Inside Health: How can we age well?
Discovery
BBC
4.3 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2024
⏱️ 27 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.
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast, but this is about something else you might enjoy. |
| 0:05.4 | My name's Katie Lecky and I'm an assistant commissioner for on demand music on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:10.7 | The BBC has an incredible musical heritage and culture and as a music lover, I love being part of that. |
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| 0:34.9 | check out BBC Sounds. Hello, hey festival! |
| 0:42.3 | 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 anything we can do to live like Peter Pan |
| 0:55.4 | and be eternally young? I've got very high expectations from this programme. I have some |
| 1:01.7 | incredible experts. Do you want to introduce yourselves? I'm Norman Lazarus. I'm a professor |
| 1:07.4 | at King's College, London. I research healthy ageing, |
| 1:12.8 | and I've been doing that for a pass to about 20 years. |
| 1:17.5 | I'm Georgina Ellison Hughes, |
| 1:19.3 | and I'm a professor of regenerative muscle physiology from King's College London. |
| 1:23.8 | I'm Sarah Harper, and I'm the professor of Gerontology at the University of Oxford. |
| 1:28.5 | And everyone here in the audience, who feels young? Give me a yay. |
| 1:32.1 | Yay! |
| 1:33.2 | That's great. Who doesn't feel young? Give me a nay. |
| 1:37.8 | There's a lot to learn for everybody today. |
| 1:39.9 | The first thing I want to figure out is, Georgina, why is it, and is it true, that you see some |
| 1:45.9 | people and you go, they've got the same birthday, but one of them looks 10 years younger? |
| 1:49.8 | I mean, is that a genuine biological effect going on? Do some people just age more slowly than |
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