--- title: Healthy Aging description: Healthy aging focuses on maintaining physical, mental, and social well-being as we grow older. Learners will understand the biological processes of aging and identify lifestyle choices, preventive care, and habits that promote longevity. category: health-medicine subcategory: everyday-health-and-wellness difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/healthy-aging --- # Healthy Aging Healthy aging focuses on maintaining physical, mental, and social well-being as we grow older. Learners will understand the biological processes of aging and identify lifestyle choices, preventive care, and habits that promote longevity. ## Available Resources 3 Books • 1 Courses • 4 Websites ## Websites ### 1. Peter Attia MD Physician Peter Attia's site hosting The Drive podcast and articles on longevity medicine: cardiovascular and metabolic disease risk, cancer screening, exercise, sleep and nutrition. Readers can follow how biomarkers and trial evidence inform prevention decisions, though much in-depth content sits behind a paid membership. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://peterattiamd.com/ **Tags:** longevity, preventive-medicine, cardiometabolic-health, exercise-physiology, podcast ### 2. National Institute on Aging The U.S. National Institute on Aging's free consumer health pages on aging well. Evidence-based guidance on exercise, nutrition, sleep, cognitive health, social connection and preventive care, so older adults and caregivers can make informed decisions about staying healthy and independent. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/healthy-aging **Tags:** healthy-aging, longevity, preventive-health, exercise, cognitive-health, public-health ### 3. National Council on Aging (NCOA) US nonprofit's guidance for older adults and caregivers on falls prevention, chronic disease self-management, Medicare and benefits eligibility, financial security and elder abuse. Helps readers find evidence-based healthy-aging programs and the public benefits available to people over sixty. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://ncoa.org **Tags:** healthy-aging, older-adults, falls-prevention, caregiving, medicare ### 4. bluezones.com Blue Zones is a longevity-focused site that distills lessons from the world's longest-lived communities and offers science-backed guidance on aging well, including diet, exercise, social connections, and practical lifestyle tips. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://bluezones.com **Tags:** websites, health-medicine, health-and-wellness ## Podcasts ### 1. Live Long and Master Aging **Author:** HealthSpan Media The Live Long podcast is devoted to health optimization and mastering the aging process. Peter Bowes discusses lifestyles and science-based interventions that promote a long healthspan - i.e. the number of years that we enjoy the best of health, delaying chronic diseases for as long as possible.  We are pro-aging, not anti. Growing older is a privilege and we approach it with ambitious but realistic expectations. Enjoy every minute.  **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-us | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.llamapodcast.com **Tags:** longevity, healthspan, aging-science, health-optimization, podcast-interviews ## Books ### 1. Lifespan **Author:** David A. Sinclair & Matthew D. LaPlante Harvard geneticist's account of the information theory of aging, covering sirtuins, NAD+ boosters, metformin, fasting, and cellular reprogramming research. Readers will understand the biology behind current longevity science, though several of its supplement claims remain contested by other researchers. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0008380325?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, health-medicine, health-and-wellness ### 2. The Blue Zones **Author:** Dan Buettner Journalistic account of communities with unusually many centenarians, including Sardinia, Okinawa, Loma Linda and Nicoya. Buettner reports on their diet, daily movement, sense of purpose and social ties, and distills them into nine lessons readers can apply to living longer. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1426207557?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** longevity, blue-zones, healthy-aging, lifestyle, centenarians ### 3. Successful Aging **Author:** Daniel J. Levitin Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin reviews research on the aging brain and body, covering memory, personality, sleep, diet, exercise, and social connection. Readers will understand which age-related declines are myths, and which evidence-based habits help extend health span into their eighties and nineties. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1524744182?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, health-medicine, health-and-wellness ## Courses ### 1. The Science of Well-Being **Author:** Laurie Santos Yale course taught by Laurie Santos on the psychology of happiness, covering common misconceptions about what makes people happy, cognitive biases behind them, and evidence-based practices such as gratitude, savoring and exercise. Learners complete weekly rewirement exercises and build one sustained wellness habit. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being **Tags:** positive-psychology, happiness, well-being, habit-formation, behavior-change --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/healthy-aging