""I used to train lions for a living," Austad told Business Insider. "It was not something that you would do if you were thinking about living a long time.""
""I'm not one of those people who spends an hour a day in a hyperbaric chamber or gets infusions of some weird protein-vitamin cocktail," he said. "But in fact, I'm quite healthy, despite the years I spent in the field, and I had malaria.""
""If you spend all your time thinking about how long you're going to live, you kind of forget to live," he said."
Dr. Steven Austad is the scientific director of the American Federation for Aging Research and a former field biologist who trained lions and worked in Venezuela, East Africa, and Papua New Guinea. He pursued aging research to understand why healthy cells age rather than to chase immortality. He warns against popular anti-aging trends that lack robust evidence and avoids supplements and exotic therapies. He maintains health through heavy, exhaustive exercise and time-restricted eating, allows occasional wine, and remained healthy despite contracting malaria during fieldwork. He emphasizes practical, science-backed habits over obsession with lifespan.
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