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162. The Aging Myth Busted | Expect More. Period.

162. The Aging Myth Busted | Expect More. Period.10. Sept.12 Min.

Last episode I promised you we'd start meeting the people behind this research on aging and belief. Today I'm keeping that promise. Her name is Dr. Becca Levy — she's spent more than three decades at Yale studying something she calls “age beliefs,” and her findings are some of the most talked-about in the entire field of aging research. Today we dig into her work: what she's found, how she found it, and why a brand-new 2026 study she co-authored is making researchers rethink what “growing old...