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Hello.
Hey, festival.
You're here to hear a recording of Inside Health.
And what we're going to do today is explore the biology of aging, how much of it we can control, and is there anything we can do to live like Peter Pan and be eternally young?
I've got very high expectations from this program.
I have some incredible experts.
Do you want to introduce yourselves?
I'm Norman Lazarus.
I'm a professor at King's College London.
I research healthy aging and I've been doing that for the past about 20 years.
I'm Georgina Ellison Hughes and I'm a professor of regenerative muscle physiology from King's College London.
I'm Sarah Harper and I'm the professor of gerontology at the University of Oxford.
And everyone here in the audience who feels young, give me a yay.
Yay.
That's great.
Who doesn't feel young, give me a nay.
There's a lot to learn for everybody today.
The first thing I want to figure out is, Georgina, why is it and is it true that you see some people, you go, they've got the same birthday, but one of them looks 10 years younger?
I mean, is that a genuine biological effect going on?