How to WIN the fight Against AGING | Aubrey de Grey on Health Theory

Scientific break-throughs are happening all around you. As technology advances, biologists such as the Chief Science Officer of the SENS Research Foundation, Aubrey de Grey, is leading the way to pioneering tech that will allow you to choose how long you want to live.

For years scientists have been trying to find a way to slow down the aging process, but Aubrey introduces the idea of repairing the damage that aging does on the body to theoretically restore the body’s biological age to maybe 30 years younger. If you are familiar with the obsession I’ve had with living forever, you already know how much this excites me.

SHOW NOTES:

Quality of Life | Aubrey on why a long life depends on the quality and being invested in choice [0:58]
Reverse Aging | Why damage repair could be easier than slowing aging & the push back met [4:40]
Indefinite Life | Aubrey on why the result of expected life for reversed aging could be indefinite [8:08]
Structure Repair | Landing on the idea of repairing structure to restore cellular level function [9:32]
Pushback | Aubrey on pushback among scientists about reverse aging in biology [11:17]
Body Damage | Aubrey on self-inflicted damage being reversed to same level 30 years prior [14:13]
Longevity Escape Velocity | Aubrey on his theory how to reverse biological age 30 years [16:26]
Types of Damage | 7 categories of damage that correspond to therapeutic methods of repair [21:18]
Stem Cell Therapy | Aubrey explains how stem cells could treat loss of cell problems [22:17]
Cancer Treatments | Aubrey gives category of damage due to too many cells [23:26]
Senescent Cells | Aubrey explains how these cells can promote cancer [26:53]
Mitochondrial Mutations | Aubrey explains problems at the molecular level inside cells [28:53]
Cellular Waste | Aubrey breaks down how cellular waste over years impacts old age [33:35]
Macular Degeneration | Aubrey explains specific enzymes that could prevent blindness [35:24]
Excretion | Aubrey explains diseases that could be resolved by breaking down waste [37:50]
Alzheimer’s | Breaking down amyloid as extracellular waste and modest benefit [39:22]
Advancing Therapies | Aubrey gives sobering guess how close effective therapies are [44:07]


QUOTES:

“I want to make sure that my choice about how long to live, and, of course, how high quality that life will be, is not progressively taken away from me by aging.” [2:24]

“Old age is something that evolution doesn't care about at all. Evolution only cares about the propagation of genetic information.” [34:41]

“you've got to fix them all. You haven't got to fix any of them perfectly. But you've got to fix them all pretty well.” [43:28]

“what excites me is typically the breakthroughs that would take me half an hour background to describe why it's even important.” [46:16]

Guest Bio:
Dr. de Grey is the biomedical gerontologist who devised the SENS platform and established SENS Research Foundation to implement it. He received his BA in Computer Science and Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Cambridge in 1985 and 2000, respectively. Dr. de Grey is Editor-in-Chief of Rejuvenation Research, is a Fellow of both the Gerontological Society of America and the American Aging Association

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[TomBilyeu]

If given the chance would you choose to become immortal or not? If so why would you pick either option?

[AhmetKaan]

*“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending...”*
*―C. S. Lewis*

[allurbase]

This is the most in depth Aubrey interview I've seen. amazing he gets in so many details about the techniques. Great stuff Tom.

[begonaml]

Yes to immortality! My life changed when I read an article by Aubrey de Grey in the Sydney Morning Herald back in the day, early 2000, finally, science to back up my passion: life! Eternal or not, a choice.
Thanks for this interview Tom, Aubrey de Grey is an amazing man and scientist and I wish Youtube was plastered with interviews with him.
I too have spent a lot of time confused with the push back to ending death and extending human life. As more people see it as a true option, I hope they’ll move past the fear of death and see it’s all really quite possible!

[BudoReflex]

I remember finding Aubrey online 20 years ago. It massively encouraging to see him going strong and the momentum building.

[EpicGir]

Awesome to see Aubrey on such a big platform! Curing aging is going mainstream more and more :)

[jasonbrice]

Thank you.
The more is spoken the more awareness the more advances in longevity.

[robhorner-starlakeny]

What an amazing wellspring of bio-knowledge. Thank you for presenting Aubrey de Grey.

[zenmaster]

What keeps me coming back is Tom's interviewing style. He is ultra smart, asks really intelligent questions and always gets a handle on his subjects topic. He obviously researches his guests thoroughly, and it really shows. Nice work Tom.

[SilverFank]

Thanks for having Aubrey on to discuss Longevity. Didnt even see this video until now 🎉

[BrentNally]

Awesome interview Tom! I've interviewed Aubrey a couple times and am honored to have Aubrey on our Scientific Advisory Board for our company, Longevity Plan to help us solve the human aging problem ASAP.

[sharpshootera]

I trust Aubrey de Grey, he looks like a wizard of the first order and they knew a lot...

[unutilisateur]

That's a really good interview. And I love the layout with all the topics shown at the bottom of the screen.

[AhmetKaan]

*5 things to quit right now:*

*1. Overthinking*
*2. Trying to make everyone happy*
*3. Living in the past*
*4. Worrying*
*5. Doubting yourself*

[iou]

This is the guest I’ve been waiting for!

[dranlan]

Aubrey is a true legend! I hope he is right on the timeline and we get to enjoy life extension in 15 yrs! I want to live for ever....

[ScottAshmead]

OMG so glad you finally got him on the show.... also glad to see he is back in media giving updates... this felt like 10 min long episode.... could have watched another 3 hours of him talking about this stuff.

[jonnaking]

I could listen to him for hours!!! Wish I had a lot of money, I'd totally give a chunk of it to his research!

[quinnsmith]

Great interview. Aubrey de Grey plays a major role in geroscience; his SENS Research Foundation has more than 80 peer-reviewed scientific publications and there are plenty of other labs conducting rejuvenation research that often make incredible progress.

[robomop]

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