Dr. Rhonda Patrick

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Um, so this is where it gets really exciting.

You don't want to basically, you don't want, if you want to reverse aging, you don't want the cell to lose its identity, right?

You want to take a cell and reverse its aging, but keep it that same cell, right?

So I just told you the skin cell becomes a stem cell and then it can become any type of cell.

So now we have some new data.

This is all animal data where you can basically take this old skin cell and just kind of pulse those four different, you know, those big genes, those transcription factors on the skin cell.

And you can epigenetically wipe out.

So epigenetics is like those factors that are sitting on top of our DNA, like, you know, methyl groups and they're activating genes or deactivating them.

You can wipe them out and make the cell young, but still keep its identity.

And this has been done in animals.

So essentially reversing the aging.

No one's been able to, I mean, there's a lot of hurdles to overcome in terms of like, how do we get this into humans?

You know, the delivery system is kind of,

questionable because what they're doing in animals is giving it this virus.

And it's like, well, the virus could potentially integrate into the genome and maybe be oncogenic.

So there's a lot of things to overcome before it goes to humans.

And I think that's where AI is going to come in and help us figure out how we can translate this data

into humans.

And I don't know if that made sense to you, but it's kind of this futurism type of stuff, but it's very exciting.