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Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

Live Longer, and Better?

Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

Armstrong & Getty

News

2.4771 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

New drugs being developed right now may increase our lifespans. But will they make our lives better? Are there any benefits?

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0:00.0

Well, looks like we'll be doing this show till we're 90.

0:02.3

It's one more thing.

0:04.4

Armstrong and Getty.

0:05.6

One more thing.

0:11.6

So if you didn't hear the Armstrong and Getty radio show, the day that we're doing this hair podcast here, we were talking to Craig, the healthcare guru, and he brought in this article about the Mayo Clinic,

0:24.3

sources at the Mayo Clinic, who first coined the term senolytics. Those are anti-aging drugs.

0:34.7

They already have six trials in humans underway and plan to start six more

0:38.5

shortly. And if successfully estimate the drugs to slow down aging significantly could be ready

0:44.7

within two years. Where do I sign up? If successful, it doesn't say how likely they think it is

0:50.6

their successful. But yeah, no kidding. I'd sign up because it's either that or a placebo. placebo i mean it's not like i have some terrible disease and i'm in a double blind study and

0:58.3

right i might be getting a placebo and nothing's happening right um in mice the drug extended

1:03.3

lifespan by 36 percent the equivalent of adding around 30 years to humans but in good health

1:08.8

while eliminating a lot of the aging stuff.

1:12.3

And that, yeah, that is one of the most important things. You don't want to live to be 110,

1:16.5

but the last 40 years, you're just feeling awful. Right, you're miserable. You're in a bed or

1:20.3

something. I mean, obviously, we're, yeah, you know, we could talk about the state of medical

1:25.1

science and how they can keep you from dying, but they can't help you be alive. Right. You know, we could talk about the state of medical science and how they can keep you from dying, but they can't help you be alive.

1:29.5

Right.

1:30.1

You know, past a certain age.

1:31.0

Right.

1:31.6

I mean, this would be the biggest development in human history, wouldn't it?

1:35.1

I would think.

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