The Real Reason You Age (And How to Slow It Down) | Dr. Eric Verdin

May 6, 2026 · 1h 13m · YouTube

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0:00What really has changed in the last 20 years is that we can change your biological age to some degree.

0:05Your cholesterol level is seven times less important than your age.

0:09So imagine now that we're targeting aging, what it's going to do in terms of impact on your risk for heart disease.

0:14You say that the phenomena that drive aging is primary.

0:18The diseases are secondary.

0:20Aging is the biggest risk factor for a whole series of conditions that we call heart attack, stroke, atherosclerosis, many forms of cancer, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, all of these diseases.

0:33And so it really changes the paradigm of the way we've been taught medicine, which is to respond to all of these emergencies that occur, what I call guacamole medicine.

0:42If we targeted the underlying mechanisms of aging, we could extend life by 30 or 40 years.

0:45So what do you do for helping your immune system age well?

0:48That's really the way medicine is going to change.

0:50Dr.

0:51Eric Burden is president and CEO of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and a globally recognized leader in aging and science, a physician scientist with over 300 publications.

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