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Is longevity science overhyped? | Professor Charles Brenner, PhD

The Proof with Simon Hill

CHAPTER

The Information Theory of Aging

The basic theory of aging is that we have a gene set that produces adults that are reproductively capable and that evolution doesn't care about us very much after we reproduce. And so we decline. So it's, I'm assuming you don't really subscribe to the information theory of aging based on all this. No, I actually explained a way that they could test that hypothesis. But they haven't. They've done it in a way where it killed off cells that they didn't want to report on. How do you then go about what's your theory of aging?

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