Venki Ramakrishnan: The New Science of Aging

[@patojo10529650]

Excelent dialogue with the Nobel laureated.Clear,concise approach.Thank you Dr Topol

[@Jupiter_Crash]

Please stop touching the desk. It goes through your microphone. These interviews are fascinating but with noise cancelling headphones it’s too much.

[@legalconsultant861]

The mouse, as a smaller animal, has a higher metabolism. This higher metabolism may increase senescence, and improper senescence increases inflammation if the script drops off. We know that senescence and cell division-imperfect in some cases - play a role in creating cancer in the body (mice have a higher risk for cancer than elephants).

[@elizabethk3238]

The cart wouldn't have fallen apart if it was regularly checked and regularly maintained. I am all in with Bryan Johnson.

[@squamish4244]

Yeah. I don't share Venki's predictable moralizing about the subject. It seems like these scientists just can't help themselves. Stick to what you know, dude. If aging isn't a disease, what is it? Why have we even built the modern world? Spare us the lecture. At least he does admit that curing aging could happen. Which then raises a strange question - why did he write the book at all? Oh well. I'm not sure Bryan Johnson is the right guy for this - his approach at least popularizes the subject, and he has been on doctors' podcasts who thankfully don't moralize about it, but his approach isn't organized enough to gather useful clinical data.

[@oonaghcleary3645]

Everyone seems scared of growing older

[@squamish4244]

Yeah, for good reason. I've suffered from chronic back pain since a brutal summer job when I was 22, young and stupid. Now, because I'm 45, I can expect to suffer from it...forever. My doctor just treated the mild degeneration of my lower back discs as "Well, what you gonna do." As a fact. Because it has been forever. People spend many decades contributing to society and their reward is to sh*t their diapers in nursing homes and forget their own name. It won't be forevermore, however. That's how science works. We couldn't fly until we could. We were going to eventually start to crack biology, the real final frontier. This was always going to happen.

[@legalconsultant861]

If diabetes is considered a disease of aging, then investigate why it is experienced by people of all ages.