The Science of Age Reversal | David A. Sinclair, Ph.D.
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
What if you could reverse the aging process? Sounds like science fiction, but the new science of aging is turning it into science fact. Today, we learn the truth about aging and how to potentially slow, stop and even reverse it from one of the world's leading voices in the science of aging, David A. Sinclair, Ph.D. He is a Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, co-Director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging Research at Harvard Medical School, Professor and Head of the Aging Labs at UNSW, Sydney, and an honorary Professor at the University of Sydney. Best known for his work on genes and small molecules that delay aging, including the Sirtuin genes, resveratrol and NAD precursors, he has published over 170 scientific papers, is a co-inventor on over 50 patents, and has co-founded 14 biotechnology companies in the areas of aging, vaccines, diabetes, fertility, cancer, and biodefense. And he's the author of Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To.
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| 0:00.0 | Question for you. What if you could slow down, stop or even reverse your aging process? |
| 0:13.1 | That is what we are talking about with today's guest, David Sinclair. David is a worldwide |
| 0:18.6 | leader in aging research. He's a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, co-director |
| 0:24.7 | of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging Research at Harvard Medical School, |
| 0:29.7 | professor and head of the aging labs at UNSW Sydney and an honorary professor at the University |
| 0:36.7 | of Sydney. He's best known for his work really on genes and small molecules that delay |
| 0:42.1 | aging, including the Certune genes and resveratrol and NAD precursors, which we get into, published |
| 0:50.5 | over 170 scientific studies, the co-inventor on over 50 patents has co-founded 14 biotechnology |
| 0:58.5 | companies in the area of aging vaccines, diabetes, fertility, cancer, and bio-defense. He's |
| 1:04.8 | done a lot. His new book, Life Span, Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To, explores what we get |
| 1:11.6 | wrong about aging and how approach differently we just might not have to, or we could substantially |
| 1:19.4 | slow down, potentially even reverse the process. That in fact is where we go in a deep way in today's |
| 1:27.3 | conversation as well. So excited to share it with you. I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life Project. |
| 1:42.4 | I'm curious about a number of different things and I think it will touch down in a few different |
| 1:47.0 | areas. I guess one of my early fascinations is I'm always curious about people's personal choices |
| 1:52.7 | about how they want to invest their energy and a body of work for their life. And so I'm |
| 1:57.8 | curious about you. What you could have taken any number of paths when you decided to enter medicine? |
| 2:03.0 | Why aging? Well, I like a challenge. I tend to go the opposite direction of anyone else. |
| 2:08.8 | If everyone's going off and studying computer science, I'll avoid that. And it seemed to me that |
| 2:14.6 | trying to figure out why people don't live longer than they do was something no one else was really |
| 2:20.0 | doing in a rigorous way. But really it goes back to when I was four years old. My grandmother |
| 2:26.0 | was telling me that the truth. She was a very honest and brutal person who raised me. And she said, |
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