Researchers at Harvard University are investigating whether human genes could reverse the effects of aging. NBC Medical Fellow Dr. Akshay Syal got exclusive access to their lab to discuss the future of how to defy aging.
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Great, because the planet needs more old people.
This technology sounds amazing, If we can live up to 200 years old while looking 50 will be greatz
If you think people in power are going to let you live and prosper, you are sadly mistaken.
I didn’t like the idea of dying someday anyway
FYI you’re not supposed to live forever
THEY WILL CREATE A ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE !!! BY TAMPERING WITH HUMANS LIKE THIS !!!
MARK MY WORDS – WE WILL CREATE A VIRUS LIKE NO OTHER
MOTHER EARTH WILL SURVIVE !!!
🌎🌍🌏
BUT THE HUMAN SPECIES WILL PERISH !!!
One suggestion I want to make is if you want to accelerate the aging process even more just join the Marine Corps.
Oh boy, the conspiracy theorists are going to have a great time spinning this one 😂
now Elon Musk is gonna live for 500000years
Don’t get your hopes up , you know if they figure it out , the rich will take it and go hide somewhere the rest of us will live and die like normal .
Hmmm we’re close to reversing aging but no cure for cancer yeah the government is definitely hiding something
While this is important work, remember that there is a lot of damage outside the cell, which is not addressed by this technology. There are different hallmarks of aging, and you need to treat all of them.
Immortality here I come.
Well all base on belief but I don’t believe researchers who work for big money
You’re all gonna grow old and die. It’s guaranteed.
Totally. I’ll believe it when they say “ WE HAVE reversed aging” not that you’re “close”. Close means you’re not done therefore we should have no reason to talk about it
What the… 😳
I don’t know. Doesn’t it seem like cures are always 10-15 years away? Cure for cancer? 10-15 years away. A cure for hair loss? 10-15 years away. Cure for spinal injuries? 10-15 years away. Yet the cure never materializes.
Please dont, it will be commercialized and capitalized by those on the upper society.
Put safety in place so that it whould be equitative to any demographic or believing.
Can’t wait!
So the rich will stay younger, wonderful
My brother did similar research for his neuroscience PhD. This was at USC about 20 years ago. They were able to reverse blindness in mice with an algae dna hack. That was their objective and longevity never entered the conversation. Enter this guy.
As a gamer and sci fi fan, I can’t help but shudder at hearing the name ‘Dr Sinclair’ which feels like the name of a baddie in so many games/tv shows 🤣🤣😆😆
If we could ‘stop aging’ or better reverse it it would really do a lot for the economies of the world given the amount of issues currently with fertility and people not wanting to have kids
I dont know why but this makes me spirtually uneasy.
nope sign me up!
when you live long enough you will find everything is repetitive, just on different level.
Don’t worry, like space travel.. this won’t be for us
Yeah… And only the worst people will have access to it. #Doomed.
Aging = dying. When people say “don’t worry that’s just aging” I hear “don’t worry, you’re just dying.”
Honestly, I’d be happy to just stop aging. Going backwards and getting younger would be an amazing bonus.
This is the research we should be funding, not crooked Dr Fauci and Oz torturing puppies and making diseases and viruses more deadly.
Can we not slow aging? Some people just deserve to die and age is the only thing that’ll take em out.
Let’s hope it becomes available to everyone and not bought and buried only to be made accessible to the rich elite
This is cool but also really scary. The economic dystopia this will create is depressing to think about.
If I was Elon Musk , I’d be paying for this to be 20 again.
If your rich you can live forever is basically what they just told us. Poor people die
People dont eat healthy
Some sponges live over 5000 years. There are shark species that live over 400 years. There are some clams and whales that live over 200 years. Some sea urchins and fish live over 100 years. At least one tortoise is 189 years old. Humans are the land mammal with the longest lifespan at over 120 for the record and about 80 for typical life expectancy. If we can find out how those sponges and sharks and whales can live so long then that should make it possible for humans to do likewise. There is no reason whey we can’t eventually figure out how to live 150+ years with an average expectancy of over 100.
No one wants that, old people will forever hold the wealth in society
Yay! Let’s interfere with nature! Again. I mean, there’s no way anything could go wrong, right? Right…?
My fear is, we are among the last generations to die
The best part about aging is all your enemies die. Imagine if gates, Biden, Hillary just never stoped.
The earth is going to be so over populated one day
Just imagine—- you wont ever retire.
i fear what this will evolve into.
You cannot reverse aging defined as to what you are portrayed to think from this video for example. Cells may be maniipulated to memorize a previous stage in development, however on the macro scale, time still moves forward. Its almost like faking life. Or making people believe that they may become immortal lol….its not really important how you ‘look’ until your time is over….and if your physical recognition overpowers your reality, then you wont last long anyway…
How about making a vaccine that works first?
Wow
Yes absolutely yes
“Im all for this but..”, just stfu and rot then.
Hey! This is Joe Biden! Send them dna over! Zzzzzz 😴
I hope this ages well.
well, im against this. If this process will be available and affordable to everyone, sooner we’ll face food shortages as the human population will rise. Another thing would be the possible effect of worsened global warming due to farming. We are just messing up with the nature
First cure cancer, or just cure COVID-19
I wonder if this hypothetically could also be used to treat demyelinating disease like multiple sclerosis. If he can restore vision to mice then that seems to indicate an effect to the nerve but also to the myelin sheath. With out it, the nerve is still very vulnerable and fragile.
Sign me up!
I’m glad that the interviewer was sceptical. Good. There is a lot to think about here. Having people live for much longer could be a terrible thing. I hope they’ve considered how bad this could turn out.
Just accept death stop trying to reverse it…
Yeah no thanks
(For rich people only)
Fascinating stuff. Wonder how much big Pharma will charge for this. 😂
BS
This couldn’t possibly go wrong.
This guy has so much botox in his face he can barely talk.
15 years? I better start saving now for the pill. I will turn 55yo at that time. 😅
He’s on the WEF. I just checked. Unfortunately I can’t link anything. We won’t be able to afford any of it, it’s for Klaus and his group of loonies.
Wow, I hope this can come true as soon as possible
Oh good, this is just what the world really needs right now.
For the elites can torture the poor people for all eternity!
Off topic, why bother with a pocket square if you’re not going to wear a necktie?
About time. Now reverse cancer. Stop making excuses and making people pay thousands and thousands for treatment that just poisons you
and makes you msierable
Won’t be available to us, only to the richest people.
Sudoku will become the #1 cause of death.
Who really wants to live forever?
stop playing god. its not a good look
Time is the great equaliser and is one of the reason why people give away their wealth and train and promote the next generation. I fear the society that we are heading when this becomes reality.
Not good. Even as a fundamental Atheist, I will acknowledge that certain things should be forbidden. A cure to aging should be forbidden. If they cure aging, those who choose to undergo the procedure should also have to become sterile.
Feel like I’m watching a movie, immortality is a Pandora’s box.
This research should be shut down. It is an abomination.
The only people who benefit from this are the super rich less not act like the powers that be are gonna jusf let the finite resource planet’s population to balloon to infinite size.
Hurry up! I’m getting older every minute!
I’ll sign up for any trials they advertise.
Great place to cut the video – right in the middle of an important sentence -_-
Sounds like bs lol
Theres already enough brain dead zombies on this planet why would we need more
Endtimes comes when humans start playing God. Just watch.
Only the elites will have access to this… Otherwise it would easily cause overpopulation
Ban human reproduction then.
But no, there won’t be any immortality ever. They at most will have extended average lifespan by few decades
@Kate S that’s absurd… There are way too many evil people out there to not have humanity recycling. What I would agree would be reversing aging as a way of keeping the skin and mind young…
I need to get rich so I can get onboard early haha
NO THEY ARENT. 👎
This is good until it gets to the hands of CORPORATIONS.
Clickbait
Dont worry guys, middle class or lower individuals won’t have access to this. This will be made for the ultra rich.
So the social security retirement age can go to 90 yeah?
Now available for the filthy rich!
What about the billions that was spent on cancer? Why do you keep the cure in secret?
Who picked that interviewer!? Those tiny brain cells in the lab could have asked more intelligent questions. Resident Evil!? Really!?
Dr. Syal looks like he’s already taking it….
This video makes me wish I was born many many decades later where technology is so advance I don’t have to worry about aging.
You cannot stop aging.. people are amazed with themselves when they think they are like Gods because of what they can do ..that’s what people were doing during Noah’s time.. making half human half animal experiments and were successful..making abominations… Then the flood came and killed everyone..
Lesson: you can’t go against nature and play God
he told that 10yrs ago…
Love smart people they will help us reach new science and better ways to live