Professor Rose Anne Kenny on Ageing
The Mid•Point with Gabby Logan
The Midpoint
4.3 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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This week, Gabby takes a deep dive into the biology of ageing with Professor Rose Anne Kenny. Professor Kenny is a physician, researcher, and the founding principal investigator of The Irish LongituDinal study on Ageing. Rose Anne is also a best-selling author, and Gabby has read her book - Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life - cover to cover! They discuss key topics from her research, including what epigenetics are and how we can influence them and our biological ageing, the commonalities that people living in the so-called Blue Zones have and what this teaches us about how to live long and healthy lives, and how research shows it’s never too late to make a difference to how you’re ageing on the inside. Professor Kenny also answers your questions on everything from supplements and exercise, to how much we should eat as we get older.
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| 0:52.6 | Hello and welcome to a special installment of The Midpoint. Today, I'm dedicating this entire |
| 1:02.3 | episode to a fact of all of our lives, aging, but not the superficial things like wrinkles and gray |
| 1:07.7 | hairs. Instead, I'm going to be exploring the science of aging, and I'm enlisting the help of |
| 1:12.8 | the true expert, award-winning physician, researcher, and now best-selling author, Professor Rose |
| 1:19.0 | and Kenny. Professor Kenny has been head of the academic department of medical |
| 1:22.1 | gerontology at Trinity College Dublin since 2006. She's also the director of Mercer's Institute |
| 1:28.2 | for Successful Aging, and the founding principal investigator of the Irish longitudinal study |
| 1:33.6 | on aging. More importantly, Rose has taken on all that she's learned from her pioneering scientific |
| 1:39.2 | research and distilled it into a book called Ageproof, the new science of living a longer and |
| 1:44.7 | healthier life. And the book claims that 80% of our aging biology is within our control. |
| 1:50.8 | So I had to find out more, and I'm delighted to welcome Professor Rose and Kenny to The Midpoint. |
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