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Beyond Longevity
by Daphna Stern
Beyond Longevity explores the science, medicine, technology, business and policy shaping longer, healthier lives. Host Daphna Stern speaks with leading researchers, clinicians, founders and experts about ageing biology, healthspan, preventive medicine, longevity biomarkers, AI in healthcare, nutrition, women’s health and the societal impact of longer lives. Each episode examines the evidence, separates credible science from hype and translates complex research into clear, practical conversations.
Episodes
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Exercise in a Pill? Could Muscle Protect Memory and Fight Alzheimer’s with Professor Constanza J Cortes
xercise in a Pill? How Muscle Could Protect Memory, with Professor Constanza J Cortes Episode Summary Could your body get some of the benefits of a workout without you doing the exercise? And could a drug like that help prevent memory loss or treat Alzheimer’s? Host Daphna Stern speaks with...
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Why Retirement Fails and How to Reinvent the Second Half of Life
Everyone talks about living longer. Far fewer people ask what happens if we reach those extra decades without purpose, identity, relevance or a clear idea of what we actually want to do with them. In this episode of Beyond Longevity, I speak with Paul Long, a third-generation storyteller, former...
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Muscle Loss, Testosterone and How Much Strength We Can Regain with Dr Oskar Wenbar
Why do we lose muscle as we age, and how much can we rebuild, even in our seventies? For Dr Oskar Wenbar, the interest began after a stroke left his father bedridden. Watching his father’s physical condition deteriorate and his confidence disappear drew him into research on ageing muscle. In this...
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Why AI Medical Research Needs Vast Computing Power and Where Nebius AI Cloud Fits In
65 billion dollars. That is roughly what Nebius was worth on the stock market when we recorded this episode. Yet most people have never heard of it. So what does the company actually do, and why are scientists using its computing power to search for new treatments? Dr Ilya Burkov, Global Head of...
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Can You Do Too Much for Your Health? Biological Age, NAD+ and Longevity Hype
Longevity medicine has created a strange new kind of patient: the healthy person convinced something must be wrong. A wearable flags poor recovery. One test says your body is ageing faster than it should. Another gives you a completely different answer. And suddenly, someone who felt perfectly…
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Can a Supplement Actually Slow Ageing? NOVOS Founder Chris Mirabile on Tackling All 12 Hallmarks
At 16, Chris Mirabile was lying in a hospital bed the night before brain surgery, wondering whether he would wake up the next morning. Years later, as he was building NOVOS, he lost his mother to pancreatic cancer. Those two experiences reshaped the way he thought about health and ageing, and...
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Beyond Longevity at HLTH Europe Part Two: Microbiomes, Breath Diagnostics and the Future of Medical AI
Recorded at HLTH Europe in Amsterdam, Part Two of our special series looks at four very different ways technology could help healthcare move earlier, become more personalised and make better use of the growing amount of health data we are collecting. Dr Marta Ciechonska, Co-Founder and CEO of...
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Beyond Longevity at HLTH Europe: Wearables, AI and Remote Rehabilitation for Preventive Health
What happens when technology stops simply tracking our health and starts helping us understand what to do about it? Recorded at HLTH Europe in Amsterdam, this episode of Beyond Longevity features three conversations with founders working across very different areas of health technology. From...
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Can a Senolytic Vaccine Slow Ageing? Dr David Scieszka on Senescent Cells and Longevity
What if a vaccine could help the immune system clear senescent “zombie” cells — damaged cells linked to ageing, chronic inflammation and age-related disease? In this episode of Beyond Longevity, Daphna Stern sits down with David Scieszka, PhD, MBA, a biomedical scientist, computational biologist,...
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Can One Drug Slow Ageing Across the Whole Body? LinkGevity’s Bid to Block Necrosis
What if heart disease, kidney disease and dementia share a common mechanism linked to ageing? And what if blocking a destructive form of cell death called necrosis could help protect several organs at once? In this episode, host Daphna Stern speaks with LinkGevity founders Dr Carina Kern and…
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How Much Control Do We Really Have Over Our Health? Spermidine, Autophagy and Patient Empowerment
At 39, Leslie Kenny was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and lupus and says she was told she had around five years to live. More than two decades later, she is in long-term remission and has turned that experience into a mission: helping patients become better informed, more involved and more...
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The Hardest Problem in Longevity Is Human Behaviour with Dr Gil Blander, Founder of InsideTracker
Nearly two decades ago, Dr Gil Blander was trying to convince investors of an idea that, at the time, sounded radical: blood biomarkers should not only be used to diagnose disease, but to help healthy people understand what to change before disease develops. Some thought he was crazy. That idea...
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Longevity Medicine Beyond ‘Failure-Based’ Healthcare with Dr Peter Scriven
In this episode of Beyond Longevity, Daphna speaks with Dr Peter Scriven, Co-Founder and Clinical & Scientific Director of LONGEVITY, about what longevity medicine should actually look like: moving from reactive, disease-led healthcare towards preventative, personalised medicine that tracks...
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Longevity at HLTH Why Healthy Ageing Is Finally Going Mainstream
In this episode of Beyond Longevity, Daphna speaks with Jody Tropeano Greene, Head of Content at HLTH, and Alexa Mikhail, Senior Content Lead at HLTH US, about how HLTH identifies the healthcare topics that matter most, balances emerging trends with scientific evidence, and reflects the growing...
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From Blockbuster Medicine to Extending Healthspan with Sundeep Dugar PhD
On Beyond Longevity, host Daphna speaks with Dr Sundeep Dugar, PhD, co-founder of BlueOakNx and the scientists behind the blockbuster cholesterol medicines Zetia (ezetimibe) and Vytorin. He explains how Zetia transformed cholesterol treatment by blocking cholesterol absorption in the intestine…
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Robert Gielow on Longevity Products, Pharmacy Access and Consumer Trust with a focus on the German speaking market
Daphna sat down with Robert Gielow, founder of Mentry Pharma, to discuss what it really takes for foreign supplement and longevity companies to enter the pharmacy markets of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He explains why many brands misunderstand the German-speaking market: distribution and...
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AI, Ageing And The Question Of Trust with Dr Filippo Dall'Armellina
Biology is undergoing one of the biggest transformations in its history. AI is helping researchers analyse enormous datasets, predict protein structures, identify drug targets, and accelerate scientific discovery in ways that would have been difficult to imagine just a few years ago. But AI is…
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Kyle Holbert on Heavy Metals, Missed Diagnoses and Making Longevity Medicine More Accessible
Beyond Longevity interviews Kyle Holbert, COO and co-founder of Longevity Centres of America, about how unexplained fatigue, brain fog, depression, anxiety, joint pain and gut issues derailed his health despite a healthy lifestyle and years of searching for answers. After seeing multiple GPs and...
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The Sugar Language of Ageing - Glycans, Inflammation, and Your Immune Age with Nikolina Lauc
In this episode of Beyond Longevity, Daphna speaks with Nikolina Lauc, CEO and co-founder of GlycanAge, about glycobiology, immune ageing, and the role of chronic inflammation in ageing. Nikolina explains why glycans, the complex sugar structures attached to our antibodies, may offer one of the...
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Beyond Supplements with Alan Graves on Funding Clinical Trials and Longevity Research
Daphna sat down with Alan Graves, founder of DoNotAge, for an in-depth conversation about what it takes to make longevity science more credible, more collaborative and more accessible. After a serious health decline in his late twenties, Alan entered the longevity field after learning that ageing...
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How Nutrition Can Impact Longevity and Healthspan. The Age Code with Dr David Cox
In this episode of Beyond Longevity, Daphna speaks with Dr David Cox, a health journalist (BBC, The Guardian, The Telegraph, NBC News and others), who holds a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Cambridge and is the author of The Age Code, about how diet, ultra-processed foods and the…
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Supplements, Science and the Longevity Marketing Machine
Supplements promise a lot: mitochondrial support, better brain health, healthier gut function, anti-ageing benefits and more. But how much of that is real science, and how much is simply clever wording on a label? In this episode of Beyond Longevity, Dr Luke Bucci, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer…
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Longevity Needs a Scientific Sanity Check: Dr Herna de Wit on Evidence, IP and South Africa’s Role in the Future of Healthspan
This week on Beyond Longevity, I am joined by Dr Herna de Wit, CEO and Founder of Omnisci Consulting, with a PhD in Biochemistry and an LLB in Law. Dr Herna brings a very unusual and valuable combination to the longevity conversation: deep scientific training, legal expertise and hands-on...
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Dr Filippo Ongaro: Space as an Accelerated Ageing Model, Health Span and the Behaviour Gap in Longevity
On Beyond Longevity, Dr Filippo Ongaro, medical doctor, entrepreneur, and strategic advisor, shares how nearly eight years working with astronauts at the European Space Agency shaped the way he thinks about ageing. In space, the body can lose muscle, bone and resilience at a frightening speed....
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Building a Longevity Nation. Reimagining the Second Half of Life with Michael Clinton
Michael A. Clinton, former President of Hearst Magazines. Michael spent four decades at the top of the publishing world, including as President and Publishing Director of Hearst Magazines, before turning his attention to one of the biggest questions of our time. If many of us are likely to live...
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The Promise and Problem of Longevity Testing; Prevention, Access and the Inequality in the field with Niko Hems
What does good prevention actually look like, and is the longevity industry helping people live better, or simply making health feel more complicated? In this episode of Beyond Longevity, Daphna speaks with Niko Hems, Operations Lead at YEARS, a longevity clinic in Berlin, Germany. Niko brings a...
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Beyond Longevity at ViVE, Genomics, Microbiome Testing, and the Future of Personalized Prevention with Brock Hay of BioAro
In this ViVE conference bonus episode of Beyond Longevity, recorded live at the ViVE event in Los Angeles, the conversation explores how BioAro is seeking to bring different strands of personalised health data together within a single longevity platform. Brock Hay explains BioAro’s approach to...
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Women’s Healthspan, Longevity Hype and Building Credible Health Businesses with Corinne Briaud Manon
On Beyond Longevity, Corinne Briaud Manon discusses women’s healthspan through the lenses of science, consumer trust and commercial execution, drawing on her experience in major corporates and her work across Green Marlin, which advises health and longevity startups, and LongHER, a women’s...
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From Lab to Life: Translating Ageing Science into Real-world Solutions with Professor Lorna Harries
Professor Lorna Harries has spent more than two decades studying why cells age and what might be done about it. In this episode, she explains one of the most overlooked mechanisms in ageing biology, RNA splicing. When cells lose control of this process, they become stressed, dysfunctional and can...
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ViVE Bonus: Marc Zemel on Real-Time Hemodynamic Monitoring and Early Deterioration Detection in Critical Care
Recorded at the 2026 VIVE conference in Los Angeles, this Beyond Longevity mini-series episode features Mark Zemel, co-founder and CEO of Retia Medical, discussing the company’s hemodynamic monitoring technology that turns continuous bedside physiological signals into real-time clinical insights...
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Why Longer lives Are Changing Work, Business and Society, with Avivah Wittenberg-Cox
This week’s guest is Avivah Wittenberg-Cox. Avivah advises leaders on gender and generational balance, the future of work, and the longevity economy. She hosts the podcast 4-Quarter Lives, publishes the Substack Elderberries, and writes regularly for Forbes and Harvard Business Review. She is...
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NAD, Precision Health & the Science of Living Better for Longer with Dr Jin-Xiong She
In this episode, Dr Jin-Xiong She, a scientist with more than 400 publications, over 20,000 citations, and more than $100 million in research funding, explains why he left the top tier of academic medicine to pursue something more urgent: finding better ways to detect decline early and protect...
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Why Governments Still Ignore Ageing, and What Must Change with Dr Ilia Stambler
What does it take to turn longevity science into real-world policy? In this episode, Daphna speaks with Dr Ilia Stambler, historian of longevity, published author, Chair of the International Longevity Alliance (ILA), and Chief Science Officer and Chairman of Vetek (Seniority) Association, about…
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AI, Biomarkers and the Future of Longevity Medicine, with Elio Verhoef, Co-Founder of LongevAI
In this episode, Daphna sits down with Elio, co-founder of LongevAI, a platform using artificial intelligence to help longevity clinics analyse biomarker data, streamline documentation, and build personalised client plans. With a background in computer science and a lifelong passion for health...
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Why Do We Age? Dr Bradley Elliott on Biomarkers, Muscle, and What Longevity Science Still Doesn’t Know
Dr Bradley Elliott — physiologist, university lecturer, and a trustee and Communications Lead at the British Society for Research on Ageing — joins host Daphna for a refreshingly honest conversation about what longevity science actually knows and what we still cannot explain. This episode cuts...
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Dr Brendan Khong on Inflammaging, Regenerative Aesthetics and Skin Health
In this episode, I sit down with Dr Brendan Khong, a London-based aesthetic physician and regenerative medicine advocate, for a practical conversation about what it really means to age well, starting with the skin, but quickly expanding into whole-body biology. The central theme is a shift now...
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Longevity Is a Planning Topic: Wealthspan, Risk and Business in a Longer-Life Future with Nadine Esposito
What happens to your financial plan when you live to 100? Most pension systems were built around an ~80-year life expectancy. Much of today’s financial advice still follows a linear life-stage model. And many businesses have not yet reckoned with the fact that both their customers and their...
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Professor David Weinkove, Chair of the BSRA, on C.elegans research and evidence-led longevity science
What can a tiny worm tell us about human ageing, and could gut bacteria hold the key to a longer, healthier life? In this episode of Beyond Longevity, we sit down with Professor David Weinkove: Chair of the British Society for Research on Ageing (BSRA), Professor at Durham University, and...
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Dr Mayoni Gooneratne on Functional Medicine, Perimenopause, and Building Healthspan Through Prevention
What if the conditions we treat in our fifties and sixties which were set in motion decades earlier, would have been spotted, and shifted, far sooner? In this episode of Beyond Longevity, I sit down with Dr Mayoni Gooneratne, Founder and Medical Director of Human Health and Skin Fit Clinics, and...
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What would healthcare look like if GPs had the time, tools, and data to treat every patient like an elite athlete?
In this episode of Beyond Longevity, I am joined by Dr Angus Perry, a practising GP, clinical AI builder, and performance-medicine enthusiast with experience supporting Formula One teams and elite athletes. Dr Angus is focused on closing the gap between what preventive medicine can achieve and…
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Beyond Longevity - Decoding the Future of Ageing, One Conversation at a Time
Welcome to Beyond Longevity, the podcast that decodes the future of ageing, one conversation at a time. Join host Daphna Stern as she introduces a new podcast exploring the cutting edge of longevity science. Through conversations with leading researchers, clinicians, and innovators, Beyond...
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Beyond Longevity explores the science, medicine, technology, business and policy shaping longer, healthier lives. Host Daphna Stern speaks with leading researchers, clinicians, founders and experts about ageing biology, healthspan, preventive medicine, longevity biomarkers, AI in healthcare, nutrition, women’s health and the societal impact of longer lives. Each episode examines the evidence, separates credible science from hype and translates complex research into clear, practical conversations.
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