Dr. Eric Topol

This is one thing to emphasize that all these years, we're talking about millennia that medicine's talked about primary prevention of major age-related diseases.

We've never done it before.

But we actually can't do that now.

Yeah, it's a great question.

So there's a few reasons why we're seeing this longevity moment right now.

There's never been more intense interest.

One is that we have had

big investments in science and biotech to reverse aging.

And this is a lot of billionaires who, when they were young, they wanted to be rich.

And now that they're rich, they want to be young.

And they put lots of resources into these companies.

And some of them are doing really elegant science.

And

We can say that you can make a mouse or a rat that's old make it truly young.

I mean, yeah, it's extraordinary, but we're not at any data in people, right?

So that's one area that's really been moving quickly, and maybe someday we will have a way to reverse aging, but right now we don't.

We're not even close, and we also know that these various shots on goal each have different

liabilities and risks.

Like for example, the cellular reprogramming, we've seen tumors show up in mice and eroded.

So it's not a, you know, kind of a clear cut path to people.