Undoing aging: Aubrey de Grey at TEDxDanubia 2013

[@romesrepublic]

I say let the people who want to age and die, age and die. and Let the ones who want to live forever, live forever.

[@Derpster2493]

...and let us call them diamonds, because diamonds are forever.

[@jessematkin3107]

@@Derpster2493 😂😂😂

[@christopherellis2663]

Let...?

[@ebt12]

Snake oil salesmen don't get to speak at TED events, Harvard, Cambridge, and many other major locations. His work has been peer reviewed by the scientific community. Even a panel at MIT could not discount his work. Aubrey's work is well thought out and based on sound research.

[@TheNorthernMist]

Not only that but he also makes much sense. He's been studying this and living it for years.

[@miket4345]

Was waiting for the 'by the way, I'm 207 years old'

[@ayejayjay]

The idea of preventing aging and prolonging lifespan was something you'd read in science fiction books, now it's an actual possibility that could appear in our lifetime. Crazy.

[@hipposterro3790]

exactly, how it was supoosed to be

[@klayvonisme]

This will never get old, I'll watch it again since I don't remember things very well...

[@LongevoByZe]

Just reminding you to watch it again bruh 🙏🏽💪🏽 let's work on this

[@wuvit9672]

I will respect anyone here who in their daily life give 5 minutes of their time every now and then to inform someone new on SENS and the future of medicine. It's people like Aubrey and yourselves that move our world forward.

[@MelodyJoyMelodyJoy]

& I've literally thought this myself , this truly is the worlds biggest problem. I'm so glad that passionate people are working hard at this...!!! 🐸

[@lazygamerz]

Donate some money to sens foundation then.

[@higurusakiyokamamoto]

I'm going to donate some, they look like they realy need it (look at thier channel)

[@14thSun]

This man is the real deal.

[@MrTtvvt]

ONEEZE Sort of, mate, but I don't think he actually has a Ph.D. in gerontology or anything. I vaguely recollect that he started out as an IT guy at Oxford or Cambridge. That's not to say that he can't know what he's talking about, but we have to be just a teeny bit more cautious about his statements.

[@CalumnMcAulay]

+MrTtvvt I would say Aubrey has an intellect of epic proportions; much of what he says is supported by other pioneers like ben goertzel and ray Kurzweil

[@RationalAnimations]

He has a Ph.D from Cambridge in biogerontology!

[@FreeSpirit47]

Very interesting. Moving on through time is inevitable. Becoming old is optional. Taking excellent care of body, mind, health is a wonderful practice. Be kind to yourself, kind to others,laugh as much as possible.

[@BarryKay123]

Sometimes you have to overlook the quirkiness or appearance of the messenger and understand and enjoy the message. Very interesting talk.

[@Patcul]

I think he is incredibly charismatic

[@sihillawi8118]

He's come SUCH a long way since the last time I saw his videos, this might ACTUALLY happen within our lifetimes!!

[@matchbox555]

this is awesome now i have millions of years to find a girlfriend

[@yee5163]

They’ll have millions of years to have to avoid you

[@ashafr4930]

@@yee5163 This isn't a roast. This is a BBQ.

[@Golfr2020]

Don't bother

[@sameerhinduja7357]

Only videos like these help me fight depression and suicidal thoughts. Merely birth does not mean having life. Life means having enough time on your youth to full fill all your wishes and responsibilities. Having eternal youth and 100% Health would solve all problems and insecurities to humanity.

[@jordixboy]

no lol, dying is part of the human experience

[@Fwuzeem]

This is fantastic, give as much as you can to this team, they're excellent people

[@freediugh416]

im loving this wolverine from les miserables look

[@audiosport2]

this man gives hope for those that don't wanna die

[@mattiraandre6719]

The Sens Research Foundation is a non profit organization. It's great to see them making progress lately, but if we want this to happen sooner rather then later we have to invest. The future we get is the future we invest in.

[@M0B1US]

You can donate to the OncoSENS project on lifespan.io and every dollar donated is doubled thanks to a matching $15k fund

[@M0B1US]

Do you understand the maintenance approach? Did you bother to watch the video? What reasons can you give for its invalidity? There's no reason it can't work. You're essentially saying that it's impossible to cure cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, baldness, saggy skin, and everything else that goes wrong as we age. Nobody's saying it'll have a simple solution. It's going to take a variety of different medicines. By the way, SENS is already bearing fruit. Work they funded recently resulted in the synthesis of glucosepane, you can look up the publication in Science magazine for yourself. They've also managed to move 2/13 mitochondrial genes into the cell nucleus, which will protect them from free radical damage. These are just two of the more recent accomplishments.

[@fallenmammoth2019]

While it is great to see them make progress , I fear its not going to progress fast enough due to lack of awareness/funding , Aubrey has been alone in this fight for far too long. I'm from the Longevity Anti Aging Live Chat Discord Channel (discord.gg/ftSbffu) and we're grouping up online to discuss and to help spread the word regarding longevity research around the internet! feel free to come and chat!

[@eddiepryor3119]

@@fallenmammoth2019 This society is very narrow and close minded and only way of maybe getting more people invested is if this would be published on like 9GAG or something similar that all these kinds of people gather so at least there is a chance. Plus show it in TV in mainstream media and still maybe the proccess will accelerate

[@spol3278]

Patenting is the answer but it is expensive

[@wuvit9672]

Agreed. I'd like to find a way to spread the word more effectively. All my friends and family know about him and SENS cause of me, but I feel like people that know about these new possibilities have to go out and promote the idea to places where the news is still unknown. The more people that know about this the faster the knowledge will propagate, and the faster funding will come.

[@DocUnsane]

He needs to get a cloak and a wizard hat. "YOU SHALT NOT AGE"

[@wuvit9672]

If you didn't know, Aubrey De Grey invested 13 million out of the 16.5 million of his inherited money from his mothers death to the SENS foundation in 2011. People talking about how this is for money just don't follow current news. The SENS foundation has helped bring about a lot of advancements in regenerative medicine to date, and all one needs to do is download their yearly report on their site to check that info out (sens.org).

[@JinKazama1993]

I just can't find something negative for the cure that can prolong our lifespan. It would be absolutely amazing .

[@lazur1]

No negatives for t b e individual whose life is extended, but for the world, nothing but negatives : a serious shortage of all resources.

[@EternalLifeFan]

JinKazama1993 If there are any negatives, they are outweighed by the positives. Just imagine how many lives would be saved!. Anyone who is against Aubrey's plan is basically saying that old people should be forced to die, which is a despicable stance.

[@fathobbit214]

Eternal Life Fan The mice vote NO!!

[@biga69g]

+Im Yu Diseases cause suffering. Suffering reduces resources. Prolonging lifespan requires reducing diseases. So prolonging lifespan also requires reducing suffering. So then prolonging lifespan also requires increasing resources. Suffering is bad. So prolonging lifespan requires reducing bad.

[@biga69g]

+Tyler Vo And resource usage is due to greed not because of life extension. Also, short lives means short term perspectives and goals. The longer people live, the sooner people start realizing that long term goals are more important. Thus they will focus more on preserving resources.

[@romaniamyland6191]

Thank you for your work! I am a junior doctor coming from Romania and currently working in UK as a junior doctor. I intend to do research in ageing and I intend to do it seriously. What can be more important than this? Apart from taking care of our children, nothing is more important. Usually we feel helpless about this and that's why we don't even want to think about this. Is the deep believe that we will not be able to do nothing about it. And maybe they are right to a certain extent, maybe we will not, but what we can do is: we can work towards it and discover more and more, so our children will be a step ahead... our children will have a stronger base to built on.Through our work we can give a better chance for our children ... a better life for the future generations!

[@vindembmw6421]

Salut. Unde ți-ai făcut studiile și unde lucrezi în UK în prezent, dacă nu te superi?

[@minimushrooom]

I think the point of this is to make life and aging more comfortable, not force immortality on everyone. It's amazing how as soon as people are actually confronted with the prospect of a presently unnatural prolonged life they get very cross and say they shouldn't have it. That's a mind blowing concept to have a think about.

[@bodebliss]

forcing immortality on anyone will not be a prob. Because immortality is an absolute which lies outside our universe. we live in the quasi neither positive nor negative universe. even with everlasting health(which is the aim) you will still be able to die in a plane crash, car accident, murder, house fire, etc.

[@lololololol47]

bodebliss True enough, although I imagine we will eventually arrive at a point, maybe not long after an indefinite lifespan has been achieved, that it will become difficult and then nearly impossible to die except through self termination or falling into a supernova or blackhole or something. Of course unless we manage to defy the laws of physics, entropy will eventually kick in. But there are so many variables, known and unknown in our future its hard to say with any certainty, mostly tied into how exactly the universe (multiverse?) works and will work.

[@tahneethompson6012]

bodebliss tell that to digital immortality and nanotechnology

[@bluecafe509]

All the years spent getting a Master’s degree, all the years spent alone with my music, and the years spent learning programming languages. I can get them back and still have the benefit of having done those things? I hope this guy succeeds in his research and develops a product that is accessible and effective. In this day and age people spend too much time working and going to school. We deserve more life in our years; more time to be at our best with the people we love.

[@neo69121]

never in my life have i encountered such an epic thing as his beard

[@crownedunhol]

Not a ZZ Top fan, huh? =)

[@77Avadon77]

***** facepalm

[@wuvit9672]

Well what Aubrey, SENS and others have been saying is that your method (Geronology) of slowing the accumulation of these damages is really really hard and that it is very likely it would take a lot longer to develop your therapies than it would to develop his. I am very glad that there are people like you who put an effort into combating aging, I just believe that these efforts would be better off trying to repair the damage. Aubrey's explanation on this video to why this is true is very good.

[@Theseniorlist]

Defining #aging with biologist Aubrey de Grey. Wonderful talk.

[@wuvit9672]

If someone like you doesn't want to live a longer and healthier life because of whatever reason, you don't have to. But you have no right to tell others they can't. People get to choose and deserve to live life to the fullest, as long as they wish.

[@testbankprep4065]

Part of slowing aging involves staying mentally active in general. Studying, for example, keeps your brain active in a way that preserves memory. It's relatively simple and inexpensive.

[@davidnarkunas3802]

Dr. de Grey had a martini for lunch. His beard had two.Good stuff though. I'm right down the street from MIT/Harvard and Dr. Dave Sinclair is doing some awesome work in this area. He has a Ted Talk worth viewing, too.

[@brokenthumb8387]

Once dead were gone forever, will be forgotten like a distance memory. I for one want to live long enough so I can see the advances in technology!!! 🙏

[@lazur1]

No matter how long you live, youll miss what comes after you die.

[@EternalLifeFan]

bonbeana fraser Absolutely -- death is most likely the end of existence and there is no value in leaving a legacy. The real value is getting to stay young and live forever!

[@EternalLifeFan]

Im Yu But there's probably nothing after you die. There is no credible evidence of life after death, so living forever on this planet is the only smart option.

[@lazur1]

Eternal Life Fan What's so bad about nothing?

[@lazur1]

Im Yu when you awake from a deep, dreamless sleep, do you regret the nothingness you've "experienced"?

[@runeprofit5034]

I agree. People argue that they would have too much free time, but consider the possibilities. The new technologies that are coming up at the moment are holograms, flexible screens, jet packs that last over half an hour, visits to space through inflatable balloons hence staying for longer time frames and at a much smaller cost... Being able to fly, communicating with people from different backgrounds... Man I want to experience all that...

[@andy4an]

informative and thought provoking talk from a brilliant man with an epic beard. yeah, I am THAT guy. Loved the part with the list of 7 ways we die, really facinating to see and break it down

[@TheNicLba]

I actually think that this is very realistic and it really is a major problem that people just accept aging as a natural kind of thing although the know that it can be cured with financial help and other support! I think AUBREY DE GREY will be a very, very well known scientist in the future.

[@TheCrusaderRabbits]

One day history will look back on this man and his life's work and understand that he was a genius.

[@WordwizardW]

I have an 8th category of aging. Damage done to the body in the course of having accidents. Cut tendons, broken bones, damaged sense of balance after damage making it necessary to relearn to walk, scar tissue, etc.

[@mywaveinwoodswoodperfumes]

great, i like the talk of this professor

[@TheBeardedSandman]

This man is so far beyond the ordinary wizarding level.

[@DigitalWraith]

*FIRST IMMORTALITY, THEN THE BITCHES!!!*

[@jacopoisopi5417]

Vegeta know it right!

[@Hisham23633]

Jacopo Isopi ofcourse i am!!...

[@DigitalWraith]

LOL you're Broly now

[@terrytibbs1040]

listen up people this wizard is 300 years old he's been growing that beard since the end of ww1.

[@leeo268]

I love his work! I hope I get to work in his organization one day.

[@robertjulesyoung9994]

brillliant idea, don't try to slow it down or stop, repair.

[@80teZG]

If I won 1 Billion dollars on lottery I would give him 800 Millions, for now I am donating a few bucks every month

[@M0B1US]

Don't forget about lifespan.io which is hosting one of their projects with a little more than a week left. Every dollar donated is doubled.

[@MegamanTheSecond]

Your just stupid im sorry, most stupid people dont even know there stupid its quite sad.

[@donmc6252]

And people who don't spell and punctuate correctly don't even know they don't spell or punctuate correctly. Not sorry.

[@bombadeer8231]

@donzzz 😂 👍

[@squamish4244]

The PayPal multibillionaire Peter Thiel donated a paltry $3.5 million to SENS. He is all about life extension. Why didn't he donate 10% of his net worth - so $250 million - to SENS, funding them for ten years, and call it a day? He'd make that money back in half the time.

[@JB-jr9wl]

This is such a great talk. A truly smart guy who presented well.

[@flame7487]

#supportSENSfoundation we need to move this hashtag through the youtuber's channel to incourage people to donate!..

[@randomquestion7592]

+Flame Totally agreed! We all need to hurry behind this cause if we want to live longer. Even a little bit is fine.

[@ES-hq5ez]

Great idea, the more people we engage in the longevity discussion the sooner these technologies will develop!!

[@warioland523]

I love the enthusiasm here and the willingness to support funding for longevity. All of us are working hard to get word out. Things are speeding up but many of us can make it go faster if enough outreaching and crowdfunding is achieved. Please feel free to join our group. discordapp.com/channels/242150924120883200/255851331124723713

[@USSHammerology]

Proper nutrition can drastically slow down aging in cells.

[@rickytomatoes]

How to undo aging: Step 1: Grow an epic beard....

[@socute750]

I mean if we didnt die of old age at all. we wouldnt now that it is normal. If there was no death, we would think that living forever is normal(like little children think). We think that we need to die only because we had that knowledge form thousands of generations

[@susancorgi]

I want to be able to switch myself off when the time of dying instead of having to deal with those old people's deceases.

[@firstlast1598]

Smith Js I agree. I told myself that if I get to the age when I develope dementia or Alzheimer’s I’ll just get euthanized

[@wuvit9672]

Then you didn't see the entire video. Near the end he gives a good explanation of some of the scientific research done. The reason the beginning of the speech is all about what people want and what the consequences are is because there is are a lot of people who for some reason still don't want to pursue this goal, and a lot of people need to change their understanding of what aging is and that it is bad for us just like all the diseases it causes.

[@DonyaLane]

My take-away from this is: support this research in whatever way you can.

[@fushey]

How brilliant is Aubrey's biodegradation idea!!!

[@deathknightrevan]

hmmm so repair the damage, reset the timer, do it again, and again. and perhaps buy yourself enough time for scientists to create a more permanent solution

[@carolmaciel6922]

This man is a amazing!!

[@MelindaLee7]

I love any any ideas that can shine a light on what causes AGING...watch, even though fairly scientific, I think you will enjoy!

[@meyawabdulaziz3863]

+Melinda Lee perhaps we are not near to prevent older people from dying (immortality )from aging now but we are surely near making older humans function as youth at least 200 years back people didnt believe that human can one day fly... but necessity drove development into making it a dream come true people wanted to fly so bad when ever i discuss aging with people only handful of them go about combating it the rest easily gives up...and shy away from the subject we need more focus on it....we need to make it important enough for all scientists to come together and make it happen ...i hate to see my parent suffer from it ...

[@richwarren5430]

Yeah but this is fairy tales. Scientists can even cure balding yet.

[@jayaybe1]

I have absolutely no fear of death but the long process of degeneration into pain and suffering lasting many years is a grim prospect indeed! This lecture is not about living forever, it's about improving the *quality* of life for billions as well as life extension.

[@rowzzzzz]

I keep waiting for "Sharp Dressed Man" to play

[@SandyCheeks63564]

LOL. He just needs some shades

[@lazur1]

We must do ultra-high-intensity exercise to live a long functional life. This tells our bodies that they must stay young. If life gets too "easy", we get too weak to survive.

[@covenof13]

If you go to an old graveyard in Massachusetts from the 1700's-1800's you'll see this. A large amount of people who died were in their 80's - 90's. And a large amount who died in childhood (under 5). Average that out to 40-45 statistically. There are actually very few that died at age 40-45. There are a percentage of young women who died via childbirth and another percentage of young men who died in battle.

[@CelticSaint]

True here in the UK also. If you survived childhood, you had a very good chance to live to a ripe old age.

[@covenof13]

So much for modern statistics huh?

[@Telanroyal]

Go Aubrey, forever young is where its at!

[@happycritic]

Lol this guy works on a much important problem and doing much more significant research than i am. I am working on manufacturing system problem while he is looking for solutions to achieve immortality.

[@Bobstew68]

happycritic To be fair, almost nobody has a job which could impact humanity more heavily than this guy's work.

[@Bobstew68]

***** Somehow, I doubt you're actually interested, but on the off chance.. here you go: www.sens.org/research/introduction-to-sens-research

[@wuvit9672]

I already mentioned why preferably not both. We are very far from creating methods to slow down the methods of aging, but close to creating the reversal of aging. Those who are investigating how to slow down aging will not achieve their goal sooner than those like Aubrey who plan to reverse it completely, so it would be much better off if the smart people working on slowing aging down worked instead on reversing aging. This way reversing aging would come along quicker to all of us.

[@TorbenRudgaard]

Guys, lets say he do come up with a gene therapy which will make you live a very healthy life till age 150 - would you do that therapy or not?

[@blueplanet6583]

i will take it without hesitating even a second

[@ronwilliams4184]

Of course one would take it instantly, if not sooner. I cannot conceive of a healthy personality/mind that would have any other reaction. I say to those pseudo-philosophers who intone that I must 'honorably succumb to natural forces to make way for succeeding generations': "Thx for playing the fascist with _my_ life!"

[@rickwyant]

Ron Williams Your scared, to bad because when it comes you might be terrified... relax , noone is going to living to be 150 , I don't know how you people come up with this stuff...all of you so afraid of something so natural.... hey your probably all going to go to heaven and live for eternity with JESUS why worry about it anyway???

[@Angloth]

Richard Wyant No. Probably its like going to sleep and never waking up (without dreams, without anything). Wich is what sux. Thats also why you delude yourself with Jesus ;)

[@Angloth]

Richard Wyant oh. Read ur other comments x) thought u where a christian

[@cuocsongngudan5671]

Dr Grey. I believe you

[@mctechie]

Any relation to Gandalf De Grey?

[@Shimoaoi1988]

All these people are more worried about his awesome wizard appearance rather than the even more mind blowing things he is saying. Maybe if we all lived a bit longer, healthily we could get more done, and be in our right minds writing a will, and be less of a burden on healthcare. We can live our lives out as we have always been! That would be amazing.

[@chrismcgonnell]

Breathe deep, lift weights and get in cold water son

[@Starry_Night_Sky7455]

One more thing!!! Go play like Tarzan.

[@HomemakerDaze]

spring water

[@staceykersting705]

@@HomemakerDaze Plus intermittent fasting/keto. Occasional longer fasts, like 24 -72 hours.

[@glens18account]

This video needs more views...

[@mace9930]

The problem of aging is a physics problem. All damage to the body can be attributed to entropy. It may be possible to repair body systems using a mechanistic approach, but radiant youth will not be established that way. It may be that aging is 100% due to entropy, and that if that entropy was dealt with, the body would revert back to a youthful form. You have to notice the difference between a youthful body and mind and an aged body and mind. The amount of energy flow through the body is the crucial difference. Even the breakdown of the telomeres can be traced down to entropic influence. Korean and Japanese girls have lots of youth because their bodies have more energy flowing through them. Essay: Atoms are subject to rust, rot, and degeneration. However, if you constantly run an electric current through a piece of metal, the process of rusting will take much longer. Running energy through matter can achieve this same result for other substances too. Matter is a high entropy substance, but applying coherent energy to it can make a difference. In our bodies the condition of advancing entropy is temporarily offset by ingesting food, which provides energy to cells and reinforces their structure. Energy is also replenished by the sleep cycle, and by energy chakras that take energy from the sea of energy present in the world and also spiritual dimensions. Matter may not be as connected to vital energy fields, when compared to the human spirit. Matter's connection to energy fields may be weak and objects made of matter may be compartmentalized and mainly cut off, like separated, discrete islands. Pieces of matter have a propensity to rub against each other randomly in the environment (or external energy impacts the matter indirectly from various sources), causing destructive friction and descent into entropic disorder. Energy circulation and influx systems are combating this tendency in the body, but eventually they fail. The deterioration of the telomeres is an example of this, the telomeres eventually decay because of entropy's influence and failure of body energy systems. It seems that the body is not receiving enough energy as it gets older, which is really what causes the breakdown into entropy. The resulting disorder manifests as missing bits of telomere DNA code that pass into evaporation. When available energy in the body is at a low state, it is closer to entropy, and thus degeneration. What the body needs is a constant supply of energy in order to keep it intact. Energy must be running through all parts of the body, every cell and DNA strand, on a constant basis. This is not a simple task. The consciousness of the person must be adapted to permit this, or overstimulation of the mind will lead to madness. The amygdala, or pituitary gland, can receive energy from energy resources that extend beyond our Universe. When a coherent resonance state of energy in the body is reached, time will slow down for the person and even timeless reality can be experienced. Spontaneous teleportation and time travel avenues may open up for a body so enhanced. Entropy may reverse, and negatropy may ensue, which is the state of coherent, high energy resonance, accumulating energy flow, and interconnection. All energy converges at a high energy state, so when enough subtle energy is passing through the body normal parameters of physics will no longer apply. Stability will increase, rather than abate. The process is not without risk, as many phenomena will rapidly be encountered, but who said that living forever would be boring. Once the body is exposed to a high energy resonance reality it may explore various pockets of resonance, that ultimately comprise the energy continuum. In conclusion, energy and the connection to energy fields is the means to immortality. Our body, in its current state of matter, is subject to erosion. Circulation of energy through the body is thus necessary to delay the aging process. The energy has many safe sources, energy from food, sunlight, chi energy, kundalini, energized water, minerals. The answer to longevity will likely not come through a pill or therapy, but by enabling the body to receive enough life giving energy so it is made stable when high energy resonance is attained. Extreme longevity is somewhat the realm of the spiritual hero or science fiction adventurer, but it may be feasible. The implications of supreme longevity are radical. Understanding regenerative Physics is the means to discovering how longevity can be extended indefinitely. Consciousness and its connection to source energy completely circumvents entropy, reversing decomposition and maintaining stability. Deliberate commitment to focused, high energy resonance and interconnection to energy fields can lead to eternal life. Relying on virtually disconnected and detached matter will eventually lead to death. Energy does not have to always flow downhill, it can flow uphill into higher dimensions. The mind is the prime engine of this upwards action. Energy can flow both downhill and uphill, in a feedback circuit of interdependence and escalating dynamics. Once the body and mind are firmly plugged into the spiritual energy flow and are receiving copious energy, the accessible niches of experience are interminable. Opening and exposing the human physical body (or any other piece of matter) to a burgeoning stream of spiritual energy will cause the matter to act in manners that are not typical of its usual virtually sealed off condition. Exposure will strengthen and augment matter so treated. Interconnection is positively correlated with coherence, when interconnection is improved coherence increases. Harmony between interconnected entities is the synthesis.

[@johnholemanjr3738]

In an elliptical orbit, Earth comes close to and moves away from the sun. This constitutes what we all refer to as weathering, or aging. Keep out of the hot sun and you'll live a lot longer and happier. And, music and laughter really do help, when they are based in sincerity.

[@aethir86]

Someone should change their name to Gandalf de Grey... it would be awesome ^^

[@veejayroth]

Or Radagast the Brown, maybe?

[@adoseofgratitude8314]

🤣

[@frederickwinters7277]

Chris, I couldn't agree more strongly.

[@bodebliss]

Comments here are from beard haters. Silly children! Aubrey de Grey is a genius and you are not. Do I see jealousy? Aubrey de Grey is a self-taught bio gerontologist. Think Philo T. Farnsworth who figured out television while plowing a field. Aubrey de Grey has put together a roadmap to defeat aging so you can someday say on your thousandth birthday, 'Ok, Aubrey de Grey is a genius, but I still don't like beards' . You can go here and be enlightened or you can babble nonsense about beards in the dark: www.sens.org/research/introduction-to-sens-research Aubrey de Grey has been up against this for the 15 years I've followed the subject. Lack of funding is holding back advances, Calico is brand new it will be 10years before they get boots on the ground. Unless they buy up all the credible researchers and if they do they will put the science back ten years. Aubrey de Grey took a 16 million dollar inheritance and put it on his dream of curing aging over 5 years. It's a one time upgrade to his current budget. I have a campaign on Indiegogo to create an endowment for de Grey's research igg.me/at/defeat-death With seed capital I hope to create $millions

[@vostnorov1968]

Very good optimistic talk about exciting research! (on an amusing note, I can't help but notice the striking resemblance he has to Hugh Jackman, who played the Wolverine, a character who doesn't seem to age either, and has extraordinary healing powers, in the X-Men franchise!) Ponce DeLeon thought the fountain of youth was a literal fountain, but the brand new/ancient secrets i.e. monatomic gold, coupled with subtle earth energy of the anti-deluvian world are becoming another exciting area of research on this subject! More entertainment than science at this point, but I do find it interesting that we may come to realize that we have forgotten more than we actually already knew? Considering all the enigmas of the ancient past, we very well may be a species with a grand scale case of amnesia?

[@frederickwinters7277]

It's hard to contemplate the foolishness of the comments that precede this one. What a person looks like is irrelevant (Stephen Hawking aint no dandy). The comments should reflect what the man had to say. Those things are clearly what should be getting discussed.

[@TheFearmoths]

But if Stephen Hawking was delivering a speech on bodybuilding or improving your high jump, it would be hard to take him seriously.

[@frederickwinters7277]

The Fearmoths Stephen Hawking, when speaking on one of the areas of his expertise, is considered highly reliable and well qualified to discuss them, even if he must resort to the technology (he participated in the design) to effectively communicate. Aubrey de Grey, is clearly an expert in his field, and well qualified to discuss longevity and though his beard and hair might not suit you, that alone, does not disqualify him from sharing his expertise, nor does it reflect any real intellectual disadvantage by doing so.

[@TheFearmoths]

Frederick Winters That's where we disagree as this man is clearly not an expert in this field otherwise he would practise what he preached and wouldn't look like an old vagabond. Or he'd at least try to take on a more youthful appearance, but he obviously doesn't care.

[@tonydancy6207]

The Fearmoths Regardless of what you look like, you are clearly an idiot.

[@TheFearmoths]

Tony Dancy No I'm not.

[@Glenys23]

I really don't want to be old!! I don't think many want to either. And dying?? Just the thought of not existing scares me!!!

[@SpecterGaming0]

@ 16:00 This is how the zombie apocalypse starts.

[@DaveOnAer]

It's about damn time.. I was starting to wonder what I was going to do with this machete

[@Ayokalyb]

Who would joke about something like that?

[@kbeetles]

Are we any happier for all this progress????

[@gamoela8420]

FUCK! I just realised i want to be a biomedical gerontologist! Too fucking bad, since im studying fucking law! SHIT!

[@bighands69]

When are you due to finish studying law. Because you can study bioinformatics after your law degree. Studying law may give you a different perspective on things from other straight up bio students.

[@mallick26]

Haha :D

[@Patcul]

So what did you end up doing? I was waiting to ask, but didnt want to stress you out, so I waited til 10 years had past.

[@labotraduc8448]

People who are 60 having the bodies of 30 year olds... boy, the confusion that will bring. Fathers steeling the girlfriends of their sons, mothers of their daughters, or dating their children's friends. People won't leave their jobs, young people will have a hard time finding ones. Because why would a boss prefer a young worker without experience, when he/she can keep an experienced worker with the energy of a 30 year old?

[@deadlypendroppingby]

First step of undoing aging: dye your beard.

[@adrianmcelligott7220]

I have read his book - and the guy has a lot more to offer than what he can fit into this 20 minute talk. Search Amazon for Aubrey de Grey - Ending Aging Rejuvenation Breakthroughs

[@tomikk86]

Do you really think it's the world most important problem?

[@blueplanet6583]

why not? its ultimate problem. what is more important than this? if u think its not important, the reason is u gave up. but if u think u can overcome age, u can avoid death, then thats totally different story.

[@TheMarrt]

Tomikk86 Every scientist who thinks his field isn't the most important field, is in the wrong field.

[@KifMaster_Raverie]

Tomikk86 Do you know a bigger problem than death ?!

[@TheMarrt]

MrKifkif92 I am sure you would have all of them if you would never die...

[@r.b.4611]

Tomikk86 I do.

[@heidikeller50]

The answer to ending mortality is definitely either 1) genetically stopping aging or 2) converting consciousness into a form that can be maintained by computers. I personally would like to have both options available, just in case the body, even though aging has been stopped/reversed, dies from an accident.

[@heidikeller50]

This has to be simultaneous with colonization of space, though. We just don't have the room here on earth for that. That will include also having the ability to turn inorganic compounds on other planets into forms usable by crops, insects, birds, people, etc. to maintain an ecosystem, because we can't just bring it all there from earth. Hmmm...so many challenges.

[@heidikeller50]

If you don't think money for scientific research is not a good use of money, please, please, please get your head out of the sand and think about the possibilities and challenges that the human race is facing!

[@heidikeller50]

Also, Google or NASA, if you are looking for an employee, I'm yours! Heheh

[@TomekSamcik69]

The best method is to simply lie about your age, I do this all the time. When asked, I confirm I'm 12.

[@TomekSamcik69]

no co się czepiasz

[@blueplanet6583]

wrong! u r a fucking liar! u can NEVER be 12 cause u dont looks so! i am sure u r 11yrs old.

[@TomekSamcik69]

***** why does it matter Virgil ?

[@TomekSamcik69]

***** call yourself lucky

[@ruchishukla2878]

@@TomekSamcik69 You're alive, Sir?

[@anuradhamangalpalli2774]

what a wonderful and relevant talk

[@TheFearmoths]

As soon as I saw the speaker I stopped the video and gave it a thumb down. Unless I found out he's in his 80s or above I won't be watching this talk.

[@frederickwinters7277]

open your mind, if possible.

[@TheFearmoths]

Frederick Winters If I opened my mind to all the hacks and their theories I'd just be making myself dumber.

[@tonydancy6207]

The Fearmoths You couldn't get any dumber.

[@seanleonard8285]

Thank God I'm not stupid like you, I judge people strictly on the type of socks they wear. MUCH more sensible.

[@TheFearmoths]

Tony Dancy Sean Leonard I've got some magic beans you might be interested in! They will make you rich. Obviously, I'm not rich and I have no evidence of them working for me, but you're obviously a gullible pair of idiots who just believe anything strangers tell you.

[@wuvit9672]

haha good one. It sucks when people just don't read the posts. Btw everyone, keep telling your friends and family about Aubrey, SENS, and the future of regenerative medicine. We got to get people telling people telling more people about all this.

[@thunderpooch]

I support Aubrey's efforts 100%. However, I don't care to live to be 1,000, let alone forever. Maybe mind altering drugs will change that, but that would be a sick world indeed. Imagine if depression is cured to a point where nobody finds anything grotesque or unfair. Yuck. There will be increased suicides and I think that's a great thing. Instead of wasting away from old age, we can choose the day we have seen enough of this world. The world is often a brutal and unfair place, I doubt most people will find enough novelties and distractions to want to live past 500 years. So be it.

[@thunderpooch]

Jackson Capper You sound all of 12 years old. Get back to me 30 years from now, and tell me how awesome it would be to live to 1,000 years old. I dare you. The fact is most middle aged people don't want to live forever even if they could have the perfect health of a 20 year old. Up for the challenge? In 30 years, just go on and on about how cool living to 1,000 would be. You may not be seeking out a coffin, but the thought of another 100 years would seem pointlessly awful. If someone is 50 and isn't a bit jaded and bored, they must have lived one slow pitiful life.

[@thunderpooch]

Jackson Capper And you will be old in spirit soon. Only morons escape this fate. Do you want to tell me something? Me...dead soon? Not soon enough for me. I'm an old soul that has probably seen enough, unfortunately I'm still quite young. I've taken 30+ trips around the sun. Each one gets a little more stale. Sure I could end it all, but I like raining on everyone's parade a bit too much. :) I'll let you know in 50 years if I find life to be star spangled awesome. After awhile life is nothing more than a re-run.

[@Botanifiles]

You can either donate to SENS directly, or at the very least set them as your nonprofit to donate to through AmazonSmile and Amazon will give them 0.5% of every purchase you make at no cost to you

[@c0wboy92]

am I he only one here who knows that heart disease is diet-caused and completely reversible through change in lifestyle and diet (plant based)?

[@lazygamerz]

+dondo You know if you eat carrots your liver still produces cholesterol, some of that cholestrol becomes 7-ketocholesterol and accumulates in the body because we lack the genes required to produce the enzymes needed to break down 7-ketocholestrol. After about eight decades of this accumulation, the average person is the danger zone, as cells function worse by simply having all this stuff inside them, which is of no use (imagine if your work place was filled to a depth of 6 feet with plastic balls, you'd have to swim around to get things done, reducing the amount of work you can do, and the amount of vital processes the cells can do, which translates to for example heart-cells which can't signal the heart to beat anymore as well as is necessary).

[@lazygamerz]

***** You don't make sense. I explained that cholesterol is made by the liver in the comment above yours, so everyone gets heart-disease, because you kinda need a liver to live, hence the freakin' name! :P LIVE-ERRR. :P Having the ability to digest plants have nothing to do with it. But we CAN digest plants, its just that we need cooked food so that we can have 1 stumach instead of 4.

[@c0wboy92]

phthisicy Get your facts straight, heart disease in vegans is caused by ingestion of vegetable oils. A diet excluding them, but including nuts, avocados, etc - whole foods containing dietary fats, is heart health promoting. And I'd like you to tell me what diseases and health problems do vegans have, apart from the acute ones like trauma and infections? lazygamerz Thanks for the info, I will investigate the matter.

[@VovixLDR]

We need this to evolve into a distributed global project of even larger scale than Linux or Wikipedia or Human Genome Project. There is no such thing as too much of research. We need to create a roadmap of what we can do today about aging with tools we have; then another roadmap of what else tools we need (molecular nanotech, more peta/exa/zettaflops etc); then a pack of roadmaps for other areas being affected (social, demographic, even space exploration), everything regularly updating.

[@andrewheffel928]

Awesome beard. I appreciate your desire to help people, you have good intentions. And you are right, the ultimate enemy of mankind is infirmity and death. But we age and die by design, and for very good reasons. I suspect if we developed the technology to live forever, only a few people would get the opportunity to enjoy it, the rich, ruthless, and powerful. Imagine them around forever, a plague on us mere mortals.

[@staceykersting705]

Check out some videos of David Sinclair. Intermittent fasting, exercise, low carb, good sleep, meditation.

[@carpediem6568]

A lot of this can be done without injecting substances. Exercise helps pump out dead cells clogged in the lymphatic system. Earthing eliminates 100% of inflammation. WFPB diets reverse type II diabetes, and intermittent fasting stimulates mitochondrial growth. How hard is all this really?

[@opsn2863]

I think this would be wonderful, we just have to come to a consensus that limits human reproduction.

[@lazygamerz]

+Op Sn No first we have to cure all these diseases and have all our elderly return to work instead of receiving sick pay (a pension is just sick pay, there are no healthy old people if you compared them to young adults, that's why they all HAVE to stop working at some point, and instead receive a pension). Then we can easily limit ourselves to a 1 child per adult policy or something (that's 1 per couple, so 1 bn children from the last generation adults which has 2bn people in it, and then 0.5bn children from that 1bn parents, and then 0.25bn from that generation, and so on). We could probably increase the carrying capacity of the planet by 2-3bn over the next 50 years quite easily. Just a little less meat per person, slight increases in crop yields because of better genetic modifications for pest resistance, and clean energy instead of fossil fuels.

[@skyhigh6]

Regardless, we will all age, minute by minute, day by day. The truth is we will die, sooner or later. The trick is to still be active, what I don't want to do is be setting in an old age home pushing a walker up and down the halls. If I am going to die let it be quick. When you reach my age you realize that you are not immortal. Live life to the fullest, don't worry about tomorrow, enjoy the day. "For no man can say with confidence he'll be alive tomorrow." Euripides

[@davidvaknin3801]

Undoing aging : represented by someone who's willingly looks like he's a 100 yer old troll

[@DiosanXaquerry]

he look pretty good for 51 IMHO

[@bakshev]

6 moths in the gym and he'll look like one badass viking. With a Ph.D. in biology.

[@GarglingMarblesMusic]

You may joke, but it's really important for this topic to be represented by someone who has obviously embraced getting older. It would hurt his credibility if he seemed like he's in denial over getting old.

[@stevenvankoutrik5643]

Gargling Marbles i may joke, and i will

[@tonydancy6207]

***** He's unique in his stupidity.

[@ravibakhshi1955]

Dr Reckeweg in the Homotoxicology 6 phase model of health and disease mentioned the importance of cellular and inter cellular junk around 50 years back. Bentonite edible clay and C60 Carbon fullerenes are also being used as anti-aging modalities.

[@mcmas1]

We humans are a funny species... We worship an invisible good and destroy a physical nature that actually is the god that we are worshiping. Instead of trying to live longer to cause this place even more damage, we should focus on how we can have meaningful lives, which are not on the cost of nature. BTW I love the walking dead and Zombie movies in general, interestingly most of them start with some very smart biologists trying to manipulate human genetics causing the outbreak of a Zombie virus...

[@M0B1US]

Or maybe we'd care more about the planet if we lived long enough for the repercussions of our actions to affect us. We'd grow wiser with time, notice larger patterns, and be forced to live sustainably or die. People generally don't care about the next generation.

[@M0B1US]

Why do you assume not aging will lead to the destruction of the earth? Is that assumption worth stopping research into cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, etc? Maybe more people would give a shit about the long-term health of the planet if they were actually going to be around for it. People generally don't think beyond their lifespans, and justify irresponsible consumption by the fact that they'll be dead soon anyway. With people living for centuries, of course the number of children born will have to decrease. The good news is, in developed nations, this has been the trend. Even so, it might take legislation, and that's a perfectly fine trade-off. All it would really take is for people to delay having children, and without the biological clock ticking, they will be able to delay much longer, and they will, to travel, build careers, etc. This is the trend in nations where women have these options. The global population boom is a result of still-developing nations with a lot of poor, uneducated people with not much else to do but fuck. As information and tech continue to permeate these cultures, these women, too, will both delay childbirth and have fewer kids overall. If it got to the point where you can barely find enough food for yourself, you're not going to then add another mouth to feed. You overestimate individual human directive in these situations. We're very much like other animal population and adapt almost unconsciously to these pressures. Japan is the longest lived nation, and its population is rapidly declining. There are commercials in Denmark IIRC that advertise vacation spots and encourage people to have children because the birth rates there are so low. To say we shouldn't cure aging (preventing the various illnesses that kill us in old age) is to believe that, were they magically cured tomorrow, these cures should be withheld and people sentenced needlessly to death, or worse yet, arbitrarily executed once they reached a certain age, even if they were in perfectly good health. Medical progress is not stopping. If you truly believe that it may have negative outcomes, then your energy would be better spent heading off those problems.

[@zes3813]

+phthisicy wrg,idts

[@CrazyLi0r]

Computer cost in its beginning was too high for individuals to buy it, as the years went by the price went lower because of the advancement in technology and in the computer's compatibility to people needs. Nano robots that can fight aging will only rise awareness when there will be a proved solution - til then, awareness will remain low. And when the awareness will rise, the price will be reduced as a result of many companies trying to fight over the market share of the age-fighting technology.