Dr. Sandra Weintraub

What did you do in school?

And what's the context?

Who are your parents?

What is your genetic makeup?

We don't know a lot about the genetics of our super agers.

That's going to be an area that's really huge.

Is it only genetics?

Probably not, but probably a big part of it.

And not just longevity.

Longevity just means living long.

It doesn't mean living well.

So we actually gave them personality measures and then a measure of psychological well-being.

And these are surveys where you answer questions and then they get analyzed and it tells you which characteristics you have most prominent.

So on the personality measures, they had more extroversion than normal agers.

And on the

uh, psychological wellbeing, they endorsed, there were several different other things you can connect to psychological wellbeing.

But the one thing that stood out for them was the importance of social connections.

Okay, so 25 years, it didn't happen overnight.

And these people don't grow on trees.

So we need more people.