How can we age well?

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

From the Hay Festival, James and a panel of experts explain what we can all do to help ourselves age well.

We discover what’s going on in our bodies when we age, the difference between biological and chronological age, as well as getting the audience moving for a physical test.

James is joined by gerontologist Sarah Harper from the University of Oxford, biomedical scientist Georgina Ellison-Hughes from King’s College London, and doctor Norman Lazarus to understand how exercise, diet, and mental health all have a part to play in how we age.

Presenter: James Gallagher  Producer: Gerry Holt Editor: Holly Squire

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0:00.0	Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast,
0:05.4	The Traitors Uncloaked. But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's
0:10.6	Saturday bonus episodes, the Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Ryland, and comedy specials
0:16.2	from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffel and Rommas Sh Ranganathan. However, and maybe I'm biased,
0:21.9	it's really all about the traitors uncloked.
0:24.3	So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts,
0:27.4	listen only on BBC Sounds.
0:30.8	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:34.8	Hello, Hey Festival.
0:45.3	Thank you. Podcasts. Hello, Hey Festival. You're here to hear a recording of Inside Health and what we're going to do today is explore the biology of aging, how much of it we can control, and is there
0:50.2	anything we can do to live like Peter Pan and be eternally young?
0:57.2	I've got very high expectations from this programme.
1:00.5	I have some incredible experts.
1:04.1	I couldn't get Methuselah, but I do have Lazarus on the panel. So do you want to introduce yourselves?
1:08.2	I'm Norman Lazarus.
1:09.4	I'm a professor at King's College London. I research
1:13.8	healthy ageing and I've been doing that for a past so about 20 years. I'm Georgina Ellison
1:21.5	Hughes and I'm a professor of regenerative muscle physiology from King's College London.
1:26.5	I'm Sarah Harper and I'm the professor of
1:29.0	gerontology at the University of Oxford. And everyone here in the audience, who feels young? Give me a
1:34.0	yay. That's great. Who doesn't feel young? Give me a nay. There's a lot to learn for everybody today.
1:42.3	The first thing I want to figure out is Georginaina, why is it, and is it true, that you see some people and you go,
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