Dr. Rhonda Patrick

So

I have a podcast called Found My Fitness where I interview guests that are MDs, PhDs, all about what kind of research they're doing and how it's basically showing how people can live a healthier life by doing a variety of different lifestyle changes and dietary changes to improve the way they age.

And I love it because I left science.

I left science.

I left doing research in the lab.

And the thing that I missed most were the conversations I would have with other scientists because you learn so much.

It's so...

intellectually stimulating much more than reading a scientific publication.

In fact, that's one of the reasons why I started the podcast is because it was like, well, I learned so much from these little conversations I have in the coffee room or at my cubicle or in some professor's office.

And it's like, why not record these conversations for the public so that they can learn?

And it's really been great ever since.

I'm super excited about how these language models, these basically like LLMs and how AI is going to help really advance science and particularly science in the field of aging.

Because at the end of the day, you can do everything in your capacity with your diet and your lifestyle to really give yourself that edge in terms of aging better and living longer.

But at the end of the day, you do have a certain genetic potential.

You could eat healthy and exercise and still not live to be 120.

There is a genetic component to living to be 100.

Living to 100, believe it or not, is largely genetic.

But that doesn't mean that, you know, diet and lifestyle don't matter.

They matter a great deal.

It's a matter of, you know, basically your quality of life and not having Alzheimer's disease and cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes and things like that later in life, really degrading the quality of your life and perhaps giving you an extra five years, right?