The Real Reason You Age (And How to Slow It Down) | Dr. Eric Verdin

What really has changed in the last 20 years is that we can change your biological age to some degree. Your cholesterol level is seven times less important than your age. So imagine now that we're targeting aging, what it's going to do in terms of impact on your risk for heart disease. You say that the phenomena that drive aging is primary. The diseases are secondary.

Aging is the biggest risk factor for a whole series of conditions that we call heart attack, stroke, atherosclerosis, many forms of cancer, type two diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, all of these diseases. And so it really changes the paradigm of the way we've been taught medicine, which is to respond to all of these emergencies that occur, what I call whacamole medicine. If we targeted the underlying mechanisms of aging, we could extend life by 30 or 40 years. So what do you do for helping

your immune system age well. If that's really the way medicine is going to change. Dr. Eric Burden is president and CEO of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and a globally recognized leader in aging and science, a physician scientist with over 300 publications, he studies the intersection of metabolism, immunity, and longevity, helping shape the future of how we understand and treat aging If you've been dealing with anxiety, low energy, or trouble focusing and still feel like you're missing something, you're not alone.

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