Aubrey de Grey on Joe Rogan

 Anti-Aging  

Aubrey de Grey appeared recently on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast and shared his thoughts on combating aging and his work at the SENS Research Foundation.

A slightly under-the-weather Aubrey de Grey appeared recently on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. Despite his cold, de Grey captures the audience with his ideas about anti-aging research.

Well known to 33rd Square readers, de Grey is an English author and theoretician in the field of gerontology and the Chief Science Officer of the SENS Research Foundation.

de Grey and Rogan discuss anti-aging research, how aging is like a disease; how we will stop aging, repairing the body by regenerative medicine and other means, diet and aging, life expectancy around the world.

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"I would say there is a really good chance, say a 50/50 chance, that we will be able to say 10 years from now, Parkinson's disease has genuinely been cured with stem cell therapy."

The difference between longevity in the USA and Japan is really only four years points out de Grey. So despite the widespread belief that certain things have a dramatic effect on aging, de Grey shows that they are really not significant anti-aging factors.

According to de Grey, there are seven main types of damage that need to be addressed by regenerative medicine in order to solve the aging problem:

1. Cell loss / cell atrophy
2. Division-obsessed cells (cancer)
3. Death-resistant cells
4. Mitochondrial mutations
5. Intracellular junk
6. Extracellular junk
7. Extracellular cross-links

Stem cells therapy holds some of best promise for counteracting the effects of aging, says de Grey. Discussing work done on Parkinson's disease he states, "I would say there is a really good chance, say a 50/50 chance, that we will be able to say 10 years from now, Parkinson's disease has genuinely been cured with stem cell therapy."

Rogan and de Grey also discuss downloading consciousness, living forever, the population, and natural resources; how bad could it be living forever; philosophy of living forever. Check it out!

SOURCE  Joe Rogan Experience

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