Aging should be classified as a disease because it is a deterioration of health that leads to death and causes other major diseases.

“I looked up what's the definition of aging, and it says, well, it's a deterioration in health and sickness, and you can die from it, typically you do, something that sounds pretty much like a disease.”

The aging process is the primary driver of inflammation, rather than inflammation being the initial driver of the aging process.

“I think we need to be careful with the inflammation as a cause of aging. I see it the other way around, I see it as the aging is the cause of inflammation.”

Aging is a malleable process that can be studied and potentially influenced through genetics and molecular biology.

“it was really almost like an aha moment where it just clicked with me that it was really fascinating that you could use genetics and molecular biology and biochemistry to study something as complicated and fundamental as the biology of Aging”

Aging rate indicators, which measure how quickly an organism is aging, are superior to traditional biomarkers because they can be assessed in young animals.

“You have to wait the Aging rate indicators because they are measures of speed you can look even when the animal is Young and hypothetically when a human is a young adult”

Aging is a process driven by dysfunction in the immune system and the central nervous system, which are the rate-limiting organs for longevity.

“There are two organs that are rate limiting in terms of your aging and it's the central nervous system and the immune system.”

Omega-3 supplementation effectively slows the process of biological aging.

“what it was found is that people with a higher omega-3 intake slowed their age acceleration.”

It is never too late for older individuals to begin an exercise routine to improve their physical condition and longevity outcomes.

“it is never too late to start saving for retirement but you must understand something which is the longer you wait to start the more you're likely going to have to save the greater return you're going to need and therefore probably the greater risk you're going to take so it's never too late to star”

Individuals can and should take proactive steps through health and lifestyle changes to improve their future aging experience.

“I want to go do some weight lifting because I don't want this to be my future and I know based on the research that if you stay active and you can start at any age, it helps your joints from getting stiff.”

Restoring nitric oxide levels can stop the progression of age-related diseases and potentially reverse them in early stages.

“what I want to be able to demonstrate is two things number one can we stop the progression of disease once it's started can we stop the progression and then number two is we want to enroll patients far enough along to where we can show regression”

It is never too late for older individuals to begin resistance training to achieve significant improvements in muscle strength and hypertrophy, though starting young is better for building a bone and

“Absolutely not. So, in my previous life, I was a personal trainer before becoming an educated researcher and, I mean, literally I was involved in the training of thousands of individuals. And I had clients at the time that were 60s, 70s, and 80s, never lifted a weight, and saw huge benefits in relat”

Older people possess critical, practical life wisdom that younger generations are losing because of modern age-segregation.

“We're at the risk of losing what is honestly an extremely natural human process which is not asking older people for their stories or their anecdotes but asking them for their practical advice for living.”

Getting older allows an individual to trust their innate signals and subconscious gut feelings rather than overriding them with over-analysis.

“what's great about getting older is that you stop questioning the signals that come from the I think deeper recesses of your nervous system to say hey this is not good or hey this is great more of this”

Entering one's 40s can feel grounding and empowering as one becomes more secure in their identity and lets go of previous insecurities.

“it's crazy how quickly that you're sort of like you feel so solid in who you are or the things that maybe made you insecure or doubt yourself, you sort of just let it go.”

Strivers must shift from reliance on fluid intelligence to crystallized intelligence to find fulfillment in the second half of life.

“You need to be cultivating your root system because your life is that next tree, and you need to be, to see yourself in your children, to see yourself in your friends.”

Aging is a privilege that should be embraced as a gift despite the physical changes that occur.

“and I think that you know the way I look at aging overall and I try to encourage this of my patients and my followers is that it really it's a gift to get older you know it is a privilege to get older”

The decline in balance commonly associated with aging is primarily caused by physical inactivity and the lack of challenging movement rather than the aging process itself.

“Most of my patients assume falling is just part of aging. They say, "Well, I'm just getting old." But what you're saying flips that. It's not aging. It's inactivity.”

Aging is not an inevitable, irreversible decline into frailty.

“I have never believed that aging goes from an inevitable decline from youthful vitality to frailty and that there was nothing that we could do about it.”

Many of the physical declines associated with aging are not inevitable but are instead psychological outcomes of negative mindsets.

“Most of the deterioration we experience is a function of our minds.”

Aging is a universal experience that offers opportunities for growth rather than just a process of inevitable decline.

“our default thought process, myself included, is that aging is all decline. everything about you and your life gets worse. You're less relevant, less attractive, less strong. And we believe it so much because we it's our societal like what we've come to believe that the notion that actually there ar”

The perception of being physically and mentally fragile in old age is often a psychological mindset rather than a physical reality.

“And I don't have to, but I do because something up here tells me, here's my age. Now, if I fall, I'll be dead in 6 weeks cuz I'll break my hip and then I'll get pneumonia and I'm done. And I'm like, I don't I feel 19, but for some reason going downstairs now, I don't just hop down the stairs anymore”