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How to Live to 100 (or Die Trying)

Toronto Star

Education Health & Wellness

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The grim news about your biological age
02/23/2026 | 33 mins.
The longevity gold rush is underway and we hear about the latest reasons for optimism and cynicism from Steve Horvath, the developer of a 'biological clock' that is mostly used by researchers or, the curious, although some experts question whether such measurements are ready for prime time. Horvath explains the science behind his clock, the centenarian connection and the food he says can keep our biological age low.
Guest: Steve Horvath is a biogerontologist, whose research lies at the intersection of epigenetic biomarkers of aging, preclinical and clinical studies, genomics, epidemiology, and comparative biology.
This episode was produced by Moira Welsh, Julia De Laurentiis Johnston, Matthew Hearn and Sean Pattendon.
In conversation with the geriatrician
02/16/2026 | 26 mins.
After years of chatting with Dr. Sinha for the Star's Third Act series, we dig into his perspective on a good old age; the longevity secret he learned from a man who has already lived past 100 and how we can reframe the way governments think about growing old.
GUEST: Dr. Samir Sinha, of Sinai Health and University Health Network and director of health policy research at the National Institute on Ageing.
A Good Death
02/09/2026 | 25 mins.
It is inevitable. Our fear of it can make it worse. Join us for an animated conversation on dying with two unlikely sources. Michael Brooke, a kid from Thornhill who ended up in the '90s LA skateboarding scene before a career in funeral homes and Ondi Timoner, who twice won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film festival and in 2022, she released her most personal film, called Last Flight Home, about the extraordinary life and death of her father.
GUESTS: Michael Brooke, skateboarder and founder of Concrete Wave. Ondi Timoner, award-winning filmmaker whose documentary on her father's death changed laws for medical assistance in dying.
Mobile bodies
02/02/2026 | 27 mins.
We all love to nerd out on the advances in the science of exercise but here's a practice that never required wearable technology: Early human movement. Like, leaping from a predator. Or, crouching as a hunter. Here is a bonus thought: By using our bodies the way they were originally intended - for mobility, balance and play – it could be a lot easier to, say, jump out of an airplane in your 80s.
His body injured after a decade in Canadian pro-football, Andre and his yoga-practising gymnast wife Catalina talk mobility benefits at every life age. Meanwhile 10,000 feet above ground, Mary and Lina conquered those mobility issues by jumping out of an airplane, to teach their grandkids a thing or two about growing old.
GUESTS: Former CFL star Andre Talbot and Catalina Moraga, the husband-and-wife owners of Spirit Loft Movement Centre in Toronto. And 80-something BFFs Mary Kelcey and Lina Zatzman, who enjoy a high-altitude adrenaline hit.
Gimme shelter
01/26/2026 | 33 mins.
Where and how are we all going to live in our later years? It is the question of our times.
In our later years, some will live mortgage free. Others will need housemates to financially survive. For many, the shining holy grail of housing is both affordable and offers health supports in case life goes sideways. We look at two options that work: the Golden Girls co-ownership and cluster care, with Toronto's largest non-municipal provider of affordable housing where the workers, Susan Vickberg says, feel like mothers who have her back.
GUESTS: Louise Bardswich, the original Golden Girl of Port Perry and Susan Vickberg, who lives in an affordable cluster care household at Woodgreen Community Services.

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About How to Live to 100 (or Die Trying)

Life expectancy has grown exponentially in just over a generation but has society & culture caught up on how to embrace this growing slice of the population, those living longer than humans ever have? What are we going do with everybody? What are we going do with *you* if you make it to 100 (or die trying)? In this show, we look at how we adjust to longer life expectancy at both the individual and societal level, covering big topics like work, housing, death, male loneliness and the value of measuring biological age; all grounded in real-world, practical experience and conversations. If you're lucky, you get old. And all of us are getting older every day. So, how do you get the most life out of all the years you get? That's what we want to talk about here. The show is hosted by Moira Welsh, Toronto Star reporter who led the Third Act Project, which challenged governments, policymakers, and institutions to improve the way we live in our later years.

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