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Eric Topol

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TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

And it's especially in women, postmenopausal women, we got to know that person has got heart disease risk because there's so much we can do about that.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

Right, right.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

Yeah, I think if you stick to the evidence and not just opinionsβ€”

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

You know, there's evidence-based and then there's eminence-based.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

Stick to the former.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

You'll be okay.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

But you're only going to get that from the highest level of peer-reviewed journals and people who are committed to presenting the evidence in a forthright way.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

Absolutely.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

Particularly this field of longevity and healthy aging.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

It's a bit like the dis- and misinformation that we saw throughout the COVID pandemic.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

We got to get this right because there's so much opportunity here to promote healthy aging that a lot of people are not really aware of.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

And if we do get on track with this and people do get the right word, it can make a world of difference in their healthy aging.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

Age lies.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

Just lifestyle alone has been shown.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

If you start age 50 and you attend to all the things that we know, you can get seven to 10 years more of healthy aging.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

And people don't even know that.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

So there's so much we can get out there that's really high quality information that should help people.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

Absolutely.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

You can be stronger than ever in your life when you're in your 70s and 80s.

TED Radio Hour
How to be a "Super Ager" (it's not your genes)

You can have the highest level of fitness, and all sorts of other great things can come.