Jay Oshansky
speaker
12 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
Jay Oshansky’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We can delay aging. It's one of the foundational questions in science. We can stop aging. How long can we live?
We all know that winter is coming for us.
The question is when, and can we push it out as much as possible? People have been talking about it for thousands of years. It's not a new question, it's an old question.
The top 10 celebrities who have aged badly.
When you try and imagine it when you're younger, you think you may not want to be there because you get these images in your head of being bent over, you know, using these walkers and you don't want that to happen to you. But once you get out here, you know, you look around and you go, hey, nothing's different. I'm just older.
been working in the field of aging for almost 40 years.
Basically, the bet was all about whether or not anyone alive in the year 2000 would be alive in the year 2150.
My good friend thought that it was possible, and I said, no, it's not possible. The process of living itself leads to the degradation, the continuous degradation that ultimately leads to the demise of mind or body. And we have components of the body that don't replicate.
Those are our Achilles heels. So we can't get these bodies to last that long unless we turn the engine of life off. And when you turn the engine of life off, you're dead.
Do I know which one of these interventions is going to succeed? No, I don't know. All we need is one that does.
Winter will will come for me. It will come for all of us. The question is when and what can we do to to do what's the most important thing, in my view, which is to enjoy life while we're here. We only get to go through this journey once. And, you know, for humans, it's about twenty nine to thirty thousand days. That's all we get. It varies. But that's it. Twenty nine to thirty thousand days.
That's that's it.
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