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Sexual Health, Satisfaction, and Healthy Aging
In this program, healthy aging is considered beyond preserving physical function, maintaining cognitive ability, and supporting independence for as long as possible. Annie L. Nguyen, Ph.D., M.P.H., at UC San Diego, looks at aging through a different lens: sexual health and sexual well-being. Her central question is not whether change happens, but whether change automatically…
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How Genetics Is Changing Alzheimer’s Disease Research
Alzheimer’s disease research is changing how scientists understand the long path from early brain changes to memory loss. In this program, John Hardy, Ph.D., University College London Institute of Neurology, explains how genetics helps reveal where neurodegenerative disease begins, not only where it ends. Hardy traces how studies of inherited Alzheimer’s disease, amyloid, presenilin, tau,…
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How Aging Helps Set the Stage for Cancer
Aging helps set the stage for cancer and other major diseases long before symptoms appear. In this program, UC San Diego’s Robert A.J. Signer, Ph.D., explains that aging is not just a passive backdrop to disease. It is an active biological process that reshapes the conditions that allow illness to emerge. That idea matters because…
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Understanding Aging and Brain Health
What if your age wasn’t just a number—but a signal? In this fascinating look at longevity science, Aladdin H. Shadyab, Ph.D., invites us to rethink what it really means to grow older. While we often focus on chronological age—the number of years we’ve lived—Shadyab highlights something far more revealing: biological age. This measure reflects how…
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Start the New Year Strong: UCTV’s Best of Health & Science
If your goal for 2026 is to boost your health, sharpen your mind, or simply feel your best, you don’t have to look far for expert guidance. UCTV (University of California Television) brings the latest in science-based wellness, preventive health, and mental resilience straight from the nation’s top researchers. As the University of California’s public-service…
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Resilience and Healthy Longevity
A long, healthy life depends on more than avoiding disease. In this program, UC San Diego’s Anthony Molina, Ph.D. defines resilience as the capacity to resist, adapt to, and recover from age-related stressors, and he frames healthy aging as an active process of maintaining function as challenges accumulate over time. Molina emphasizes that resilience shows…
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Circadian Rhythm and Intermittent Fasting for Healthy Lifespan
What if one of the clearest signs of health is something you can feel every day? In this program, Satchidananda Panda, Ph.D. (Salk Institute), describes circadian rhythm as a built-in 24-hour daily rhythm “written in our DNA,” and he calls it a powerful biomarker of whether we’re healthy. He connects that internal timing system to…
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Surviving Incivility: A BAM Guide to Rude People
If you feel like rudeness is everywhere, you are not imagining it. In this Osher Author Talk, host Henry DeVries interviews John O’Brien, psychologist and author of “Rudeness Rehab,” who describes a pandemic of incivility. O’Brien points to bad behavior cropping up across daily life, from workplace dynamics to public spaces and even clinical settings.…
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Practical Steps to Stay Resilient at Any Age
Resilience helps us recover and adapt after stress or illness, and Heather E. Whitson, MD, MHS explains how it changes across the lifespan. In this program, she notes that bounce back slows with age and that people age at different rates, shaped by biology, lifestyle, and environment. That variation matters: the same setback can land…
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Grief and Resilience: Learning to Live with Loss
Grief doesn’t follow a set timeline—and according to therapist Danielle K. Glorioso, it isn’t something we “get over.” In her presentation, Navigating Grief: What the Science of Resilience Teaches about Adaptation to Loss, Glorioso explores how grief evolves over time and how resilience can help us live with loss. Drawing from both clinical expertise and…