David Sinclair

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

David Sinclair is an Australian biologist and professor of genetics at Harvard known for his research on aging and longevity mechanisms. David chats with the Armchair Expert on his field of advancing the age of an organism, the stigma around aging research and his existing accomplishment of reversing the age of eyes in mice. Dax asks why humans have evolved to die and David explains the epigenome and it's part in longevity. The two talk about the ethical questions surrounding this issue and David explains the potential for erasing diseases eventually leading to 300 and 400 year long life spans. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert, experts on expert.
0:05.0	I'm Dan Shepard, I'm joined by...
0:07.0	What's your new name we just came up with last night, two nights ago?
0:09.0	Farty pants?
0:10.0	No, no, no, no, no, no, there's a play on Monica.
0:13.0	Monica, Monica.
0:15.0	Oh, that's right.
0:17.0	Monica, Monica, Monica.
0:18.0	I try to say that three times.
0:20.0	Monica, Monica, Monica, Monica.
0:22.0	No, I can't. Yeah, Monica, Monica, Monica. Monica Monica. Monica.
0:24.0	Monica.
0:25.0	Monica Monica Monica.
0:26.0	No, I can't do it.
0:28.0	It's very hard.
0:29.0	Oh, right, we have a show to do.
0:31.0	We have a glorious expert today by the name of David Sinclair. He is an
0:35.0	Australian biologist and professor of genetics best known for his research on
0:39.2	aging and longevity mechanisms. Now gang I got interested in this off of a 60 minutes
0:45.2	episode you can't stop talking about it if I'm going to be honest well the stakes are
0:48.9	high we're talking about living forever I can't think of a topic I'm more
0:52.1	interested in then living forever.
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