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#819 Geoffrey West - Scale; Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies

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The Theory of Aging and Mortality

How long you actually live comes out of a balance between evolutionary forces, which says you have to live to at least 30 or 40 to produce the beings anyway. And so one way another way that you could extend lifespan is you could intervene by increasing the amount of energy you allocate to repair. So this is all through increasing their mechanisms and manipulating genes so that you allocate more energy to repair, which may well increase lifespan. Yes, there would still be those constraints we talked about earlier.

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