David Woynarowski, MD — better known as “Dr. Dave” — is a board-certified internist and age-management physician who has spent 20+ years translating cellular-aging science into things patients can actually do.
He earned his MD at Temple, completed internal medicine training and a chief residency, joined his father’s practice, and went on to teach residents at Penn State Hershey Medical Center, where he won the Residents Teaching Award two years running. He holds a master’s in human physiology and was among the first 30 physicians worldwide to be certified in Age Management Medicine.
His father’s death in 2000 — from a cascade of falls, undiagnosed osteoporosis and hospital infection that Dr. Dave has publicly called a failure “both as a Son and a Doctor” — moved him out of conventional practice and into the biology of aging. He became a certified member of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine in 2002, was among the earliest US physicians to work clinically with the telomerase activator TA-65, and in 2010 co-authored The Immortality Edge (Wiley) with cell-aging researcher Michael Fossel, MD, PhD, and Greta Blackburn — one of the first books to explain telomere biology to a general audience, published the year after the field won the Nobel Prize. He later served as Chief Medical Officer of BioStem Technologies and co-authored a peer-reviewed review on stem cells and inflammaging.
He now formulates supplements at The Longevity Edge, where he is best known for saying plainly which ones the evidence doesn’t yet support. He is a marathoner and lifelong lifter who trains in jiu-jitsu and catch wrestling.
