How to live forever with Dr. Aubrey de Grey
This episode takes you through Dr. Aubrey de Grey’s Seven Pillars of Aging, the research he is currently doing, and his opinion on the biological age. It also discusses AGEs, their different sources, and how growth hormone affects biological age.
What is Dr. Aubrey de Grey like?
Aubrey de Grey, an English biomedical gerontologist and author, is a well-known English author. He is Chief Science Officer at the SENS Research Foundation, and Vice President of New Technology Discovery for AgeX Therapeutics, Inc. He is editor-in chief of the academic journal Rejuvenation Research. He also wrote The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging, and Ending Aging. He is well-known for his belief that medical technology could allow people to live longer and not die of age-related diseases.
A mathematician by hobby, he has also contributed to the Hadwiger-Nelson Problem. His research is focused on whether regenerative medicines can stop the aging process. He is working on what he calls the \”Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence\”, a collection techniques that are proposed to rejuvenate and stop the aging process.
In order to achieve this, he identified seven types molecular and cell damage caused by metabolic processes. SENS is an array of proposed therapies that aim to repair the damage. De Grey is a professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and a fellow of Gerontological Society of America. He also belongs to the American Aging Association and Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.
In recent years, he has been interviewed by a variety of news outlets, including CBS 60 Minutes and the BBC. He was also featured in The New York Times Magazine, Fortune Magazine, The Washington Post as well as TED, Popular Science. The Colbert Report. Time. The Skeptics Guide to the Universe. He is also a Flooved advisor board member.
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