Ben Greenfield Interviews Dr. David Sinclair About Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To.

Ben Greenfield (0:01)

On this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast, eyes in those old mice went back in time.

David Sinclair (0:07)

And you might say, well, that's just a clock, it doesn't mean anything. But guess what?

The cells literally became young and functional as though they were young again. No one knows exactly the best path to longevity. So what I'm going to tell you is my best guess currently based on having read thousands and thousands of papers and worked on this for my whole life. I've never hesitated before, but this is really key, and I wanted to make sure everyone who's listening gets it.

Ben Greenfield (0:31)

Health, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, biohacking, and much more.

My name is Ben Greenfield.

Welcome to the show.

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Hey, hey, folks, it's Ben Greenfield. And I was actually just telling my guest on today's show that probably he's one of the most requested guests that I have really had folks reach out to me and ask me to have on the show over the past couple of months. So I figured, what the hell? It's high time I actually got this cat on and picked his brain about all things anti-aging and longevity, because that is his forte.

He just wrote a book called Lifespan.

I have the book right here with me. It's dog-eared, plenty of pages folded over, and I always love to be able to dive down into the deep, dark rabbit holes I discover within a book whenever I manage to get somebody like this on the show. And he's really considered to be a leading world authority on longevity and genetics. He's been researching this stuff for a long time. He has a lab at Harvard, and all of his research is primarily focused on everything from genetic reprogramming to discovering these genes that may assist us with longevity and the ability to be able to increase both our lifespan and our healthspan. And as he writes in the book, aging is a disease. That disease is treatable, and he's on the cutting edge of making that happen. His name is Dr. David Sinclair, and in addition to everything I just told you, who's actually named as one of Time's most influential people. So that in and of itself is an honor. And David, welcome to the show, man.