Anti-Aging Research - Is There a Link Between Sanasen Cells and Cancer?

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There's a lot about inflammation, re rat yet ri a bot eacles that causes our bodies to feel old. Some of the most promising researches in senescent cells and particularly sanalytics whichis in stopping that secretion. And they don't have the goal of living forever, even living for longer. They just want to slow the effect of aging. So we ar a a century so we're ill for the last time, so we're not sick a for 20 years. Then we die. We're sick for a year, and then we die. A, ol, we're sick for, you know, a couple of weeks,. and then we died.

Shermer and Ward discuss: religious immortality • Church of Perpetual Life in Florida • what it means to live forever • why lives have doubled in length the past century • Stein’s Law: things that can’t go on forever won’t • Why do we age and die? • how to live to 100, 1000, 10,000 years • escape velocity to reach immortality • Aubrey de Grey’s program • tech billionaires programs • transhumanists/extropians • diet, exercise, supplements, stem cells, telomeres, and other aging hacks • Ray Kurzweil • cryonics • nanotechnology • brain preservation • mind uploading and digital immortality • Ernest Becker and Terror Management Theory

Peter Ward is a British business and technology reporter whose reporting has taken him across the globe. Reporting from Dubai, he covered the energy sector in the Middle East before earning a degree in business journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. His writing has appeared in Wired, The Atlantic, The Economist, GQ, BBC Science Focus, and Newsweek.