Rhonda Patrick

And so this is induced pluripotent stem cells.

And this is what Dr. Yamanaka won the Nobel Prize for because it's really the ultimate reversal of aging.

If you take an old cell and turn it into a stem cell that can become any type of cell or neuron, an eye cell, a heart cell, right?

But

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.