In his New York Times best seller, Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity, Scripps Research Executive Vice President Eric Topol, The Gary and Mary West Chair of Innovative Medicine, outlines how recent medical breakthroughs are revolutionizing the prevention of the three biggest chronic killers—cancer, heart disease and neurodegenerative disease—and enabling us to live longer, healthier lives.

Armchair Expert Podcast with Dax Shepard

Eric Topol returns to the Armchair Expert to discuss his latest book on the future of medicine—Super Agers. Topol and hosts Dax Shepard and Monica Padman review how AI aids doctors in providing better care, how hospital beds can monitor people as they sleep, what genomics has taught us about healthy aging and the true anecdote that inspired him to write his new book. Topol describes the medical advances that allow us to effectively prevent diseases, how Viagra was initially a failed blood pressure medication and why despite troubling trends in diseases he remains optimistic about the future of aging.