The One Thing: Longevity Experts Answer One Question
I ask every guest on The 200 Year Life Project the same question. Here are their answers, with a short clip, the takeaway, and a link to the full conversation. When an answer changes something I do, I say so.
Aubrey de Grey
Biomedical gerontologist, LEV Foundation
Stop treating aging as a blessing in disguise.
“I would awaken humanity from its pro-aging trance — the desperate clinging to absurd arguments that aging is some kind of blessing in disguise, that arises from the terror of getting one’s hopes up that aging will be brought under medical control in time for oneself.”
Dr. Michael Roizen
Creator of RealAge, Cleveland Clinic
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Dr. Bill Andrews
Telomere scientist, Sierra Sciences
Fund the cure yourself so you answer to no one but the mission.
“I would have first started a company designed just to make money. Then I would have been my own investor in a company focused on curing aging. That way I could focus on curing aging instead of just making quick returns for my investors’ investments.”
Liz Parrish
Founder, BioViva
Lengthen your telomeres before your cells run out of divisions.
“I would have my telomeres lengthened by a gene therapy. By the time I am 70, I would be very low on cellular divisions and high on senescent cells. Even my stem cells would nearly be completely depleted due to the telomeres shortening in them as well.”
Richard Rossi
Founder, DaVinci 50
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Stuart Lackey
Co-founder, SOUND HSA
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