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Is longevity science overhyped? | Professor Charles Brenner, PhD

The Proof with Simon Hill

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The Information Theory of Aging

Growth hormone receptor pathway mutants greatly extend lifespan of these tiny little animals that can't reproduce. There's like a wiring diagram of how you make all your amino acids or humans can make 12 of them. Yeast can make all of them. And virtually, I think every cell has to make its own NAD from some type of precursor. But I think we're going to get there naturally.

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