How To Stay Young (2 x 60′) – Presented by Angela Rippon and Chris van Tulleken, this is the definitive guide to how science can help us stay young and healthy for longer.
Across two episodes, the Battle Of The Body and the Battle Of The Brain, we’ll discover that science is challenging so much of what was once thought to be true about growing old. We’ll look at exactly what happens when we age, what we can do to live well for longer, and the latest advances in science that are helping us fight the ageing process. It’s now understood that genes only play a small part in determining how long we’ll live. Lifestyle is by far the biggest influence on our life expectancy. We’ll travel the world to find the secrets to a long life – from Japan where the elderly are highly respected within society, to a community in USA that is bucking their nation’s trend of high rates of heart disease.
We’ll meet ordinary people with extraordinary stories, such as a heart surgeon who was still operating at the age of 92, and a group from Edinburgh who have some of the brightest old minds in the UK. At the frontiers of science we’ll find out about a trial in the US where they are replacing old people’s blood with young blood and how scientists hope sufferers of Laron disease in Ecuador could help the development of a drug that will dramatically slow down the ageing process.
Channel: BBC1
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