Eileen Crimmins's guest appearances

Eileen Crimmins

Live Long and Master Aging

Lessons in Lifespan Health

Valter Longo

Paul Irving

Kerry Burnight

David Katz

Dave Asprey

Giovanni Dienstmann

Derek Herrera

Daniel Amen

David Hauser

Chip Conley

Phil Libin

Tracy McCubbin

Joe De Sena

Matthew Hoffman

Carol Rosenstein

OwlTail

Demographer and USC University Professor Eileen Crimmins researches how and why American lifespans are now falling short of those in other wealthy nations and what the science of biomarkers can tell us about healthy aging.  Quotes from this episode On the U.S.’s slide in life expectancy: “Over the last century, the US gained markedly in life expectancy and practically doubled from approximately 40 to approximately 80. And, the US was a relative leader in that up until maybe later part of the last century. … But now we're down with states that were once part of Russia, Cuba, Chile. We're below many of those states even now. So, the US, in life expectancy, has really fallen behind everyone, the people we think that should be our peers.” The decline in average life expectancy appears to be largely due to more death at middle ages: “We know a significant part of it is not due to old age mortality. It's due to middle age … the most recent change has been the opioid epidemic. At the oldest ages, we still are a leader in life expectancy. So, above age 74 or five, something like that, we are one of the top countries in life expectancy. So, there's quite a bit of difference between getting old and being old in this country. It's a country where we're less likely to have people get old, but once we get to the point where we are old, we do pretty well.” How improvements in treating chronic diseases have impacted lifespan and healthspan:  “In the last century when life expectancy increased, it was because babies and children survived. When they survived, they survived infectious conditions. … When older people started being the source of gains in life expectancy, they came primarily from declines in heart disease, but it wasn't because we were preventing people from getting heart disease. People were living with treated heart disease, and people were being prevented from dying.” The ways in which adverse childhood experiences, such as abuse, hunger, and stress, can affect health later in life: “As time has gone on, more and more people have identified early life as having a variety of pathways that affect later life. … [Adverse childhood experiences] appear to have an early effect on epigenetics related to inflammation, which sets in motion things that affect your responses to bacteria and to viruses. … If it's set in motion early in life, then it's something you're constantly using to react to the world throughout life.” Learn more about Professor Crimmins and her work at gero.usc.edu/faculty/crimmins.

Demographer and USC University Professor Eileen Crimmins researches how and why American lifespans are now falling short of those in other wealthy nations and what the science of biomarkers can tell us about healthy aging.  Quotes from this episode On the U.S.’s slide in life expectancy: “Over the last century, the US gained markedly in life expectancy and practically doubled from approximately 40 to approximately 80. And, the US was a relative leader in that up until maybe later part of the last century. … But now we're down with states that were once part of Russia, Cuba, Chile. We're below many of those states even now. So, the US, in life expectancy, has really fallen behind everyone, the people we think that should be our peers.” The decline in average life expectancy appears to be largely due to more death at middle ages: “We know a significant part of it is not due to old age mortality. It's due to middle age … the most recent change has been the opioid epidemic. At the oldest ages, we still are a leader in life expectancy. So, above age 74 or five, something like that, we are one of the top countries in life expectancy. So, there's quite a bit of difference between getting old and being old in this country. It's a country where we're less likely to have people get old, but once we get to the point where we are old, we do pretty well.” How improvements in treating chronic diseases have impacted lifespan and healthspan:  “In the last century when life expectancy increased, it was because babies and children survived. When they survived, they survived infectious conditions. … When older people started being the source of gains in life expectancy, they came primarily from declines in heart disease, but it wasn't because we were preventing people from getting heart disease. People were living with treated heart disease, and people were being prevented from dying.” The ways in which adverse childhood experiences, such as abuse, hunger, and stress, can affect health later in life: “As time has gone on, more and more people have identified early life as having a variety of pathways that affect later life. … [Adverse childhood experiences] appear to have an early effect on epigenetics related to inflammation, which sets in motion things that affect your responses to bacteria and to viruses. … If it's set in motion early in life, then it's something you're constantly using to react to the world throughout life.” Learn more about Professor Crimmins and her work at <a href="gero.usc.edu/faculty/crimmins" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">gero.usc.edu/faculty/crimmins</a>.

Professor Eileen Crimmins: U.S. life expectancies falling behind

We may not have completely mastered aging just yet, but we might be in the process of truly delaying it, according to Dr. Eileen Crimmins. The AARP Professor of Gerentology at the University of Southern California Leonard Davis School of Gerontology studies health and mortality rates and global aging. After analyzing national health data in the US, Dr. Crimmins and her colleagues concluded something quite inspiring - Americans are biologically younger now than they were 20 years ago. “The biological age has dropped remarkably,” she says. Heart-disease deaths have significantly decreased and cancer rates are beginning to fall. However, there is much to be done if you'd like not just a longer life, but a healthier one. In this LLAMA podcast interview, with Peter Bowes, Dr. Crimmins outlines what lifestyle changes are most likely to have a real, positive impact on the quality and length of your life, and what behaviors likely improve nothing at all.FlexBeam red light therapyRecharge Health is offering LLAMA listeners an $80.00 discount on the purchase of FlexBeam, the wearable red light therapy device which targets key parts of the body to improve sleep, treat injuries and sooth aches and pains associated with aging.  Use code LLAMA at checkout- DoNotAgeDoNotAge.org is offering listeners to LLAMA a 10% discount on its range of products – NAD boosters, Sirtuin activators, senolytics and more.  Any health queries can be answered by emailing the team at hello@donotage.orgUse the code LLAMA at checkout. -Support the showThe Live Long and Master Aging (LLAMA) podcast, a HealthSpan Media LLC production, shares ideas but does not offer medical advice. If you have health concerns of any kind, or you are considering adopting a new diet or exercise regime, you should consult your doctor.

We may not have completely mastered aging just yet, but we might be in the process of truly delaying it, according to Dr. Eileen Crimmins. The AARP Professor of Gerentology at the University of Southern California Leonard Davis School of Gerontology studies health and mortality rates and global aging. After analyzing national health data in the US, Dr. Crimmins and her colleagues concluded something quite inspiring - Americans are biologically younger now than they were 20 years ago. “The biological age has dropped remarkably,” she says. Heart-disease deaths have significantly decreased and cancer rates are beginning to fall. However, there is much to be done if you'd like not just a longer life, but a healthier one. In this LLAMA podcast interview, with Peter Bowes, Dr. Crimmins outlines what lifestyle changes are most likely to have a real, positive impact on the quality and length of your life, and what behaviors likely improve nothing at all.<a href="https://tinyurl.com/bd7a7nsd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FlexBeam red light therapy</a> <a href="https://tinyurl.com/bd7a7nsd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Recharge Health</a> is offering LLAMA listeners an $80.00 discount on the purchase of FlexBeam, the wearable red light therapy device which targets key parts of the body to improve sleep, treat injuries and sooth aches and pains associated with aging.   <a href="https://tinyurl.com/bd7a7nsd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Use code LLAMA at checkout</a> - <a href="https://donotage.org/ref/LLAMA/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DoNotAge DoNotAge.org</a> is offering listeners to LLAMA a 10% discount on its range of products – NAD boosters, Sirtuin activators, senolytics and more.  Any health queries can be answered by emailing the team at hello@donotage.org <a href="https://donotage.org/ref/LLAMA/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Use the code LLAMA at checkout</a>.  -<a href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=K2D52DAP957MA" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support the show</a>The Live Long and Master Aging (LLAMA) podcast, a HealthSpan Media LLC production, shares ideas but does not offer medical advice. If you have health concerns of any kind, or you are considering adopting a new diet or exercise regime, you should consult your doctor.

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