How to live to 150
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Would you want to live to 150? With leaps in technology, science and medicine, it's becoming an increasingly realistic possibility.
Elizabeth Hotson talks to Sergey Young, founder of Longevity Vision Fund and author of The Science and Technology of Growing Young. Sergey tells us why he embarked on a mission to help us live longer. Plus, Dr Michael Hufford from biotechnology company, Lygenesis tells us about organ regeneration technology, which enables a patient's lymph nodes to be used as bioreactors to regrow functioning ectopic organs.
We also go on a voyage of discovery into the world of cryonics with Dennis Kowalski, president of the Cryonics Institute in Michigan, where you can have your body frozen and stored until the technology exists to bring you back to life some time in the future. We also hear from Paul Hagen, who's planning to follow his father's footsteps by undergoing the cryonics procedure.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Elizabeth Hotson and in today's Business Daily, we're looking at how advances in science |
| 0:06.9 | could unlock the secret to immortality. |
| 0:10.2 | A hundred years from now, there's not going to be a limit to human lifespan. We all will |
| 0:16.1 | have an opportunity to make every three, five, seven years to make life extension decision. |
| 0:24.2 | And could cryogenic freezing give us a second chance at life? |
| 0:28.6 | Cryonics is an ambulance ride into the future. |
| 0:31.4 | So it's not guaranteed, but it certainly is better than being cremated or put in the ground. |
| 0:36.7 | There's hope. |
| 0:37.3 | This is Business Daily in the ground. There's hope. |
| 0:39.7 | This is Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:53.8 | The idea of eternal life has occupied some of the greatest thinkers in history, including inventor Thomas |
| 0:55.7 | Edison, who said this in a 1911 interview in the Columbian magazine. Life goes on endlessly, |
| 1:02.7 | but no more in human beings than in other animals, or for that matter, than in vegetables. |
| 1:08.5 | Life collectively must be immortal. Human beings individually cannot be, |
| 1:13.4 | as I see it, for they are not the individuals. They are mere aggregates of cells. |
| 1:18.2 | What then would Thomas Edison have made of the advances in science and technology that could make |
| 1:23.8 | immortality or something very close to it a possibility within perhaps a century or so. |
| 1:30.0 | There's also the question of how society in general would cope with an ever-expanding population, |
| 1:35.6 | but we'll save that for another programme. |
| 1:37.3 | For now, let's concentrate on how we'd actually arrive at a situation where healthcare and innovation |
| 1:43.8 | allows people to live to 150 or even 200 years old. |
| 1:48.6 | Sergei Young is the founder of the $100 million longevity vision fund. |
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