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For a generation raised to admire endurance, Dr. Nicole Moyen makes the case for sleep as a daily form of biological respect. In this conversation, she and David look at why body clocks become more important with age, why sleep regularity may matter more than people think, and why the 3 a.m. wakeup has become such a familiar midlife complaint. Nicole explains the science behind core temperature, deep sleep, REM, light sleep, glucose regulation, hot flashes, sleep apnea, and cardiovascular recovery, including Eight Sleep’s research on temperature regulation for peri- and postmenopausal women. The episode gives listeners a practical framework for thinking about the bedroom as an environment that can either support recovery or work against it.

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Key Moments
“So I would say this is like the forgotten biological lever or key to good quality sleep.”
“And we saw that just sleeping on the pod with active temperature regulation throughout the night reduced hot flashes by 56 % on average.”
“Well, your body is essentially paralyzed. Your muscles are paralyzed during REM sleep. And your temperature regulation is also impaired during REM sleep.”

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Angélica Fuentes, business executive, founder, and women’s equality advocate, belongs to a generation of women refusing the old script that ambition narrows with age, power comes from status, and reinvention has a deadline. She talks about building companies in male-dominated industries, becoming a CEO at 29, advocating for women long before corporate equality became fashionable, and starting NOWFUL in her 60s. Listen to gain a sharper way to think about rest, resilience, self-worth, and the daily practices that make a person harder to break. Fuentes’ story is not about returning to who she was before loss, but about using age, motherhood, and hard-earned wisdom to build from a deeper place.
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Key Moments
"Men and women need to either cooperate or the needle is not going to move very far."
"...teach people that rest is power and that coming back to yourself is knowledge and those two put together will allow you to achieve anything you want, because it's allowed me to do it."
"Your worth is determined only by you alone."
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This week on The AGEIST Podcast, Dr. Suzanne Gilberg explains why menopause care needs more science, more honesty, and more respect for women’s ability to make informed choices. Listeners will learn how to think about HRT, breast cancer risk, testosterone, brain health, bone health, and the limits of one-size-fits-all medical advice. She also explains why community matters, why menopause education has been neglected, and why women should keep asking harder questions of their doctors and the medical system. This episode gives listeners a clearer way to advocate for themselves, assess the flood of menopause information, and build a practical path through midlife health.
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Key Moments
“Science is not a religion. It is not a monolith, it is not unchanging and unmoving. That is not what science is. Science is a process of inquiry. Period. End of sentence.”
“There’s actually quite a bit of data on the potential health benefits of estrogen specifically in all of us and in breast cancer survivors.”
“This is not a disease; this is a state of being alive. So you have options in terms of how you want to live and age well, whatever that means to you.”

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This week on The AGEIST Podcast, Dr. Florence Comite,  clinician-scientist, and author of Invincible: Defy Your Genetic Destiny to Live Better, Longer, explains why “normal” lab results can miss the early signals that shape long-term health. Learn how sugar, insulin, A1C, cholesterol patterns, HDL, and free testosterone can reveal metabolic changes before a conventional diagnosis appears. She makes the case for tools like CGMs, deeper family history, better sleep, strength training, and hormone awareness as practical ways to understand what is happening beneath the surface. The episode gives the audience a clear framework for asking better questions, acting earlier, and taking more precise ownership of the next decades of their health.
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Key Moments
“I want everyone to own their future health destiny.”
“The first phrase that's completely wrong is you're in the normal range and everybody relaxes.”
“Aging is not a disease, it's a gift.”

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This week on The AGEIST Podcast, David Stewart sits down with Heather Hurlock, founding editor of The Mindset by Super Age, to explain the thinking behind the Super Age Games and the science that shaped them. The conversation breaks down why healthspan, not simply lifespan, is the real target, and how eight trainable markers can help people understand where they are now and what to work on next. Listeners will learn why VO2 max, grip strength, balance, agility, working memory, relational capacity, functional strength, and endurance under load matter for long-term vitality. The episode also makes the case that longevity is not an abstract future goal, but a set of daily practices, tests, and community-based commitments that can be trained now.
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Key Moments
“We don't do any “n of one” studies at super age. We're looking at large data sets that are pointing to actions you can take right now that affect your health span and your lifespan.”
“We were looking for markers that were testable quickly, like in under five minutes at home that don’t require a whole lot of special equipment, but are backed by deep peer-reviewed mortality and health data and then trainable in weeks, not decades.”
“It helps people find the tools and the motivation to build a better life for themselves. That's what we're doing here.”
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