486: Hot and Healthy in 20 Years: What to Do Now for Your Skin, Metabolism & Longevity with Serena Poon

About this episode

Serena Poon is a globally recognized longevity wellness expert, nutritionist, and founder of Culinary Alchemy®, known for her approach to optimizing healthspan through nutrition, lifestyle, and longevity science. In this episode, Serena joins me to talk about what we should be doing now if we want to look and feel incredible 10, 20, and even 30 years from now. We get into the rapid advances happening in longevity and why preserving our health today could matter more than ever; whether we can actually reverse aspects of skin aging; and Serena’s advice for being hot at 60—from metabolism and muscle to skin, energy, and hormones. We also talk perimenopause, the bloodwork and baseline testing actually worth doing, why more health data isn’t always better, and which wearables are genuinely useful. Serena breaks down nutrition for longevity and weight management, including why protein isn’t the end-all-be-all, the importance of eating the rainbow, foods that may accelerate aging, fasting, hydration, healthier ways to sweeten foods and drinks, and what her ideal day of eating looks like. Plus, the surprisingly simple practice she says can benefit virtually every system in the bod