Rhonda Patrick

They matter a great deal.

It's a matter of, you know, basically your quality of life and not having Alzheimer's disease and cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes and things like that later in life, really degrading the quality of your life and perhaps giving you an extra five years, right?

But you're not going to live 25, 30 years more by just being healthy, right?

So this is where gene engineering comes in.

And that's where I think

the AI also comes in because it's really going to, I think, exponentially move that field forward.

Whereas it's been kind of like, you know, it's been progressing, but at a pretty slow rate.

Yeah.

So there's this, you've heard of stem cells, right?

Of course.

And have you heard of, do you know who Shinya Yamanaka is, the Japanese scientist?

He won the Nobel Prize in 2006 for,

Basically discovering that you could take any cell from a person, an 80-year-old person, an old cell.

You know, we're constantly getting skin cells are falling off our body constantly.

You can take some of those old skin cells from an 80-year-old woman, for example, and you could put four different what are called transcription factors.

It's basically just, you know, a gene that basically is a master regulator of many, many different genes.

So it activates genes or it, you know, silences them so they're not active.

And you could put four of them on this skin cell, okay?

And you could revert that skin cell into what's called a pluripotent stem cell.

So that would be a cell that could become pretty much any type of cell in the body.