Epigenetics and Living Younger: Changing the Ways Our Genes Operate
This Living to 100 Club Podcast invites as its guest Dr. Gillian Lockitch. We discuss the art and science of aging gracefully. Our conversation opens with Gillian’s journey from an inactive, overweight, widowed, isolated, depressed retired physician to the vibrant author, speaker, entrepreneur, and dancer that she is today. We discuss the roadmap she laid out for herself to address issues of heredity, mindset, goal setting, nutrition, physical activity, appearance, and socialization. Importantly, we also dive into the field of epigenetics. What is it and how does it affect us? Can we make simple changes to our aging trajectory to facilitate graceful aging? How do we live out our years with a healthy mind in a healthy body? No matter where you are on your journey, join us for this program that shows you how your life actually gets better with age.
Mini Bio
Our guest is an author, researcher, teacher, journalist, and international speaker. Dr. Gillian Lockitch is a dual certified Specialist Physician and Medical Professor Emerita at the University of British Columbia. During her 25-year academic medical practice, her research focused on biochemistry, nutrition and genetics. She authored 57 peer reviewed publications and 14 book chapters. She has been invited to speak at international conferences throughout Asia, Europe, and North America.
On retirement, she switched her focus from science to the arts and established a second career writing online about theatre, food and wine, and the arts. She writes Travelblogues on her ballroom dance cruising around the world. A short time later, she encountered a company with an innovative, genetic science-based focus on health and beauty, promoting healthy aging through applied epigenetics. She then launched a third career as a network entrepreneur helping people to age youthfully from both “inside-out and outside-in.”
For Our Listeners
Gillian’s website: Ask Dr. Gill
Gillian’s book: Growing Older, Living Younger: The Science of Aging Gracefully and the Art of Retiring Comfortably
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