The Essential Need To Extend Healthspan: Dr. Denis Noble

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Denis Noble, 86, is an innovator, scientist, musician, ballroom
dancer, and Oxford University Emeritus Professor of
Cardiovascular Physiology. He joins us to discuss how to increase
our healthspans and our lifespans, what we need to know about the
aging process and how it impacts our health, the importance of
community, and more. 


“As you get into long life but very unhealthy life, you’re having
a big burden on society. I’m not blaming people. I’m saying that
this is what we’re now seeing and I think we have to do something
about it. I don’t think we should accept that there is nothing
you can do about it.” 


“There is absolutely no doubt that the biggest thing you can do
to remain healthy in old age is to keep active even if it’s
difficult, it’s best to keep active. You use it or you lose
it.” 


“The aging population suffers from these multifactorial diseases
with many genes involved and that will not yield to just more
sequencing of people’s genomes.”


“When you attack a late-stage cancer, you may, hopefully, kill it
off enough for a permanent cure. But that’s, unfortunately, rarer
than we once imagined it would be. Very often what happens is it
produces a period of several years, which is good, when the
cancer has retreated but it will then come back in an even more
virulent form.”


“To the degree you can do it, a healthy lifestyle in terms of
diet is a good thing to go for. It’s obvious also to tell your
listeners that smoking is a no-no if yuo want to look after
yourself in old age.” 


“You can’t go run a marathon on a big full stomach and there’s a
good reason for that. The blood supply during digestion is
attracted to the intestines. They need the blood supply in order
to do the work that is necessary to digest the food that you’ve
eaten.”


“It’s very important to try to arrange your life so that you’re
not alone, you do interrelate with people, and that’s a huge
health benefit to be with people and find ways in which you can
communicate with others.”


“We are designed, effectively, to be social people.” 


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