1170: Can Animal Super-Agers Teach Us Their Secrets?
Some animals have a very different relationship to aging than we do: They don’t get cancer, they never go through menopause, and they live absurdly long lives. For instance, one bat species can live for more than 40 years, which may not sound like very long but that’s about nine times longer than expected based on its size. For comparison, if we aged on that scale, we’d live for hundreds of years. These bats aren’t the only animal super-agers—there’s a whole menagerie of them.So what’s their secret? And can we learn anything from them that might help us live longer, healthier lives? Host…
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