Keynote: Have you wondered why some sixty-year-olds look and feel like forty-year-olds and why some forty-year-olds look and feel like sixty-year-olds?
Dr Elizabeth Blackburn, a Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist, discovered a biological indicator called telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes telomeres. Together with Dr Dean Ornish, a lifestyle medicine pioneer, they will discuss the role of telomerase and telomeres in the aging process, what happens when they malfunction and will highlight the beneficial impact of lifestyle factors such as diet, exercise, sleep and meditation have on slowing the aging process and improving life.