Is Aging Curable? - AlwaysAsking.com
Can aging be cured? Eternal youth has long been a dream. Now, through modern science, humanity is on the verge of curing aging and achieving immortality.
We’ve extended lifespans of organisms ten-fold, used drugs to shave years off people’s age, reprogrammed cells to become youthful, and we are developing tools that could one day enable digital immortality.
Is it possible to live forever, should we even try? This episode explores those questions.
Beginning: 00:00
Episode start: 00:25
A maximum lifespan: 03:34
The disease of aging: 04:45
The body as a machine: 05:50
Aging as wear and tear: 07:05
Immortality in nature: 11:55
Forever young: 12:34
Biological immortality: 13:30
Immortal organisms: 13:50
Immortal cells: 15:19
Immortal animals: 18:26
Immortal plants: 21:13
Immortal species: 22:45
Maintaining the machine: 25:14
Replacing the parts: 25:30
On-demand organs: 27:00
Repairing the damage: 30:16
Gene therapies for repair: 30:50
Yeast: 31:17
Worms: 31:50
Mice: 32:50
Drugs for repair: 33:55
Eliminating senescent cells: 34:12
Repairing DNA: 35:25
Restoring youth: 36:30
Human testing: 38:00
Future Strategies: 39:58
Near-term repair strategies: 40:22
Nanomedicine: 40:31
Swallowing the surgeon: 41:17
Digital Immortality: 42:33
Death is data loss: 43:30
Longevity escape velocity: 45:55
Living long enough to live forever: 46:30
Conclusions: 47:56
Can we do it: 48:35
Should we do it: 49:34
Life extension is unnatural: 49:50
Overpopulation: 50:36
Technological solutions: 52:15
What about overcrowding: 53:14
Will we do it: 54:28
People working on it: 54:38
Must we do it: 55:08
We will do it: 55:25
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