This masterclass based on Professor Cassandra Szoeke’s book Secrets of Women's Healthy Ageing provides women with the keys to optimising their health and wellbeing into old age, alongside a crash course in today’s medicine to explain ‘why’, not just ‘what’.

Secrets of Women's Healthy Ageing draws on the findings of a unique study that has focused on the health of more than four hundred women in their mid-to-late lives. Over the past thirty years a team of international investigators has compiled a remarkable amount of data, aiming to raise awareness of modifiable risk factors in women's health. Their findings cover brain, heart and gut health, diet, sleep, exercise, and the benefits of socialising. But importantly, they highlight how the results relate directly to women's wellbeing.

You see, compared to men, older women are more likely to have heart disease, are twice as likely to suffer from depression or arthritis, and are four times more likely to have osteoporosis - and this is just the tip of the iceberg. The good news is that WHO estimates that 80 per cent of these diseases can be preventable.

In this masterclass Professor Cassandra Szoeke outlines areas in life you can change to reduce your chance of illness and shares with you the key ingredients for living a long and healthy life.