Dr. David Sinclair

Are you jealous?

Not jealous, no.

No, they live a tough life.

Some of those trees have been around since the pyramids.

The reason they can live for so long and evolve to live so long is that things don't eat them.

They are totally poisonous.

You don't want to eat a bristlecone pine.

The same for a whale, right?

The bowhead whale, some of these very large animals, no predators.

So they've evolved a strategy of breeding slowly but building very...

powerful systems to stop epigenetic changes.

Their epigenetic control systems are stable, they don't get cancer, and they don't lose, they don't have this identity crisis until hundreds of years.

We know that.

People study the cells of whales in the dish, and those cells don't lose their identity very quickly, even when you break their DNA.

This might be the most important point that I make today.

When you reverse aging, diseases of aging go away or are cured.

And in my lab, including many types of cancer as well.

The diseases that we try to treat individually with different medicines today that we think are unrelated, Alzheimer's, cancer, heart disease, you name them, fundamentally what's driving a lot of those diseases is aging.

If you never got old, would you ever get Alzheimer's even if you had the genes that predispose you?

No.