Ken Stern — Healthy to 100: How Strong Social Ties Lead to Long Lives - with Michel Martin

Contrary to popular belief, the secret to living longer is not just about eating well, exercising, or getting regular checkups. Instead, successful aging depends on the nature of your relationships and your social connections. If you want to live a healthy and rewarding life, you need to start with social health.In Healthy to 100, longevity expert Ken Stern takes us on a journey to some of the longest-lived countries in the world--Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Italy, and Spain--places that have achieved great advances in longevity by intentionally strengthening social connections. Science shows that physical and mental health outcomes are all improved by the intergenerational connectedness, sense of purpose, and respect enjoyed by older people in these countries.Their example offers us all a personal and societal guide for how we can better the second half of life. Weaving in surprising, colorful stories from around the world, Stern shows that the key to healthy longevity involves a mindset shift and purposeful building of social connections. Healthy to 100 offers a hopeful, attainable, research-backed model for anyone seeking a longer and healthier life.Ken Stern is a nationally recognized expert on longevity and aging. He is the founder of the Longevity Project and hosts the popular “Century Lives” podcast from the Stanford Center on Longevity. Stern is the author of With Charity for All and the national bestseller Republican Like Me.  He has been a frequent contributor to a wide variety of publications including Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, and Slate. He is also the former CEO of NPR. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Beth, and son, Nate.Stern is in conversation with Michel Martin. Emmy-winning journalist Michel Martin is a host of Morning Edition. Previously, she was the weekend host of All Things Considered and host of the Consider This Saturday podcast.  Martin currently serves as a contributor for PBS’s Amanpour & Company. Her previous credits include ABC News, Nightline, as well as covering politics for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. Martin has been honored by numerous organizations, including the Candace Award for Communications from The National Coalition of 100 Black Women. Martin graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College at Harvard University in 1980 and earned a Master of Arts from Wesley Theological Seminary in 2016. In 2019, Martin was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for outstanding achievement in journalism.https://politics-prose.com/book/9781541705012?ic_referral=C7t_nRAiiHbhuQpag2nRsu62CbR4WIXCo3j5gwLhU7UwM8Qq91YjLx0M8APBPwsbhp5P58rDXSbT92wsDEPEu8AiwMvjBTG9-IlQ7ium2zKAVQe8yWlXZRV4RqPPu5C96CNZqAQ