Dr. David Sinclair
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And the older you get, the more valuable it becomes.
It's important to realize the massive impact that this technology can have, not just economically, but on individual lives of human beings across the planet.
The world, when this becomes a reality, again, I'm speaking like it's a certainty because I'm pretty convinced it's going to happen.
That world is going to be so different from the world we live in.
It's going to be as different as the pre-computer world and the pre-aeroplane world as today is.
It's actually, the good news is it's both.
And we're doing a lot of work in my lab on skin and hair, hair loss, hair greying.
You don't have to worry just yet.
We'll help your brother first.
Oh, no, come on.
We will.
Tell him to call me.
So we've seen that we can rejuvenate the skin of, again, mice, but still we also grow human skin in the lab from scratch.
And we can put that human skin on mice, and the mice have human skin.
So we can now test age reversal in that system.
I'm very optimistic that we'll be able to rejuvenate the external part of the body as well as the internal.
If we can cure blindness, reversing the age of the skin is a piece of cake.
I've thought a lot about this.
There's this gut feeling that a lot of people have, maybe you're feeling it now, is that if I'm not worried about death, I'm not going to strive as hard or I'm not going to have as much meaning.
I'm not going to have agency.