Buck Institute’s Eric Verdin: “Half of children born today will live to 100”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Eric Verdin, president of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, to talk about metformin (5:20), his background (9:30), the origin of the Buck (12:30), getting support from techies (14:50), the birth of geroscience (19:20), exercise and the 10,000 steps phenomenon (27:10), tracking down the pathways of ageing (28:55), what the research looks like five years from now (35:10), healthspan (41:20), the Moore’s Law of ageing (46:20), how post codes are the single biggest determinant of longevity (50:25), age reversal (57:00), the longevity dividend (1:00:40) and the value of a glass of wine (1:09:45).

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0:36.8	No one knows how much more we can increase lifespan of humans.
0:40.7	If you look at maximum lifespan of humans right now, it's around 120.
0:45.1	Could you make everybody live to 120?
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1:13.0	I want to talk about longevity.
1:15.4	How long do you want to live?
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1:18.6	So I have done various deep dives on longevity in the past, and we just had a bunch of great guests on here to talk about it.
1:26.1	Laura Deming, who runs longevity fund, James Payayer at Cambrian Biopharm, and Ned David, Unity,
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