The Aging Games Podcast with Lynn Hardy
Aug 10, 2026 · 56 min · 15 segments
I had such a fascinating conversation with Nikolina Lauc, CEO and Co-Founder of GlycanAge. We explored what glycans actually are, what biological age really means, and why two people born on the same…
Nikolina LaucGuest
Lynn HardyHost
Can you tell us a little bit about who you are and what you do and how you became involved in this?
I'm still an entrepreneur, so I started my first, well, it depends on how far you want to go and what's the venture, but the first company when I was 18,
But I grew up in a family of scientists, so both my parents are scientists, my mother is a neuroscientist, my father is a glycobiologist, and that's actually... where this test came from.
So he kind of started the large-scale studies of this part of biology a long time ago now.
And then he was obviously pitching it to me for a long time as something that we can bring to people.
So there's kind of many... potential uh applications for my mother's science as well but um yeah she's gonna have to convince uh one of my other siblings
they're lucky if they have more than one they have more options so nicolina let's start with glycans because you know a lot of people are not not familiar what they are and how they relate to aging can you explain to us what glycans are and why it's important to know
Can you tell us a little bit about who you are and what you do and how you became involved in this?
I'm still an entrepreneur, so I started my first, well, it depends on how far you want to go and what's the venture, but the first company when I was 18,
But I grew up in a family of scientists, so both my parents are scientists, my mother is a neuroscientist, my father is a glycobiologist, and that's actually... where this test came from.
So he kind of started the large-scale studies of this part of biology a long time ago now.
And then he was obviously pitching it to me for a long time as something that we can bring to people.
So there's kind of many... potential uh applications for my mother's science as well but um yeah she's gonna have to convince uh one of my other siblings
they're lucky if they have more than one they have more options so nicolina let's start with glycans because you know a lot of people are not not familiar what they are and how they relate to aging can you explain to us what glycans are and why it's important to know
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