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Longevity has become a status symbol, marketing term, and in some spaces, a kind of show. Jill Brand joins The AGEIST Podcast to talk about what gets lost when better living becomes another performance, and why movement remains one of the interventions that actually changes daily life.
As Head of Branding, Content, and Creative at Pvolve, Brand challenges us to think on muscle, mobility and stability, GLP-1s, injury prevention, and the psychology of trusting your body. The episode gives listeners a clearer way to think about fitness after 40. Rather than as punishment or spectacle, Jill urges us to consider it to be the work that keeps people independent, capable, and connected to the lives they still want to have.

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Key Moments
“Movement is life. Move your body.”
“Muscle is kind of like the secret to long life, to better living.”
“Whatever gets you moving is the right workout for you right now.”

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Episode 293 asks: what happens when beauty culture moves from correction toward regeneration, and why should we be more demanding about the evidence behind products that promise younger-looking skin?  Alisa Lask, CEO of Rion Aesthetics and ( plated )™ Skin Science, explains exosomes as the body’s cellular messaging system, with platelet-derived signals that may support renewal, barrier function, and post-procedure recovery.
The conversation separates credible regenerative aesthetics from marketing noise, with practical guidance on PRP, lasers, sunscreen, skinspan, and what to ask before trusting any new skincare claim. Lask also discusses hair health, menopause-related thinning, and the larger possibility that exosomes may reshape how medicine thinks about repair.
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Key Moments
“We're moving from hurt, so it heals to tell [your skin] to renew.”
“You want proof, not promise.”
“Consistency is the most important thing.”
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Is it possible that "midlife reinvention" is another way of telling people over 50 that they are failing? In this episode, AGEIST culture writer Sheri Radel Rosenberg joins David Stewart for a clear-eyed conversation about the pressure to find a new identity and turn aging into a public performance. Together they examine the difference between evolution and escape, from Instagram’s endless offers of transformation to menopause marketing, gray hair, empty nests, aging style, and the agency that accompanies self-knowledge. Rosenberg makes the case for looking back at the person you were before the world started editing you, then expanding upon the skills, taste, humor, and hard-earned clarity already in place.
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Timeline Nutrition: Our favorite supplement for cell support and mitochondrial function. Listeners can now get 20% off their first Timeline purchase by using the code “AGEIST” at checkout at TimelineNutrition.com/ageist.
LMNT Electrolytes: Try the all-new Lemonade Iced Tea! Our #1 electrolyte mix for optimal hydration. Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase by using our link here. Find your favorite LMNT flavor, or share with a friend.

Key Moments
“I think it's a story that we're being sold as some sort of liberation from the life you currently have.”
“Reinvention can feel performative because it's photogenic... It's something that you can make a reel with and say, 'Look at my reinvention journey'.”
“I really think you know who you are and you don't have to go and and start everything all over.”

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In this re-aired favorite conversation, Dr. William Li makes the case for a more reasonable way to think about health, one that gives people agency without trapping them in food fear, rigid rules, or social media panic. He reframes some of the biggest anxieties around aging, including cancer, inflammation, glucose, vascular health, and protein, with a physician-scientist’s insistence on context. The practical takeaways are clear: support blood vessel health, feed the microbiome, choose protein intelligently after 50, and understand how added sugar and natural sugars do very different things in the body. This is a conversation about using food as medicine in daily life, without turning health into another source of stress.

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True Nutrition: Stop settling for what's on the shelf and build the protein blend that fits your lifestyle at truenutrition.com/AGEIST and use code AGEIST for 20% off your first custom blend.
Timeline Nutrition: Our favorite supplement for cell support and mitochondrial function. Listeners can now get 20% off their first Timeline purchase by using the code “AGEIST” at checkout at TimelineNutrition.com/ageist.
LMNT Electrolytes: Try the all-new Lemonade Iced Tea! Our #1 electrolyte mix for optimal hydration. Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase by using our link here. Find your favorite LMNT flavor, or share with a friend.

Key Moments
“One of the biggest myths about inflammation is that it is categorically bad. And that's just not true.”
“But we all have cancer in our body, even children. Everybody has cancer.”
“Health care isn't what actually happens in the medical clinic. Medical clinics are used for disease care. Sick care. Health care is what actually happens at home.”

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What happens when aging and sexuality change not only how we look, but how much of the world looks at us? In this episode, writer Stephanie Fairyington joins David Stewart for a sharp conversation about beauty, the idea of “ugliness”, gender, queer identity, and the strange relief that can come when midlife loosens the grip of outside judgment.
Fairyington, author of Ugly: A Letter to My Daughter, argues that ugliness is not a personal failure but a cultural construction, one tied to femininity, visibility, motherhood, and power. The conversation moves from aging and female desirability to icons like Tammy Faye and Barbra Streisand as well as department-store mirrors and the work of deciding which cultural scripts are worth resisting.
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Special Thanks to Our Sponsors
True Nutrition: Stop settling for what's on the shelf and build the protein blend that fits your lifestyle at truenutrition.com/AGEIST and use code AGEIST for 20% off your first custom blend.
Timeline Nutrition: Our favorite supplement for cell support and mitochondrial function. Listeners can now get 20% off their first Timeline purchase by using the code “AGEIST” at checkout at TimelineNutrition.com/ageist.
LMNT Electrolytes: Try the all-new Lemonade Iced Tea! Our #1 electrolyte mix for optimal hydration. Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase by using our link here. Find your favorite LMNT flavor, or share with a friend.

Key Moments
“I experienced the wider culture's disinterest in me as a kind of gift. Like it's a shield or protection from unwanted detention so I can kind of move through the world peacefully without feeling like I'm being assessed and measured against whatever standard because I'm not young anymore.”
“I don't think that female desirability has an expiration date.”
“There's no real liberation from it. Like you can kind of become aware of the strings puppeteering your behavior, right? But you can't clip the strings, right?”

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