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#35 - Nir Barzilai, M.D.: How to tame aging

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What Does It Mean to Live a Long Life?

The work of metforeman and his colleagues on centenarians has been very influential in my thinking. My fear when i first started reading your literature was it had nothing to do chronic disease, and it had to do with something nebulous. And what i took away from your work was no, their genetic gift was a phase shift in when they got chronic diseases. They simply got a 20 year bonus, if not more, maybe 29 on average. You could calculate, call it a close to 30 year bonus. Well, of health span. Yes, oh yes. Cose completely functional lieas the had compression of mabidity. So not only that, they lived longer and they

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