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Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield here and I recently learned about this 90-something, I believe

95-year-old or possibly 94-year-old at the time that the book that I just finished was

written.

Track and Field athlete.

Her name is Olga.

She not only looks and acts like a much younger woman, but she holds over 23 world records

in track and field.

And this book that I recently read goes into her diet habits, her sleep habits, how she

scores on various personality traits, what she does in her spare time, her family history,

her genes.

Basically the book details how she went through a process of participating in tests that

were administered by some of the world's leading scientists.

She offered her DNA to these groundbreaking research trials and really what the book

does into is how you can learn to live a longer and happier life based off of what science

and research and the author of this book has discovered about Olga and people like her.

So the author of what makes Olga run, the mystery of the 90-something track star and what she

can teach us about living longer, happier lives is my guest today on the Ben Greenfield

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