The Longevity Secret Nobody Can Sell You with Gerontologist Dr. Kerry Burnight

How old was she when she made this pivot? Late seventies, early eighties. Oh wow. That's a st I didn't I thought you were gonna say fifties. Wow, so so as long as that, that she changed the course of her life and it may have added years to her life. So there's life span, how many years you live. Health span, how long you enjoy good health and good cognition, I'm all for both of those, of course. But then this next piece of the quality of your long life, right? About like why? Why do you want to live a long time? It's not so that in your casket you will look a certain way. Like what He looks so young. He looks so young. Yeah.

From cold plunges to supplements to VO2 maxing, it seems that we are obsessed with living longer these days. And sure, some of it works. I guess we'll have to wait and find out. But for better or worse, longevity has turned into a full-on industry. And for many, a competition. Who looks younger? Who lasts longer.

But there's something missing. I've met some of these longevity maxers, and a lot of them didn't strike me as particularly happy people, which raises a question I don't hear many people asking, which is if we're gonna live all these extra years? What are they actually for? Mm-hmm. That's why I wanted to talk to Carrie Burnite. Carrie is a gerontologist. She studies how we age.

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