Sex and Longevity: Redefining Aging With Doreen Wendt-Weir

About this episode

Doreen Wendt-Weir challenges cultural narratives around aging and invites listeners to rethink vitality and intimacy later in life.

What if everything you believed about aging was incomplete? In this engaging and refreshingly honest episode of The DNA Talks Podcast, we welcome Doreen Wendt-Weir, author of Sex in Your Seventies and its spirited sequel, Gardening in Your Nineties. Doreen challenges cultural narratives around aging by asking bold, often humorous questions about vitality, intimacy, creativity, and identity later in life. Through her writing—and this conversation—she invites listeners to rethink what it means ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Dr. Krista Kostroman, Dr. Tracey Steady-Hardcastle, Dr. Lara Varden, Justin Harris

Guest: Doreen Wendt-Weir

Topics covered

• aging
• longevity
• intimacy
• creativity
• identity
• vitality

Keywords

• aging
• longevity
• intimacy
• creativity
• identity
• vitality
• Doreen Wendt-Weir

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Sex in Your Seventies, Gardening in Your Nineties

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