The Longevity Forum's Podcast

Dr Greg Bailey, co-founder and CEO of Juvenescence, a biotech company focusing on preventing age related diseases interviews Professor Linda Partridge on nutrition and healthy ageing. Prof Linda Partridge is a world-renowned geneticist and the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne, Germany. Diet plays a major role in humankind living longer. Greg and Linda...

Declan Doogan, Chief Medical Officer of Juvenescence interviews Professor Norman Lazarus, the author of The Lazarus Strategy: How to Age Well and Wisely on the importance of exercise for longer lives. We analyse not just genetics but “diseases of exercise deficiencies.” You need to change your lifestyle now and there needs to be a focus on physical exercise. Exercise is intrinsic to the human spec...

Anna Dixon, Chief Executive at The Centre for Ageing Better and George MacGinnis, Healthy Ageing Challenge Director at UKRI as they discuss how we can accomodate our ageing society better from how we view ageing to better innovations for older living. https://www.ageing-better.org.uk/ https://www.ukri.org/our-work/delivering-economic-impact/industrial-strategy-challenge-fund/   https://thelongevit...

Bruce Friedrich, Co-founder of The Good Food Institute will be interviewed by Jim Mellon, co-founder of The Longevity Forum and Michael Corcoran, Partner at Hill Dickinson on the future of clean meat in a resilient world. Clean meat is not only better for the environment, but it also decreases dependence on antibiotics and improves food security. From cat food to cellular grown fish, we are creati...

Prof Norman Lazarus, Professor at the Centre for Human and Applied Physiological Sciences at Kings College London and Declan Doogan, Chief Medical Officer of Juvenescence chat about the resilient lifestyle. A healthy lifestyle isn't just making a few good decisions but is about finding something that resonates with you. Ageing doesn't mean that taking up a new hobby such as swimming is out of reac...

George MacGinnis, Challenge Director of Healthy Ageing, UK Research and Innovation is interviewed by Andrew J Scott, Co-founder of The Longevity Forum and Professor of Economics at LBS. George explains how the UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge is changing how we grow older from trailblazer entrepreneurs to housing solutions for mature persons. How do we tackle ageing inequalities to make living longer...

Jane Portas, Co-founder of Insuring Women's Futures, explains the six moments that matter in financial life journeys of Black people in the UK during Covid with Dawid Konotey-Ahulu, Co-founder of Redington Limited and Mallowstreet. From relationships to education, we experience many moments that can help determine our financial success. Many minority communities experience hardships during these m...

Stuart McDonald, Head of Demographic Assumptions and Methodology at Lloyds Banking Group is interviewed by David Collinson, Part of the Founding Team at the Pension Corporation on the Impact of Covid on mortality. The pandemic has caused unexpected deaths around the world but what is the greater picture for the UK when considering mortality in previous years? Actuaries are looking are various outc...

Nicole Shanahan, President of the Bia-Echo foundation shares her personal experiences and research with renowned obstetricians Claire Mellon and Rebecca Gibbs. Longevity and fertility are heavily tied together yet there aren’t enough conversations on this ever important topic. Fertility is not always the same throughout your life and can be determined by simple healthy practices from acupuncture t...

Gillian Tett, editor-at-large of the US Financial Times speaks on the influence of Covid-19 on the ESG Agenda with Marisa Drew, Chief Sustainability Officer & Global Head Sustainability Strategy, Advisory and Finance at Credit Suisse. Corporations have traditionally operated with a narrow focus on financial goals, but more and more, we are seeing an increasing awareness of social good among shareh...

Please note this podcast was recorded before the latest set of lockdown measures were announced and prior to the latest decision by the Monetary Policy Committee. It's on everyone’s minds - what will happen to the economy post pandemic? Andy Haldane, Chief Economist to the Bank of England discusses with Andrew J Scott, Professor of Economics at London Business School the hardships countries have f...

Dr Tara Swart, neuroscientist at MIT Sloan and author of The Source and Dafina Grapci-Penney, Co-founder of The Longevity Forum and Managing Director at Greentarget talk about mental resilience and strategies for coping with stress.  We as humans respond to stress in different ways and the COVID shutdowns have led to great strain on everyone’s mental resilience. Cortisol levels in the brain are el...

Longevity Week 2020 is taking place virtually on 9-13 November with an array of partner events ranging from UKRI, Zinc VC to Master Investor. The three Longevity Forum founders, Jim Mellon, Andrew Scott and Dafina Grapci-Penney discuss their favourite events coming up and why discussing resilience is so crucial with the pandemic this year. https://thelongevityforum.com

Linda Fried describes the unprecedented success of adding 30 years to the human lifetime and the implications of our additional time. Linda Fried is Dean and DeLamar Professor of Public Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.

Laura Deming explains the new age of investing in longevity. Laura Deming is the founder and full-time partner at The Longevity Fund, an early stage venture capital fund backing companies which target the ageing process to treat disease, with investments in gene editing, small molecule therapeutics, and novel methods to treat disease.

Dafina Grapci-Penney, Jim Mellon and Andrew Scott highlight the collaborative effort of The Longevity Forum and the key takeaways from the day. The social and science narrative on longevity are changing which is very exciting for the future.  

Nir Barzilai shares his expertise on how ageing can be targeted and reversed. Dr Barzilai is a chaired Professor of Medicine and Genetics and Director of the biggest Centre in the world to study the Biology of Ageing, Institute for Aging at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Julia Randell-Khan explains the important of intergenerational connections and how the Encore Fellows programme helps with career transitions while positively impacting society. As founder/CEO of Encore Fellows UK and a fellow at the Stanford Center on Longevity, Julia is an enthusiastic encore career advocate.

Lynne Cox discusses cell senescence and how studies show the removal of these cells can help healthy ageing. Professor Cox is a biogerontologist at the University of Oxford. She runs a research group focused on understanding the basic molecular mechanisms underlying ageing, with the aim of using that understanding to improve health in later life, by developing treatments to alleviate the diseases...

Dr Charles Alessi discusses how we can shift the healthcare system to better accommodate longer lives. Charles Alessi is the Chief Clinical Officer for HIMSS International. 

https://thelongevityforum.com/  Dr Aubrey de Grey discusses how policy makers can keep up with science and tech when it comes to longevity. The "longevity maverick" explains the difficulties in prioritising the science of longer living even during electoral cycles.