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00:00Hundreds of years from now, we're going to look back and be shocked about this horrible
00:09world that we all used to live in, where people used to get old and die.
00:16We're interested not in slowing aging down, but in actually reversing it, turning back
00:21the biological clock.
00:23This is not science fiction.
00:26Even if I bring forward the defeat of aging by just one day, you know, that's a hundred
00:32thousand lives that I say, it's just astronomical.
00:40Harvard has actually been able to reverse aging in mice using telomere lengthening technology.
00:47Once we are really truly repairing things as fast as they go wrong, game over.
00:53We will have the ability to live indefinitely.
00:56Curing aging is a race.
00:58The clock ticks once, telomere's pushes it back.
01:02Ticks again, telomere's pushes it back.
01:05If Bill gets to his goal, then our marriage is forever and ever and ever.
01:10Think about that one.
01:12I can view myself as a post-it voice at his peak.
01:16There's going to be much less difference between people of different chronological ages.
01:21This is snake oil and dangerous snake oil.
01:26Dr. Andrews is simply a more recent iteration of similar personalities in the past.
01:32I'm not surprised that people don't believe us.
01:34What I really worry about is the possibility of a sudden breakthrough, the bigger question
01:39about humanity as a whole.
01:41If my mother had been healthy enough to benefit from these future therapies, then she would
01:52very much have wanted to.
01:53She had definitely not run out of things that she wanted to do in her life by any means.
01:57We are going to find something soon enough to allow my 84-year-old father to see his
02:05own aging reversed.
02:07Life is so funny.
02:08You can learn and learn and learn.
02:10And just about the time you learned what you wanted to learn, you die.
02:15It sometimes escapes the general public that scientists are actually human beings.
02:18They enjoy having a good time as well.
02:21I really don't know what does happen when a person dies.
02:24I want to go through.
02:26There's no glory in dying.