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Aging as a Disease & Your #1 Risk Factor for All-Cause Mortality with Hannah Went

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Episode Highlights With Hannah Went
  • What biological age is and how we measure it
  • Understanding cellular-based aging 
  • How we measure biological age
  • Sprint speed and grip strength can be really loose indicators of biological age
  • Understanding epigenetic biomarker proxies and how to pull levers to improve your biological age
  • How biological age is closely tied to all-cause mortality 
  • The biggest factors that affect biological age negatively or positively 
  • Not surprisingly, smoking and alcohol consumption are negative factors for biological age
  • Diet, physical activity, sleep, and stress make a big impact on biological age
  • How caloric restriction comes into play for aging 
  • Pregnancy and menopause effects on aging 
  • Epigenetic transgenerational inheritance and how this affects our kids
  • How sunlight affects biological age (and it might not be what you think)
  • Spending time in green space and in nature has a positive effect on biological age and even IQ
  • Being lonely is worse than smoking according to research from Harvard
  • How relationships and community improve biological age
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Aging as a Disease & Your #1 Risk Factor for All-Cause Mortality with Hannah Went

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