Jeanne Calment died in 1997. She was so old, she sold paint to Vincent van Gogh in the 1880s as a child in Arles..
@soulcandyalmadulce58852 ай бұрын
You are appreciated for that info, I had to look this up, you are correct. I also looked up the current oldest person and Maria Branyas Morera popped up as the current one at 117 and noticed how similar she looks to Jeanne Calment, a little creepy, LOL. Thanks for sharing. May you be enjoying a wonderful summer season with loved ones.
@c0naNnn2 ай бұрын
@@soulcandyalmadulce5885 👀
@oliviervancantfort53272 ай бұрын
To pay for elderly care, Jeanne Calmemt, then aged 90 sold her house against a life annuity. The buyer was her solicitor, then aged 47. He died 30 years later while she was still alive. His widow has to continue to pay the life annuity two more years.
@ommsterlitz18052 ай бұрын
@@soulcandyalmadulce5885 Jeanne Calment was also smoking an entire pack of cigarette every single day as well as a daily glass of wine
@vorpal1202 ай бұрын
There is definitely a bunch of controversy and doubters. However, i'm a strong believer that she lived so long because of how she seemingly managed stress so well coupled with exercise. She was headstrong enough to "do" without regret and active enough to ride a bike on her 100th birthday. If I ever live that long I hope to keep myself fit enough to ride a bike. But getting a moderate inheritance from here father (1926) and owning the building where her apartment was meant she never had any stress over food, shelter, or work, and with the exercise meant her physical fortitude matched her mental toughness. You'd have to be to live that long.
@QueenetBowie2 ай бұрын
My grandfather died at 92, a week before he died he had a stroke which is what did him in. Prior the stroke he loved by himself in a townhouse, drove his own car, did the cross word everyday, and everyday of his life since his twenties he’d do 50 sit ups, push ups and a bunch of other abs and strength exercises, he was still doing his daily work out up until the morning of his stroke He was a good role model for healthy living, and I’ll take any help we can get for slowing down or halting the negative impacts of aging.
@Vhryce2 ай бұрын
my grandfather turned 92 this year, he goes to the gym every morning and walks and swims. lately hes been concerned about his high blood pressure and is worried about a stroke occuring so every time its high he wants us to take him to the emergency
@IMBlakeley2 ай бұрын
Sounds like he did well.I've known and know people in their early 60s who are effectively immobile for health related reasons. I try to keep doing moderate exercise so I am still mobile and I'd take croaking at 92 after a fully active life over longer but confined to the couch for a few decades.
@soyanshumohapatra2 ай бұрын
Idk why but, *It reminds me of the guy who was jogging everyday and explains everyone the good effect of jogging dies due to heart stroke while jogging one day!*
@taffypulller2 ай бұрын
My Grandpa just died at 93. I don't have anything else to add. His funeral is in the morning. He decided he wanted to "go home" and eventually had a stroke and a seizure then died in his sleep.
@Scantronacon2 ай бұрын
@@taffypulller sorry for your loss. 93 is a good long life for what its worth. At least he died peacefully. My condolences 🌹
@nBasedAce2 ай бұрын
My grandmother is 102 and only had to get some assisted living help in the past 2 years. She drove, and shopped, and cleaned with no help from anyone.
@-Timur12142 ай бұрын
Sound cute, greet her from the internet or idk atleast from me c:
@mrtransistor61732 ай бұрын
What a trooper!
@janewayofchaos32552 ай бұрын
Before covid there was a local man here in sac that was still going to the bar at 105.
@lucasnogueres3672 ай бұрын
She needs help
@XIIchiron782 ай бұрын
Usually the people who reach extreme ages have that kind of story. The activity and independence itself seems to stave off the decline.
@heronimousbrapson8632 ай бұрын
My sister-in-law was very healthy most of her life; never smoked, drank, only ate a bit of fish in an otherwise vegetarian diet, hiked, biked, swam, and lived a largely athletic lifestyle. She died of colorectal cancer at age 70. Sometimes, your genetic makeup is just against you.
@Lerence-t5m2 ай бұрын
Sure maybe a person's fate is already given at birth but I believe that doing healthy things like your sister can actually help decrease the chance of getting cancer at a much younger age.
@carlrodalegrado41042 ай бұрын
Could she had lived more if her cancer was detected earlier and fixed earlier? Most people who lived to 100 or more even women survived multiple cancers.
@mollykins8h2 ай бұрын
Against? 70 was long last time I checked
@Lerence-t5m2 ай бұрын
@@carlrodalegrado4104 While it's true that early detection can sometimes make a difference, cancer is an incredibly complex disease, and outcomes aren't always predictable. Her healthy lifestyle and the love she shared with her family are what should be remembered most. It's important to acknowledge that sometimes, despite our best efforts, some things are beyond our control.
@agme80452 ай бұрын
@@Lerence-t5mthat sounds like an ai reply
@Riste.R2 ай бұрын
Figuring out how to keep cognitive and psychical health intact within the lifetime we already have would be amazing achievement on its own
@TreeHairedGingerAle2 ай бұрын
Yes. QUALITY of life. Not quantity.
@EvlEgle2 ай бұрын
My great grandfather was living alone and doing all his own cooking, cleaning, driving, etc until 103, he was taken out by a tree falling on his house during the blizzard of 1993.
@TheEnderCycloneEnd2 ай бұрын
But then how would you die if you were completely healthy intact?
@Riste.R2 ай бұрын
@@TheEnderCycloneEnd what I meant was more like having enough health to live comfortably dill the end. My grandparents both pretty much passed away on foot. Not like drop dead suddenly but more like felt really ill suddenly and got hospitalized and past after couple of days. But before final hospitalization they where fully cognitively intact and were able to move and drive around and fully spent time with people. Of course they had many health problems by then but they had necessary medications and still got to be fully present. This in my opinion beats the fate were you slowly but surely become bed ridden vegetable some years before proper end.
@weksauce2 ай бұрын
"Aging" is just the accumulation of damage, not the passage of timing.
@patrickmccurry15632 ай бұрын
Not always. Some animals are programmed to die after certain events in life like after mating. It's one of the sad reasons why octopus or many fish don't live very long. With octopus they found if they removed the pineal gland from females it would cause them to live for over a year after mating.
@Batmans_Pet_Goldfish2 ай бұрын
@@patrickmccurry1563we are not some animals though. We are humans.
@antonco22 ай бұрын
@@Batmans_Pet_Goldfish Biologically speaking, we are 100% some animals
@uncletiggermclaren75922 ай бұрын
@@patrickmccurry1563 That isn't "aging", you said yourself what it is, which is programming.
@Batmans_Pet_Goldfish2 ай бұрын
@@antonco2 we are not the "some animals" that were being spoken of. I thought that was pretty clear, given the context of what I was responding to.
@MaxwellWilliams422 ай бұрын
As a paraplegic, one issue with life extension research is that it never seems to account for black swan events that the body can't heal from. Without treatments for disabilities like Spinal Cord Injury, Traumatic Brain Injuries, Amputations, etc. any possible eternal life will just continuously get more disabled due to black swan events every few hundred years. Car crashes, shootings (like me), pandemics even. Even though only 0.1% of the US population has a Spinal Cord Injury, if people start having 70 super active years instead of 30, that's going to be a huge increase in injuries that society will need to heal.
@kenji2142452 ай бұрын
Medical recovery research is taking huge strides though. They managed to grow a mexican lady a new ear. In Germany they are close to being able to regrow some organs mainly kidneys and liver but lungs and heart are not that far of either. There is also new research into how to help regrow things like bone and some nerves now even.
@samuelyigzaw2 ай бұрын
Look up Michael Levin's research on anti-aging and regenerative medicine. His research essentially combines them into the same problem, that of being able to reprogram the body into doing what we want it to do. So most likely the solution to disabilities and to aging will be the same.
@ZrJiri2 ай бұрын
I'd say unlimited regeneration capability is almost a prerequisite for the kind of radical longevity you talk about. The research doesn't "account" for that simply because after dealing with everything else we need to fix, it becomes almost an afterthought, if not already solved in the process.
@patrickday42062 ай бұрын
Well the new yamanaka factors can do that based on the eye nerves that were healed in human trials
@XIIchiron782 ай бұрын
Consider this, though: immortality also means our best and brightest researchers no longer need to retire. Human knowledge and wisdom no longer needs to be lost. How skilled might a team of biologically 30 year old scientists with 80 years of experience be? How much longer could people who aren't on a clock spend in education and training to become even more effective? And everybody who's currently trying to treat age related declines would shift to these types of problems, assuming those were solved - and that consumes a pretty big proportion of our resources, currently. The increase in the tax base alone due to the elimination of aging could expand public funding by hundreds of times. Plus, assuming you are of average age, most types of spinal cord injury will probably be solved in your lifetime, even if it isn't extended. Tons of progress recently.
@NirvanaFan50002 ай бұрын
I've been interested in this idea for over 15 years. I worked in science education and whenever I brought it up, people reacted like I was a mad scientist, lol. Really glad the field is starting to be taken more seriously. Also glad they have the new X prize for longevity. It seems insane to me that we are seemingly so close to significant life *and health* extension, but we're just not devoting a lot of resources to it. Personally, I don't want to get a single day biologically older for the foreseeable future.
@shnilikmw2 ай бұрын
It’s crazy to think it wouldn’t ever be possible. In just the past 1-200 years we’ve extended our lives like 4-fold. I’ve been hearing about the research in the field for awhile now, like they believe we die or “age” due to our telomeres unraveling and breaking down which allows our DNA to accumulate more mutations. I swear, listening to these SciShow videos makes me wanna live forever to see all the cool things that occur on a timescale wayyy too big compared to human life.
@crediblesalamander80562 ай бұрын
@@shnilikmw it's closer to 20 years than a 4x increase. famously, most of the gains come from decreasing child mortality, but it's still significant progress.
@shnilikmw2 ай бұрын
@@crediblesalamander8056 Yeah lol, that’s mostly why I said 4 times cause of childhood mortality.
@Storiaron2 ай бұрын
It's shitty to think about being one of the last people to ever die. Like a couple more years and you could have lived for centuries, but nah, you die in your 70s byee
@charlesmoore33902 ай бұрын
The thing is, medical treatment in and of itself is life extension. Illness and injury are just the low hanging fruit. Nowadays we've got things like genetic and immune therapies that would be considered almost magic 100 years ago. Research into these new potential treatments are just the next step in medicine.
@chromab77132 ай бұрын
That last bit is the most important, I'd say. My knees started giving out when I hit 25...living to 90 using a diaper and not knowing where I am half of the time...that's just not worth it.
@Sepi-chu_loves_moths2 ай бұрын
If we slow senescence that'd move the problems you cite further back too
@Dan-dy8zp2 ай бұрын
That's not anyone's goal. Also, the only way to make people live longer is to make them healthier.
@donhoverson63482 ай бұрын
@@Dan-dy8zp Well there are at lest two kinds of health - physical and mental. I know of several people whose bodies continued on for years even after their minds were essentially gone. It is hard to think of a worse fate than that.
@3nertia2 ай бұрын
"People aren't living longer, they're dying longer" heh
@3nertia2 ай бұрын
@@Dan-dy8zp Which is opposite to the goal of Big Pharma under capitalism heh
@kissmiasma952 ай бұрын
I haven't seen this girl up until recently. If you are a new addition to the channel, it's a great one. Very easy to hear your voice.
@alchang15152 ай бұрын
@@caitlinforster8189 Actually, she enunciates very well.
@caitlinforster81892 ай бұрын
@@alchang1515 thank you! spellcheck was failing me miserably
@Fedor5262 ай бұрын
Yeah she enunciates well. But also, her hand/arm/body movements and gestures are a bit too erratic. Good video though
@sabrinashelton1997Ай бұрын
You like hearing the word, "like", apparently.
@pensivepenguin3000Ай бұрын
Right? Great host! Warm, likable and engaging
@AmonTheWitch2 ай бұрын
i want to live forever, i want to see the galaxy
@420snoogins2 ай бұрын
Never to late to start your journey, just a few hundred years to early. 😂
@DeathBean892 ай бұрын
nah, let me outta here
@pleasestopsubscribingtomyc33602 ай бұрын
just look up?
@Fyr3652 ай бұрын
I also want to see the galaxy and even explore the rest of the Universe, and if one is immortal with infinity before them until the heat death of the Universe then it is very much possible, but honestly before anything else I just want to live. To live as long as I want, to be able to feel, to experience, to see all that I want. And if one day I deem that I had enough, that I've done all that I wanted to do, then I suppose I wouldn't mind resting in peace. But it needs to be my choice, not somebody else's. If some people are fine with their "natural" lifespans, all the power to them and I respect their choices, even if I might not understand them, but they need to also respect mine to live forever, even if they don't understand it. I also don't expect them to accept it, but I do expect them to respect my choice, my decision, in sum my free will just like I'd respect theirs.
@princebond2 ай бұрын
@@DeathBean89😂
@RussHjelm2 ай бұрын
Whether or not I live forever only time will tell, but I'm 72 now and I'm healthier metabolically than I've been in many years simply by changing what I eat. I've eliminated most sugar and most refined carbohydrates but have increased fats and protein. I'm looking forward to seeing if these changes increase my chances for a longer and more rewarding life.
@uncroppedsoop2 ай бұрын
crazy the way I've seen the public's attitude towards fats nutritionally change in my comparatively puny little lifespan thus far. I've genuinely lost weight by incorporating having more of (the right kinds of) fat in my diet (which in turn means there's less room for sugars and other carbs)
@MontgomeryWenis2 ай бұрын
My great grandma, Ivah Elizabeth Livermore Lovell-Rose (whose last names are actually two streets that intersect in my hometown. No connection, just neat happenstance), lived to 97. She was born in 1905 and was beautiful, so I'm sure being 15-25 during the Roaring Twenties was a wild time. She wasn't particularly healthy. Smoked cigarettes for decades, drank a fair bit, had a drunk as her first husband, and a drunk for a son, who died from prostate cancer a few years prior. Yet somehow, she suffered what her doctors called a "massive heart attack" at the age of 95 and bounced right back. She got ill about five or six months before finally passing in 2002, when I was 10. She was such an icon where she lived, that her other son, a very wealthy (and kinda crazy) doctor living in a remote cabin on a mountain in Colorado, hired people to continue yardwork and even turn on and off the lights for years in her estate, which was a beautiful Victorian mansion located in the heart of her little town (and across the street from the funeral home where her funeral was held).
@MoroseMoe2 ай бұрын
Best host since Hank. Don't let this one get away
@beyondobscure2 ай бұрын
Love the narrator for this one. Very easy to listen to voice.
@Kyle-r8jАй бұрын
Plus she is gorgeous 😍
@Cellidor2 ай бұрын
Personally, I don't want to be immortal. What I _do_ want, is to be the one who decides when I bow out.
@Honeneko.2 ай бұрын
The term might be Biological Immortality; a living being can still die from means other than senescence. That's the way I'd like it.
@Highlyskeptical2 ай бұрын
I don't want immortality either, and also want to decide how to bow out after millions of years.
@strangeperson7002 ай бұрын
Like the elves from LOTR, they only die when they get "weary".
@XIIchiron782 ай бұрын
Yeah that's what immortal means, we are not talking about magic nonsense where you are cursed to watch everybody and everything turn to dust. Fun fact: at the current rate of accidental death not due to age related decline, the average person would live to be about 700 years old.
@dx-ek4vr2 ай бұрын
@@XIIchiron78 I think some people confuse Immortality with Invincibility. Like for example, you may be able to live as long as you like (be it 100 or 1 million more years), but you can still die if say, somebody shoots you
@SpaceCakeism2 ай бұрын
Sees title, and immediately realize that it's about SENS. (Strategies for engineering of negligible senescence) Thanks for covering this, more people should know about it.
@joshyoung14402 ай бұрын
Really? You looked at the title and figured it was about senescence? Somebody call NASA, we have a savant! Mars here we come! Let's get that big brain working!
@robocu42 ай бұрын
@joshyoung1440 did someone back over your head w a semi?
@uncroppedsoop2 ай бұрын
@@robocu4 I was gonna reply to similar effect but I read yours and honestly it's way funnier than anything I would've come up with
@TerenceClark2 ай бұрын
I've followed the list of verified oldest people for decades. When I started watching back when Wikipedia was very new, there were two people verified to have made it to 119 and three that made it to 117. Now there are 3 that have made it to 119, 4 to 118, and 12 to 117 including one still living. It's hard to filter out noise related to better documentation standars and just better data availability, so clear conclusions are hard to draw. But if there really are so many more contenders making it to 117, 118, and 119, it's very possible someone will break Jeanne Calment's 122 years sometime fairly soon.
@Abby-ug4xc2 ай бұрын
I track that too! It's crazy to see that out of the 100 oldest verified people currently, 6 are living. The current oldest is mentally well enough to post to twitter
@omatic_opulis98762 ай бұрын
@@Abby-ug4xcThat's really impressive, especially when you consider that most people on Twitter aren't mentally well enough to post on Twitter.
@uncroppedsoop2 ай бұрын
@@Abby-ug4xc not a very effective measure of cognitive capacity ngl
@Abby-ug4xc2 ай бұрын
@@uncroppedsoop Lmfaoo fair point It's just interesting someone born in 1907 is cognizant enough to use our generation's way of communicating For her part she probably isn't very aware of twitter toxicity
@jeffreywolfe12 ай бұрын
William Clark, Ph.D., emeritus chair of immunology at UCLA, perfectly addressed this topic in his 1996 book "Sex and The Origin of Death" Senescence and death were the consequence of sexual reproduction, the segregation of germinal DNA away from the somatic variety which powers the cells. Clark poetically referenced this as the ultimate loss of innocence.
@ajchapeliere2 ай бұрын
Can something we don't fully understand now really be "perfectly addressed" by a nigh 30-year-old book? We didn't even have the full human genome sequenced until 2003.
@jeffreywolfe12 ай бұрын
@@ajchapeliere Omit the word "perfectly." Read Clark's work and decide for yourself.
@indycinema2 ай бұрын
This host is mad good.
@RobertSaxy2 ай бұрын
Agreed
@poopymcface97922 ай бұрын
Looking
@wentoneisendon65022 ай бұрын
Yeah she's a fantastic addition
@wentoneisendon65022 ай бұрын
Yeah she's a fantastic addition
@gregorydittrich15632 ай бұрын
I'll never forget the Aglet!
@spiritMushro0m2 ай бұрын
Phineas and Ferb have a whole episode based on Aglets
@Keoqa2 ай бұрын
You are going to waste a whole day promoting aglets? Who is going to care? - Baljeet
@sophierobinson27382 ай бұрын
Never, no never!
@RayramAureanBlue2 ай бұрын
I remember it from Terraria.
@Lutefisk4452 ай бұрын
I think I prefer the idea of not living longer, but having more years where I'm able bodied and as healthy as I treat myself.
@DanteGabriel-lx9bq2 ай бұрын
I think there are 4 reasons for us dying: 1. Hayflick limit. 2. Senescence. 3. Buildup of damage, especially from oxygen radicals, which also cause senescence. 4. End replication problem.
@SaltyRamen.2 ай бұрын
Isn’t 2 just 1?
@skip21752 ай бұрын
You just repeated yourself with fancy wording,shame most folk wouldn't understand
@jonathandb912 ай бұрын
Those are the "how" not the why. Maybe leave the thinking to people who actually understand concepts and not just regurgitate information.
@2CSST22 ай бұрын
Those are all just reasons for aging, not problems for which there is any proof that science and technology can't resolve. It would be like saying gravity is a reason why man could never invent any flying machine...
@tiki_trash2 ай бұрын
#5 Embarrassment
@justindie75432 ай бұрын
This is a huge topic and they really didn't have time to cover everything here, but a leading hypothesis of aging is that due to pleiotropy, there is genetic conflict between traits that will make you more successful when you are young but at the cost of your long term health. A classic example is cancer and wound healing. Regeneration is very beneficial for your short term health, but opens pandoras box to cancer by encouraging rapid cell replication that could become exploited by oncogenic mutations later on.
@darcieclements48802 ай бұрын
Yeah you know how they said most scientists don't think there's an evolutionary advantage. I'm going to assume the most refers to people who aren't evolutionary biologists nor ecologist. Or really stubborn people in denial? If you run simulations of population dynamics you'll learn real quick that there's a lot of advantages to rapid turnover of generations. Being multicellular is difficult, being able to reset to single cellular briefly and then go back to being multicellular has massive advantages but you need to clear out the old multicellular form regularly before parasites and diseases come up with exploits that wipe them out all in one go otherwise they will keep out competing the new generation.
@Envy_MayАй бұрын
although better regeneration also gives you better chance of recovering well from things like chemotherapy, right ? so would you be like, more likely to get cancer, but also more likely to be able to go through the treatment for it ?
@osmia2 ай бұрын
Congratulations on reaching 8 million subscribers!
@jimmatthews59932 ай бұрын
it's great to have you guys on board!
@caspenbee2 ай бұрын
For anyone who's like, "bluh it's against god's plan," there are dudes in the Old Testament living to like 900 allegedly 😂
@scruffles872 ай бұрын
Yeah but according to them the old testament is irrelevant and that's why the new testament exists I'm pretty sure
@sagunsingh74152 ай бұрын
My man's talking to himself 😂
@sagunsingh74152 ай бұрын
@@scruffles87 Who is "them"?
@Brommernaut2 ай бұрын
The original plan was for Adam and Eve to live forever. They sinned then the Holy Spirit left them. That caused humanity’s life to shorten and shorten. Sooo technically it was the plan, but not anymore.
@sebastianandres68022 ай бұрын
NOO DON'T SUMMON THEM
@garydzidowski11342 ай бұрын
Is it possible, yes. Why? Every time an organism (including humans) reproduces, the cell clock is reset. You may say that it is because of the re-shuffling of genetics so this becomes a "new" cell. But this does not account for parthenogenesis, and it is my suspicion that here is the key. Biology is at the point that physics was at the end of the 19th century. When it was believed that all of physics was understood and all was just smoothing out the rough edges. Then nuclear theory happened and we realized that we indeed had just scratched the surface of physics. Biology is just in it's infancy and our understanding of how our own cells work is just starting. I find this to be both exciting and terrifying,
@MissyMonaАй бұрын
So, does that mean having children actually would extend your life?
@garydzidowski1134Ай бұрын
@@MissyMona As a biological entity, yes. As an individual with memories and personality, no. Of course if you hang with people from the medical community, neural surgeons and geriatric specialists in particular, you quickly see that we are all just a fall or trauma away from loosing those memories or even who we perceive ourselves to be. One head bump and you can be a different person.
@MissyMonaАй бұрын
@@garydzidowski1134 It's interesting I think, how quickly the medical evidence causes those philosophical questions about consciousness. I watched another video from SciShow that was talking about surgeries which separated the sides of the brain. Which included each side communicating differently.
@ktefccre2 ай бұрын
I don't mind dying... I don't like getting old, though
@Tevin-MKАй бұрын
Sport!
@Will-od8rc2 ай бұрын
Another question the demographers weren't asking is were those final years of a person's life desirable. Living with some health problems can be worse than death. You also touched on the point that if we don't die off we would continue to compete for resources with our offspring, this is a huge problem to overcome.
@wiandryadiwasistio20622 ай бұрын
this is a dilemma tho. you do not want to die, but you also live a life you’d rather choose death over it (as in it’s just suffering and pain beyond your control). a dilemma that no one will ever be able to solve (just to point out, people commit sui cide not because they want to die, but simply to not exist or escape the pain; had there been a non-death option, they’d choose it right away)
@Vivian22902 ай бұрын
Most offsprings would rather have their parents with them for longer if they can stay health. Yes, some health problems can be worse than death, but leting old but healthy people die so that they dont "compete" with their offspring is not aceptable.
@The_Savage_Wombat2 ай бұрын
We can leave the planet if it gets too crowded. Space is big and the part we occupy is infinitesimal. Life is the rarest thing in the universe for all intents and purposes. There's no reason to squish it all on one tiny spec.
@Will-od8rc2 ай бұрын
@@Vivian2290 If humans were already immune to death by old age we would be in a position of go extinct or start killing off the elderly so the young don't starve. Remember, immune to death by old age not immune to death period, there's a big difference. Also there's the issues of living while people you care about weren't lucky enough to avoid dieing from something other than age. Don't get me wrong, most of us love our parents and would love to be able to keep them around and not have to deal with that loss. However think about the parent who hasn't died due to age and has survived their own child, this already happens and is considered by some to be the worst tragedy possible.
@Will-od8rc2 ай бұрын
@@The_Savage_Wombat Perhaps in the future that will be an option, it isn't yet and is not likely to be within the next 20 years. Imagine for a moment all the people who die specifically of old age in a 20 year span, now imagine that many extra mouths to feed when some would say there's already a global shortage on many staple food items. I would not want to live in that world.
@egyptwns89_262 ай бұрын
No, we don't HAVE TO die. Our medical science is advanced enough to where we can actually start tinkering with living longer far more than we do. The only problem is when you look at the "ethics" of performing trials for living longer (religious lunacy and determining who gets the ability to live longer).
For me personally, I plan on hitting 150 years prior to passing. So every day after may the 20th 2121 will in my opinion be borrowed time. But prior to that I plan on filling that remaining 97 years with an amazing adventure and share the insights I"ve learned with everyone who will listen.
@goodfortunetoyou2 ай бұрын
I'm totally on board with this, but I think people tend to dramatically overestimate how long people live. You included. It's like 50/50 you'll get past around 70 or 80 or so. Basically nobody gets to 100, and everybody thinks they're the exception. The national institute of aging has about a 4B budget, half of which goes to alzheimers, and 350M of which goes to basic research. Given that most healthcare spending is due to aging-degraded health, and we spend over 1T on healthcare in the US, we need way more research funding for you to reach that 150 yo goal.
@empathyisonlyhuman78162 ай бұрын
@@goodfortunetoyou It's not about hitting the goal. It's about purposefully inflating expectations so as to avoid an early demise. If I don't hit that mark, I'll never know it. So it's not about being right. It's about living in a manner that takes longevity as a given. And to plan accordingly. Look on the flip side of this. Suppose I were to hit that mark. Doesn't it make sense to have taken this in account for a variety of reasons? Not the least of which are financial considerations. There is also something very true about the following statement: "The man who expects to die tomorrow, will usually find a way to make it happen." Cheers mate! I hope your day treats you well.
@goodfortunetoyou2 ай бұрын
@@empathyisonlyhuman7816 Makes sense to me. Cheers to you as well :)
@tompallett1172 ай бұрын
Good video, though I feel that 'Do we have to age?' would have been a better title. I find it surprising that the question of whether we should attempt to cure aging is such a divisive one. We recognise that any other cause of suffering and death (disease, crime, accidents) is best avoided, but when it comes to biological aging, many commentators seem to imagine that it's something we shouldn't do. I believe aging is the mother of all disease, and defeating it will bring benefits that far outweigh any drawbacks. Future generations will find it baffling that there was ever a debate to be had.
@explorerofmind2 ай бұрын
“I don’t want to go, I don’t want to go, please sir, I don’t want to go “
@sciencefliestothemoon23052 ай бұрын
Well, there is the Hayflick limit. And the main limiter is our brain. If we can keep that running for a thousand years, the other organs are a cakewalk.
@TojiFushigoroWasTaken2 ай бұрын
Saw in another video that a healthy brain that never had or will have any neuro degenerative disease can last for 200 years.
@kevinrdunnphs2 ай бұрын
@@TojiFushigoroWasTaken our brains shrink as we age even with no disease at all, a healthy 80 year old has less brain matter than a 50 year old. You won't be doing well mentally very far past 100 even with no diseases
@hherpdderp2 ай бұрын
Some guy got a titanium heart with a maglev pump a few weeks ago. It was used as bridge but the doctors and the inventor etc think it can probably become a permanent fix.😮
@Highlyskeptical2 ай бұрын
Neuroscientist Robert McIntyre of Nectome and the Brain Preservation Foundation are working on saving the connectome and genome, maybe on revival those telomere problems would be figured out.
@sciencefliestothemoon23052 ай бұрын
@@Highlyskeptical ohhhhh that would be awesome. So mapping your mind?
@AuntBibby2 ай бұрын
i had exploding head syndrome & sleep apnea at the same time once & i experienced death. it was the scariest thing id ever experienced. i dont want to die again
@Stierenkloot2 ай бұрын
You did not experience death
@AuntBibby2 ай бұрын
@@Stierenkloot i was on the edge of the cliff of awareness and i could "see" a endless bottomless horizon cavern of unawareness/infinite-time-passing-before-me-&-without-me, and i looked in, and in a darkness-of-zero-sensory-data i heard my thoughts say "oh.. im dead" and i ***SCRAMBLED*** back up the cliff of awareness and suddenly i was awake in my bed all at once but there was what felt like zero oxygen in my lungs & i ***GULPED*** down air & i ***GULPED*** down air again & i kept gulping down oxygen for what felt like Ten Minutes before suddenly realizin that i already had oxygen in my lungs and i was fine and i didnt need to keep gulping down oxygen (but i kept gulping air for a while just to be safe). it was the most terrifying thing ive ever experiencd & i relly dont want to experience it again
@sushidog53122 ай бұрын
@@Stierenklootyou can’t tell someone what they experienced 🤓
@Stierenkloot2 ай бұрын
@@sushidog5312 oh no? I can’t tell a living person that they did not die? I can tell you that you never experienced life on the moon.
@Stierenkloot2 ай бұрын
@@AuntBibby that’s called hallucinating you genius. Death is literally just lights out. No bells and whistles. Grow up.
@ElonMuskegon2 ай бұрын
I like this host, her voice is relaxing.
@wolfgangouille2 ай бұрын
"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." --Susan Ertz
@uncroppedsoop2 ай бұрын
rain is always nice for spacing out
@PrincePakiso-rh2wzАй бұрын
A profound question! As humans, we have to die because: 1. *Evolutionary cycle*: Death is a natural part of the life cycle, allowing for the passing of genes to the next generation and evolution to occur. 2. *Cellular limitations*: Our cells have a limited lifespan and can only divide a certain number of times before they deteriorate. 3. *Aging and wear*: Our bodies are subject to wear and tear, leading to age-related decline and eventual failure. 4. *Genetic programming*: Our DNA is programmed for a finite lifespan, with built-in mechanisms that contribute to aging and death. 5. *Ecological balance*: Death helps maintain ecological balance, making way for new life and preventing overpopulation. Death is an intrinsic part of life, and it's what makes life precious and meaningful. It's a natural process that allows for growth, renewal, and the continuation of our species. (Side note: While we can't escape death, modern medicine and technology have significantly increased human lifespans, and researchers continue exploring ways to extend healthy life and understand the aging process.)
@rafaelperalta16762 ай бұрын
She's back!
@MichaelAachen2 ай бұрын
Amazing, informative, well-researched and comprehensive video, thank you so much!!
@CoreDreamStudios2 ай бұрын
The comparison to humans vs animals is, we do a lot more than anyone else. We're overly stressed, work constantly sometimes, deal with medical and mental problems on a daily, etc. I'm 44 so I doubt I'll ever see advancement in this area before I'm gone.
@melfsade55572 ай бұрын
Keep going for another 44 years and it's 2 years to 2070. Having the first more widely available treatments ready by then seems pretty realistic, I wouldn't be surprised if we see a few coming out before that. You might just make it, stay healthy mate.
@RialuCaos2 ай бұрын
I think most animals undergo just as much if not more stress than humans. Just take a look at a squirrel and see how easy it is to make it start running for its life. Maybe those tortoises and jellyfish have a really chill life though.
@brantcraft72672 ай бұрын
Yeah you never know. Sometimes throughout history there have been eureka moments. Agree with the above at least do the basics of staying healthy and see what happens! I’m 34 that’s my strategy
@Brambrew2 ай бұрын
Most compelling argument my friend told me pro-immortality: Age-related complications and diseases are but a small fraction of possible causes of death, so immortality would have surprisingly little effect on the overall human population.
@CautiosulyOptimistic14402 ай бұрын
Also could we talk about the strange properties bats display i.e., dramatically longer lifespans by mammalian size, immune system behaviors, and body temperature during flight.
@Partimepeasant2 ай бұрын
Learning how to partition your immune system is imperative.
@one_field2 ай бұрын
Great overview! I look forward to deep dives on some of the topics brushed through quickly in this one, if your team gets a chance to do some thorough explainers on these topics. Since "Lifespan" came out in 2019, these have all been increasingly part of the public conversation, and it'd be great to keep the actual science at the forefront to hold the enthusiasm in check.
@LGrian2 ай бұрын
Do we have to age?” might have been a better title
@davids90272 ай бұрын
I am happy that Unlike other videos on aging your does not harp on why we must die. You concentrated on biologic causes of aging without unscientific moralizing. Thanks
@xpndblhero51702 ай бұрын
3:44 - OK so you're saying don't squeeze fresh free radical orange juice on my DNA.... Got it. 😁👍
@Cr1ms0mGl0ry2 ай бұрын
But... Free Radicals juice is so tasty :(
@pensivepenguin3000Ай бұрын
You are a terrific, likable and engaging host. Great job! As for the topic, at 45 years old, the Grimm spectre of death isn’t as far away as it once was lol. I’m counting on those sweet, sweet life extension options by the time I am staring down the reaper 🤞
@SamBrownBaudot2 ай бұрын
There IS an evolutionary advantage to aging; not to the individual, but to the community. This is well studied in genetic algorithms. When a "most fit" algorithm is allowed to continue to compete with offspring generation after generation, then the community of algorithms gets trapped in a "local maxima". That is, the community hasn't found the best answer to the stresses it faces, but it's found the best answer that resembles the ones its already explored. By removing the "most fit" contestants after a maximum number of generations, even if they're currently scoring best against the reaper algorithm, the community explores more possible avenues. It doesn't stick with the best answers it knows, as far as genetics goes; it goes out and tries new things, now that the old leader has aged out. In the short term, the community becomes "less fit". But in the long term, it can discover entirely new gene mixes that are better than the old best could have been. It can escape the trap of the "local maxima". You can visualize this if you imagine a map, covered in hills. The "most fit" contestant in the breeding game is the one highest on the map. Generation after generation, the new contestants that land higher on the hill are even more fit. Eventually, a contestant lands on top of the hill. It's not possible to get any more fit. Except there's another hill, father away, that's even taller. No one's going there, though, because the new generations are spawned near the old "best fit", and it's already at the top of this hill. No one's setting foot on that taller hill over there, and starting the climb. When the top fitting algorithm is forced to die after X generations, instead of just camping at the top of its hill forever, the population explores more. They find that next neighboring hill, and some start exploring it. They find a higher peak. That's the value of death by aging, not to the individual, but to the community. It prevents the "best answer we've found yet" from getting stuck as "the best answer forever", when there are better answers out there. Put it another way: Imagine our stone age ancestors found a magic plant that repairs the damage of aging. Everyone who does well has all of the magic herb they need to remain young, healthy, and breeding forever. Eventually, they breed a flawless Conan, stronger and faster than everyone else in the tribe. Conan has tons of kids, but none of them can surpass him. Conan is the best Conan that genetics can produce. All his children and children's children are similar, but Conan is forever the chief because no one is a better Conan than Conan. This tribe carries on for thousands and thousands of years, with Conan the eternal patriarch. And they never create a Napoleon, or a Nikola Tesla, or an Ada Lovelace, etc.. There's nothing stopping us from replicating the improved genetic exploration produced by death after we sort out biological aging, and we'll need to. If we don't take steps to keep change going after mortality ends, our species will hit a local peak, and then, genetically speaking, decide that's as good as it gets.
@DeviRuto2 ай бұрын
That's only if we are interested in keeping evolving biologically. Advancing technology has mostly overridden most of our evolutionary limitations, much faster than evolution has. We have no good reason to give back control to natural selection. Besides, the idea of a "best answer" in an anthropological context is kinda eugenics-y.
@marisabond2 ай бұрын
What a well articulated answer! And one that seems to fit with what we already see in things like small towns or big families where when the oldest generation or matriarch/patriarch dies the community spreads out or falls apart
@3nertia2 ай бұрын
Which is where we seem to be now because capitalism has caused stagnation in all creative endeavors heh
@Polyfoci2 ай бұрын
I'm struggling to sort out the normative from the descriptive here. Is your point just that group selection can explain why aging is a dominant trait, or is it that there is some sort of imperative to preserve the purported advantage that aging gives to our species? If it's the latter then I'm not sure why becoming more fit should be our goal.
@boxwithahat2 ай бұрын
Underrated comment of the year
@christajennings38282 ай бұрын
I agree. I don't really want to live longer if that just means more years of physical disability and dementia. If I can be myself, doing the things I enjoy, sure id love to live longer! But i have watched my grandparents and parents lose the ability to do much of anything for themselves, and become confused and worried, unable to recognize friends and family. I don't want extra years of that, thanks anyway.
@davetoms12 ай бұрын
"The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant" is a wonderful take on whether humanity needs to accept death. Written by Nick Bostrom and animated by CGP Grey over on CGP Grey's channel. Phenomenal stuff.
@alien92792 ай бұрын
Omg I love that video
@river_brook2 ай бұрын
urggghh my main problem with that story though is that it does not remotely touch on the actual reasons I and a lot of people are wary of the notion of living forever, that being that with the way our society is currently structured and distributes resources, we're going to have to worry about dying early from age-unrelated illnesses or mental conditions that we can't afford to treat, while people with money to spend are gonna get to sit in their positions of power forever the argument stands for the very specific objection of "why spend so many resources to commit an act against the natural order", but unless we can stop the sun from exploding or the earth from boiling itself, we're still gonna have to live with the specter of death and the parable is too limited to address that anxiety
@river_brook2 ай бұрын
by all means though we should continue researching senescence and how to mitigate its effects, i just hate that story specifically
@T-Even_phage_destroyer2 ай бұрын
Sad coincidence but you guys released this video 8 days after my mom passed away, and 3 days before my birthday. It’s been a heck of a ride
@nicksystermann15582 ай бұрын
"Aglet (Don't forget it)" Insert "I GOT THAT REFERENCE" meme here.
@Mr-wv1tu2 ай бұрын
YES! It's hosted by Niba, NOT Savannah Geary!! Yes! A SciShow video that I can watch!
@BinkyBorky2 ай бұрын
When people reach over a century, many lose the will to live due to quality of life. That is the factor, quality of life with stable mental acuity.
@TheDopekitty2 ай бұрын
I'm only fifty and my quality of life already sucks. Fibromyalgia, arthritis and a knee that keeps giving out, plus other health problems.
@radioactivewolfaj33982 ай бұрын
All I can say is from a biological perspective it makes sense to have generations of organisms, and for older organisms to eventually die, not only does it allow for new mutations to be put to the test in the environment allowing for adaption to actually take place, but it removes the competition that parents can pose to their offspring in an environment. With out death, new life has no room to grow.
@iceshadow4872 ай бұрын
Hey just a reminder that the phrase "begs the question" is not an expression that means something like "it brings up the question...". It is actually a logical fallacy that relates to circular reasoning or assuming a key part of your argument is true without proving it!
@aalhard2 ай бұрын
Fascinating tangle of enigmas and paradoxes😊
@nefrax66632 ай бұрын
Yo I've never caught a Scishow fresh outta the oven! Welcome everyone to sick science
@Amongus-xh3rf2 ай бұрын
damn, some bot sniped first comment
@gargoylelamp392 ай бұрын
@@Amongus-xh3rf don't even know why they keep doing it. All shock value has left just a mild annoyance now.
@CoreDreamStudios2 ай бұрын
Same, love it.
@crimsonraen2 ай бұрын
Thanks for the video, y'all!
@pedrostormrage2 ай бұрын
7:47 "So looking at DNA methylation gives you a pretty sensitive age, it just is one that might not match up with what day you were born" That's a really good sign, since it tells us that the age that matters is the molecular one (which should be something we'd eventually be able to manipulate with DNA editing techniques). It really seems like with perfect DNA repair mechanisms (without mutations and that can preserve all epigenetic modifications, such as DNA methylation) and perfect replication (no end of DNA - telomere - shortening), immortality (or more accurately, agelessness) should be a reality (and those "immortal" organisms could be the key to achieving it).
@EJBert2 ай бұрын
Living to over 120 years is kind of miserable. Many were blind and deaf while outlived loved ones and friends.
@noahlovotti77222 ай бұрын
The blindness and deafness would be not present if they get there due to longevity and healthspan.
@Un_Pour_Tous2 ай бұрын
0:47 I bet the priest will touch up on it later lol
@f0ry0u812 ай бұрын
Lawd have mercy!! 😂😂🤣👍✌️
@haunted-but-holy2 ай бұрын
💀💀💀
@nploda14082 ай бұрын
Lmao
@1croatoanАй бұрын
It's called getting Holy Ghosted.
@LashknifeTalon2 ай бұрын
Another thing to the "Humans aren't lab mice" is the fact that ethics aside, humans can live a LONG time compared to a lot of animals. By the very nature of the problem we are trying to solve, a trial to "make people live longer" will IDEALLY take a long time--if the treatment doesn't have an immediate negative effect, it'll take a long time to figure out if it worked, and how well. That kind of long-term science ain't cheap or easy.
@Stardancer-fb6zg2 ай бұрын
Anecdotal from the native communities tell of a man who lived to 147. My great grandmother lived to 114.
@UKnowIfUKnow2 ай бұрын
I remember reading about an East Asian man living to upper 140's, it was simply a claim. Of course, documenting that would be next to impossible(at the time)
@XIIchiron782 ай бұрын
2:10 I think, statistically, that makes sense anyway. You would expect, given the number of people, for someone to reach just about the maximum natural age by sheer luck, at some point, basically as soon as it became plausible. Advances in medicine would just increase the number of people who do so, eventually pushing the limit just a little higher, but not by much, without more fundamental changes.
@mementomori71602 ай бұрын
"Should we live forever" Tbh taking a possibility like that from someone is like killing someone, after all both shorter someone's life, so the question itself should be "is it worth living longer" and I can answer with 100% certainty, yes it is, I want to live longer, experience more, see the future, there is nothing good in death
@patrickmccurry15632 ай бұрын
The question is never live forever. It's live for tomorrow. 1000 years from now will eventually just be a tomorrow after all, if you get my meaning. I'm 50 and when I was a depressed teenager, this age seemed like a silly pipe dream, but it's now my present everything. The future has potential for surprises beyond our imaginations. Not just for society or tech, but ourselves. I know more about myself than I guessed there was to know.
@fartingasmr76362 ай бұрын
"There is nothing good in death?" Tell that to someone in "hell." (Not *literal hell* hopefully, but there are fates worse than death, as I'm sure people would be acutely aware of if they couldn't or wouldn't die.)
@tompallett1172 ай бұрын
Exactly this. So long as I'm happy and healthy, I see no reason I'd want life to end. It's bizarre how many comments I see declaring that defeating aging would somehow be immoral or undesirable. The death worshippers literally believe we should all suffer and die while somehow imaging they have the moral highground for saying so.
@subject87762 ай бұрын
Would be nice if we didn't have to. I'm like a late bloomer and sometimes feel like I have to do things quickly to catch up, doing things when you are a young adult, halted aging would help alleviate the pressure.
@Polyfoci2 ай бұрын
One thing to keep in mind is the brain stuff. It's hard to imagine how our memory capacity could be infinite, barring advanced BCI. Seems like then the options are living until you've replaced all your memories with new ones or living until you're incapable of forming new ones. Niether sounds great to me but I'd take the first, even if in some sense it does mean that I gradually "die" from a continuity of memory perspective on personal identity.
@OceanBagel2 ай бұрын
For the first one, I think that would just mean that physical media holding your memories would be that much more important. And I don't even mean scifi stuff, I'm talking about pictures, stories, and even journaling. Even with our current lifespans, we end up forgetting things that we could record and reflect on later.
@Polyfoci2 ай бұрын
@@OceanBagel Fair point. I mean if you go full extended mind thesis then it’s no bother. But personally I’d like to remember first hand rather than trusting a journal or a photo. I mean if I’m truly forgetting then those things won’t register with me as having anything to do with my consciousness. It’d be like seeing a baby in a photo and recognizing that it has your face.
@yakovdan2 ай бұрын
There's also kind of a middle ground. Even though the total memory capacity is finite, some memories are more vivid than others, requiring a different amount of storage. Even at present, I cant recall what I've had for breakfast two weeks ago but have no trouble remembering what I did or where I've been. I can easily imagine that if you live to say, 500, you wont be able to recall every single month but you will still have a general outline on a yearly basis of your life abd you will recall particularly important events without external memory devices
@Polyfoci2 ай бұрын
@@yakovdan I mean I was thinking about functionally infinite timescales, so that even significant events will be too numerous to reasonably prioritize. But 500 years or so, yeah I think I could see memory capacity doing just fine. But then again I’m not a neuroscientist.
@yakovdan2 ай бұрын
@@Polyfoci Well, if functionally infinite time is in play then all bets are off. Might as well imagine a BCI of your choice. However, to avoid plain pointless speculation, here's an idea: what will advance faster - human healthspan or BCI? Will memory requirements outpace BCI progress or the other way around, or neither? Interestingly, healthspan and BCI progress are correlated to some extent.
@capnbarky26822 ай бұрын
I've been obsessed with older folks doing deadlifts on youtube. There are people twice my age also lifting twice what my good form deadlifts are. I don't need to live forever, but being able to have strong muscles and bones in old age would be great. I'm a dad right now and things have gotten a lot physically easier since I started going to the gym. The idea that I could be a physically active parent to not just my daughter's generation, but my grandchildren's generation if I'm careful and keep consistent and safe training is too tantalizing to pass up.
@canis20202 ай бұрын
The older i get the less i care if i live forever.
@liranpiade44992 ай бұрын
I often feel like I was born in the wrong century. This is a topic I really care about, because life extension (or ideally negligible senesence) is my only chance of living to experience the following centuries (besides the beginning of the 22nd, at a very old age).
@TheDanEdwards2 ай бұрын
Let's leave the "priests" out of decision making. And philosophers are unlikely to be of much practical help.
@blazer95472 ай бұрын
Same goes for hindu priests who think they are somehow better
@thstroyur2 ай бұрын
Let's also leave people saying "priests" out of decision making.
@uncroppedsoop2 ай бұрын
@@thstroyur ???
@thstroyur2 ай бұрын
@@uncroppedsoop Nani?!?
@krystalreverb2 ай бұрын
My great-aunt Ethel lived to be 104, and until she was 102, she was driving on her own, tending her own garden, doing her own grocery shopping and making her delicious family-famous fudge. Since she died, the family has made the fudge using her recipe, but it’s just not the same. Some of the magic is gone.
@NOLNV12 ай бұрын
The rich and powerful gaining the ability to live and accumulating resources and power indefinitely does not seem very appealing to me personally...
@TreeHairedGingerAle2 ай бұрын
☝🏾✨ This right here
@freedomandguns32312 ай бұрын
There is a limit even to that incredibly unlikely scenario. There is only so much you can consolidate in a system like an economy. This is kinda like your body heat in the winter. There is a finite amount, but your body will take care of your core and brain before anything else. BUT, you WILL still die if too much goes there and not enough to the rest. Of course, in the economic scenario we still have "competition" in the mix.
@mementomori71602 ай бұрын
If they lived forever they'd get bored eventually and start spending way more money, which could be good. I hope so at least
@Abby-ug4xc2 ай бұрын
There are many ways to lose power though, and still other ways to die besides aging
@melfsade55572 ай бұрын
sounds like ww should fund that research via national laboratories etc. (and even produce therapies) to make sure thats available to anyone
@guillaumebabey44842 ай бұрын
There has been some controversy over Jeanne Calment's claims about her age, with some suspecting she had passed away earlier than that and her daughter took her place. I don't know how much this claim holds water nowadays of course.
@CascadianBraeden2 ай бұрын
We need to be funding this stuff.
@ianreddish18782 ай бұрын
I know a few pensioners in their 90's, but it is true, as fit and energetic as they are, they still take medicine to control their blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar. My Dad is the same. He is 76 and as fit as I am, 35 years his junior, but he still has a fatty liver and has to take cholesterol tablets. I am a Health Science graduate, and I also find this topic fascinating. How do we live better and longer lives? Biochemistry in particular is forever a mystery.
@3nertia2 ай бұрын
"People aren't living longer, they're dying longer"
@patrickmccurry15632 ай бұрын
My 94 year old grandfather is still living on his own, driving, and hanging out with his own friends. He's a bit of a jerk in mindset, but that's not age related. My 70 year old mother is still working full time as the head of accounting for a multi-national company and is in excellent health. It is possible to age without "dying longer".
@3nertia2 ай бұрын
@@patrickmccurry1563 Only if you're well enough off 🙃
@LordMarcus2 ай бұрын
@@patrickmccurry1563_whoosh_
@LGrian2 ай бұрын
That’s nonsense. Many people are living healthy and rich lives far beyond their pre-modern medicine life expectancy. Most of the change in life span comes from those people whose lives are not cut short by things like childbirth complications and other highly treatable conditions, not by severely impaired and infirmed elderly with degenerative diseases holding on just a couple more months or years because care has improved- in many cases the very OPPOSITE is true
@3nertia2 ай бұрын
@@LGrian Based on what, your bias? 🙃 Being slaves to capitalism longer isn't living longer, it's dying longer and the fact that you don't get that says everything I need to know about you, Dunning-Kruger
@danielsee12 ай бұрын
Life Extension by Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw came out in 1982 42 years ago. I was interested in Life and Health Extension long before this, but I think this book was groundbreaking.
@ashadowawhisper2 ай бұрын
Yes… we do. No amount of molecular biology/biochemistry, synthetic bioorganic or medicinal chemistry, molecular genetics etc will change this. We’ve only really just begun to understand our own genome… we STILL haven’t delved into the overlaps and exactly how things are regulated and the cascading mechanisms that govern every single process in our cells. We’re trying but we, sadly, to put it into vernacular… “don’t know crap”
@valivali81042 ай бұрын
Even if ageing was defeated, there would still be ways to die. Wouldn’t that actually make death even more horrifying since peaceful death would be even rarer? Plus, only rich people would have access to eternal youth...
@Abby-ug4xc2 ай бұрын
I don't have any doubt we'll solve aging eventually, barring mass societal collapse. Might not be this century but absolutely we will. It's odd to me you think that we can't solve a problem in the future just because we don't have the answers or technology at this very moment, especially with the explosion of medical advancements in the last few decades
@bendafyddgillard2 ай бұрын
having a greater proportion of the years we do get, be happy and healthy, is a worthwhile endeavour. I would be interested to know, of the people who want to live longer (or forever), how much is because they're genuinely enjoying life and are excited to see what comes next, how much is fear of death, and how much is a kind of greed (often seen in billionaires for example), that is, a pathological inability to feel "enough".
@tompallett1172 ай бұрын
I think all three are intertwined. I fear death because I enjoy life. As for greed, if wanting to live as long and healthy a life as possible is greedy then I'm as greedy as they get. But so long as my existence isn't hurting anyone, then why would it be a problem?
@davekash12 ай бұрын
Love scishow, but absolutely no decisions about the future of humanity should be made by priests
@eesev20172 ай бұрын
She’s the new face of Sci Show and we all welcome the change :) But HG is still the GOAT
@bays76562 ай бұрын
What’s the benefit of living longer if you are a feeble old person unable to function once you reach your 60’s and onward? Is there a way to stretch out our “prime” days?
@Sepi-chu_loves_moths2 ай бұрын
Getting rid of senescence would probably mean you can still function later on
@jktech21172 ай бұрын
should we live longer? well thats something each person should decide, i just know me and mah boi wanna say here as long as possible and hopefully some millions or billions of yrs and if possible then forever
@fake-inafakerson80872 ай бұрын
No matter what there's always the heat death of the universe
@MegaRogash2 ай бұрын
If a species cannot figure out how to travel to other universes or reverse entropy in 1.7×10^106 years, then that species sucks.
@maxq962 ай бұрын
I feel like it would be emotionally exhausting to live for over 100 years. I feel like there must come a point when you're very old that you want to rest in peace.
@lordhumongous42722 ай бұрын
If you want to understand the secret to immortality, study Keith Richards liver.
@MrRosebeing2 ай бұрын
"Death is a natural part of life". Thank you Yoda. I wouldn't want to live past the point where I'm healthy and able to live independently. To be immortal by any means would be horrendous.
@Pro-kesh2 ай бұрын
Someday when the descendants of humanity have spread from star to star, they won't tell the children about the history of Ancient Earth until they're old enough to bear it; and when they learn they'll weep to hear that such a thing as Death had ever once existed! -HPMOR
@valivali81042 ай бұрын
Death would still exist, since nothing last forever, bodies and brains would be destroyed by illnesses, toxins, accidents, violence, etc. Plus, only rich people would have this eternal youth...
@mintkondish73962 ай бұрын
Ozzy said it best, I don't wanna live forever, but I don't wanna die
@Kissa-ck5yu2 ай бұрын
so early that sponsorblock hasn’t caught up yet
@feanor50372 ай бұрын
The way the majority of older people seem to be incapable of fully adapting to societal and other changes makes me think that aging and dying is essential for societies to be able to adapt. I suspect that means that even if it isn't a directly evolved trait, once we became apex predators and old age became the norm there was no evolutionary pressure to extend lifespan further.
@briangman32 ай бұрын
Yes or congress is going to be full of old people, wait a second : |
@pancakegod666lol2 ай бұрын
i'm of the mindset that at somepoint CRISPR will be more widely acceptable and snapshots of people's genomes at certain ages will basically reverse aging as long as people had a snapshot done
@Myke_thehuman2 ай бұрын
I wonder how long before this comment section is flooded with religious people mainly Christians, that are furious we're even trying to live longer.
@TessaBain2 ай бұрын
No one wants to actually live longer though. You will eventually stop caring about everything.
@TheDanEdwards2 ай бұрын
@@TessaBain "No one wants to actually live longer though."
@TreeHairedGingerAle2 ай бұрын
@@TheDanEdwards You must have a bunker to ride out climate change in 😮
@tompallett1172 ай бұрын
@@TessaBain Speak for yourself. For as long as I'm healthy and happy I see no reason to stop living.
@beachboysandrewАй бұрын
Worth mentioning that Jeanne Calment's age is also disputed