Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea artwork

Longevity, Immortality and the quest to defeat death with Aubrey De Grey

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

English - September 25, 2022 18:07 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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How do you eat an elephant? One spoon at a time, right? Well It's the same with living forever. No one is going to find a magic potion that will make you 20 again but over the years we are slowly, consistently and incrementally improving patient health and preventing diseases associated with ageing. We've nearly doubled life expectancy in just over a century. Doubled! Jonathan caught up with Author and Biomedical Gerontologist Aubrey De Grey at the Inaugural Longevity Summit in Dublin to hear why he thinks the first person to live to 150 has already been born.