Dr. David Sinclair
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You could break your back and never walk again.
We will look back at today and say, how did those people get through life?
What a horrible world they lived in.
That, I believe, is the future that humanity is headed for and way faster than most people realize is coming.
The kind of breakthroughs that we've discussed today, most people have never heard about the fact that we are aiming and already do cure blindness in monkeys.
Like pure blindness.
This isn't just, oh, I can't see a little bit.
These are completely blind animals and that they can see again in a matter of six weeks.
This is remarkable stuff, right?
And if it works this year in people, it's going to be a really big deal because for the first time we'll have shown in humans that the body can be reset safely.
And the eye is just the beginning, right?
The future looks like we can rejuvenate potentially any tissue.
If you have a bad liver, we'll make it young again.
Bad brain, you've lost your memory.
We'll give you those memories back again.
We do this in mice in my lab all the time.
It's not even a big deal in my lab anymore to reverse the age of tissues in an animal.
in a matter of weeks.
That is coming for humanity, hopefully initially this year.
But even if that doesn't work, it's only a technical issue.