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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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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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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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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…
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The Benefits of Intermittent Fasting & Time-Restricted Eating
Modern routines often stretch eating from early morning to late night, disrupting the body’s natural day-night rhythm. In this program, Michael J. Wilkinson, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.N.L.A. explains how that “erratic lifestyle” is linked to higher risks of high blood pressure, metabolic syndrome, pre-diabetes, and diabetes— and why aligning meals with the body’s circadian rhythm matters.…
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International Efforts to Achieve Healthy Longevity
In 2020, there were an estimated 727 million persons aged 65 years or over worldwide. This number is projected to more than double by 2050, reaching over 1.5 billion persons. By mid-century, one in six people globally will be aged 65 years or older. Globally, the population aged 65 years and over is growing faster…
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Privacy, Practicality, and Potential: The Use of Technology for Healthy Aging
That wearable fitness device on your wrist is measuring so much more than your exercise levels. Digital tools offer unprecedented opportunities in health research and healthcare but it can come at the cost of privacy. Six days of step counts are enough to identify you among a million other people – and the type of…
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Wisdom Combats Loneliness
Loneliness and social isolation have become silent killers and studies have shown that they’re as dangerous to our health as smoking and obesity. But what can be done? “Behavioral epidemics need behavioral medicines,” says Dilip Jeste, MD, a geriatric neuropsychiatrist who specializes in successful aging. Jeste suggests harnessing wisdom as a vaccine – a trait…