Hey there, listeners, it's Audie, and the team here at the assignment is taking a break.

We're going to do some more digging, some more reporting, and be back with some more episodes.

In the meantime, I want to highlight another amazing CNN podcast, Chasing Life with Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

And this season, Sanjay is exploring the science of aging. He's here with me now to talk more about it. Welcome back.

Thank you for having me. I am a big fan of yours, and I love listening to your podcast. So what an honor to be here.

Thank you. Thank you so much. So this is probably one area you're completely not an expert in because you don't look like you age ever at all.

Let's be clear, there is somewhere, there's a portrait in your basement that's doing all the aging and you're just out here on TV. So like what's the deal? Why did you want to get into this?

Well, first of all, thank you for that. I am aging. You know, it's funny, I started to think about this, this fact that we all age. We don't talk about it much. It's, it's, there are things in life that we all humans have as this universal experience, and yet we don't talk about it. And if anything, we,

in many places, many cultures, they start to demonize it. And even though we all go through it,

that was, it's just always been this sort of hypocritical thing in the back of my mind. And as

someone who's traveled the world, I looked at how other cultures approach aging, being Indian, this idea of intergenerational households and having respect for your elders versus focusing on anti-aging. There are all these things. But the thing that really got me, Audit, I read this article is actually in the Atlantic magazine by Jennifer Sr.

And it was about the age that you feel versus the age that you are.

Exactly.

I'm obsessed with that article.

Yes.

So interesting, right, because I think it kind of got to the point.

You are a certain age. That is based on revolutions of planets and, you know, et cetera, et cetera, but how you feel,

it's not just a euphemism. It actually means something in terms of how you might actually age.

So your attitude toward aging based on how you feel could actually have an impact on your

biological aging. I find that interesting.

Also, you know, as a doc, I got to tell you, I operated on someone who was in their 90s recently.

If you were to say, well, how did they do?

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