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Age Later Health Span, Life Span, and the New Science of Longevity

Nir Barzilai M.D.

How do some people avoid the slowing down, deteriorating, and weakening that plagues many of their peers decades earlier? Are they just lucky? Or do they know something the rest of us don’t? Is it possible to grow older without getting sicker? What if you could look and feel fifty through your eight...

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Chasing Life

Dr. Barzilai, director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, wrote this book about increasing lifespan and healthspan, the period of life spent in good health. He discussed his interest in slowing and even reversing the aging process and the importance of separating real science from junk science.

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Your mother is demonstrating slowing of the aging process. Really? Why? Because it is untypical for an 80-something-year-old woman to sleep nine hours and not to have pain.

— Episode: Biohacking...or BS?

Episode: Biohacking...or BS?

Dr. Barzilai, director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, wrote this book about increasing lifespan and healthspan, the period of life spent in good health. He discussed his interest in slowing and even reversing the aging process and the importance of separating real science from junk science.

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Your mother is demonstrating slowing of the aging process. Really? Why? Because it is untypical for an 80-something-year-old woman to sleep nine hours and not to have pain.

If we prevent aging, we prevent age-related diseases.

aging is the mother of all those diseases.

So for him, that leaves a lot of room for improvement, about 35 years worth.

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