Podcast
Chasing Life
Professor Becca Levy's book, "Breaking the Age Code", explores how personal beliefs about aging significantly influence health and longevity. The podcast highlighted the book's central idea that positive beliefs about aging can add years to one's life.
How your beliefs about aging determine how long and well you live.
— Episode: Is Age Really Just a Number?
Episode: Is Age Really Just a Number?
Professor Becca Levy's book, "Breaking the Age Code", explores how personal beliefs about aging significantly influence health and longevity. The podcast highlighted the book's central idea that positive beliefs about aging can add years to one's life.
How your beliefs about aging determine how long and well you live.
the positive age beliefs seem to have benefits to older individuals' health, but unfortunately some of the negative age beliefs that we can also take in can harm different types of health outcomes.
we have found that those who had taken in more age beliefs from their culture tended to live seven and a half years longer on average than those who had taken in more negative age beliefs from the culture.
It's amazing how, she says, that positive beliefs can affect us in three ways, psychologically, behaviorally and biologically.