Lessons on Longevity: Finding the Fountain of Youth with Dr. Valter Longo & Dr. Mario Martinez

Original Air Date Wednesday, June 20, 2018 

In this week’s episode you will learn about: 

⦾  Programmed longevity and juventology

⦾ You are not helplessly sentenced by your genetics

⦾ Ageing vs growing old – yes, there’s a difference

⦾ Connection between cultural beliefs and our immune system

Dr Valter Longo is the director of the Longevity Institute at USC in Los Angeles, and of the Program on Longevity and Cancer at IFOM (Molecular Oncology FIRC Institute) in Milan. His studies focus on the fundamental mechanisms of aging in simple organisms and mice and on how they can be translated to humans. Not coincidentally, Longo is from a town in Italy that is home to some of the longest-lived people in the world. More here.

Dr. Mario Martinez is a clinical neuropsychologist. He proposes a new science of hope to replace the limitations of the gloom and doom theories of reductionist science. He is the founder of biocognitive science: a new mind-body paradigm that investigates the inherited causes of health and the cultural learning of longevity. Dr. Martinez is considered a world expert on healthy longevity.  He lives in Montevideo, Uruguay and Miami, Florida. More here.