{"podcast":{"title":"Growing Older Living Younger: About longevity, wellness, healthspan,","slug":"growing-older-living-younger-about-longevity-wellness-healthspan-3700595","podcast_index_feed_id":3700595,"rss_url":"https://golyproject.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://askdrgill.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/6/1/b/9/61b93f6e0dbd17a116c3140a3186d450/2026_GOLY.png","author":"Dr. Gillian Lockitch","episode_count":276,"summary":"Welcome to Growing Older, Living Younger, the podcast where you will discover ways to boost your metabolism, enhance your mental and physical energy, and ward off disorders we wrongly think are inevitable as we age. Hosted by Dr. Gillian Lockitch, former specialist in Medical Biochemistry, professor, researcher and international speaker, the show airs weekly every Monday. Each episode is a 30 - 45 minutes, exploring ways in which genetic and epigenetic (gene expression) science and medicine may intersect with ancient, non-western wellness practices to help you extend your health span to live younger. The show features practitioners in mental and physical health, fitness, nutrition, personal care, community, networking and entrepreneurship, to help you create your personal roadmap to aging youthfully.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-18T08:22:07.229347+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growing-older-living-younger-about-longevity-wellness-healthspan-3700595"},"episode":{"title":"029 FB Dr. Joe Verghese: Dance to Delay Dementia","slug":"029-fb-dr-joe-verghese-dance-to-delay-dementia","published_at":"2026-06-19T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growing-older-living-younger-about-longevity-wellness-healthspan-3700595/029-fb-dr-joe-verghese-dance-to-delay-dementia","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growing-older-living-younger-about-longevity-wellness-healthspan-3700595","url":"https://golyproject.libsyn.com/fb-029-dr-joe-verghese-dance-to-delay-dementia","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/golyproject/verghese.mp3?dest-id=2765309","summary":"FLASHBACK FRIDAY FB 29 Dec 2021 Agnes de Mille, American dancer and choreographer expresses the power of dance: \" To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.\" Does dance also have the power to ward off dementia? Today's guest is Dr. Joe Verghese, Professor of Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. His research centers around the effects of aging and disease on gait and cognition in older adults, and whether cognitively stimulating activities such as dance, can reduce the risk of losing mobility, falling, developing dementia and general poor health. In an early study of the association of Leisure Activities and the Risk of Dementia in the Elderly, 3 of 6 cognitive activities included (reading, playing board games and playing musical instruments) were associated with a lower risk for dementia, but of the 9 listed physical activities, only dancing was associated with a lowered risk. We touch on current studies of physicality and cognitive training for those at risk for Alzheimer's. One recent pilot study into the impact of regular social dancing as an intervention in older adults at high risk for Alzheimer's disease had to be cut short during the pandemic with only half the expected participants completing the study. Another recent study is investigating whether computerized cognitive training could enhance mobility in older adults. There remains some controversy about cognitive training. It is clear that there is a 'near transfer ' effect, improvement on testing because you're training on that same process on which you're testing them. And consistently, almost every study shows that there is a near transfer effect. The challenge is whether that tra…","meta_description":"FLASHBACK FRIDAY FB 29 Dec 2021 Agnes de Mille, American dancer and choreographer expresses the power of dance: \" To dance is to be out of yourself. Large…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1727,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/growing-older-living-younger-about-longevity-wellness-healthspan-3700595/episodes/029-fb-dr-joe-verghese-dance-to-delay-dementia/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growing-older-living-younger-about-longevity-wellness-healthspan-3700595/029-fb-dr-joe-verghese-dance-to-delay-dementia.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}