291 – Building Life Span & Health Span with Chris Davison pt. 1

About this episode

Chris Davison discusses aging, life span versus health span, and health protection strategies.

After a lot of rescheduling, professor of Biology and returning guest Chris Davison was nice enough to come visit in person, share some Made West Pale Ale , and talk about his field, humans and aging, life span versus health span, and various ways we age and what we can do to protect our health as long as possible. And here's a link specifically for Space Cave listeners . Music at the end from Sonja Midtune with Falling Up .

People in this episode

Host: David Huntsberger

Guest: Chris Davison

Topics covered

• aging
• health span
• life span
• biology
• health protection

Keywords

• aging
• health span
• life span
• biology
• health protection
• Chris Davison
• Space Cave

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Made West

Books & works: Falling Up

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