Is It Safe to Say That Diet and Exercise Improve Quality of Life?

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Longest living person that we know about lived a hundred and 22 years, hundre nd 22 years. And were they with it at the end? I mean, the reports seem like she was, but i don't don't actuall gain the reliability of that might be. There's ever more supersentent those are supersentinarians. But for us, the rest of us, we have to take care of our bodies a little bit better.

Aging -- everybody does it, very few people actually do something about it. Coleen Murphy is an exception. In her laboratory at Princeton, she and her team study aging in the famous C. Elegans roundworm, with an eye to extending its lifespan as well as figuring out exactly what processes take place when we age. In this episode we contemplate what scientists have learned about aging, and the prospects for ameliorating its effects -- or curing it altogether? -- even in human beings. Coleen Murphy received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Stanford University, and is currently Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute of Integrative Genomics at Princeton. Home page at the Lewis-Sigler Institute Lab web page Princeton Profile Google Scholar publication page Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.