🔍 Search
Harvard professor and longevity expert partners with Levels to solve metabolic health crisis

Longevity leader Dr. David Sinclair joins Levels as advisor

Harvard professor and longevity expert partners with Levels to solve metabolic health crisis

The Levels Team
WRITTEN BY
The Levels Team
UPDATED: 07 Jun 2023
PUBLISHED: 12 Oct 2021
🕗 2 MIN READ

Levels, the first biosensor system to give real-time feedback on nutrition and lifestyle, today announced that leading longevity scientist Dr. David Sinclair has joined the company as a Levels Advisor. Dr. Sinclair is a Professor in the Department of Genetics and the co-Director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sinclair has been at the forefront of the latest discoveries in understanding why we age and how to slow its effects. He earned a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Dr. Sinclair joins an unprecedented group of thought leaders, clinicians, and researchers in metabolic health, and his expertise will help to drive awareness to the metabolic health crisis through content development and research in partnership with the Levels team.

“I’m excited to work with Levels to empower people with the tools to optimize their bodies and help achieve longer healthspans and lifespans,” says Dr. Sinclair. “Levels provides customers with insights into how their bodies are functioning—a requisite internal dashboard, as it were—to make better-informed decisions about nutrition, sleep, and exercise, because you can’t optimize what you don’t measure.”

Dr. Sinclair is the co-founder of several biotechnology companies (Sirtris, Ovascience, Genocea, Cohbar, MetroBiotech, ArcBio, Liberty Biosecurity) and is on the boards of several others, including Inside Tracker and Life Biosciences. He is the author of Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don’t Have To. He is also co-founder and co-chief editor of the journal Aging. His work is featured in five books, two documentary movies, 60 Minutes, Morgan Freeman’s “Through the Wormhole” and other media.

“Dr. Sinclair is not only the leading visionary thinker in the field of longevity,” says Levels co-founder and chief medical officer, Dr. Casey Means, “but he is also one of the best science communicators of our time, making complex biomedical topics accessible through his prolific writing, podcasting, and speaking. Levels shares a vision with Dr. Sinclair for decentralizing healthcare such that people are able to understand and track their own bodies and make personalized decisions to optimize their own health and longevity. We are thrilled to work with Dr. Sinclair to create tools that empower individuals to improve their healthy lifespan and thrive.”

About Dr. Sinclair

David A. Sinclair, Ph.D., A.O. was recruited to Harvard Medical School where he has been teaching aging biology and translational medicine for aging for the past 16 years. His research has been primarily focused on the sirtuins, protein-modifying enzymes that respond to changing NAD+ levels and to caloric restriction (CR) with associated interests in chromatin, energy metabolism, mitochondria, learning, and memory, neurodegeneration, and cancer. The Sinclair Lab was the first one to identify a role for NAD+ biosynthesis in the regulation of lifespan and first showed that sirtuins are involved in CR in mammals. They first identified small molecules that activate SIRT1 (such as resveratrol) and studied how to improve metabolic function using a combination of genetic, enzymological, biophysical, and pharmacological approaches.

Dr. Sinclair is co-founder of several biotechnology companies (Sirtris, Ovascience, Genocea, Cohbar, MetroBiotech, ArcBio, Liberty Biosecurity) and is on the boards of several others. He is also co-founder and co-chief editor of the journal Aging. His work is featured in five books, two documentary movies, 60 Minutes, Morgan Freeman’s “Through the Wormhole” and other media. He is an inventor on 35 patents and has received more than 25 awards and honors including the CSL Prize, The Australian Commonwealth Prize, Thompson Prize, Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Award, Charles Hood Fellowship, Leukemia Society Fellowship, Ludwig Scholarship, Harvard-Armenise Fellowship, American Association for Aging Research Fellowship, Nathan Shock Award from the National Institutes of Health, Ellison Medical Foundation Junior and Senior Scholar Awards, Merck Prize, Genzyme Outstanding Achievement in Biomedical Science Award, Bio-Innovator Award, David Murdock-Dole Lectureship, Fisher Honorary Lectureship, Les Lazarus Lectureship, Australian Medical Research Medal, The Frontiers in Aging and Regeneration Award, Top 100 Australian Innovators, and TIME magazine’s list of the “100 most influential people in the world”.

What Levels does—and why

What Levels does—and why

Inside Levels

Icon

Get updates, new articles, exclusive discounts, and more

The Latest From Levels

Metabolic HealthThe 2024 Levels Guide to Metabolic Health Interventions
Cut sugar? Cold plunge? Zone 2? You can do plenty of things to improve your health, but where to start? Here's our subjective mega-guide to some of the most common interventions for people at all stages of their health journey.
The Levels Team
🕗 25 mins read
Cut sugar? Cold plunge? Zone 2? You can do plenty of things to improve your health, but where to start? Here's our subjective mega-guide to some of the most common interventions for people at all stages of their health journey
Inside LevelsWhy Scott Hickle tried to wreck his gut health—and ruined his blood sugar instead
For 30 days, Hickle switched from a healthy low-carb diet to 100% ultra-processed junk. The effect on his gut health, body composition, and blood sugar surprised him.
Jessica Migala
🕗 4 mins read
For 30 days, Hickle switched from a healthy low-carb diet to 100% ultra-processed junk. The effect on his gut health, body composition, and blood sugar surprised him.
Metabolic HealthThe 2024 Levels guide to genetics and metabolic health
Genetics is an important determinant of metabolic health and Type 2 diabetes risk, but weight and habits are also also a large influence.
Tyler Santora
🕗 16 mins read
DNA strand
Weight LossWhat can weight tell you about your metabolic health?
Although obesity can be unhealthy, research shows people can have metabolic dysfunction no matter their weight. Here’s what we know about the complex relationship between weight and metabolic health.
Leslie Goldman, MPH
🕗 10 mins read
Scale
Sign up for the Levels Newsletter