The aging process is modifiable by oneself. This is one of the ideas that Brian Kennedy, a prominent biologist and one of the pioneers of healthy aging in the United States, repeats and promotes the most.
Currently, the specialist is a member of the international advisory committee GERO and also the director of the Healthy Longevity Center at the National University of Singapore, a nation that was recently added to the list of regions where people live longer.
“Something very important is that people know they can be proactive about their health, that they are not just spectators of how they age,” says Kennedy, who has published more than 80 research papers in prestigious scientific journals such as Cell, Nature, and Science.
Recently, the specialist visited Chile to speak at the Symposium “Current topics in aging” organized by the Center for Integrative Biology and its GERO project, from the University Mayor and the University of Chile.
While modern science is studying ways to slow down the aging process by studying molecules that aim to interfere with processes that lead humans to become ill and contract diseases such as Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s, “it is proven that by changing our lifestyle, we can slow down aging,” Kennedy assures in an interview with El Mercurio.
