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The World as You’ll Know It: The Future Of Aging

Aventine
Weekly podcast. Next episode on Tuesday.
Human beings are living longer than ever. Thanks to advances like vaccines, antibiotics, pasteurized milk and clean water, we’ve added more than 30 years to the average lifespan over the last 120 years. That’s more than was added in the previous 10,000 years combined. More recently, enormous progress has been made in our treatment of deadly conditions like heart disease and cancer, with mortality rates for each dropping by double digits. Now science is tackling a new challenge: Can we cure aging itself? In pursuit of this holy grail, longevity research has gone from a sleepy backwater to a multi billion dollar field, populated — yes — by plenty of hucksters, but also by Nobel laureates. The goal is to find out what causes us to age and what we can do to slow it down, or maybe even reverse it altogether. Could tweaking the right molecule buy us 20 more years, or are we maxed out? Can older brains be re-wired to function like younger brains? Do any so-called biohacks actually work? 
These are some of the questions we are tackling in this season of The World as You’ll Know It: The Future of Aging. With leading scientists in the fields of biology, neuroscience and medicine, we’ll look at the cutting-edge of aging research and what living longer could mean for all of us.
43 episodes  •  0 archived  •  
Getting the Most From Our Extra 30 Years
Yesterday
Yesterday
33 mins
How to Be a Super Ager, with Eric Topol
June 24
June 24
33 mins
Why Women Live Longer Than Men
June 17
June 17
34 mins
Why Haven’t We Solved Alzheimer’s?
June 10
June 10
36 mins
We’re Underestimating Older Brains
June 3
June 3
31 mins
The Truth About Biohacking
May 27
May 27
35 mins
The Billion Dollar Bet: Will Humans Live to 150?
May 20
May 20
34 mins
Trailer
Introducing: The Future of Aging
Trailer·
May 19
May 19
2 mins
S5 E3
Can We Pull Carbon Out of the Air?
S5 E3·
Aug 13, 2024
Aug 13, 2024
25 mins