Dr. Ellen Langer

Yeah, like walkers, canes.

They get younger as I get older, as I recall.

Well, actually, you know that when I was interviewing people to do the study, so their adult daughter would typically go and bring them to the lab, and I see them tottering down the hall, and at one point I said to myself, why am I doing this?

I don't know if they're going to live through the day, no less be able to live for the week.

It was...

I took on something that only the younger me would have considered taking on.

You know, I was in charge of their entire lives, these several, you know, seven men, old men, every aspect of their lives for a week.

At any rate, you could, you know, you looked at them and didn't matter what number you attached to them, they were old.

Now they were going to live for a week as if they're their younger selves.

So they'll be talking about current events, things from the past, as if they're just unfolding and other things as well.

And they were making their own meals and they would correct each other.

So if you would say was, somebody would tell you is because the past was now the present for that.

Wow.

And they were listening to older music and watching older movies and everything.

Yeah.

I could spend the whole time with you just so I know that study, so you want me to give more details, just tell me, but let me tell you the results, because those were amazing.

So they lived as their younger selves for a week.

Without any medical intervention, their vision improved, their hearing improved, their memory, their strength, and they looked noticeably younger.

And I must tell you that almost from the beginning, the changes were palpable.

And most people accepted the findings.