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Healthspan, Lifespan, and the Biology of Aging

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Is There Anything Special About 80 Years?

The average life expectancy has changed substantially just in the last century, right? So yeah, no, I don't think. That's a great point. A bunch of things you can do have a fairly minor effect. But part of the lesson there is that, like, there's a lot of different things that can work, right? There's nothing special about 80 years. And we're going to get to the point fairly rapidly where we can add, say, 10 to 20 healthy years. Okay. As we're running out of time, I want to end on a philosophical note and then on a pick your brain on a personal note.

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