How Long Can We Live? We May Finally Know the Answer

What if you could live forever? Okay, maybe not forever, but would you take 150 years? A new study is shedding light on how we age...and may even show us a way to push the limits on human lifespan.

So, not to get all metaphysical, but what is age, anyway? Let’s start by talking about the age we’re most familiar with: chronological age.

You know, the one that’s marked on the calendar as your birthday. But this isn’t the best way to gauge your health. If you want to find out what toll all that mileage has taken on your body, you need to know your biological age.

Biological age describes the accumulated damage to your cells caused by genetics and factors like pollution, disease, and chronic lack of sleep, as well as the natural decline of cells over time.

As age increases, DNA accumulates damage, mitochondria break down, and the telomeres at the ends of our chromosomes shorten.
This functional decline causes our organs to deteriorate, increasing our biological age as a result. Until recently, scientists thought the process was irreversible. But within the last couple decades, scientists are learning that cells can revive through a process known as “anastasis.”

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00:00 Live forever?
00:15 What is age anyway?
00:34 Biological age
01:01 Anastasis
01:54 Lifespan limits
02:02 DOSI
02:24 Resilience
03:22 Life extending treatments

[craigcorson]

If I live to 150 years, I will have lived through half of the twentieth century, all of the twenty-first, and a little bit of the twenty-second. That would be cool.

[tramsgar]

The best of topics, but the script didn't even scratch the epigenetic surface of lifespan research.

[Islingr]

What is going on with the music? I sounds like a clown will come around the corner at any second.

[henk-]

I'd love to live longer, but only of a few conditions: I want to remain physically, cognitively, and mentally healthy and I want the people I love, my family and friends to go along with me. Otherwise I don't see the point.

[Gaia_Rei]

If I could stay in my prime longer i'd totally go for it.

[whyucare-of]

Everyone is gangsta until life loses it's meaning. 🌺🙂

[Runner]

I'm sure that if you asked 100 year old's was their life too long, they would all say the years just flew by and they were 20 yesterday.. I assume it would be pretty much the same if we lived 1000 years.. Perception would change and a year would feel like a week probably. The older you get the faster time moves.. What is time anyways? We associate natural cycles of day-night summer-winter etc but that's all because of our own mortality.

[GreatRetro]

I would like to live a 1000 year BUT only if I'm young, healthy, full of energy and my brain works great all this time! ^_^

[ShadowJedi]

I believe that the quality of life is more important than the quantity of life.
Quality > Quantity

[joshdanao]

I'd love to live as long as I can so I could learn all the languages I want to study and be fluent in, that'll be my main reason.

[ryanchowdhary]

Interesting, I wonder if people will choose this over cyborgs.

[rboy]

If I could live forever I would dedicate my life to math and other science

[theproject]

I want to live as long as needed to see my child be who he wants to be. Everything else is fluff. 60 years ? I’ll take it

[MinuteMovies]

i could live a healthy 150 or 200 years very easy, no problem. i'm not very wealth or material focused, i just have a lot of interests and curiosity.

[sebastiangeschonke]

The music distracted me a lot!
Maybe something less active next time ...

[marcozolo]

The curious thing is that anti aging technology won't be used just for living longer life spans on earth, but rather to ensure colonist in space can live a full earth life span in space or on the far flung celestial bodies we will inhabit this century. Space is a challenging medium to inhabit and still remain relatively healthy. What with solar radiation and microgravity and all the ailments associated with those factors.

[jeffenad]

Living a 1, 000 years feels like forever.

[wecantry]

If we are being precise, then the age reversal science research ( biology, genetic modification, hyperbaric treatment, CRISPR or other gene scissoring mechanisms) are merely in their infancy. They still have a long way to go. That thought itself should be inspiring. If only using modern Medicines or preventive vaccines we can extend lifespan to 70-90, just imagine what futuristic genetic research can do. There is no compulsion why death should happen. The purpose of science is to keep moving forward and doing the impossible . I'm certain one day biological creatures will be truly immortal. All thanks to biology .

[VampireSquirrel]

150 years? ugh I think I would want at least a millenia

[aspektx]

Also, I only want to live as long as I can remain healthy.
And sadly as long as this kind of research seems to take I'd be surprised if I lived long enough to see it.