Billions are flowing into longevity startups that promise to reset aging, promising the kind of ‘moonshot’ goals common in the world of tech. But are investors like Sam Altman and Jeff Bezos backing businesses that are more science fiction than fact? An expert on aging, Professor S. Jay Olshansky of the University of Illinois at Chicago, explains why hitting 150 is unlikely this century and why extending healthy years matters more than raw lifespan.
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i can't belive that some people are so small minded :)) there are so many ways to make a human live longer ! but the old man is to blind to see or to old to grasp !
i hope not
I'd recommend the book, More Than Human, for discussions on the cross-class availability or economics of measures that take place. I stopped watching this clip when the expert asserted a timeline without either, factually refuting claims of others, or supporting his claims. I'm no longer interested in spending time on unsupported opinions of others.
I doubt I'll live till 45
"We havent been able to slow the biological process of aging" This is ludicrous
In humans
"The DO-HEALTH trial (in older adults) indicating that the combo of omega-3 + vitamin D + exercise slowed biological age by about 3–4 months over 3 years as per epigenetic clocks."
In animals:
"Studies in animals and cell systems have shown that manipulating key pathways (autophagy, TOR signalling, mitochondria, epigenetic regulators etc.) can extend lifespan or delay aging phenotypes"
And im not even talking about studies like ones on NMN that actually visibly reversed age in mice (in every way we know how to measure it including mice living 20% longer).
Raise your kids right and they will carry on the best parts of you and improve on the worst. That is a better form of immortality than maintaining a mind that will become more and more obsolete as the world continues changing.
the 150 yrs old debate started with Xi jing Ping and Putin, but even if you can transplant all the organs, how about muscles and bones deteriorate? all BS and only dictators believe it
I hope I will not 🚫
Health span is the key… not long life sickly.
Libertie, viva
Live to 150? Do be careful what you wish for! It is NOT about quantity, in this case length, it is about quality. Quality of life. And anyway, even if they successfully achieve transplant of every single organ to give longevity, can you ever transplant a brain? Brain being a necessary condition for consciousness. Will they ever completely explain the link between brain and consciousness which should allow a brain transplant? But then would that mean, someone could have someone else's mind? In which case you'd be someone else and NOT the original person seeking a transplant.