Age Proof: The New Science Of Living A Longer, Healthier & Wealthier Life
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Professor Rose Kenny presented on the new science of living a longer, healthier, and wealthier life, emphasizing that while lifespan has increased, healthspan, the number of years lived in good health, has not kept pace. She highlighted the significant impact of socioeconomic factors on healthy lifespan, noting disparities between different regions. While genes contribute to lifespan, environmental factors play a crucial role in modifying biological aging, which can be measured through biomarkers like cholesterol, waist-hip ratio, and resting heart rate. Key environmental factors include relationships, with loneliness triggering inflammation and negatively impacting health, social engagement, physical activity (both aerobic and muscle strengthening), and attitude towards aging. She also touched upon interventions like cold water immersion, sauna, calorie restriction, intermittent fasting, and the Mediterranean diet, as well as pharmacological options like statins and promising research on rapamycin and senolytics. The speaker stressed the importance of variety, purpose, and stress management in promoting healthy aging.
Background: We all age, but some of us live longer than others and on average we are living twice as long as our ancestors did 200 years ago. So, the latest science with respect to ageing and science that I have been involved in for the last 40 years shows that 80% of our ageing biology is within our own control. Longer healthier lifespan is clearly aligned to socioeconomic status. We can not only live longer lives, but live also much happier healthier lives deep into our later years if we control modifiable factors. I will cover the most important areas that allow you to take control of your ageing process.
Speaker:
Rose Kenny is Regius Professor of Physic (Medicine) and holds the Chair of Medical Gerontology at Trinity College Dublin. She is the founding Principal Investigator of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) and Director of the Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing (MISA) at St. James’s Hospital, where she is also director of a large national falls and syncope and autonomic function laboratory. She is Director of the new WHO Collaborating Centre for Longitudinal Studies in Ageing and the Life Course.
She is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, London and Ireland, a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine Ireland, and was recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She has received a number of international awards and has published widely, authoring over 600 publications including, her recently published book “Age Proof – The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life” which was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2022. In 2020, she was elected President of the Irish Gerontological Society. In 2022 she was nominated 24th Regius Professor of Physic at TCD (1637), the first female nominee.
Speaker(s):
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Rose Kenny
Regius Professor of Physic & Professor of Medical Gerontology
Trinity College Dublin
Chairman:
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Mike Wardle
CEO
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