A Curious Scientist’s Guide to Wellness, Ageing and Death | How To Academy

Tue, 21 January 2025

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm GMT

A Curious Scientist’s Guide to Wellness, Ageing and Death

John Tregoning In Conversation With Robin Ince

Biomedical scientist John Tregoning reveals how our bodies keep us alive – and the simple, scientifically supported changes we can make to live longer.

With over 17,000 known diseases affecting humans, and countless poisons, carcinogens and toxins in our environment, it’s a miracle that our bodies manage to keep us alive. And that is, of course, if they don’t betray us themselves, whether through cancers or autoimmune conditions.

Now biomedical researcher Professor John Tregoning joins us to tell the unlikely story of how, against all odds, we manage to stay alive. Taking an in-depth tour of the human body, John embarked on his own experimental quest, testing ‘life-extending’ diets and exercise regimes to separate fact from fad.

Exploring the multitude of ways our bodies can kill us, from inherited genetic conditions, through heart attacks, arrythmias and angina, and onto the delicate workings of the brain, John will offer compelling insight into how our bodies work, how we can best look after them – and ultimately how we can live longer, healthier lives.

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Prof. John S. Tregoning

Professor of Vaccine Immunology at Imperial College London

Prof. John S. Tregoning is Professor of Vaccine Immunology at Imperial College London, where he runs a research group on infectious diseases. John has published over sixty academic papers and had a regular column in Nature during the COVID-19 pandemic. He has written articles for Times Higher Education and Science, and has been interviewed by outlets including the BBC and Sunday Telegraph. He tweets at @DrTregoning. Live Forever? is his latest book and will be published by Oneworld 4th January 2025.

Robin Ince

Comedian and co-host of The Infinite Monkey Cage.

Robin Ince is the co-presenter of Radio 4’s multiple award winning The Infinite Monkey Cage. He spent 2019 appearing across the world in the Universal tour with Brian Cox – travelling from LA to Oslo, Wellington to Aberdeen and ending up in Reykjavik after shows at the O2 and Wembley Arena. Robin co-wrote How to Build a Universe (part 1) with Brian Cox and authored other works including The Importance of Being Interested – Adventures in Scientific Curiosity, and his most recent book, Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive’s Tour of the Bookshops of Britain.