261 Protect Your Brain, Eyes, Heart, Skin and Body: Oxidative Stress, Antioxidants and a Unique Biomarker with Dr. Gillian Lockitch
Growing Older Living Younger: About longevity, wellness, healthspan,
Release Date: 03/30/2026
073 Jayne Buxton. Is Plant-Based Nutrition Really Good for Your Health and Our Planet?
Growing Older Living Younger: About longevity, wellness, healthspan,
One of the most important personal choices you can make about your health and about aging well, centres on nutrition. The reality is that we are what we eat. Food and the social aspects of eating together is an important aspect of daily life. And society’s hunger for knowledge about food and health is reflected in the tsunami of contradictory information that floods our newspapers, magazines, computers and televisions every day. It’s hard for even a dedicated researcher like me to make sense of it. Sadly, as for many important issues of the day, discussion about nutrition and health has...
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261 Protect Your Brain, Eyes, Heart, Skin and Body: Oxidative Stress, Antioxidants and a Unique Biomarker with Dr. Gillian Lockitch
Growing Older Living Younger: About longevity, wellness, healthspan,
What if everything you’re doing to stay healthy—your diet, your supplements, your exercise routine—is only part of the story? What if the real question is whether your body is actually absorbing, using, and benefiting at the cellular level? In this powerful solo episode, Dr. Gillian Lockitch invites you to rethink how you measure wellness and healthy aging by introducing a biomarker that is both completely personal and scientifically valid: your antioxidant protection score.Drawing from her background as a physician and specialist medical biochemist, as well as a life-changing...
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107 Lori Aloisio: Holistic Harmony: Secrets of Lasting Weightloss
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In this Flashback Friday EPISODE OF GROWING OLDER LIVING YOUNGER, we focus on helping women to achieve sustainable weight loss through uncovering the underlying beliefs leading to excess weight gain. Today’s Featured Guest is Lori Aloisio, holistic health coach and registered nurse. Lori's passion for helping and healing initially led her to become a registered nurse but she always viewed health and well being from a holistic perspective. Knowing that she needed to look at a larger picture to understand the many factors that contribute to illness and disease, Lori went on to study...
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260 From Self Doubt to Self Trust: Reframing Midlife through Biology, Beauty and Brain Science with Natalya Borakowski
Growing Older Living Younger: About longevity, wellness, healthspan,
In this conversation with Dr. Gillian Lockitch, Dr. Natalya Borakowski explains the neurological remodeling and hormonal shifts that occur during perimenopause and menopause — and why these changes can trigger identity disruption and appearance anxiety. You’ll learn how understanding the biology behind midlife can restore self-trust, reduce fear, and support aging youthfully. Midlife often arrives with an unexpected sense of instability. Women describe feeling anxious, self-critical, emotionally reactive, or disconnected from their reflection — even when medical tests show nothing...
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105 Dr. Vera Tarman: Food Addiction- A Silent Killer.
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THIS Flashback Friday EPISODE OF GROWING OLDER LIVING YOUNGER focuses on food addiction, in particular addiction to sugar and refined carbohydrates.Today’s Featured Expert is Dr. Vera Tarman, author of Food Junkies: Recovery from Food Addiction, cohost of the popular Food Junkies Podcast and founder of the Facebook group called “I’m Sweet Enough: Sugar-Free for Life.”We discuss the reality and the pathophysiology of sugar addiction, how to know whether you have an addiction and the impact that corporate sponsorship of research and disease-focused organizations have on the...
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259 Food, Metabolism, Weight Gain: Why Calorie Counts, Willpower and Diets Keep Failing Us as We Age
Growing Older Living Younger: About longevity, wellness, healthspan,
Why does weight loss feel harder with age—even when we “do everything right”? In this episode, award-winning health journalist Julia Belluz challenges the calorie-centric narrative of weight control and explains how metabolism, hormones, food environments, and ultra-processed foods shape how—and why—we eat. This conversation reframes weight, aging, and health through evidence rather than diet dogma.For decades, we’ve been told that weight control is simply a matter of discipline: eat less, move more, and the scale will comply. Yet for many people—especially as they age—this...
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093 Bob Schafer: Train Your Brain while Playing Games
Growing Older Living Younger: About longevity, wellness, healthspan,
Flashback Friday re-post of most popular episodes THIS EPISODE OF GROWING OLDER LIVING YOUNGER focuses on improving your cognitive functioning through playing computer brain training games.Today’s Featured Expert discussing the neuroscience of cognitive training and the Lumosity brain training program, is Bob Schafer, President of Lumos Labs Medical, and Chief Science Officer at Lumos Labs (Lumosity)We discuss the neuroscience of cognition and Lumos Labs Human Cognition Project, how the Lumosity platform is built around training cognitive skills through engaging digital games, what you, the...
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258 Backpain, Aging and Mobility: Prevention, Treatment or Surgery with Dr. Gbolahan Okubadejo
Growing Older Living Younger: About longevity, wellness, healthspan,
Back pain is one of the most common causes of reduced mobility and loss of independence as we age. In this episode, spine surgeon Dr. Gbolahan Okubadejo explains the causes of back and neck pain, when conservative treatment is appropriate, and when spine surgery may become the best option for restoring mobility and quality of life. Chronic back and neck often trigger fear. Many people assume pain is inevitable, that surgery always leads to long downtime, or that recovery means permanent limitation. In this episode, we explore modern advances in spine care, recovery, and how the right...
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147 John Nolan PhD. Nutrients for Your Eyes and Brain: The Magic of Marigolds
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EPISODE 147 OF GROWING OLDER LIVING YOUNGER focuses on protecting eye, brain and overall health with the antioxidant carotenoid pigments, especially lutein, zeaxanthin and meso-zeaxanthin, as determined in the Central Retinal Enrichment Supplementation Clinical Trials (CREST). Download my free that explains the wellness benefits and food sources of these protective nutrients. To tell us how key nutrients can protect our eyes from macular degeneration, and help preserve memory and mental acuity, I talk with today’s Featured Expert, Professor John Nolan. He is a Fulbright Scholar, and a...
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257 Integrating Western Biometrics and Traditional Chinese Medicine to Rethink Preventive Aging Care with Ryan Yuen
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Modern medicine excels at treating disease, less so at prevention. In this episode, we explore how wearable technology powered by artificial intelligence is bringing together Western physiology biometrics and Traditional Chinese Medicine to support true preventive health. Ryan Yuen shares how continuous monitoring of subtle body signals can help identify imbalance long before symptoms appear—and what this means for healthy longevity. Aging well is not about acccepting decline—it’s about identifying early warning signs and supporting body balance before disease is established....
info_outlineWhat if everything you’re doing to stay healthy—your diet, your supplements, your exercise routine—is only part of the story? What if the real question is whether your body is actually absorbing, using, and benefiting at the cellular level? In this powerful solo episode, Dr. Gillian Lockitch invites you to rethink how you measure wellness and healthy aging by introducing a biomarker that is both completely personal and scientifically valid: your antioxidant protection score.
Drawing from her background as a physician and specialist medical biochemist, as well as a life-changing personal health scare, Dr. Lockitch explains the invisible but relentless process of oxidative stress—the cellular damage caused by free radicals that accumulates over time and contributes to aging and chronic disease. Through a vivid and emotional story of her sudden diagnosis of myopic macular degeneration, she brings home the reality that aging is not just about time passing, but about what is happening inside your body every single day.
This episode goes beyond theory to illuminate the science of antioxidants as your body’s essential defense system. You will learn how endogenous antioxidants produced within your cells work in partnership with dietary antioxidants like carotenoids, and why this balance is critical for protecting your brain, eyes, heart, skin, and overall vitality. Dr. Lockitch also explains why nutrient intake alone is not enough—what truly matters is bioavailability, absorption, and delivery to target tissues.
Most importantly, this conversation introduces a breakthrough in personalized health: the ability to measure your antioxidant status quickly, non-invasively, and in real time. By tracking carotenoid levels in your skin, with the new Prysm io, you gain a window into your body’s internal resilience against oxidative stress. This transforms your approach from guessing and hoping to knowing and acting.
If you’ve ever wondered whether your healthy lifestyle is truly making a difference, this episode will shift your perspective. It is both a call to awareness and a message of empowerment: when you understand what is happening inside your body, you gain the ability to change it—and to take control of how you age, from the inside out.
Episode Timeline:
00:00 – Welcome and introduction
Dr. Gillian introduces the episode and poses the powerful question: do you know your antioxidant score?
01:10 – Why antioxidant protection matters
Explores the gap between healthy habits and measurable protection against oxidative stress.
03:30 – A personal turning point
Dr. Gillian shares her diagnosis of myopic macular degeneration and the urgent treatment that followed.
06:10 – Lessons from the AREDS study
How targeted nutrients support eye health and why prevention is more powerful than treatment.
08:20 – Measuring what matters
Introduction to antioxidant scanning and the surprising results from early testing.
10:30 – Understanding oxidative stress
Clear explanation of free radicals, cellular damage, and environmental contributors.
13:00 – Internal vs dietary antioxidants
How your body’s own defense systems work alongside nutrients from food and supplements.
15:10 – The role of carotenoids in healthy aging
How these plant compounds support the eyes, brain, heart, and skin.
17:00 – Introducing the Prysm iO device
How this non-invasive technology measures antioxidant levels in seconds.
18:30 – From guessing to knowing
Why tracking your antioxidant score empowers better aging decisions.
19:30 – Final thoughts and invitation
Call to action to measure, monitor, and take control of your biological aging.
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