Dr. Michael Roizen

Michael Roizen, M.D.

Chief Wellness Officer, Cleveland Clinic

What if…

• …we could reprogram old cells to be young again?

• …we could rewrite our DNA to guarantee a disease-free future?

• …we could eliminate obesity?

• …90 were the new 40?

These what-ifs are more than hypothetical, and Dr. Michael Roizen, Chief Wellness Officer at the Cleveland Clinic, is at the forefront of efforts to make them reality.

A Word from Dr. Roizen

Sometime in the not-too-distant future, your medical landscape will look like this:

• You will 3D-print a new organ to replace a diseased one.

• A robot will remove plaque from your arteries,

• If you have the gene that shows you’re predisposed to colon cancer, a snip and you will cut that gene out of your DNA. And colon cancer out of your future.

Some 100 years ago, most people couldn’t imagine a world with antibiotics or immunizations, let alone MRI-guided robotic surgery performed on a patient in an operating room in Cleveland, Tennessee, by a surgeon in Cleveland, Ohio. But these breakthroughs are commonplace.

And by 2030, it will not be uncommon for people to be able to live to 115 years and even 130. That jump—30 or more years of living in just 10 years—is unprecedented.

You may be asking, what does this look like? What should you do to prepare to be younger? After all, who wants to live longer if it just means living older?

Nobody.

But hear us out: you won’t just be living longer. Instead, you’ll be extending the period between ages 30 and 60 to between 30 and 90.

In 1998, we believed age 60 could be the new 40. In 2030, that potential expands dramatically: 90 could be the new 40. Old age wouldn’t be, well, old.

Of the 14 major areas of developing research in aging mechanisms, a few treatments that become commonplace will help you stay younger longer (while it’s impossible to predict which ones, we have our guesses).

Peter Linnemann, Albert Ratner, and I refer to this transformation as the Great Age Reboot. Our new book, The Great Age Reboot: Cracking the Longevity Code to Be Younger Today and Even Younger Tomorrow, contains our research explaining what that reboot means for you.

As a result of large population increases due to greater longevity, and the increase in productive human capital, the economy will present much greater opportunities for humanity, and for solving inequalities. The Great Age Reboot is coming—and it’s coming fast. Now is the time to prepare for the crucial decisions that will come, and for your choices to enjoy the youth and joy that will be yours if you want. We look into the future of longevity, revealing how new scientific and medical advances will change the world – and how they will unlock your ability to live younger, longer, and better. imminent Scientific Advancements in Aging Mean 90 Will Be the New 40.

From re-engineering aging cells to DNA manipulation to bionic bodies, breakthroughs in aging science are happening every day—and as a result, living to 100, 120, or even 130 will become increasingly common. But it will not be expanding your oldest years—you’ll be extending your 20’s 30’s and 40’s.This new reality will have far-reaching effects on work, family life, retirement, and more, making longevity the next social disruptor.

We look forward to joining you on this unprecedented journey….

About Dr. Roizen

Dr. Roizen is Chief Wellness Officer at the Cleveland Clinic and J. Gorman and Family Chair of the Wellness Institute. The Wellness Institute’s programs have helped Cleveland Clinic employees lose more than 444,000 pounds; reduce blood pressures and smoking rates; increase engagement by 45 percent; as well as flatten the cost curve for employee health. The Institute and its Enterprise work with more than 40 corporations to share the wellness practices that have been developed at the Clinic with employees of these industries.

Dr. Michael Roizen is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Williams College and Alpha Omega Alpha graduate of the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. He performed his residency in internal medicine at Harvard's Beth Israel Hospital and completed a tour of duty in the Public Health Service at the National Institutes of Health. He is certified by both the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Anesthesiology. He has authored over 175 peer reviewed publications as well as four medical textbooks, served 16 years on FDA advisory committees (including as a chair) and served as an editor for six medical journals.

Dr. Roizen has founded twelve companies, co-invented a drug approved by the FDA, and published a series of highly popular #1 New York Times bestsellers: YOU: The Owner's Manual, YOU: On A Diet, and YOU: Staying Young, as well as the #2 bestselling YOU: The Smart Patient, all co-authored with Dr. Mehmet Oz. He authored a new book that came out in Spring 2015, titled: This Is Your Do-Over: The Seven Secrets to Losing Weight, Living Longer, and Getting A Second Chance at the Life You Want (Scribner). His most recent book came out in 2017 and is titled: Age Proof: Living Longer Without Running Out of Money or Breaking a Hip and co-authored with Jean Chatzky and Ted Spiker. .

Dr. Roizen co-founded RealAge Inc. and his first general-audience book, RealAge: Are You as Young as You Can Be? became a New York Times #1 bestseller and was awarded the Best Wellness Book of 1999 by the Books for a Better Life Awards. His RealAge and YOU books have been translated into more than 44 languages and ranked #1 in five other countries, in addition to resulting in four #1 New York Times bestsellers, the most of any physician.

He chaired the United Way Fund Raising effort at the Clinic in 2006, and served on the boards of five non-profit foundations. He served as President of the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists in 1997-8, and has won over 75 trophies in class A squash competition. His wife is a developmental pediatrician also listed in the Best Doctors in America. The Roizens have two children: Jenny, a PhD graduate of the California Institute of Technology, post-doc in organic chemistry at Stanford, now a faculty member at Duke, and Jeffrey, an MD/PhD graduate of Washington University, and faculty member in pediatric endocrinology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Dr. Roizen has given over 1,500 lectures to professional medical groups and has been recognized with over 25 professional lectureships. He has appeared more than 18 times each on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The TODAY Show, Good Morning America, Canada AM, the 700 Club, and The Dr. Oz show. He and Dr. Oz write a column syndicated to 134 newspapers worldwide. He hosts a two-hour radio show (5–7pm Saturday live, or archived anytime) on RadioMD.com, and 18 terrestrial stations. He has shared a daytime Emmy for his work on the Dr. Oz show. He and Dr. Oz shared an Elle in 2008, a lifetime achievement award from Books for Better Health, and the Paul Rodgers award for best medical communicators by the National Library of Medicine.