Dr. David Sinclair

Right.

Well, so longevity is the more academic way we describe what we research.

Anti-aging is kind of the same thing, but it's got a bad rap because it's been used by a whole bunch of people that don't know what they're talking about.

So I really don't like that term anti-aging.

But aging as a disease and longevity are perfectly valid ways to talk about this subject.

So let's talk about aging as a disease.

When I started my research, disease here at Harvard Medical School, it was considered if there's something that's wrong with you,

and it's a rare thing, has to be less than 50% of the population, that's definitely a disease.

And then people work their whole lives to try and cure that condition.

And so I looked up what's the definition of aging, and it says, well, it's a deterioration in health and sickness, and you can die from it, typically you do.

So I'm thinking that sounds pretty much like a disease, but the caveat is that if more than half the population gets this condition, aging,

It's put in a different bucket, which is, first of all, that's outrageous because it's just a totally arbitrary cutoff.

But think about this, that we're ignoring the major cause of all these diseases.

Aging is 80% to 90% the cause of heart disease, Alzheimer's.

If we didn't get old and our bodies stayed youthful, we would not get those diseases.

And actually, what we're showing in my libels, if you turn the clock back in tissues, those diseases go away.

So aging is the problem.

And instead, through most of the last 200 years, we've been sticking Band-Aids on diseases that have already occurred because of aging.

And then it's too late.

So there are a couple of things.