AGEIST

Caroline Alan spent years hearing from practitioners that her exhaustion, insomnia, and inflammation were simply part of getting older, until a cup of dark liquid from her future business partner led her to ask whether aging and depletion might be the same thing. In this conversation, the co-founder and CEO of BEAM Minerals and author of The Mineral Reset explains why she believes generations of f...

Dr. Jeffrey Bland, 80, draws a sharp line between being elderly and being an elder: one has lost function and become dependent, the other stays wise, capable, and still contributing to the people around them. In this conversation, Dr. Bland explains why he's built his current company, Big Bold Health, around the immune system, since it's the one system embedded in every tissue in the bod...

Paul Coletta isn’t a doctor or a scientist, which he says is exactly why he can explain proteomics in three sentences, not a confusing research paper. In this conversation, the founder of Vero Bioscience walks through what a single vial of blood can reveal about the biological age of eleven different organs. He discusses technology built in Stanford neuroscientist Tony Wyss-Coray’s lab and just sp...

Nearly two decades after co-founding Fitbit and putting personal health tracking on people's wrists, James Park has turned his attention to a harder problem: the invisible mental load carried by roughly one in four American adults now caring for an aging family member. In this conversation, he explains how Luffu , his new AI-powered platform, turns scattered observations, a doctor's note...

We're revisiting a fan favorite this week: our September 2024 conversation with Dr. Stacy Sims, the exercise physiologist behind one of the most useful ideas in women's fitness: women are not small men, and their training shouldn't be built as if they were. We're getting excited because Dr. Sims is preparing to join us at the Super Age Games this November, and can’t wait to cel...

After twenty five years as a traditional orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Elizabeth Yurth walked away from a specialty she says patches the body instead of heals it. This was a shift that eventually led her to found the Boulder Longevity Institute. In this conversation, she explains why a common knee surgery called arthroscopic debridement has been abandoned in most countries, and why cheap, decades-old la...

We're bringing back our May 2025 conversation with Denise Kirtley, the founder of Rebellion Body. As we look back on this message, Kirtley is preparing to head to the Super Age Games with the event's largest team yet, more than 50 women strong. Kirtley built her coaching business on the idea that midlife is not a decline to manage, but a version of life women get to design on purpose. In...

Before Andrew Salisbury became captivated by the biochemistry of coffee, he set a Guinness World Record jumping out of a helicopter tethered to a bungee cord over Cancun, part of a career that has swung between call center software, extreme sports, and now one of the country's fastest-growing coffee companies. In this conversation, the founder of Purity Coffee explains why much of the coffee...

Kim Alexis, 80s supermodel turned integrative health practitioner and host of the podcast Unexpired, talks about the mindset shift that let her build a real estate career, a fitness certification, and a health practice, all after turning 64. She explains why she has chosen against surgery, how she manages her arthritis, and why she makes conscious health decisions in her weekly routine. Alexis als...

We're revisiting a favorite conversation this week: our September 2023 sit-down with Dr. Kelly Stankiewicz, one of our go-to dermatologists. Dr. Kelly specializes in laser skin treatments that combat the effects of aging and can even create a youthful glow, if that's your jam. We also break down the four core pillars of a sound skincare routine: cleanse, exfoliate, nourish, and protect....

Amy Odell, the journalist behind the biographies Anna , and the newly released Gwyneth , joins the show to trace how a $6.8 trillion wellness industry has learned to monetize our fear of aging. She explains why Gwyneth Paltrow's most outrageous claims may not be cynical marketing at all, connecting research on conspiracy belief and narcissistic traits to how someone builds and defends a brand...

Longer life is changing what people over 50 expect from medicine, themselves, and the decades ahead. In this encore episode, Dr. Michael Roizen argues that aging is increasingly shaped by informed choices, while the current culture surrounding longevity struggles to separate useful evidence from expensive fads. Roizen examines the science behind epigenetic switches, protein cycling, metformin, ste...

Longevity has become a status symbol, marketing term, and in some spaces, a kind of show. Jill Brand joins The AGEIST Podcast to talk about what gets lost when better living becomes another performance, and why movement remains one of the interventions that actually changes daily life. As Head of Branding, Content, and Creative at Pvolve, Brand challenges us to think on muscle, mobility and stabil...

Episode 293 asks: what happens when beauty culture moves from correction toward regeneration, and why should we be more demanding about the evidence behind products that promise younger-looking skin?  Alisa Lask, CEO of Rion Aesthetics and ( plated )™ Skin Science, explains exosomes as the body’s cellular messaging system, with platelet-derived signals that may support renewal, barrier function, a...

Is it possible that " midlife reinvention " is another way of telling people over 50 that they are failing? In this episode, AGEIST culture writer Sheri Radel Rosenberg joins David Stewart for a clear-eyed conversation about the pressure to find a new identity and turn aging into a public performance. Together they examine the difference between evolution and escape, from Instagram’s end...

In this re-aired favorite conversation, Dr. William Li makes the case for a more reasonable way to think about health, one that gives people agency without trapping them in food fear, rigid rules, or social media panic. He reframes some of the biggest anxieties around aging, including cancer, inflammation, glucose, vascular health, and protein, with a physician-scientist’s insistence on context. T...

What happens when aging and sexuality change not only how we look, but how much of the world looks at us? In this episode, writer Stephanie Fairyington joins David Stewart for a sharp conversation about beauty, the idea of “ugliness”, gender, queer identity, and the strange relief that can come when midlife loosens the grip of outside judgment. Fairyington, author of Ugly: A Letter to My Daughter...

Adam Smith, MA, Senior Spiritual Wellness Provider at Canyon Ranch Tucson , brings clinical spiritual care training, pastoral care education, and years of experience supporting people through trauma, hospice, loss, and life transitions to the table. In this conversation with David Stewart, he argues that modern life has left many people overstimulated, over-measured, and disconnected from the deep...

What happens when the body no longer responds to effort the way it used to? Neurosurgeon and founder of Royal Spine Surgery, Dr. Mohamed Abdulhamid joins David Stewart to explain how recovery depends on communication between the brain, nerves, muscles, and joints, especially after surgery, injury, or long periods of compensation. David shares his own experience after knee surgery, when EXOMIND and...

For a generation raised to admire endurance, Dr. Nicole Moyen makes the case for sleep as a daily form of biological respect. In this conversation, she and David look at why body clocks become more important with age, why sleep regularity may matter more than people think, and why the 3 a.m. wakeup has become such a familiar midlife complaint. Nicole explains the science behind core temperature, d...

Angélica Fuentes, business executive, founder, and women’s equality advocate, belongs to a generation of women refusing the old script that ambition narrows with age, power comes from status, and reinvention has a deadline. She talks about building companies in male-dominated industries, becoming a CEO at 29, advocating for women long before corporate equality became fashionable, and starting NOWF...

This week on The AGEIST Podcast, Dr. Suzanne Gilberg explains why menopause care needs more science, more honesty, and more respect for women’s ability to make informed choices. Listeners will learn how to think about HRT, breast cancer risk, testosterone, brain health, bone health, and the limits of one-size-fits-all medical advice. She also explains why community matters, why menopause education...

This week on The AGEIST Podcast, Dr. Florence Comite,  clinician-scientist, and author of Invincible: Defy Your Genetic Destiny to Live Better, Longer, explains why “normal” lab results can miss the early signals that shape long-term health. Learn how sugar, insulin, A1C, cholesterol patterns, HDL, and free testosterone can reveal metabolic changes before a conventional diagnosis appears. She make...

This week on The AGEIST Podcast, David Stewart sits down with Heather Hurlock, founding editor of The Mindset by Super Age, to explain the thinking behind the Super Age Games and the science that shaped them. The conversation breaks down why healthspan, not simply lifespan, is the real target, and how eight trainable markers can help people understand where they are now and what to work on next. L...

A conversation with the Refinery29 founder and mind behind A Tiny Apt. about what midlife sharpens: your sense of what matters, what no longer fits, and how your surroundings affect your mood, sleep, and energy. Christene explains why small changes at home can reduce background stress, why reinvention feels more urgent with age, and how to make choices that reflect who you are now rather than who...