The Science of Looking Younger, Longer | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #6

Welcome to the Lifespan Podcast, where we discuss the science of aging and how to be healthier at any stage of life. I'm David Sinclair. I'm a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and co-director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for biology of aging research. This series of podcasts is about why we age

and things we can do to slow, stop, and even reverse that process. Last episode, we talked about really cutting-edge science and procedures that people are currently doing with their doctors and what they might be doing in the coming years. But today, we're going to talk about what you can do to slow, stop, and even

reverse the aging of your outside, the outside of your body. And I'm joined today by my lovely co-author and co-presenter co-human co- add no conspirator co-conspirator Matthew LaPlante, welcome. Hey. All right, let's do this again. I'm I'm I was not, you know this, I was not so excited about this episode. When you

told me when Wonder Boy Rob told us that it was going to be about cosmetic aging I poo-pooed this, then we prepped for it. We've been having great conversations over the last few days. I'm actually really excited about this conversation. That's true, especially the parts about improving your sexual function. I thought you were excited

about the most. That's not in this episode. We'll have an episode on that. No, today we're talking about cosmetic aging and we're talking about the difference between interventions that are only aimed at appearance and interventions that might impact both appearance and aging. And we had to cover a number of topics, including how

to keep your hair, skin, and nails looking young and even reversing aspects of that process. And we should say here, there's nothing wrong with things that are purely aesthetic, that only work to make ourselves look good um because those things might not impact our biological aging, but they can affect affect us socially, emotionally