Forever Young: Can Science Reverse Ageing?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Is ageing inevitable, or can science help stop or even reverse the process? From young blood to diet fads, and stem cells to dancing, we explore what the experts think will keep us healthier for longer. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	On Britain streets, you unknowingly see, extraordinary heroes who look just like me.
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0:35.6	Hello.
0:36.6	Hello.
0:37.6	Welcome.
0:38.6	And that is to say physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, brain, life, the universe.
0:47.0	On the program this week, it is indirectly the reason why more than two-thirds of people in the world today die of.
0:55.0	We're exploring the world of aging research.
0:58.0	Can we extend our healthy lifespans or even live forever?
1:01.0	I'm Georgia Mills and this is the Naked Scientists.
1:05.0	The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. On a hot August day during the year 1900, Queen Victoria was still on the throne,
1:24.8	Einstein was working at what would one day become his theory of relativity,
1:28.7	and the Ottoman Empire was still standing, and also a baby was born on an island in Japan.
1:35.0	And what makes Nabi Tajima especially unusual is that she is still alive today.
1:41.0	At the age of 117 with over 160 descendants, she is the last survivor to see the
1:47.6	19th century and just one of a few super centenarians to make it over 110 years old. But many of us won't be so lucky
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