Replay: Nir Barzilai shares Five Things He's Learned about the New Science of Longevity
Check out the first five minutes of his recent class.
“My interest in aging was sparked by youthful interactions with my beloved grandfather, when I realized that I will probably one day look like him. Our change with time became my biggest, most lasting, mystery of life… Later, my wife’s grandmother Frieda – a Polish immigrant whose late-life vitality was in stark contrast with people twenty years younger – spurred my focus on the biology of longevity. She lived to be 102. Was there some biological ‘secret sauce’ that kept Frieda wearing high heels well into her 90’s?”
– Nir Barzilai, Five Things I've Learned about the New Science of Longevity
Nir Barzilai, M.D. is one of the leading pioneers of longevity research. He is the founding director of the Institute for Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the co-founder of CohBar, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on increasing healthspan by developing treatments for age-related diseases. Here’s the first five minutes of our recent 90-minute class in which he shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the scientific hacks that can improve your health, increase your life span, and make it possible for you to Age Later now.
Five Things I’ve Learned about the New Science of Longevity offers insights and knowledge on tackling the challenges of aging and preventing age-related diseases. Nir focuses on the "big four" age-related diseases: diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and Alzheimer's. His class explores the idea that aging is not an inevitable process, but a phenomenon that can be targeted, improved, and even cured through innovative treatments, exercise, genetic factors, and the potential of drugs like metformin. He discusses the latest research and which personal habits maximize health and longevity.
Nir’s conversation with Kris Rebillot is part of our ongoing series, Five Things I’ve Learned about Living Better Longer. These 90-minute sessions share the insights, perspectives, and experiences of renowned researchers and scientists devoted to exploring the ways in which we age and to applying their knowledge to improve our lives.
If you’re eager to discover the insights we need to make the most of the possibilities that await us as we age, this conversation is for you.
Nir has made it his life’s work to tackle the challenges of aging and to delay or prevent the onset of all age-related diseases. He is the director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging Research and the National Institutes of Health Nathan Shock Centers of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging. Nir has received numerous awards, including the Beeson Fellow for Aging Research, the Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar in Aging Award, the Paul F. Glenn Foundation Award, the NIA Nathan Shock Award, and the 2010 Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction in Aging Research.
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