{"id":27230,"date":"2025-05-06T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27230"},"modified":"2025-05-06T15:24:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:24:36","slug":"a-longevity-experts-5-tips-for-aging-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27230","title":{"rendered":"A Longevity Expert\u2019s 5 Tips for Aging Well"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In his new book, \u201cSuper Agers,\u201d the cardiologist Dr. Eric Topol argues that we now have the tools to age better than our predecessors.<\/p>\n

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About two decades ago, a California research team observed a striking phenomenon: While a majority of older adults have at least two chronic diseases, some people reach their 80s without major illness.<\/p>\n

The researchers suspected the key to healthier aging was genetic. But after sequencing the genomes of 1,400 of these aging outliers \u2014 a cohort they called the \u201cWellderly\u201d \u2014 they found almost no difference between their biological makeup and that of their peers. They were, however, more physically active, more social and typically better educated than the general public.<\/p>\n

That genes don\u2019t necessarily determine healthy aging is \u201cliberating,\u201d and suggests that \u201cwe can pretty much all do better\u201d to delay disease, said Dr. Eric Topol, a cardiologist and the founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, which ran the Wellderly study<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dr. Topol is a prominent molecular scientist who has published 1,300 research articles, has written multiple books and has several hundred thousand followers across social media and his newsletter. His newest book, \u201cSuper Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity,\u201d out on Tuesday, delves into the rapidly evolving science of aging.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In the book, Dr. Topol writes that tools like biological age tests<\/a> and increasingly sophisticated health risk prediction<\/a> could eventually paint a clearer picture of how we\u2019re aging.<\/p>\n

With these tools and new scientific insight into how lifestyle drives the biological breakdown that comes with age, he writes, we can now do more than ever to delay that process. While we\u2019re all more likely to get diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s, cancer and diabetes as we get older, these illnesses can develop over the course of decades \u2014 which gives us a \u201clong runway\u201d to try to counter them, Dr. Topol said.<\/p>\n

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In his new book, \u201cSuper Agers,\u201d the cardiologist Dr. Eric Topol argues that we now have the tools to age better than our predecessors.About two decades ago, a California research team observed a striking phenomenon: While a majority of older adults have at least two chronic diseases, some people reach their 80s without major illness.The researchers suspected the key to healthier aging was genetic. But after sequencing the genomes of 1,400 of these aging outliers \u2014 a cohort they called the \u201cWellderly\u201d \u2014 they found almost no difference between their biological makeup and that of their peers. They were, however, more physically active, more social and typically better educated than the general public.That genes don\u2019t necessarily determine healthy aging is \u201cliberating,\u201d and suggests that \u201cwe can pretty much all do better\u201d to delay disease, said Dr. Eric Topol, a cardiologist and the founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, which ran the Wellderly study.Dr. Topol is a prominent molecular scientist who has published 1,300 research articles, has written multiple books and has several hundred thousand followers across social media and his newsletter. His newest book, \u201cSuper Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity,\u201d out on Tuesday, delves into the rapidly evolving science of aging.In the book, Dr. Topol writes that tools like biological age tests and increasingly sophisticated health risk prediction could eventually paint a clearer picture of how we\u2019re aging.With these tools and new scientific insight into how lifestyle drives the biological breakdown that comes with age, he writes, we can now do more than ever to delay that process. While we\u2019re all more likely to get diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s, cancer and diabetes as we get older, these illnesses can develop over the course of decades \u2014 which gives us a \u201clong runway\u201d to try to counter them, Dr. Topol said.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27232,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27233,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27230\/revisions\/27233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}