AGEIST Using AI to Change the Face of Longevity with Greg Macpherson
In this show, we learn that incredibly high powered AI is now being used in human nutraceutical research, specially targeting the 9 hallmarks of aging. Our guest Greg Macpherson, CEO of SRW Labs in New Zealand, joins us this week to share all about how automated labs are making unprecedented progress in identifying and creating compounds that may solve human longevity. By automating many of the tedious testing and refinement processes, AI labs are able to work with extreme efficiency, which translates to bringing meaningful longevity products to the public with extraordinary speed. We are very excited to learn about this from Greg, and to hear that we could be expecting to see some new targeted products hitting the market by summer 2024.
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Key Moments
“So we are going to get to a stage where we get to have a DNA test before we start taking medicine and you know there may be 10 drugs on the shelf that are appropriate for whatever condition that's being treated and they'll select the one that's best for you. But also they'll be able to look at it and go, okay, look, there's a high chance, given your genetic makeup, that these are going to be a problem.”
“There are animals out there that live for 200 years like the bowhead whale. They are mammals just like us, so there's no reason that we can't learn from whatever genetic hacks that they've got which mean that they live longer. And then, of course, the Greenland shark lives for 500 years. So these are animals. We can learn from them, and once we do, then all bets are off as to what kind of longevity we're going to see.
“Of course it's not the longevity that we think of today. We're going to be talking about bodies aged 30 to 40 and having those bodies for 200 years, which is a little outside a frame of reference right now. But future humans are going to go ‘golly, those poor people back then who only got to live for 80 years and only 40 years in good health.’”
“In 3-5 years, there will be a product to slow or stop the aging clock”
“You know, unfortunately, sugar is cheap and it's tasty and it's nice and we all love it. So there's just a huge industry around it, but it's not serving us well, and now we understand that, just like we went through taxing tobacco, maybe we've got to do the same just to nudge the population away from it and educate people how bad it is for us.”
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