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Lucinda Holdforth

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426 total appearances

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Conversations
Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia

Yes.

Conversations
Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia

I don't know, people might have noticed there was some footage of a big parade in Beijing and there was President Putin and President Xi talking, overheard on a mic, talking about organ harvesting.

Conversations
Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia

And when you think of those countries, you think God only knows what that actually means with the Korean...

Conversations
Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un standing by smirking.

Conversations
Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia

And this was before they went to view a parade of instruments of mega death.

Conversations
Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia

And that struck me so hard.

Conversations
Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia

And there's also the Brian Johnstons, the RFK Jr.

Conversations
Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia

He's another one that's into all this longevity shit.

Conversations
Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia

So this is Trump's head of the health...

Conversations
Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia

And they are all into this kick that these guys are somehow Ubermen and their job is to live forever and that will somehow prove they're better than the rest of us.

Conversations
Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia

Ah, the Blue Zones.

Conversations
Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia

Well, the Blue Zones has a lot going for it at one level.

Conversations
Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia

It's a guy called Dan Buettner who went around to Sardinia and Costa Rica and remote Japan and decided that...

Conversations
Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia

they were very old people and they seemed quite happy to him and they were well because they ate, you know, simple food and they moved naturally and they had community.

Conversations
Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia

So I also watched the documentary series of The Blue Zones and while others might have seen this romantic lifestyle of happy old people, all I could see was in Sardinia poor old women labouring up a vertical hill to the church while Dan said, look how fit they are.

Conversations
Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia

I'm like, what are you talking about?

Conversations
Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia

Or in Costa Rica, a poor woman making tortillas and he's like, look at her muscles.

Conversations
Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia

And it's like, and she had a guy, there was an old guy working in the fields and his argument was that this was all so good for your health and wellbeing.

Conversations
Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia

It just seemed to me such a disconnect.

Conversations
Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia

And in Japan, some poor old fella picking up a few weeds outside and to chuck into the miso soup.