Judy Foreman: ...how physical activity slows aging

Nobody Told Me!

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🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Exercise is the closest thing there is to a magic bullet for healthy aging, according to our guest on this episode, investigative health journalist Judy Foreman. Judy is the author of the book, "Exercise is Medicine: How Physical Activity Boosts Health and Slows Aging". She says it’s not just the passage of time that makes our bodies fall apart as we get older, it’s lack of exercise. Her website is https://judyforeman.com/about-judy/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.6	I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black.
0:16.1	Exercise is the closest thing there is to a magic bullet for healthy aging.
0:21.4	So says our guest on this episode, investigative health journalist Judy Foreman,
0:26.3	author of the new book, Exercise is Medicine,
0:29.5	how physical activity boosts health and slows aging.
0:33.3	Judy says it's not just the passage of time that makes our bodies fall apart as we get older.
0:38.2	It's lack of exercise.
0:39.8	And we can't wait to talk about this with you, Judy.
0:41.8	Thank you so much for joining us today.
0:44.3	Oh, it's my pleasure.
0:45.3	Thank you.
0:46.0	Talk to us about why you became interested in the link between exercise and aging and how the book came about.
0:53.3	Well, I've been a science writer professionally my whole life.
0:56.7	I've been a science writer at the globe and then a nationally syndicated health
1:00.3	columnist at the globe and a whole bunch of other papers.
1:03.4	So I've always had a tropism for science, but I've also been an exercise in my whole
1:09.1	life.
1:09.6	And kind of the two strands came together
1:11.8	a few years ago.
1:13.2	Like everybody else, I already knew exercise is good for you, but the science writer in me
1:18.5	really wanted to know exactly why at the deep molecular, cellular level, and I found out.
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