thanks for having me today. that s the million-dollar question. what are the factors that allow super agers to maintain this performance? one thing we do see related to your last segment is super agers tend to endorse stronger relationships with others. so they like to stay connected. they re trying to avoid that social isolation and loneliness that you were just speaking of. emily, a big part of this, when i was looking at your project and what it looks like, the difference is not just in intelligence here. it s not just if you re a smarter person, a higher iq, that you re more likely to be a super ager. it s really about those other factors. that s right. so we re looking at multiple factors here to understand what might contribute to the super aging thenotype. how is it that they re socially active? what do their brains look like? can we measure their biological age in addition to knowing their chronologic age.
10% of people who think they have outstanding memory performance end up meeting criteria. we really think this is a realive li rare group, but that s important because it can teach us about specialized factors and features that might be helpful for avoiding disease and disability and extending health span. so we want to live long and well. can you make yourself one of these people? these people are naturally that way. can you say i m going to do all of these things and all of a sudden turn into a super ager? the goal is we re starting to think about risk factors for super agers instead of risk factors for alzheimer s disease. this study is going to help us identify this program is going to help us identify those factors that are really important. some of them may be modifiable where others may be the things that we re born with. we don t have any choice over the parents and the genetics
paxlovid. for everybody out there a quick psa, if you might think that you need paxlovid because you test positive for covid, one of the big things you have to really consider, your physician needs to consider is or your pharmacist is does paxlovid interact with any of the drugs that you re currently taking. in the president s case, they do not which is a good thing of the that s why he s on it. having said all the president at 79 with those conditions, robust health, yasmin. i think that s key piece here. some people consider him to be a super ager so i suspect with the initiation of paxlovid with that past medical history, the fact that he only has mild symptom, the likelihood he will progress is very low. forgive me, dr. gupta, if you could explain what a super ager is, i would appreciate it. it s somebody like president biden who is able to bike and be active. got it. at 79 and whereas that s typically not necessarily a set of activities we would expect at 79. so even wit