LEVELS – A Whole New Level25 Syys 2025

#282 - Longevity biomarkers for healthy aging and well-being | Dr. Matt Kaeberlein & Mike Haney

Longevity is a hot health topic, but what factors move the needle on not only how long you live but how long you experience relatively good health? Some lab and other tests can help assess how healthy you’re aging and provide context for what lifestyle and other changes to make. Dr. Matt Kaeberlein and Mike Haney discuss the tests that help assess healthy aging, how mental health and physical health are intricately connected, which lifestyle factors might expand your health span, and where the research stands on various longevity topics.

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🎙 What Matt Kaeberlein, PhD, & Mike Haney discuss:

6:57 — Lifespan vs. health span vs. sick span

19:38 — Understanding sick span

27:44 — Biomarkers and other tests to assess health span

30:58 — The importance of emotional health for longevity

35:49 — Cellular tests may not have value for the consumer yet

42:24 — On mitochondrial function and telomere length

50:34 — Investing in your health

1:01:18 — Lifestyle changes can help make a big difference

1:09:50 — High vs. low protein

1:16:39 — When considering exercise, building muscle is crucial for longevity

1:27:37 — The prescription drug rapamycin is not FDA-approved for longevity

Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health.

Look for new shows every month on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations with thought leaders about metabolic health.

🔗 Helpful links:

Watch the conversation: https://youtu.be/OPH5Nb2a69o

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Matt Kaeberlein, PhD: https://www.optispan.life/matt-kaeberlein

Connect with Matt Kaeberlein, PhD, on X: https://x.com/mkaeberlein

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#314 - How to Make Health Decisions When the Science Is Unclear | Dr. Anupam Jena & Mike Haney

Most health decisions happen before the science is settled. A study points one way, another points somewhere else, experts disagree about what matters, and even strong population-level evidence may no...

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#313 - What Happens When We Start Imaging Healthy People? | Dr. Daniel Durand & Mike Haney

Most medical imaging happens after a symptom, injury, or abnormal test gives a clinician a reason to look. But what changes if imaging becomes a more routine measurement, creating a record of the body...

1 Loka 1h 25min

#312 - Is Moderate Drinking Actually Healthy? | Dr. Tim Naimi & Mike Haney

Alcohol has spent the last 40 years bouncing between two health narratives: a little is good for your heart, or any amount is dangerous. The science doesn’t really support either slogan.Dr. Tim Naimi ...

24 Syys 53min

#311 - Can Your Blood Predict Your Future Health? | Dr. Tony Wyss-Coray & Mike Haney

From a single blood sample, new proteomic tools can now measure thousands of proteins at once. Dr. Tony Wyss-Coray’s lab is using that flood of data, together with machine learning, to build a much hi...

17 Syys 1h

#310 - Can We Measure Aging Well Enough to Treat It? | Dr. Nir Barzilai & Mike Haney

Aging science has gotten much better at describing who appears to be aging faster or slower. What medicine still lacks is a reliable feedback loop: a way to tell whether something we do is actually ch...

10 Syys 1h 3min

#309 - What AI Sees That Doctors Can’t | Dr. Ziad Obermeyer & Mike Haney

Medical AI is already getting good at doing things doctors do. Dr. Ziad Obermeyer thinks the bigger opportunity is using AI to discover things medicine doesn’t yet know.His work shows both sides of th...

3 Syys 1h 5min

#308 - Why Some Foods Are So Hard to Stop Eating | Dr. Dana Small & Mike Haney

Why do we crave some foods the more often we eat them? Are we addicted?Dr. Dana Small’s research suggests that food craving reaches far beyond taste or willpower, and that “addiction” isn’t a helpful ...

27 Elo 1h 11min

#307 - It Took Months to Interpret His Genome. Claude Did It in 30 Minutes. | Dr. Euan Ashley + Mike Haney

Twenty-five years ago, sequencing the human genome seemed poised to usher in an era of personalized medicine. Dr. Euan Ashley helped turn that promise into an actual clinical experiment, leading one o...

20 Elo 1h