How Old Can You Get? #shorts

When people 'die of old age', they really die from age-related diseases like heart issues, cancer, or respiratory diseases. Sadly, most of them can’t be cured today, but let’s assume for a minute that they could be in the near future. As soon as an organ fails, we could replace it and live on for as long as we wanted, right?

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[AiceQream]

Full metal alchemist fan trying their best not to turn their brother into a suit of armour is a struggle 😂

[ethantaylor]

If you thought billionaires were bad, get ready for immortal billionaires

[theeman]

Full metal alchemist x kurzgesagt goes crazy

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"Would we still be human?"
"Nanomachine son"

[kcubeyt]

Nice reffrence to Fullmetal alchemist and face that iron is most stable atom

[Slash_a]

Hey there, Bio student here! For anyone wondering about the biochemistry bit, the ends of our chromosomes contain “caps” called telomeres, which are noncoding segments of DNA meant to get eaten away at in order to protect coding segments of DNA further in on the chromosome. As we age, telomerase (the enzyme responsible for producing telomeres) activity decreases, leading to damaged genetic material. The result is cells that wont divide due to the damaged DNA, and thus tissues that can’t repair themselves because cells can’t replicate as fast.

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"But then, would we still be human?"

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[joffles]

Imagine being 120 years old and still lookin at 50 more years before retirement 💀

[eminkilicaslan]

Didn't expect both The Big Bang Theory and Fullmetal Alchemist reference in same short

[VanishEclipse]

That Alphonse reference was unexpected but so accurate.

[mega-rifj]

To be honest, any organism can acchieve immortality because it was always in our front but like they said here the limit is linked to age diseases. If we were to think in a experiment where a person is left in a place with a strong and perfect immunologic system, good nutrition and no wounds they would technically survive longer and perhaps be immortal. The main problem has to deal that the longer the life span, the harder the cells to last long since they will be unnable to fix most of the errors or multiply themselves. If this problem was countered and the immunologic system not tricked to self destruct the body by confusing cells or going crazy, people would be technically immortal under this conditions however this is technically impossible since it would be required surpass tons of obstacles

[moondaymood.]

"From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me.."😅

[Lu-uolq]

That reference to full metal alchemist was beautiful

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Alphonse popping up got me snorting 😂😂😂

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I love how Kurzgesagt make shorts on genuinely useful and important topics like aging and then they go on to make absolutely batshit insane or existentially horrifying videos as their _full-length ones._ That's why they're the best afterall!

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I love that one full metal alchemist reference at the end 😂

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Bro summoned the entire FMA fanbase with the end 😂

[dillybilly]

Fullmetal Alchemist reference was peak

[alexandervictor]

Alphonse was an unexpected nice reference 👌🏼

[GrouchyKraut]

If we live for 200 years, that's just another 190 years we have to work.