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RHR: How to Slow Down Aging—with Sara Gottfried
Category: Health
Duration: 00:54:23
Publish Date: 2017-04-06 10:00:40
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In this episode we discuss:
  • Telomeres and their connection to aging
  • Genetic vs. environmental factors
  • The role of inflammation on aging
  • The FTO, APOE, and JAK-2 genes
  • The clock gene and its effect on weight
  • How do you measure aging?
  • The FKBP5 gene and stress response
  • The effect of eating meat on aging
Show notes: [smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thehealthyskeptic/RHR_-_How_to_Slow_Down_Agingwith_Sara_Gottfried.mp3" title="RHR: How to Slow Down Aging—with Sara Gottfried" artist="Chris Kresser" ] Chris Kresser: Hey, everybody, Chris Kresser here. Welcome to another episode of Revolution Health Radio. Today, I'm going to be talking to Dr. Sara Gottfried about aging, genetics, the exposome, and the environment. Dr. Gottfried is a Harvard-educated physician and two-time New York Times bestselling author. In her new book, Younger, she shows how to reset gene expression in order to slow down aging and lengthen healthspan. We’re going to get back to the listener Q&A format pretty soon. We have been doing some interviews lately with Robb Wolf and Stephan Guyenet about their books, and this will be the last one of these for a little while. But as you probably know, I'm a voracious reader, and this kind of research and learning is a big part of what I do, and I also consider it to be my job to bring these new resources to your attention when they become available if I think they're valuable. It just so happened that three of the people that I respect the most in terms of their work and their perspective have published books almost back to back. In particular, with Sara’s book, Younger, this is one of the few popular resources that goes into depth but is still accessible on genetics, the exposome, and aging. Those are topics that we’ve talked a lot about, the relationship between genes and the exposome on my blog and a little bit on the podcast, but we haven’t gone into much detail on those topics as they relate to aging and healthy agin...
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