Live Long and Master Aging
Episodes
Barrie Tan: Vitamin E for longevity
04 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Choosing the most appropriate supplementation for optimum health and longevity can be a perplexing process. This episode is the first of a series, o...
Nicklas Brendborg: Could we age backwards like jellyfish?
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The search for the Fountain of Youth has intrigued and challenged scientists for centuries. Now, longevity is a buzzword - a multi-billion dollar indu...
James R. Hagerty: Telling the stories of our lives
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Telling the stories of long, healthy and productive lives is what we do here. We share insights into how people conduct themselves - the habits, hac...
Nathan Estrada: Balancing skills for longevity
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our balancing skills start to decline as early as our late 20s and our ability to balance is high on the list of things that determine our lifespan. T...
Alka Patel: A one-million-hour life
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As we prepare to welcome 2023, what better time to kick start a new healthy longevity lifestyle. We're excited at LLAMA to continue our never e...
Steve Hendricks: Fasting for optimum health and longevity
17 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Of all the lifestyle interventions that could help us live longer and better, fasting has been hailed by some as the holy grail of health. It comes in...
Nick Bitz: Can we live to 120?
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An understanding of the hallmarks of aging is at the heart Dr. Nick Bitz's mission to achieve a long healthy life. The hallmarks are the functi...
Judith Sachs: Empowering people through movement
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are built to move. The human body thrives on it and relies on it to live life to the full. As we age, ailments and diseases can hinder our abilit...
Anette Breindl: Is life extension a pipe dream?
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Extending lifespan is the goal of many in the field of human longevity, with myriad companies developing pharmaceuticals to target the key biological ...
Priscilla Long: Challenging toxic ageism
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How often have you heard an older person refer to themselves as being so many "years young?" What about those who blame a "senior momen...
Nick Engerer: Biohacking to optimize healthspan
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Aspiring to live a long, healthy life is a universal goal of mankind. We are wired for survival and the latest longevity science is making it ever m...
Getting a full night's sleep
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Do you have a problem sleeping? The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says insufficient sleep is a public health problem linked to chronic...
A Life Well Lived
11 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the world mourns the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, the Live Long and Master Aging podcast extends its deepest sympathies to members of the Royal F...
Nate Wilkins: Living an ageless lifestyle
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nate Wilkins is enjoying a remarkable journey through life. The 68-year-old functional aging specialist is the co-founder of Ageless Workout, a Miam...
Bjørn Ekeberg: Targeted red light therapy to support recovery
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Red light therapy is a popular treatment for skin health, muscle strength and even sleep quality. It involves exposing the body to low levels of red o...
Kara Collier: My Day | My Life
21 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kara Collier is the director of nutrition at the metabolic health company, NutriSense. She is, by her own admission, obsessed with all things to do wi...
Alan Carpenter: How a brush with death inspired a new lifestyle
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It could all end in a heartbeat. Sometimes life itself, with its unpredictable path, can be the biggest motivator to change us for the better. Take Al...
Katie Waldegrave: Grow, learn and reinvent
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
More and more people are re-training rather than retiring as they age. Reinvention is the preferred option for some of today's boomers, who are e...
Jatin Chaudhary: Hacking mitochondria to scale new heights
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Jatin Chaudhary set his sights on climbing the world's highest mountain, he knew he had to optimize his body's ability to operate in ex...
Peter Ward: Eternal life or living for today?
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Do you want to live forever? Or do you prefer to focus on living for as long as possible while enjoying the best of health? Lifetime aspirations come ...
John Whyte: My Day | My Life
09 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. John Whyte is the Chief Medical Officer at WebMD. He is on a mission to share accurate health information in a world where finding reliable medi...
William Hsu: Transforming human health through fasting
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The popularity of fasting has surged in recent years, although there are myriad approaches to restricting food intake to promote good health. One sy...
Catharine Arnston: Eating algae to age better
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Could eating algae be the secret weapon many of us have been searching for in the pursuit of longevity? The microscopic form of life is consumed as ...
Nichola Conlon: Slowing aging | My Day | My Life
19 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nichola Conlon is a molecular biologist and the co-founder of the UK-based nutraceutical company Nuchido Laboratories. In this episode Nichola tells...
Janne Karin Sande & Stuart Phillips: Boosting omega-3 intake without fish oil burps
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Make sure you're getting your daily dose of fish oil. It is one of the basic rules of nutrition and there is no argument that omega-3 fatty aci...
Steven Clausnitzer: Freezing stem cells to slow the aging process
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What if we could stop time and preserve the biological potential of our younger selves? It is the goal of Forever Labs, a US company that stores ste...
Dave Paul: Walk, talk and live long
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An hour-long walk, before breakfast, is my favorite daily habit. It is a routine that I rarely miss and one which I credit for much of my current heal...
Marie Ruggles: Using food as medicine for longevity
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are what we eat. So goes the proverbial saying. But to what extent does the food on our plate determine the quality of our health now and for t...
Nick Engerer: Biohacking through the lens of longevity
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every now and then we find a kindred spirit in life. In the field of longevity research, Nick Engerer, PhD, lives and breathes the healthy aging aspir...
Nadine Artemis: Joining the dots between health and beauty
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Beauty, radiant health and the human body and have been inexorably linked. But to what extent do modern-day, beauty-related practices, enhance our w...
Alan Graves: Finding a passion - My Day | My Life
10 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Graves is the CEO of Do Not Age, a UK-based longevity research company and provider of products, such as nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN), for h...
Greg Dennis: A family doctor's epiphany over how to achieve optimum health
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a devoted meat-eater spends an hour in conversation with a fellow podcaster, who lives by a plant-based diet? In this episode of t...
Sandra Feaster: Taking ten minutes | My Day | My Life
27 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is our Sunday supplement to the Live Long and Master Aging podcast. My Day | My Life explores the lives of people who have, in one way or another...
Andrew G. Marshall: Living a meaningful life | My Day | My Life
20 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is our Sunday supplement to the Live Long and Master Aging podcast. My Day | My Life explores the lives of people who have, in one way or another...
John Whyte: Covid’s silver lining?
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How many times have you turned to a search engine to diagnose your latest ache and pain? Perhaps you visit the doctor and leave the surgery confused a...
Carlee Hayes: Canine cuddles | My Day | My Life
13 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Carlee Hayes is the lead dietician at NutriSense, a metabolic health company that uses the latest technology to help people continuously track their g...
Chip Conley: Three Things | My Day | My Life
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our new weekend supplement to the Live Long and Master aging podcast. To mark LLAMA's fifth birthday this week, we're launching a...
Gil Blander: Ultra-personalized health and lifestyle guidance
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There is a plethora of science-backed information about how to optimize our health and wellbeing. The challenge, for most of us, is how to filter it a...
Andrew G. Marshall: Aging in a meaningful way
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What is it about life that makes it worth living? Sure, living a long time with good health and vitality is an aspirational goal, but do you know how ...
Mary Flett: I don't feel that old
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Aging with finesse sounds infinitely more desirable than the humdrum process of simply getting older. The language we use in describing the aging proc...
David Marcinek: Improving muscle endurance to age better
21 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Muscle endurance can be improved, in older adults, without physical exercise, according to the results of a new clinical trial. Scientists in the US...
Alan Graves: Mission to extend healthy lifespan
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are myriad lifestyle, dietary and exercise interventions that could lead to a longer healthspan and compressed morbidity. Preventing chronic d...
Sergey Young: Longevity in a pill to fight aging?
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Longevity science has been moving at breakneck speed in recent years, reinforcing the view of some innovators that we are on the cusp of a 200-year li...
Katharine Esty: Unexpected happiness as we age
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As families spend time together over the holidays, who is the happiest person in the room? Grandma, grandad? Growing old gets a bad rap but studies ha...
Phil Cavell: Midlife cycling, fizzing with energy
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Older cyclists often try to push the boundaries of athletic prowess as they pursue their life-long, or new-found passion. But is it wise to continue r...
Richard Leider: Who are you and what do you want?
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Achieving a great age, with good health and vitality, is at the heart of everything we discuss on this podcast. But who are we, as human beings? Wha...
Greg Macpherson: Little cells, big ideas for living longer
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To maintain mental and physical vitality, the status of the most basic building blocks of our bodies is all important. There has been an explosion i...
Louise Burke: Optimizing big muscle health in athletes
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we grow older, frailty becomes an issue due to declining muscle strength. For athletes, muscle fatigue can be a huge challenge at any age, but ther...
Stefan Zavalin: Move more, live longer
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Regular exercise is key pillar of healthy longevity. But which activities really make a difference – running, walking, a gym class, yoga, weightlift...
LLAMA LIVE! Carbs, wearable technology and a bagel
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Wearable technology has evolved at a pace recently, making it possible to better understand how our bodies respond to food and exercise. A continuous ...
Carlee Hayes: What sugar does to you
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Real-time information about how our bodies respond to food and exercise is transforming preventative healthcare. Wearable technology provides immediat...
LLAMA LIVE! Lifestyle hacks for longevity
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's often the little things that help us most. Enhancing our wellbeing and living better usually starts with baby steps. Small changes - you cou...
Jonathon Sullivan: Training for the extreme sport of aging
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Jonathon Sullivan has spent much of his professional life treating patients on the brink of death. Working at a Level I trauma center he became fa...
LLAMA LIVE! What the heck is healthspan?
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Healthspan - what is it and why is it important? This is our second LLAMA LIVE! - a Twitter Spaces conversation about human longevity. Host Peter Bo...
LLAMA LIVE! Longevity lessons from Covid-19
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is our first LLAMA LIVE! episode - a Twitter Spaces conversation about human longevity, healthspan and lessons learned from Covid-19. Dr. Felice...
Barton Scott: Expanding life's timeline
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mineral deficiencies can have a crippling impact on our everyday health and vitality, as well as long term implications for healthspan. The food we ...
Jim LaValle: Research your health like it's your next car
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Developing a health strategy to navigate the decades ahead can be a daunting task. In fact, many people focus on their wellbeing only when ill healt...
Dmitry Kaminskiy: Freezing the aging process
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What if we all had a personal, digital avatar to guide and nurture our lives, as we pursue a long healthspan? The concept, in a world of personalized ...
Jason Elias: How to live long and die young
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There are some people who just never seem to get any older. Whether it be their appearance or mental attitude, the passage of time eludes them. How ...
Walt Larimore: Sorting supplement facts from fiction
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a world where we are bombarded with health advice, it is easy to feel lost in a sea of unverified information. From dietary supplementation to exer...
Jo Bhakdi: Changing the paradigm of healthcare
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If only we could detect all life threatening diseases before symptoms occur and early enough to reverse the course of those conditions. We are on th...
Nora Khaldi: Plants, peptides and wallabies
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The power of food - plants in particular - to help us optimize our health and potential longevity can not be underestimated. Indeed nature itself is a...
Jon Pearlman: Unleashing the inner athlete
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Finding the most effective workout and diet regime, with the goal of getting fit and lean, is, for many, the ultimate challenge. Even elite athletes...
Jenny Etnier: A lifetime of exercise to boost the brain
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Making exercise a daily routine, from childhood, could be the key to preventing or slowing down some of the diseases of old age. Multiple studies have...
Morgan Levine: Using epigenetic clocks to determine biological age
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We are all used to feeling younger than our years and occasionally older than our birth date would suggest. In effect, we have two ages - chronologi...
Daniel Kennedy: Longevity secrets from around the world
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Some of the world's healthiest people spend little or no time pondering their propensity to live a long life. They just do it. Their lifestyles...
Sandra Kaufmann: Setting the bar high to stop aging
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The science of aging is so infinitely fascinating that Dr. Sandra Kaufmann decided to immerse herself in the field, as a hobby. A pediatric anesthesio...
Simone Gibertoni & Adrian Heini: A holistic approach to healthspan
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Embracing science and a holistic approach to living a healthier life, has been a hallmark of the Swiss spa-clinic, Clinique La Prairie (CLP), for the ...
Kathleen O'Brien: Stop and smell the roses
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The art of growing old, gracefully and purposefully, preferably in rude health, is unique to us all. The journey, with its many twists and turns, invo...
Jason Karlawish: What next for Alzheimer's disease?
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There has been "spectacular" progress in recent years in the understanding and treatment of Alzheimer's. The progressive disease, whi...
Lisa Levine: Embracing midlife without a crisis
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Turning fifty can be a wrenching experience for some people. Others discover that it is their sixtieth birthday that conjures up disturbing emotions...
Amy Temperley: Making life worth living
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Living life to the full, at any age, has been a challenge recently. To put it mildly. But if Covid has taught us anything, it is that some of life...
David Walker: Solving a great scientific mystery
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cracking the code behind aging has long since fascinated, frustrated and captivated scientists. In our quest to live longer and better, a desire to ...
Dave Frost: Living large as a baby boomer
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Baby boomers make up a significant portion of the world's population. In the US and the UK the generation born between 1946 and 1964 represents...
Joan Ifland: Are food cravings shortening our lives?
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why do we rush to the refrigerator during commercial breaks, while watching television? Are we really hungry or does TV fuel our addiction to foods ...
Jean Ketcham: An octogenarian living dangerously
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At the age of eighty-one, Jean Ketcham is looking forward to sky diving again, when the pandemic is over. The co-founder of Aging But Dangerous, an in...
Cliff Bleustein: Walk fast, live longer
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you're a fast walker, you're likely to live longer. The correlation between walking speed and lifespan has been widely studied and is a g...
Erin Sharoni: Optimizing diet and healthspan
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nutritional supplementation is one of the most frequently raised topics in relation to longevity and healthy living. But do we really need additiona...
Julie Andersen: Could better gut health help prevent Alzheimer's?
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cognitive decline is an all-too-familiar hallmark of age-related diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. While there is much research...
Alison Weinlaeder: Melding mind and muscle
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When the pandemic struck, instead of hunkering down, with her life on hold, Alison Weinlaeder moved into top gear with her brain-child, a new online b...
Leslie Kenny: Biohacking and spermidine for life-enhancement
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After a diagnosis of lupus, in her 30s, Leslie Kenny was told she had a life expectancy of five years. The prognosis focussed the Berkeley and Harvard...
Cathy Richards: Fit or frail at eighty-five?
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It is often said that it is never too late to adopt a healthy lifestyle - never too late to incorporate more exercise into our daily routine or focus ...
Chip Conley: Wisdom, curiosity and the modern elder
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we push the boundaries of human longevity and our expectations for lifespan, mid-life is going to be different. Our healthy, vibrant decades are ...
Nichola Conlon: Stimulating the body to repair itself
31 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The body's unique ability to repair itself, with a little outside help, is the focus of a growing sphere of longevity science. One area of resear...
Cheryl Ladd: Charlie's Angels star acting her age with optimism
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Optimism, during this tumultuous year, has been in short supply. But as 2021 beckons, there is a real sense of hope that happier, healthier times are ...
David Katz: Robust health beyond the pandemic
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If the coronavirus pandemic has reminded us of anything, it is that there is nothing more important than our health and wellbeing. Now that the vacc...
Nir Barzilai: Is aging, as we know it, over?
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The concept of healthspan - the number of years that we enjoy optimum health - has come a long way, in recent years. In fact, Dr. Nir Barzilai, foun...
Lee Gutkind: Living life eight thousand days at a time
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lee Gutkind has spent much of his life denying his age. The Pittsburgh-based writer and teacher, renowned for his skills as an immersion journalist, h...
Giovanni Dienstmann: Meditation during difficult times
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Matters of the mind may be more important to us now, than ever before. The number of new coronavirus cases is continuing to rise in many countries. ...
Heidi Herman: On With The Butter
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
They say, 'you’re never too old.' Never too old to do something for the first time, take on a new challenge, push yourself to your physica...
Blair Baldwin: Getting old and running out of money
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What if we run out of money, as we get older? If we live a very long, healthy and active life, will we be able to afford the kind of lifestyle that w...
Stuart Phillips: Boosting physical strength as we age
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A key pillar of human longevity is our ability to remain physically strong and active as we age. Frailty is an all-too-familiar downside of growing ol...
Stephanie Blum: Embracing and marketing the science of wellbeing
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The science and marketing sectors don’t often intersect. But when clinically validated advancements emerge from the laboratory, this unlikely allian...
Sue Armstrong: Unraveling the mysteries of borrowed time
13 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The science of aging is rapidly evolving. Many of us are more aware of our capacity to live a long healthy life, than ever before. But the quest to un...
Johan Auwerx: Enjoying youthful vitality as we age
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eventually, we will all face the challenges that come with old age. We will have less strength and energy than we once had. But what if it were possib...
Navindra Seeram: The rejuvenating power of plants
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." The quote, attributed to the Greek physician, Hippocrates, encapsulates the importance ...
Luigi Fontana: Longevity’s beautiful symphony
19 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The art and science of aging well is a complex business - a nuanced melding of a finely tuned diet, essential exercise and a healthy mind. For over tw...
Patrick Aebischer: A novel molecule to promote longevity
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Live Long and Master Aging podcast is the first in a series produced in association with the Swiss life science company, Amazentis...
Marta Zaraska: Growing young with cuddles, fuzzy moments and optimism
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We are bombarded with advice and information about diet and exercise, but what about the impact of friendship, optimism and kindness on our longterm w...
Noelle Nelson: Celebrating amazing longevity
24 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How many times have you heard about an older person doing extraordinary things, despite their great age? In recent weeks the story of the 100-year-old...