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Nir Barzilai is a physician and a researcher at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, where he runs the Institute for Geroscience. Nir’s problem is this: How can we use lifestyle changes and drugs to slow the process of aging?

In this episode, Nir explains: 

  • The search for biological markers of aging
  • The existing drugs that might reduce the risk of diseases associated with aging
  • The four key lifestyle factors that every researcher in the field agrees on
  • What he learned by studying the genes of people who lived to 100
  • What “geroscience” means, and why it doesn’t have a Wikipedia page 

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Jacob Goldstein spent more than a decade as co-host of the Planet Money podcast. He's also the author of the book Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing, which the New…