How ‘Super Agers’ Stay Sharp And Active Longer Than Their Peers
Ever noticed how some people get to their 80s and 90s and continue to be healthy and active? They spend their days playing mahjong, driving to lunch, learning shuffle dancing, and practicing Portuguese. Those are “super agers,” seniors who stay fit well into old age. How do they do it? Is it luck or genetics? In this live broadcast, Hosts Flora Lichtman and Ira Flatow discuss the science of aging with two experts on the topic, cardiologist Eric Topol and neuroscientist Emily Rogalski.
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Guests:
Dr. Eric Topol, author of Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again (Basic Books, 2019) and The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands (Basic Books, 2015), practicing cardiologist at the Scripps Clinic, and genomics professor at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California
Dr. Emily Rogalski, clinical and cognitive neuroscientist, and director of the Healthy Aging & Alzheimer’s Research Care Center at the University of Chicago