Longevity Scientist Shares Top Strategies for Improving Your Health Span w/ Matt Kaeberlein, PhD

Today’s show is brought to you by MYOXCIENCE Nutrition. In this episode Matt Kaeberlein, PhD, CEO of Optispan, discusses the significance of enhancing health span through interventions like rapamycin and highlights the role of senescent cells in chronic inflammation and age-related diseases. Crush your workouts with the Creatine+ Electrolyte Combo by MYOXCIENCE: https://bit.ly/Electrolyte-Stix-Jar *Save with code podcast at checkout Link to show notes: https://bit.ly/4gdmxES Key Takeaways:  02:44 Pillars of health: eat, sleep, move, connect. 10:30 Eating protein and exercise can turn up mTOR. 15:20 High dietary protein and resistance training preserves muscle while aging. 19:20 Longevity research is underfunded. 25:10 Obesity was rare 50 years ago. 26:25 Fasting, and time restricting eating may not increase longevity. 30:45 Smoking, sedentary life, alcohol consumption and obesity shorten lifespan. 34:40 Resveratrol is not a longevity drug. 36:45 Spermidine is an autophagy booster. 38:10 Alpha ketoglutarate, urolithin A, and NAD precursors, may increase lifespan. 42:45 Acarbose, SGLT-2 inhibitors, and estrogens can increase lifespan. 44:45 Metformin does not corelate to reduced all-cause mortality. 47:30 NAD is a co-factor required for thousands of metabolic reactions. 52:55 Some epigenetic signatures are predictive of future health outcomes. 54:17 Facial imaging using AI can predict future health outcomes. 58:17 Dunedin Pace measures the rate of aging. 59:40 Optispan looks at epigenetics, blood glycan, and immune resilience/aging. 01:04:00 Senescent cells are cells that do not do their job and refuse to die. 01:07:50 Rapamycin impacts senescent cells, autoimmunity, and inflammation.    

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