Dr. David Sinclair

So we could take a mouse and for three weeks we turned on this slime mold cutting protein

And nothing happened to the mouse at the time.

It's like you don't feel an X-ray.

You don't feel different when you fly except for maybe jet lag and dehydration.

But you don't get old suddenly.

Same with the mice.

They were normal.

They felt fine.

And that's why at first people said, oh, nothing's going to happen to these mice.

After three weeks, they were fine.

But we set in motion a cascade of accelerated aging events that about 10 months later, they were super gray and super old and had all the diseases of aging 50% faster than their twins that we didn't treat.

And you've got photos of those we could show.

Yeah, let's show those.

So if I was to do the experiment in you, I might have to engineer a clone of you, but I could do that.

I'm not saying that it's ethically right, but theoretically, we could make a clone of you, put in that slime mold gene, turn it on,

And your clone would be 50% older than you are.

Yeah.

Well, we're exposed to things that cause DNA breaks all the time.

They happen naturally as the cells try to copy their DNA, but you can accelerate that by getting an X-ray, a CT scan, flying a lot and cosmic rays banging into your DNA.

I fly all the time.