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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: The Kardashians episode the season finale that screened last night

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Speaker 2: featured some New Zealand research.

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Speaker 3: We're doing a blood task to check our biological age.

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Speaker 3: I feel pretty good about mine. It would be very

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Speaker 3: ego boosting if I was younger than my regular age.

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Speaker 2: Kim Kardashian and her mum, and her sister and her

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Speaker 2: brother in law all took the test that determined their

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Speaker 2: real biological age. Kim Kai came in ten years younger

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Speaker 2: than what she thought she was. The science behind the

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Speaker 2: test is an algorithm that was developed by the scientists

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Speaker 2: of the Dunedin Study and the director there, doctor Moljuana Theodore,

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Speaker 2: is with us now, Hey, Muhammajuana.

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Speaker 1: Look Kura, hello, hebba, thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you. Did you watch the episode?

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Speaker 1: Look? I did.

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Speaker 2: Did you watch the thing? And how are you after that?

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Speaker 1: I didn't watch the whole thing, but I definitely watched

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Speaker 1: the part where the Kardashians were told about their pace

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Speaker 1: of aging.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought, just strikes me that you might be

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Speaker 2: a little too smart for that show. All right, how

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Speaker 2: does this thing work?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? So, in terms of the pace of age, it's

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Speaker 1: a tool that we created at the Dunedin Study, which

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Speaker 1: is a study of one thousand babies born fifty two

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Speaker 1: years ago that's been been run in Dunedin since then.

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Speaker 1: So and what we have been looking at over the

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Speaker 1: last two decades with our study members is biological aging

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Speaker 1: and so that is different to your chronological age your birthday.

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Speaker 1: Biological aging looks at your whole body. And through that

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Speaker 1: research we were able to create this tool called the

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Speaker 1: Dunedan pace and that is a pace of aging tool

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Speaker 1: which the Kardashians then used. So we've been able to

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Speaker 1: use the science. It's wonderful aging science that we do

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Speaker 1: here in New Zealand and in Dunedin to be able

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Speaker 1: to create these tools that then other people can use

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Speaker 1: around the world. We thought scientists and researchers, but here

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Speaker 1: we have the Kardashians using it as well.

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Speaker 2: Can can I do it? Can people listening to the Steward?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? So, I mean it's actually for scientists and researchers.

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Speaker 1: It is being used around the world and scientific studies

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Speaker 1: in the algorithm is freely available, so it's open access.

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Speaker 1: But for.

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Speaker 2: You get a blood test done by somebody if I

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Speaker 2: want to do it.

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Speaker 1: Right, Yes, that's right. So individuals though, in the public

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Speaker 1: that are interested to do it can get their blood.

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Speaker 1: So if you watch the episode of the Kardashians, they

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Speaker 1: used a pin practice to get the blood through the

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Speaker 1: same company that they used for true diagnostics, and they

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Speaker 1: will look at your data and then send your report.

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Speaker 1: So it is available online for individuals as well.

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Speaker 2: Have you done it?

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Speaker 1: Have I done it? Oh? Look I actually have not.

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Speaker 2: Temptation.

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Speaker 1: I do, I have planned to do it. I'm recently

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Speaker 1: I became director last year. But we do do a

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Speaker 1: lot of work with the pace of aging, the research itself,

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Speaker 1: and we know it's being used worldwide. Look get this

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Speaker 1: question of actually how can we support people to age

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Speaker 1: better and what sort of supports can we put in place.

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Speaker 1: So we've sort of been focusing a lot on the

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Speaker 1: science and of course at the moment we have our

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Speaker 1: wonderful study members who started coming back in at the

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Speaker 1: age fifty two assessments in April so fascinating.

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Speaker 2: We want to thank you for your time appreciated, Doctor

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Speaker 2: Mjuana Theater, our Dunedin Study director. For more from Heather

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