How to Live Longer (and Better) | David A. Sinclair, Ph.D.

Good Life Project

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Education, Wellness, Self-improvement, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Intentional Living, Personal Growth, Living Well, How To

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🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Question for you: what if you could slow down, stop or even reverse your aging process? What if you could live, not just longer, but better? Extending and even potentially expanding your physical and mental health and well-being. Staving off decline or illness. Is any of that really possible, and what does cutting-edge science have to say?

That is what we are talking about with today's guest. David Sinclair. David is a worldwide leader in aging research. He is a Professor in the Department of Genetics and co-Director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research at Harvard Medical School.

He's best known for his work on genes and small molecules that delay aging, including the sirtuin genes and resveratrol and its precursors, which we get into. He’s published over 170 scientific studies, is the co-inventor on over 50 patents, has co-founded 14 biotechnology companies in the area of aging vaccines, diabetes, fertility Cancer Biodefense. His book Lifespan, Why We Age, and Why We Don't Have To explores what we get wrong about aging and how to approach it differently. And, his podcast, Lifespan, explores healthy aging and how to live not just longer, but better, too. So excited to share this Best Of conversation with you.

You can find David at: Website | Instagram

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0:00.0	And it seemed to me that trying to figure out why people don't live longer than they do was
0:04.6	something no one else was really doing in a rigorous way. And I'm not so much worried about my own
0:09.3	mortality. Some people think I'm worried about dying. I'm not really worried about that. But I am
0:13.9	worried about not doing the best I can for humanity. I'm a real fan of humans and I want to leave this
0:19.6	world a better place than I found it. Okay, so question for you. What if you could slow down time?
0:27.4	What if you could stop or even reverse the aging process? What if you could live not just longer
0:32.4	but better, extending and even potentially expanding your physical and mental health and well-being,
0:38.4	staving off decline or illness is any of that really possible. And what does the latest
0:44.0	science have to say about it? That is what we're talking about with today's guest, David Sinclair.
0:49.5	So David is a worldwide leader in aging research. He's a professor in the Department of Genetics and
0:54.7	Co-Director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research at Harvard Medical School.
1:00.2	And he's best known for his work on genes and small molecules that delay aging,
1:05.7	including Sir Two in Genes and Resveratrol and its precursors. And we get into all of this in
1:10.8	a lot of detail. He's published over 170 scientific studies as the co-inventor of over 50 patents and
1:17.4	co-founded 14 biotech companies in the area of aging diabetes, fertility, cancer, biodefense, his book
1:24.7	Life Span, Why We Age and Why We Don't Have to, explores what we get wrong about aging and how
1:31.4	to approach it differently. And his podcast Life Span also explores healthy aging and how to live
1:37.2	not just longer but more well as well. So excited to share this best of conversation with you.
1:43.3	I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life Project.
1:51.0	I'm curious about a number of different things and I figure we'll touch down in a few different
1:55.8	areas. I guess one of my early fascinations is I'm always curious about people's personal choices
2:01.4	about how they want to invest their energy and a body of work for their life. And so I'm curious
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