On September 30th, 2025, Business Insider featured insights from AFAR Scientific Director Steven N. Austad, PhD, on lifestyle interventions that could help extend healthspan, such as exercise and altering dietary behavior.
In addition to being AFAR’s Scientific Director, Dr. Austad is the 2011 Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction winner and the Inaugural George M. Martin Award winner. He is the founding director of UAB’s Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging, and co-director of the UAB Integrative Center for Aging Research, as well as the Co-Principal Investigator of the Nathan Shock Centers Coordinating Center.
Also picked up by MSN, read the full article, “A longevity researcher says everyone's too obsessed with living forever. Here are his 2 anti-aging habits instead”, here.
