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Are We Going to Get to 150?
There are species on this planet of bowhead whales that live 200 years, Greenland sharks that live for 500 years. And I remember when I was in medical school, I asked the question, if they can live that long, why can't we? And I said it's either a hardware problem or a software problem. So just because we were never engineered to live past our reproductive age, does not mean that the systems could not be engineered to do that. The work that's exciting right now is in epigenetic reprogramming. We have 3.2 billion letters from my mother and from our father. That genome is set when you're born. And it's the same exact genome when