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On this episode of Newt's World, as I get older I have to confess I've become fascinated

with the process of aging. What makes some people age quicker than others? How do we

prolong our lives or encourage our bodies to age later? I am really pleased to welcome

my guest Dr. Near Warsalai. He is a professor in the Department of Medicine and the Department

of Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He's also the director of the Institute

for Aging Research. In the longevity genes project at Albert Einstein College of Medicine,

Dr. Warsalai and his team conducted genetic research on more than 500 healthy elderly

people between the ages of 95 and 112 and on their children. He's also the author of

the book, Age Later, Health Span, Life Span and the New Science on Longevity.

Near, welcome and thank you for joining me again on Newt's World. Thank you and thank

you for your effort to have people understand that aging can be targeted and modulated

and we don't have to do what we've done so far in the last decades.

In fact, Joseph Sanis, who I work with on health issues, who's pointed out, if you treated

aging as a pattern the way you would treat say cardiology or you would treat cancer, in

fact you eliminate a lot of other diseases by the process of getting people to age later.

Right, because the biology of aging is what drives diseases. If we can intervene in the

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