How to Live Younger (2021)

Ever wondered about the secrets to living a long, healthy and happy life? How To Live Younger is an exciting 3-part series that looks at the scientific 'hacks' that can help improve our lives. Hosted by author and ABC Radio's Jacinta Parsons, the series cuts through the 'wellness' hype, revealing rigorous and robust scientific research that shows how we can prolong our time here on earth. In the past, if we were lucky, we'd live till 80 but the idea that we'd spend the last 15 years slowly deteriorating seemed an unavoidable (and depressing) fate. Now scientists believe that we can increase our "healthspan" and live more active, healthy and enjoyable years on this planet. Remarkably, they've found that many of the 'diseases of ageing', like heart disease, Alzheimer's, diabetes and depression, could be preventable. In labs around the world, scientists are trialling, testing and analysing a range of weapons that could help us stay healthier for longer. They have made incredible progress, weaponising microbes to fight depression, repurposing anxiety medications to stop cancer, as well as using "fast" diets, mindfulness, exercise, urban design and even using 'random acts of kindness' to ward off disease.