Aubrey de Grey - How To Live Forever

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🗓️ 15 March 2015

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Aubrey de Grey is a true frontiersman, daring to push out against what seems the most natural and unstoppable forces of nature - ageing. He’s not just another voice though, he’s a scientist and identifies ageing as a disease, one that can be cured with the right medicine. His work calls for serious scientific exploration of what causes tissue to age and to then find solutions to those components - what he calls the roadmap to defeat biological ageing. In fact, he believes that the first humans who will live to be 1,000 years old are already alive today!

Ageing, and indeed death, are some of the most colossal challenges to humanity biologically and philosophically. De Grey himself, of course, has caused plenty of controversy with his views. Despite, however, a $20,000 prize to disprove the worthiness of de Grey’s studies (put up by himself and MIT and de Grey’s own foundation) his work still stands, capturing the imagination of molecular biologists and the public alike.

We’re excited this week to welcome him to London Real. With his impressive beard and extensive knowledge on the subject we’re in for something special.

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0:00.0	This week on London Real, we have the biomedical gerontologist Dr Aubrey de Grey.
0:06.4	Aging is the world's most important problem.
0:09.2	The answer is periodic preventative maintenance.
0:16.7	We have a 50-50 chance of getting these technologies to a decisive level of comprehensiveness within the next 20 to 25 years.
0:25.0	There's at least a 10% chance that we won't get there for 100 years.
0:31.0	We've got to get people more comfortable with submitting to
0:36.7	medical treatments when they're not yet sick.
0:41.3	London Real presents Aubrey de Grey, how to live forever.
0:47.0	I prefer to be a heretic than a maverick, at least it makes it sound as you might be right. And London Real is back in your life.
0:59.0	This week on the show we have a fascinating man by the name of Dr. Aubrey de Grey, and he is a biomedical gerontologist.
1:09.6	What is that, Brian?
1:10.6	That's a fantastic question.
1:12.0	That is a guy who studies the whole concept of
1:15.1	aging and in Aubrey's opinion aging is really the accumulation of damage to the
1:21.4	human body and it's not something that we should
1:23.5	accept as a given or accept as something that's inevitable and it's something that we
1:28.9	can really find a way to prevent and once you start thinking about aging this way it really starts changing the whole game and
1:36.7	Aubrey is famous for this concept and talking about it around the world. He is also famous for that beard that he sports which is really
1:45.2	truly magnificent and amazing. He's also got some funding in the past for some very high
1:51.2	profile individuals including Peter Teal who wrote him a check
1:55.1	for about six million dollars a few years ago. Peter is famous for his creation of
1:59.8	PayPal and now Palantier and many other startup companies and investment in Facebook.
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