Rhonda Patrick

then that would be something that you can measure.

By the way, exercise can regrow brain cells in your hippocampus as well.

So that's one of the things that we do have control over right now.

We can talk about that.

And then gene therapy.

So we do know there are a variety of what are called longevity genes.

These are genes that are found in people that live to be 100.

So these are centenarians.

or semi-supercentenarians, so these are people that live to be 105, or the supercentenarians, so these are people that live to be 110 and older, there's a common denominator of really highly active genes that are found in these individuals.

And these genes happen to be genes that are involved in basically the cellular stress response, which is essentially when you stress your body,

your body adapts and responds and goes, uh-oh, there's stress going on.

I need to respond to this so that I can stay alive.

And it does things like increases antioxidant genes or anti-inflammatory genes or genes involved in making stem cells, all kinds of these like,

stress response genes are really highly active in people that actually do live to be 100 plus.

And so gene therapy can then deliver those genes to the right organs in humans.

And then again, you'll be able to now deal with the stresses of aging better.

And I think that's another thing on the horizon.

So for example, Dr. George Church, he's really the godfather of gene engineering, played a role in discovering the human genome.

He's done studies in

rodents and mice where they took you know three or four genes and made them you know soluble injected them in mice and it extended their life expectancy it reversed aging of their organs he's now doing clinical studies in dogs um it's much easier to get fda approval to do these sort of things and dogs are humans but it's like you know once you get to the dogs you have humans that are like of course i want my dog to live longer and so they're gonna you know start to approve