Dr. David Sinclair

and every day spends my life researching with a team of the best scientists I can gather around the world, showing that we can literally now reverse the aging process and reset how old the body is.

In animals, yes, but potentially this year, showing it can work in the human body as well.

Yes.

So we've submitted a form to the

You know, the FDA in the US to get approval to treat blindness, a couple of types of blindness in people as early, if all goes well, as next month.

Yeah, well, we chose the eye not because it was going to work well, but because it's a nice system to study age reversal.

The eye is an enclosed space, and so it's much safer than trying to initially reverse the age of the whole body.

Now, in mice, we reverse the age of the whole body.

And the effect is longevity, rejuvenation, the skin gets better, all parts of the animal get healthier and younger.

But in humans, you don't want to go straight to rejuvenation, because in case something goes wrong, it could set us way back.

And we have to make sure we don't have any safety mishaps.

So we're being a little cautious in humans.

In mice, it's a little different.

So in the human eye... Just for those that aren't watching the video, there is an eye on the table.

Well, a plastic eye.

It's a larger version of an eye, but yes, Stephen's right.

What we're doing, we're going to look at the back of the eye, which is your retina, and that's where the light hits.

And at that point, there are a lot of nerves that coalesce into the optic nerve that runs to the brain by just a few millimetres.

So the brain is here.

The eye is actually part of the brain.