149 episodes

Welcome to Growing Older, Living Younger, the podcast where you will discover ways to boost your metabolism, enhance your mental and physical energy, and ward off disorders we wrongly think are inevitable as we age.  Hosted by Dr. Gillian Lockitch, former specialist in Medical Biochemistry, professor, researcher and international speaker, the show airs weekly every Monday. Each episode is a 30 - 45 minutes, exploring ways in which genetic and epigenetic (gene expression) science and medicine may intersect with ancient, non-western wellness practices to help you extend your health span to live younger. The show features practitioners in mental and physical health, fitness, nutrition, personal care, community, networking and entrepreneurship, to help you create your personal roadmap to aging youthfully.

Growing Older Living Younger: About longevity, wellness, healthspan‪,‬ Dr. Gillian Lockitch

    • Health & Fitness
    • 4.8 • 16 Ratings

Welcome to Growing Older, Living Younger, the podcast where you will discover ways to boost your metabolism, enhance your mental and physical energy, and ward off disorders we wrongly think are inevitable as we age.  Hosted by Dr. Gillian Lockitch, former specialist in Medical Biochemistry, professor, researcher and international speaker, the show airs weekly every Monday. Each episode is a 30 - 45 minutes, exploring ways in which genetic and epigenetic (gene expression) science and medicine may intersect with ancient, non-western wellness practices to help you extend your health span to live younger. The show features practitioners in mental and physical health, fitness, nutrition, personal care, community, networking and entrepreneurship, to help you create your personal roadmap to aging youthfully.

    Kim Shapira: Six Simple Rules to Transform Your Relationship to Food

    Kim Shapira: Six Simple Rules to Transform Your Relationship to Food

     EPISODE 149 of GROWING OLDER LIVING YOUNGER focuses on developing and maintaining a positive relationship with food, to reach and maintain a healthy target weight.
    Today’s Featured Expert is Kim Shapira, celebrity dietitian, nutritional therapist, and author of This Is What You're Really Hungry for: Six Simple Rules to Transform Your Relationship with Food to Become Your Healthiest Self. Kim has a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology from Tulane University and a Master’s degree in Human Metabolism and Clinical Nutrition from Boston University. For over 25 years she has helped people lose weight and keep it off, both in her private Los Angeles practice,  and in hospitals, sports clinics, addiction centers and universities. When she's not helping her clients take back their relationship with food, she enjoys life as a wife and mother of three children and three pups.
    Episode Timeline:
    0:11 Food habits for healthy aging with celebrity dietitian Kim Shapira.
    2:32 Nutrition and wellness
    10:10 Healthy eating and dietary approaches with a nutritionist / dietitian.
    14:27 Overcoming limiting beliefs and developing a healthy relationship with food.
    20:09 Mindful eating and recognizing emotional triggers.
    24:55 Hunger, eating habits, and food addiction.
    30:31 Sleep and its importance for overall health.
    33:49 Health and wellness habits with a focus on self-care and empowerment.
    39:16 Aging, health, and relationships
    Learn more about about Kim Shapira 
    https://www.pinterest.com/kimshapiramethod/
    https://www.facebook.com/kimshapiramethod/
    https://www.instagram.com/kimshapiramethod/
    Book: This Is What You're Really hungry for: Six Simple Rules to Transform Your Relationship with Food to Become Your Healthiest Self.
    Use Promo code 35% off/ hungryfor24
    Get to know Your Host: Dr. Gillian Lockitch
    Download your free Guide to Living Younger Longer. 
    Download the Growing Older Living Younger app for your smartphone or tablet
    Schedule a free Discovery Call with Dr. Gill
    website: https://www.askdrgill.com/
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gillian.lockitch/
    GOLY Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/growingolderlivingyounger
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    • 42 min
    Theresa Lear Levine: Becoming More YOU: Tapping and Hypnotherapy with Theresa Lear Levine

    Theresa Lear Levine: Becoming More YOU: Tapping and Hypnotherapy with Theresa Lear Levine

     EPISODE 148 of GROWING OLDER LIVING YOUNGER focuses on the power of Emotional Freedom Technique (tapping) and Hypnotherapy to overcome past traumas, anxiety and adult ADHD.
    Today’s Featured Expert is EFT Master Practitioner and Hypnotherapist, Theresa Lear Levine.Theresa is the, Founder of Becoming More Me, LLC, Creator of the Becoming More Me Signature Program and Author of BECOMING MORE ME: Tapping into Success– Subconscious Secrets of an ADHD Entrepreneurial Mom. As a self-described an ADHD entrepreneurial wife and mom of 4 boys, Theresa is passionate about helping professional women ditch anxiety, limiting beliefs, and past trauma to reclaim their power and step into a new paradigm abundant in inner peace, self-trust, and confidence.
    Episode Timeline
    0:11 Emotional freedom techniques and hypnotherapy for overcoming trauma and anxiety.
    2:42 ADHD diagnosis and personal growth.
    7:45 Managing anxiety and ADHD with holistic approaches.
    12:08 Emotional Freedom Techniques for managing emotional issues.
    16:49 Hypnotherapy and EFT tapping for personal growth.
    21:17 Law of attraction and manifesting with personal experiences.
    26:31 Using EFT tapping for emotional release and personal growth.
    31:40 Slowing down and living intentionally for better aging.
    Learn more about about Theresa Levine  and Becoming More Me at the links below
    IG: https://www.instagram.com/theresalearlevine
    Website: www.theresalearlevine.com
    Podcast Website: www.becomingmoreme.com
    FB: https://www.facebook.com/theresalearlevine
    Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX2Kj-CBxX_Oj96ZdESjn9Q
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresalearlevine
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX2Kj-CBxX_Oj96ZdESjn9Q
    Get to know Your Host: Dr. Gillian Lockitch
    Download your free Guide to Living Younger Longer. 
    Download the Growing Older Living Younger app for your smartphone or tablet
    Schedule a free Discovery Call with Dr. Gill
    website: https://www.askdrgill.com/
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gillian.lockitch/
    GOLY Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/growingolderlivingyounger
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gillianlockitch/
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    • 36 min
    John Nolan PhD. Nutrients for Your Eyes and Brain: The Magic of Marigolds

    John Nolan PhD. Nutrients for Your Eyes and Brain: The Magic of Marigolds

    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 Guide to the Colourful Antioxidants in Your Food 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 full professor at the South East Technological University (SETU), Waterford, Ireland, where he holds a Howard Chair in Human Nutrition, He is the Director of the Nutrition Research Centre Ireland (NRCI). This research centre studies the role of nutrition for vision, cognitive function and prevention of age-related diseases. In 2011, Prof Nolan won a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) research grant to study the impact of nutritional supplementation on visual function via two Central Retinal Enrichment Supplementation Clinical Trials), and has  published 117 peer-reviewed scientific papers.
    Episode Timeline:
    0:11 Why targeted nutrition for Eye Health
    5:17 Nutrition and eye health with a focus on carotenoids.
    10:02 Measuring macular pigment in the eye and its changes with supplements.
    16:04 The importance of macula pigments in eye health.
    21:07 Lutein, zeaxanthin, and meso-zeaxanthin.in eye health.
    28: 07 Sources of antioxidants, micronutrient supplements, and their overall effects on health of the body.
    31:53 Eye health and antioxidants.
    37:41 Antioxidants and healthy aging
    Learn more about Prof John Nolan and the Carotenoid research:
    http://www.profjohnnolan.com/
    http://www.bonconference.org/
    https://ie.linkedin.com/in/johnmnolan
    https://www.instagram.com/profjohnnolan
     
    Get to know Your Host: Dr. Gillian Lockitch
    Download Your free Guide to the Colourful Antioxidants in Your Food
    Download the Growing Older Living Younger app for your smartphone or tablet
    Schedule a free Discovery Call with Dr. Gill
    website: https://www.askdrgill.com/
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gillian.lockitch/
    GOLY Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/growingolderlivingyounger
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gillianlockitch/
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    • 44 min
    Susan O'Connell: A Zen Inspired Senior Living Community

    Susan O'Connell: A Zen Inspired Senior Living Community

    THIS EPISODE OF GROWING OLDER LIVING YOUNGER focuses on the practice of Zen, Buddhism and how being part of a Zen inspired community can enhance our own practice of calmness and inner peace.
    Today’s Featured Guest is Zen teacher, Susan O'Connell, who has lived at the San Francisco Zen Center since 1995. She held many positions there, including 10 years as Vice President and President, and she is a fully ordained Zen teacher. Prior to her life as a Zen student, Susan owned and operated two film production companies with offices in LA and San Francisco, and produced four independent feature films, and one TV movie. She is the visionary behind Enso village, a Zen inspired senior living community in Northern California.
    Episode Timeline:
    0:11 Intro to Zen practice and its impact on aging
    3:26 Zen practice and Buddhism
    11:37 Buddhism and personal development
    17:05 Buddhist practices and philosophies
    23:31 Zen philosophy and community living
    28:59 Aging gracefully
    Learn more about Susan O”Connell, the San Francisco Zen Center, and Enso village, here:
    enso.kendal.org,
     sfzc.org
    About  Your Host: Dr. Gillian Lockitch
    Order your copy of  Growing Older Living Younger, the Science of Aging Gracefully, and the Art of Retiring Comfortably.
    Download your free Guide to Living Younger Longer. 
    Schedule a free Discovery Call with Dr. Gill
    website: https://www.askdrgill.com/
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gillian.lockitch/
    GOLY Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/growingolderlivingyounger

    • 38 min
    Dr. Wendie Trubow: How Environmental Toxins Impact our Health and How we can Heal Ourselves

    Dr. Wendie Trubow: How Environmental Toxins Impact our Health and How we can Heal Ourselves

    THIS EPISODE OF GROWING OLDER LIVING YOUNGER focuses on the impact of environmental toxins and toxicants on our health, how to recognize the adverse effects on our health and how to detoxify ourselves and our environment. Though we think we live “clean”, toxins are everywhere- in food, water, the air we breathe. 
    Today’s guest Is Dr. Wendie Trubow, who together with her husband, Dr. Ed Levitan, co-authored the book,  "Dirty Girl: Ditch the Toxins, Look Great, and Feel Freaking Amazing." A Functional Medicine certified practitioner and gynaecologist, Wendie is passionate about helping women optimize their health and lives. Through her personal struggles with mold and metal toxicity, celiac disease, and other health issues, Dr. Trubow has developed a deep sense of compassion and expertise for what her patients are facing. In their membership based wellness organization, Five Journeys, they focus on integrating 5 core areas of health to create wellness plans for their members.
    Episode Timeline:
    0:11  Introduction to environmental toxin impact on health, and detoxification strategies.
    3:13 How Wendie’s professional career and personal experience led to Five Journeys.
    10:20 Creating healthy habits and self-care.
    15:54 Environmental toxins and their impact on health.
    22:50 Toxins and their impact on the body.
    26:30 Therapeutic nutrition and evaluating client health
    33:54 Non-toxic living for optimal metabolic health
    Learn more about Dr. Wendie Trubow
    DrWendie.com/gift
    https://www.facebook.com/fivejourneys
    https://www.instagram.com/5journeyshealth/
    https://twitter.com/5JourneysHealth
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBIkSOxPL3t3wQuKmnGwGRA/about
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendietrubow/
    About Your Host: Dr. Gillian Lockitch
    Order your copy of  Growing Older Living Younger, the Science of Aging Gracefully, and the Art of Retiring Comfortably.
    Download your free Guide to Living Younger Longer. 
    Schedule a free Discovery Call with Dr. Gill
    Email  Dr. Gill at askdrgill@gmail.com
    website: https://www.askdrgill.com/
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gillian.lockitch/
    GOLY Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/growingolderlivingyounger
    And if you have not already done so, please follow, rate and review the Growing Older Living Younger podcast.

    • 41 min
    Christopher Burres: Uncover Longevity Secrets - Live Younger Longer

    Christopher Burres: Uncover Longevity Secrets - Live Younger Longer

     EPISODE 144 of GROWING OLDER LIVING YOUNGER focuses on healthy aging and longevity, to increase health span not just lifespan.
    Today’s featured guest is Christopher Burres, founder and chief scientist at MyVitalC. In Episode 112 of this podcast, I heard from Chris about ESS60, a unique carbon nano molecule, shown in a single 2012 toxicity study to significantly enhance longevity in the exposed group of Wistar rats. Since our interview, Chris has written, together with Jerome Corsi, a book titled Live Longer and Better: Your Journey to Living Longer and Better has Never been more Achievable than Today. I was also interested to hear all about the upcoming online summit which Chris has curated, called Uncovering the Secrets to Longevity: Living Beyond the Norms where you can hear from experts in all aspects of longevity.
    Episode Timeline:
    0:01 introduction to Aging, longevity, and healthy habits
    2:21 Aging and longevity biohacking with a focus on ESS60.
    6:59 Longevity supplements
    13.42 Aging, longevity, and molecular biology.
    20:01 Aging, longevity, and biohacking with experts.
    26:00 The upcoming Longevity and Living Longer summit
    31:45 Aging, stem cells, and longevity.
    Learn more about Chris Burres and his work:
    Find the book here:  Live Longer and Better: Your Journey to Living Longer and Better has Never been more Achievable
    Find Uncovering the Secrets to Longevity: Living Beyond the Norms Summit here:
    Get to know Your Host: Dr. Gillian Lockitch
    Download your free Guide to Living Younger Longer. 
    Download the Growing Older Living Younger app for  smartphone or tablet
    Schedule a free Discovery Call with Dr. Gill
    website: https://www.askdrgill.com/
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gillian.lockitch/
    GOLY Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/growingolderlivingyounger
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gillianlockitch/
    X: https://twitter.com/GilliansReviews

    • 37 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
16 Ratings

16 Ratings

Coach Martie ,

every elder should listen to this!

Dr. Gillian does a wonderful job of looking at all the different ways that we elders can improve our health and well-being. Her guest was insightful and her discussion was fascinating. Thank you, Dr. Gill!

SM…. ,

Wonderful Show!

Dr. Lockitch is a kind, caring, and amazing host! The information is very informative and helpful. I highly recommend this podcast to anyone who wants to live their life to the fullest.

GoldieJoyDancing ,

Curious and engaging

Dr. Gillian is curious and engaging in her podcast. She pulls the best out of her hosts, dives deeper in all the right places and provides wisdom and guidance for her audience. Highly recommend.

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