{"podcast":{"title":"Home of Healthspan","slug":"home-of-healthspan-7069559","podcast_index_feed_id":7069559,"rss_url":"https://feeds.zencastr.com/f/4DQ53tnR.rss","website_url":"https://alively.com/","image_url":"https://media.zencastr.com/image-files/65c0df5c2662b52ae2ab1737/92527a6c-2cfc-445d-957e-2b2555da52d7.jpg","author":"a@alively.com","episode_count":109,"summary":"We profile health and wellness role models, sharing the tools, practices, and routines they use to help you live healthier, longer. Since 1950, the average lifespan has extended by 11 years, but our healthspan hasn’t kept up. We've been pursuing living longer without considering how to make those extra years vibrant and fulfilling. After all, 30 plus years of old age is a long time to spend slowly falling apart. And that's where Home of Healthspan comes in. Host Andrew McConnell interviews healthspan role models to help guide listeners through the 5 Pillars of Healthspan: * Fitness * Nutrition, * Sleep and recovery, * Stress management and Mindset, * And Social connection & purpose. All so you can not only extend your years, but make them vibrantly healthy from start to finish. This is your guide to extending your healthspan, Making sure you live Alively day today, every day, for all of your days.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T00:17:40.971505+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/home-of-healthspan-7069559"},"episode":{"title":"Can Aging Really Be Reversed? with Dr. Michael Fossel - E98","slug":"can-aging-really-be-reversed-with-dr-michael-fossel-e98","published_at":"2026-05-11T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/home-of-healthspan-7069559/can-aging-really-be-reversed-with-dr-michael-fossel-e98","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/home-of-healthspan-7069559","url":"https://zencastr.com/z/S6Y6YekX","audio_url":"https://redirect.zencastr.com/r/episode/69fc70cc3f08e64da29b9554/size/49934154/audio-files/65c0df5c2662b52ae2ab1737/97e95594-65e7-4726-aa2e-81c68f8371b5.mp3","summary":"Most of us think aging is inevitable - a slow, steady decline we can only hope to delay. Stuck with this mindset, people scramble for small wins: another supplement, a new diet, anything to slow the clock. But this habit of only \"managing\" aging shuts us off from a bigger question: Could aging itself actually be reversed? The gap between current research and true breakthroughs leaves even the most motivated feeling powerless, especially with chronic diseases like Alzheimer's still taking so much from families and lives. In this episode, we rethink aging as something more dynamic and more in our control than we realize. You'll hear from someone challenging decades of conventional wisdom, and get a glimpse into the science and persistence fueling a completely different future for healthspan. Dr. Michael Fossel serves as chairman of the board of Telocyte, a biotech company developing telomerase therapy for Alzheimer's disease, with FDA-sponsored human trials planned to target the underlying disease process. His invited lecture at Harvard Business School discussed Telocyte, age-related disease, and biotechnology. A recognized expert in aging and telomere biology, Dr. Fossel has authored over 100 scientific articles, book chapters, and books, and has lectured internationally, including at the National Institutes of Health. \"Anybody who thinks you can reverse aging is naive. Anyone who thinks you can't reverse aging is just as naive.\" - Dr. Michael Fossel In this episode you will learn: * Why most aging research only looks to slow, not reverse, the aging process, and what new science shows. * How advances in telomere research could shift the way we treat age-related diseases like Alzheimer's. * The main ways these new treatments might reach people and what steps are next for…","meta_description":"Most of us think aging is inevitable - a slow, steady decline we can only hope to delay. Stuck with this mindset, people scramble for small wins: another…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2080,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/home-of-healthspan-7069559/episodes/can-aging-really-be-reversed-with-dr-michael-fossel-e98/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/home-of-healthspan-7069559/can-aging-really-be-reversed-with-dr-michael-fossel-e98.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}