The $7.6 Trillion Quest for Longer Life

The new field of longevity science aims to slow aging and make late-life more livable. But will the science ever work? And if so, will it only be for the super rich?

#Prognosis #Health #BloombergQuicktake

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[business]

If you could spend money to live longer, how much would you be willing to spend?

[cam]

A daily tablet to keep me physically 25 years old for the rest of my life would be nice.

[swordwaker]

I would say that by curing aging, you eliminate the extraordinary cost of prolonging life in an ICU, so, it is certainly not only for the rich, since ordinary people are already paying extraordinary cost.

[Kevin-cmkc]

I like that they're focusing on 'healthspan' rather than 'lifespan'. I work in pharmacy and it's a constantly depressing reality that most of our medicine just stops you being technically dead well beyond the point at which you became a shambling corpse. Devoid of any memories or independence of any kind. Constantly confused by the world around you and needing meds to constantly sedate you. Being too feeble to open a door or even shamble out of it in under 10 minutes if someone else holds it open for you. But, hey, your heart is still technically beating so you're technically alive. Hooray.
Healthspan all the way. We need a paradigm shift. I don't want to turn into a shambling zombie when I'm older. If we don't get the tech done in my lifetime, definitely assisted suicide for me.

[evmcmunn]

it seems no one is giving any credit to aubrey de grey for being at the forefront of this and popularizing it and making it a science, outlining the guidelines, doing the fundamentals...I don't know if he was the first(I thought of it before I knew he existed, but the man did the friggin work on it as well as his assistants, and even still, he probably came up with it before I was born) but the man seems to have been completely scrubbed from all the "history" videos.

[naoumhalamoutis]

My cousin Effie is 101 yrs old today with full facilties. She is active and dances to Greek music.

[matklm]

It would be so nice if we could make old people younger and healthier

[hshwgw]

Hoping to live long enough to enjoy such amazing breakthroughs

[SilverFank]

I’m a big fan of the Longevity subreddit.

[benmcreynolds]

I love this approach to health and I wish I could of had this treatment from my early post pubescent age so I could have stayed as healthy and fresh as possible compared to the now comparatively broken down state I'm now currently in.

[joemagicdeveloper]

Go Bezos! And hurry up. Time is killing us all.

[Callummullans]

I think becoming a billionaire comes along the way when working towards leaving a legacy which is really a thought for after death. I would personally like two to three life times with quality health assured, I feel I could do a lot in this amount of time and the world would feel familiar and fair.

[myczxr]

this is fitting, because i just started looking into the topic... quicktake once again on point, much thanks

[suryhkx]

3:41 grimacing "i love this"

[qiaowang]

Don't forget that emotions affect our health as well. Increasing stress for example can affect our hormones that may negatively affect our body. Stress can be environmental and/or internal. I don't think a preventive longevity pill is going to solve that.

[isaacdorfman]

Almost every new technology was in the beginning only available to the rich.
But that was the thing that drew money into it's further development that later caused it to be available to everyone.
If it wasn't for the rich early adopter, they would be available to everyone at all.

[ResidualSelfImage]

The average poor live shorter lives and the average rich live longer lives. Most of the science about living longer and better does not focus on the economics of living longer.... The impact of prolong life in poverty has not been addressed.

[royzlatanestevez]

I have to be honest, govt's COULD invest in this. But they are too obsessed with the "ethical ramifications" of preventing people from dying and suffering. It is OUR responsibility to vote their keisters out of office. If that doesn't happen - of course the investment will be private.

[SoCalFreelance]

I don't ever recall reading about efforts to create a one-size-fits-all life extending super pill. I was always under the impression the direction of life extension was personalized medicine based on our specific genetic makeup with targeted gene therapy like CRISPR when needed.

[Livingjazzarchive]

The longevity drug they are looking for is already here… it’s called exercise! 💪