Ep. 1070: Becca Levy Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Becca Levy, a Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health and Professor of Psychology at Yale University. She has received awards from the American Psychological Association, the Gerontological Society of America, and the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics. Dr. Levy has given invited testimony before the US Senate on the adverse effects of ageism and has contributed to US Supreme Court briefs to fight age discrimination.

The topic is her book Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Beliefs in aging and health
Why creativity is much lower in older people who have higher levels of mental illness?
Research about cultural age beliefs
Research that compares and contrasts the use of antidepressants
The advantage of people of different ages getting together
Physiological factors about age beliefs
How does Japanese culture view aging?
How important are genetics in aging?

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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0:00.0	This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.4	My guest today is Becca Levy.
0:36.4	She is the leading authority on how beliefs about aging, influence aging and health. This is a topic that I love. Any type of topic that gets at the mind and how our mind can control so much.
0:56.0	We want all these excuses.
0:57.9	We want to blame everyone else.
1:00.4	But inside of our mind is a lot of magic.
1:05.4	Becca is a professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health and a professor of psychology at Yale.
1:13.0	She's got the chops.
1:14.8	She's done the homework.
1:16.4	She's done the research.
1:18.3	She's got great insights.
1:20.6	Again, this is just one of these inspirational type conversations.
1:25.0	When you wake up, including me, you means me too, when you wake up, there are so
1:33.4	many opportunities to just get better. And in this case, I mean physically better by thinking
1:41.6	it true. Without any further delay, let's jump right into my conversation with Becca Levy.
1:58.2	This is a topic that my perspective on it, and the reason I wanted to do this interview is I saw the topic and I was like, I get this lady, I get where she's going.
2:08.2	I already believe it 100%. And I was thinking to myself, why do I believe it? And I guess it's part instinct and part experience. But I do believe it.
2:18.7	I believe that so much of this aging process is in the mind.
2:23.6	You might end up asking me questions.
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