#1165 Aubrey de Grey: The Science of Aging and Longevity

Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lops, and today I'm joined by Dr. Aubrey de Grey. He is a biomedical gerontologist, and today we're going to talk about the science of aging and longevity. So, Dr.

de Gray, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to everyone. Well, thank you for having me. So let me start by asking you first, what got you interested in the topic of aging and in approaching it scientifically? The main thing that got me interested when I was in my late 20s was uh the discovery that hardly anybody else was interested.

This was something that I had never considered. until that time. I had always known and uh that it was obvious to me that aging is the world's most important problem and that it could, in principle, be overcome medically. But it was so obvious to me that I never discussed it with anybody and therefore I never discovered that other people thought differently until I met and married a biologist who um accidentally taught me a lot of biology over the dinner table, but who also eventually, you know, I began to realize he wasn't interested in aging, and I thought that's crazy.

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