Anti-Aging Interventions: What do we know and how do we know it?

Dr Carolina Livi will address aging at the Community Center, 59 Winburn Way, Ashland, 4-6 PM on September 9th. We are bombarded with advertisements for special diets and supplements to improve our health with promises of extending our lives. Humans have been in search of the fountain of youth for centuries. In our modern society the search is for a youth pill. With so many health claims in the media, how does one separate the hype from fact? This presentation will cover some of the history of aging research, the Intervention Testing Program of the National Institutes of Health and two scientifically studied interventions: calorie restriction and the drug rapamycin. What do we know about the effects of fasting and a drug that mimics some of its effects? And how do we know it?

Dr. Livi received a doctorate in Molecular Developmental Biology from the California Institute of Technology. She was a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Her research focused on molecular mechanisms of rapamycin treatment in murine cancer models. Dr. Livi currently works at Agilent Technologies, a biotech company and has recently joined SOU as Affiliate Professor of Biology