RealAge bio

Need inspiration? Look, really look, at a little kid's soft face (assuming it's not covered in spaghetti sauce). There's no better reminder of what amazing creations skin and hair are and how critical it is to nourish them, so they look young and stay healthy for life. That's something we're passionate about at RealAge, a team of people who've built a unique wellness company in San Diego.

Our total focus is to help make your biological age younger than your birthday age. So, for instance, even if your driver's license says 44, your RealAge might be 37. And diet is key, because what you eat-or don't-plays an absolutely critical part in making your skin, hair, body and brain younger and healthier.

To find out your biological age, go to www.realage.com and take the free, scientifically proven RealAge Test. Then follow the tips in this blog for a few months and take the test again-you'll be amazed at the difference you've made.

For us, that's what it's all about: growing younger and healthier. Because it looks good and, even more important, because it feels good. Let's do it together.

Oh, meet our Scientific Advisory Board, a group of amazing doctors, scientists, food experts and researchers. In one way or another, they guide, direct and check everything we do at RealAge-books, Web site, international TV shows, even our recipes. They're the best.

Michael F. Roizen, MD

Author of the book that started it all in 1999, RealAge, a #1 New York Times best-seller, and author of many other books, including The RealAge Diet: Make Yourself Younger with What You Eat. He also co-wrote the new YOU: On a Diet, out this fall. Dr. Roizen is Chair of Anesthesia, Critical Care Medicine and Comprehensive Pain Management at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.

Mehmet C. Oz, MD

Dr. Oz is Vice-Chairman of Surgery, Columbia University, Medical Director of the Integrated Medicine Center, and Director of the Heart Institute at New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Medical Center. He co-wrote the New York Times #1 best-seller YOU: The Owner's Manual and YOU: The Smart Patient, and is a regular guest on Oprah and Discovery Health.

John La Puma, MD, F.A.C.P.

Dr. La Puma founded the Santa Barbara Institute for Medical Nutrition and Healthy Weight-and is a trained chef as well. He practices preventive internal medicine at the Institute and his healthy eating recipes are available online at www.drjohnlapuma.com. He is the coauthor of The RealAge Diet and Cooking the Realage Way.

Axel Goetz, MD, PhD

Dr. Goetz is Chief Science Officer of RealAge and an expert in human learning and information processing. He also cofounded General Health, which quickly became a leading company in health risk measurement and management.

Harriet Imrey, PhD

A senior scientist at RealAge, she is a specialist in epidemiology and risk communication, with over two decades of experience in the design of health risk appraisal systems.

Carl C. Peck, MD

Dr. Peck has served on the Food and Drug Agency and as Assistant Surgeon General. He is now on the faculty of the Georgetown University Medical Center, where he is the founding director of the new Center for Drug Development Science.

Keith Roach, MD

Keith Roach, MD, is assistant professor in the department of medicine, section of internal medicine, at the University of Chicago.

Jennifer Trachtenberg, MD, F.A.A.P.

Dr. Trachtenberg focuses on a key challenge of this obesity-laden century-improving childhood health, particularly in ways that will lead to a younger RealAge in adulthood. She is a clinical instructor in pediatrics for Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City and had B.S. in clinical nutrition.