Let's get into it.

So my name is Luigi Ferrucci, and clearly I'm Italian because, you know, my name show that.

And I am a geriatrician and an epidemiologist.

And I've been working all my life on aging.

So I was, long time ago, a clinician, so in a large rehabilitation hospital for all the people with stroke.

And then at some point, I started coming to the United States to collaborate with NIA, and I was working with Jack Cuccia.

Until in 2002, I was appointed as the director of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging.

I mean, I guess the very logical continuation of the question would be what drew you to work on geroscience? What was that moment when you felt like, "This is the field that I wanna work on," and then get all the success and all the pushing the field forward?