Super-Agers: Why do some old people age better than others?
NO SUCH THING
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4.6 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode of NO SUCH THING, we’re talking about so-called “Super Agers,” the term used to describe people who are at least 80 years old, but are still sharp as a tack. Maury Povich. Joy Behar. Anthony Fauci. Bernie Sanders. Martha Stewart. There are a ton of octogenarians who are cognitively impressive. Of course, there are many who… aren’t. What differentiates these two groups?
A groundbreaking new study endeavors to answer that question, and in today’s episode, we talked to one of the study’s authors, and to one of the super-agers in question.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Annie. I'm Annie. I'm Noah. This is Devin. |
| 0:13.7 | And this is no such thing, the show where we settle our dumb arguments and yours by actually doing the research. |
| 0:20.3 | On today's episode, why do some |
| 0:22.8 | elderly people seem to age way better than other elderly people? We'll talk to one of the authors |
| 0:30.1 | of a groundbreaking new study on so-called super-agersers, and then we'll actually talk to one of them. |
| 0:40.0 | There's no such thing. |
| 0:42.0 | No such thing. |
| 0:44.9 | No such thing. |
| 0:47.9 | No such thing. |
| 0:48.8 | No such thing. |
| 0:50.8 | No such thing. |
| 0:56.4 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:58.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 1:03.9 | All right, fellows. |
| 1:09.1 | I want to start this episode with a question, an intimate question for the boys. |
| 1:09.6 | Oh. |
| 1:15.1 | Where do you see yourselves at 80 years old? What's going on in your life? And more importantly, how lucid do you think you'll be? How sharp do you think |
| 1:19.8 | you'll still be? It's a sidewater. Who's going first? You can think about it so you can think. |
| 1:26.4 | Paint a picture for us. |
| 1:27.5 | Yeah, I'm going to be very lucid at age 80. |
| 1:31.0 | And what makes you say that? |
| 1:32.3 | You know, I'm doing the work. |
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