Rejuvenation Biotechnology: The Fourth Age of Gerontology - Aubrey de Grey - RB2016

When Dr. Aubrey de Grey, SENS Research Foundation’s Chief Science Officer, first became involved in gerontology he found that there was no consensus over the answer to the simple question “What is aging?”. Dr de Grey has since worked to advance an equally simple definition, that aging is fundamentally a consequence of physics, not biology – a straightforward result of the second law of thermodynamics, where imperfect repair of slowly accumulating damage leads to an ever-accelerating decline in bodily function. His presentation charts the history of scientific and medical efforts to control age-related disease and ill health, culminating in the emerging “fourth age” of rejuvenation biotechnology.

[xanadu]

I've been watching him for several years now. And my takeaway is not that we will live to a thousand, but that we can make our lives less painful, live our 80 odd years with better health, less cancer, less altzheimer's. And wouldn't that be wonderful? So I applaud you (sorry, I'm poor and can't help financially) Aubrey, keep up the good work.

[greglamb]

I wonder if this could be promoted by its possible applications in sports medicine.

[greglamb]

As an additional thought I think that people should be aware that by repairing damage in one area it could greatly improve other areas of ones physiology there by lessing the complications of chronic and overlapping illnesses

[MarkHerndon]

I wonder if there is a perceptual environment that a human could live in that would do no cellular damage?

[gamblinguru]

Biology can be reduced to physics, so in principle, aging is a consequence of biology.