Lex Fridman Podcast

#189 – David Sinclair: Extending the Human Lifespan Beyond 100 Years

Jun 7, 2021

01:49:35

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Can You Get Better Data Than Your Doctor Can?

01:40

The Health Benefits of Fasting

03:12

What's the Future of Data Collection?

02:29

Introduction

2min

Get Your First Two Months of Clear Free

2min

I Love ADAS and I Love Simply Safe

2min

Linode Linux Virtual Machines

3min

Is Your Grandmother a Big Influence on You?

4min

Bringing People Back to Life Through Artificial Intelligence

4min

Feynman: The Importance of Collecting Data

5min

Is This a Bio-Button?

2min

How Does Inside Tracker Work?

2min

10.

Doctors Need Just as Much Help as Anybody Else Does

2min

11.

How and Why Do We Age?

4min

12.

How to Preserve Information Without Injecting Noise

5min

13.

The Source of Aging

4min

14.

Is It the Proteins or Something Else?

2min

15.

Is There a Reset Switch?

2min

16.

Is There a Place Where AI Can Help?

3min

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Is There a Hopeful Path Forward to Collecting More Data?

2min

18.

Can You Get Better Data Than Your Doctor Can?

2min

19.

Do You Think We Can Change the Medical System?

2min

20.

Health Care Data Security Is Number One on My Mind

2min

21.

The Health Benefits of Fasting

3min

22.

Do You Really Fast? Is It Really Fasting?

6min

23.

Is There a Longer Life Than Meat?

2min

24.

Is It Difficult to Eat a Plant-Based Diet That You Perform Well Under So Much Adversity?

3min

25.

You Want the David Goggins as a Vegetable?

1min

26.

Is There Benefits to Longevity From Exercise?

2min

27.

Brown Noise Helps You Focus

2min

28.

How Important Is Sleep for Longevity?

3min

29.

Sleep Is One of the Things That Makes Me Wrong

3min

30.

The Effect of Stress on Longevity

4min

31.

What's the Future of Data Collection?

2min

32.

I'm a Subscriber Obsessed With COVID Tests

3min

33.

Is There a Maximum Lifespan?

3min

34.

Reverse the Age of Nerve Cells

2min

35.

Do You Have Hope for Increasing Longevity?

3min

36.

The Denial of Death

4min

37.

Death Gives Meaning to Life

2min

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Enjoy Life Even if You're Not Mortal

4min

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OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(09:34) – Staying young at heart
(13:31) – Bringing people back to life
(19:05) – Wearables and tracking health data
(28:18) – How to solve aging
(38:23) – Why do we age?
(43:50) – Genetic reset switch that reverses aging
(46:20) – AI in biology
(48:52) – Health data
(56:58) – Fasting
(1:04:29) – Diet
(1:12:41) – Exercise
(1:18:01) – Sleep
(1:26:29) – Data
(1:32:00) – Extending lifespan
(1:34:42) – Immortality
(1:40:28) – Denial of death
(1:43:45) – Meaning of life without death