More life – Decoding the secret of aging | DW Documentary
Can the aging process be reversed – or even halted, altogether? If we manage to decode this final mystery of our human biology, we might soon be able to eradicate age-related illnesses like cancer, dementia and heart problems.
The race to invent the miracle pill is well underway. Today, international researchers are getting astonishingly close to realizing humanity’s dream of immortality.
The hunt for immortality gained traction with the discovery of Costa Rica’s so-called “Blue Zone,” by Luis Rosero-Bixby. In the “Blue Zone,” on the Nicoya Peninsular, he found a remarkable number of centenarians. Here, male life expectancy is the highest in the world. Their healthy lifestyle is one factor, but the promise of longevity is probably also because their telomeres – sections of DNA found at the end of chromosomes – are longer than those of the average person.
It’s a field of research currently being explored by Maria Blasco in Madrid. But this is just one of many possible factors influencing the process of aging. Senescent cells may also play a key role. Also known as “zombie cells”, these attack our body in old age and flood it with alarm signals until, at some point, we collapse under their weight. That’s a theory proposed by another researcher in Spain, Manuel Serrano.
A billion-dollar industry is already knocking impatiently at the lab doors. The first to market the miracle pill is guaranteed incredible wealth. That’s why investors are sponsoring young bio-startups in Hong Kong. Keen not be left out, US Big Tech is vying for the world’s best scientists. Alex Zhavoronkov has secured a slice of that pie, with a cash injection of more than 250 million dollars for his company’s work on aging research.
Whereas some pioneers’ visions burst like bubbles, others rush to get other, rather more dubious products onto the market. But their efficacy is now measurable. The epigenetic clock devised by Steve Horvath can measure our biological age, regardless of our actual age in years.
With his research on the thymus gland, California’s Greg Fahy managed to not only decelerate the aging process, but reverse it. His initial study on humans showed that a particular drug cocktail took an average two-and-a-half years off their age.
Young biohackers like Nina Khera from Boston want everyone to benefit from this research. Together with friends, she’s working on the “epigenetic clock for all”.
But while we’re busy trying to counter the aging process and all the illnesses it entails, fundamental questions arise: Should we be messing with nature like this? Are we about to overwhelm the planet with more and more people? Criminal biologist Mark Benecke in Cologne says that these questions are coming far too late.
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Hahah so they did not have the option to get modern medicine so they lived healthy lives til 90+ and even 100+. We have option of modern medicne and we get modern diseases times 100. So much for modern medicine improving our lives.
i am 61 and when i tell people they don't believe me because i look much younger and am very active. i have taken vitamins my whole life and exercised. i would love to be part of the program … this is interesting to me..
How annoying is the man in Hong Kong, bragging about his 200 mill and necking all those longevity pills. How ironic would it be if he fell under the bus outside his office. The little girl is a little creepy too.
Our Governments needs to stop spraying our Skies with six different kinds of poison that’s killing and destroying our earth and stop killing every living thing …….. Wakeup Fools ……..
Try harder.
The calculation is wrong.
At certain times many babies died. Always to bad hygienic practices.
Many people with access to cleaning lived the usual 80 yr lifespan.
Of course they were the rich biches. Hahaa
So very cool
Hard working person live longer than those people who live an easy idle live, laziness make them obese and a short life span
^ I think it would be a great thing ONLY if people can have a high quality of life until it's almost their time. Also, for poor people living super long is a problem due to how they will support themselves if they dont have enough money to live or family to support them. But, on the opposite end…. you can't tell me you wouldn't want your loved one's to live until 150!…. if they are alert and healthy why not!
5:03 the stats about people expecting to live to 25 in ancient Rome are misleading. Virtually no one dies at 25 due to natural causes. Augustus lived to 75. The reason that the age expectancy would be low is because of a disproportionate amount of child and teenager deaths. Once you reach adulthood, you are golden unless falling prey to war, famine, or disease.
The dream of immortality, I hope it never happens
FACT: Harmful solar radiation causes weathering.
Jesus, the balding Russian is chock-full of grade A Hubris
I've done genealogical research on my direct ancestors back to the early 18th century. Everyone lived until their mid 70s to mid 80s with one exception, an untreated Appendix.
Everyone was fit but not necessarily agrarian.
Whatever happened to Alagebrium?
Aging sucks, that's for sure. I can't think of a single positive physical thing about aging after age of 25. It's awful.
The world is already running out of water the planet is dying so why live longer only to waste was left of your grandkids resources, when your time is up say your pieces and blessings and go home
This is the problem with modern medicine, they can keep people alive more years but, the quality of that life has not been good. There are millions of elderly just shut away in old folks homes, some just bedridden for years n years. Many are abused n neglected. I dont think medical "improvements" have done them any favors. Improve the quality of health instead of the length of time. One is worthless without the other. I dont want to live to 100 if the last 20 or 30 years are just going to be incapacitated n housed waiting to die.
Who the hell would want to live that long?
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I listened to professor talk once about dementia all's dementia Alzheimer's and part of it was caused by plaque in the brain and one way to get rid of that plaque was by taking a good probiotic every day and and that would help reduce the build-up in the brain that causes Alzheimer's /dementia.
3:45 Leading Edge nutrients deliver fuel
Super documentary
This planet is a slave planet has been for 2022 years……….. The life they have created for you is called advanced slavery from a civilization more intelligent then you they tricked you all into thinking this is your life. So they can use you all as their test subjects they admit sickness into your food and water so they can find cures to make their life better.. They only let You access 10% Of your brain compacity so they will always sound more intelligent then you are and you will think this is what life is the reason they do this is Because they are trying to find eternal life and beauty. and you are all their test subjects I hope you all see the truth and see true Life in the future you just need to see the lies that were created to trick You into thinking this is how life is. they are stuck in a Dying galaxy with nowhere to run to after the war in the stars destroyed life on all the planets in this galaxy……………….
This planet is a slave planet has been for 2022 years……….. The life they have created for you is called advanced slavery from a civilization more intelligent then you they tricked you all into thinking this is your life. So they can use you all as their test subjects they admit sickness into your food and water so they can find cures to make their life better.. They only let You access 10% Of your brain compacity so they will always sound more intelligent then you are and you will think this is what life is the reason they do this is Because they are trying to find eternal life and beauty. and you are all their test subjects I hope you all see the truth and see true Life in the future you just need to see the lies that were created to trick You into thinking this is how life is. they are stuck in a Dying galaxy with nowhere to run to after the war in the stars destroyed life on all the planets in this galaxy……………….
This planet is a slave planet has been for 2022 years……….. The life they have created for you is called advanced slavery from a civilization more intelligent then you they tricked you all into thinking this is your life. So they can use you all as their test subjects they admit sickness into your food and water so they can find cures to make their life better.. They only let You access 10% Of your brain compacity so they will always sound more intelligent then you are and you will think this is what life is the reason they do this is Because they are trying to find eternal life and beauty. and you are all their test subjects I hope you all see the truth and see true Life in the future you just need to see the lies that were created to trick You into thinking this is how life is. they are stuck in a Dying galaxy with nowhere to run to after the war in the stars destroyed life on all the planets in this galaxy……………….
This is terrible, we are already killing our planet with the span we have. The old need to die to make room for the young. This is blasphemy.
We might prolong life by a few years, but death is going to come.
Is there a connection between dental health and mentall health
This video is just typical of the totally self-centered thinking of our technology-mesmerized 'domination of nature' obsessed worldwide Western culture. Just charge ahead, totally self-centered, with no thought for the big picture, including our relationship with everything else that is living on this planet. It's all me, me, me, what I want, and nothing else.
It is literally not until the last 90 seconds of an entire 51 min documentary that these people even bother to mention just a few of the massive problems that will be caused by extending human lifetimes beyond our naturally programmed 122 years…
Big Problem #1: If this is made available widely, totally unsustainable overpopulation, as we humans absolutely refuse to face realistically the problem of unlimited and uncontrolled procreation, and the burden this is placing on biodiversity. There's not even the tiniest bit of consciousness about the vital role biodiversity plays in providing the foundation for health-giving organic human nutrition. And there will be no biodiversity, ultimately no Nature at all with the havoc wreaked by uncontrolled overpopulation + life extension. But people really think they're going to survive, feeling healthy, on artificial food and drugs. Meanwhile, the rest of Life is destroyed. Idiots with big, blindered brains that only see what they want to see.
Big Problem #2: What about how expensive this kind of treatment is undoubtedly going to be made to be on account of capitalism and the imperatives of the economic royalists? We think we have a class divide now? Just wait until only the wealthy can live privileged lives to 150 or more, and the rest of the poor slogs are living the same short, overworked, and deprived, bored, and purposeless lives. You think we have unrest and terrorism now?
Big Problem #3: And are the rich really the people we want having longer lives than anyone else? Among the uber-wealthy are most of the sickest, most maladjusted human beings on the planet. These are the people who have no normal brakes on greed… Who are afflicted with a compulsion that won't allow them to recognize the experience of having enough. As far as I'm concerned, these are the last people who should have access to this kind of technology, because they are the people who are most ideally situated to continue to create and maintain serious imbalances in the world, bith socially and environmentally. To simply say, as is the last ridiculous statement in this documentary, that maybe being able to live longer will cause people to more appreciate that we need to be responsible stewards, rather than destroyers of Nature, is some some of the biggest magical thinking possible. That can't and won't happen if the initiating motivation for lengthening your life is one of greed and selfishness. All that will get you is more greed and selfishness, because by extending life you will have eliminated one of the major motivators for changing one's point of view and approach to life — the fact of our mortality.
Life extension beyond Nature's 122 years is about as stupid an idea as unleashing sentient artificial intelligence.
And this film won an award for Best Science? Things like this make me feel like the human species is absolutely hopeless.
People, wake up. The universe does not revolve around you. Our task right now is to learn to integrate ourselves cooperatively with Nature. We're not going to make it in any condition anyone will want to live through if we don't forget all this self-centered wishful thinking and start concentrating on that. The absolute tragedy is that we're taking out with us untold trillions of other creatures in the cruelest ways imaginable, and an entire and astonishingly brilliant and ancient planet full of biomes as well. I wonder what the karma count for that little act of thoughtlessness is going to be?
I cracked the code , please deposit the reward into my account.
The second commandant in the bible says 'Honour your father and your mother so that your days upon the land will be long.
That is a proven fact
Nothing ages one like alcohol and tobacco.
Yes ,as Brett Weinstein's brother already figured out ,current lab mi e have unusually elongated tylem Eres
Because these lab mice come from a ltd number of breeding companies, what this potentially means as was stated earlier in this video cancers can develop prematurely,also previous pharma tests for drugs currently on the market, could have long-term side effects never realized
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