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#189 – David Sinclair: Extending the Human Lifespan Beyond 100 Years
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Denial of Death
We are of all living life forms have evolved to not want to die. Most species that have ever existed don't. And so what I think's happened is we've evolved certainly to want to live for a long time, perhaps never want to death. But the thought about dying is so traumatic that there isn't an eight part of our brains and it's probably genetically wired to not think about it. We know that we're going to die. That's a burden but also a curse. People don't want to think about their age. My book has helped these tests that we're developing should help people understand it's not a problem to think about your long term health. In fact,
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