Dr. David Sinclair

They try to become more normal.

They turn on the original set of genes that they might have had on 30, 40 years ago.

Some of these cancer cells that we grow in the lab were from the 20th century.

We rejuvenate them.

We turn on those genes that were originally in the normal tissue, and the cells kill themselves.

And so I believe that

We may not be able to cure all cancer using this.

That would be crazy to even say that.

But I do believe that if we're successful rejuvenating the human body, cancer is not going to be a risk.

And that's just a nice side effect of what our original mission was, which was to treat aging.

Is that like a... Yeah, you have to break the DNA.

Okay.

Catastrophe is really broken DNA, but you can do other things that catastrophes like overheat the cells, even mechanical stress, you know.

Too many hits on the brain in football will do that.

So yes, that's exactly right.

And that drives aging.

And aging drives cancer, by the way.

One of my theories called the Gronkogenesis hypothesis.

Terrible name, but nevertheless, Gronkogenesis it is.

It's the idea that as we age, we're becoming more cancer-like as a human.