Welcome. I'm Kevin Miller. This is a podcast for your personal evolution. In this episode,

what impact does your attitude on aging have towards your literal aging?

So how will you age? Whether you're in your late 20s, 50s, or your early 90s, everyone feels they're getting older.

And of course, chronologically, we are getting older.

So as a child, but we view children as growing older and better.

I feel like people earlier and earlier these days are viewing that every day they get older is a negative.

And we expect to decline, become less capable. And again, people are talking about that in their 20s these days. Well, should this be the

case? And how is the negative view of aging hurting us all, no matter, I mean, culturally, no matter

what age that you are as you hear this. Well, it's a big topic of

interest. For me, I am, as I do this recording right now, 54 years old, I feel very capable and I

want to maintain my capacity as long as I can in every way, physiologically and psychologically.

So I brought on an expert. This was a few

years back, sat down with Dr. Becca Levy. She's an award-winning professor of epidemiology,

which is social and behavioral sciences at Yale School of Public Health and Professor of Psychology

at Yale University. She's given invited testimony

before the United States Senate on the effects of ageism, contributed to brief submitted to the

United States Supreme Court in age discrimination cases and participated in United Nations discussions

on ageism. She's credited with having created a field of study that

focuses on how positive and negative age stereotypes actually affect the health of older individuals.

And then she's author of a book called Breaking the Age Code, How your beliefs about aging determine how long and well

you love. So this, again, very much of interest to me, I want to age well. I want my

health span to equal my lifespan. I'm not even as concerned about how long, like living until I'm

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