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#189 – David Sinclair: Extending the Human Lifespan Beyond 100 Years

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Do You Have Hope for Increasing Longevity?

I see at least within our lifetime, that's the best use of it is to be able to replace parts of the body that are not functioning. In terms of longevity, maybe we could put something on the hypothalamus and start secreting those hormones and get that back. But just scanning the brain and looking how the nerves are touching each other is not going to do it. The problem with the engineering aspect is that the physical aspect of the brain is isn't even half the problem. I'm at George Church invented away to look at which genes are switched on and off. Not only in a single cell, which any lab can do these days, but in situ where it situated in

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