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#189 – David Sinclair: Extending the Human Lifespan Beyond 100 Years
Lex Fridman Podcast
Reverse the Age of Nerve Cells
The ability to replace actual neurons is really hard. I think it might be easy to upload rather than replace neurons because they're so tight. What we're learning is that if you reverse the age of nerve cells, they look it looks like they get their memories back. They're just that the cells don't have to interpret them and function correctly. And this is one of the things we're studying in my lab. If you take an old mouse that has learned something when it was young, but forgotten, does it get that back? All evidence points to that being true. So I'd rather go in and rejuvenate the brain as it sits rather than replacing individual cells,. which would be
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