think we should talk about next, who we should have on and what our future debates should be. Send us an email or voice note with your thoughts to podcasts@intelligencesquared.com or Tweet us @intelligence2. And if you’d like to get ad-free access to all Intelligence Squared podcasts, including exclusive bonus content, early access to new episodes and much more, become a supporter of Intelligence Squared today for just £4.99, or the equivalent in your local currency . Just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Intelligent Squared. I'm senior producer Connor Boyle. For
0:05.2	today's episode we're going to a discussion on how to stay healthy into
0:09.1	advancing years. Back in 2020 Intelligent Squared was joined by neuroscientist
0:14.4	and best-selling author Daniel Levitton to discuss the ideas from his book
0:18.6	The Changing Mind and neuroscientists guide to aging well. Joining Daniel in
0:23.5	conversation was journalist author and former director of policy for
0:27.1	Prime Minister David Cameron Camilla Cavendish. She's the author of Extra Time.
0:31.0	Ten lessons for living longer, better. This is part one of a three-part
0:35.0	discussion. If you'd like to hear this episode out free and enjoy the rest of the
0:38.9	episodes immediately you can support our mission to foster honest debate and
0:42.3	compelling conversations by heading to IntelligentSquared.com slash
0:46.4	membership or by subscribing to our channel on Apple. Let's join Camilla Cavendish
0:50.8	with more. So we're going to try and have a conversation really about how to live
0:55.7	longer better with a particular focus on the brain and I'm going to sort of
1:00.4	ask the questions but we're going to try and make it a conversation and then we'll
1:03.6	open up to the floor just before 8 o'clock. So I suppose I wanted to frame the
1:09.8	discussion down in a way by saying that you and I actually have a lot in common.
1:13.1	We do. And we're both optimists. Although I never worked at number 10.
1:17.1	Well apart from that. But in terms of our views on this subject I think you know
1:21.8	we're both optimists about what I call Extra Time. You know this extended
1:25.6	middle age, this longevity. But we're also pragmatists. So I think that we
1:30.3	both have a certain skeptical view about looking properly at the evidence and
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