Overview
- The event in Berlin featured moderator and biologist Nina Ruge with Nuno Alves, biomedicist Hannah Samira Schmidt, entrepreneur Prof. Dr. Hermann Bühlbecker and actress Eveline Hall.
- Panelists emphasized daily movement, endurance plus lifelong strength training, sleep quality and stress resilience, with Schmidt calling exercise “an anti-stress pill.”
- Ruge called for orientation because many studies are unserious and said genetic tests can offer clues but are typically self-paid and should be interpreted with medical advice.
- Personal examples ranged from Ruge’s food and supplement routine to Alves’s past heart rhythm disorder that reshaped his view of exercise, while Bühlbecker highlighted his regular tennis and a claim he had read about longevity benefits.
- Separate commentary in taz criticized commercialized “wunderpill” narratives and noted that income and environment strongly influence life expectancy.