Ending Aging

The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime

By: Aubrey de Grey, Michael Rae

Narrated by: Stephanie Murphy

Must we age?

A long life in a healthy, vigorous, youthful body has always been one of humanity's greatest dreams. Recent progress in genetic manipulations and calorie-restricted diets in laboratory animals hold forth the promise that someday science will enable us to exert total control over our own biological aging.

Nearly all scientists who study the biology of aging agree that we will someday be able to substantially slow down the aging process, extending our productive, youthful lives. Dr. Aubrey de Grey is perhaps the most bullish of all such researchers. As has been reported in media outlets ranging from 60 Minutes to The New York Times, Dr. de Grey believes that the key biomedical technology required to eliminate aging-derived debilitation and death entirely - technology that would not only slow but periodically reverse age-related physiological decay, leaving us biologically young into an indefinite future - is now within reach.

In Ending Aging, Dr. de Grey and his research assistant Michael Rae describe the details of this biotechnology. They explain that the aging of the human body, just like the aging of man-made machines, results from an accumulation of various types of damage. As with man-made machines, this damage can periodically be repaired, leading to indefinite extension of the machine's fully functional lifetime, just as is routinely done with classic cars. We already know what types of damage accumulate in the human body, and we are moving rapidly toward the comprehensive development of technologies to remove that damage.

By demystifying aging and its postponement for the non-specialist listener, de Grey and Rae systematically dismantle the fatalist presumption that aging will forever defeat the efforts of medical science.

©2015 SENS Research Foundation (P)2016 SENS Research Foundation

Very Informative

Very well written and well read book. Although it is very informative, the book is written in 2007. this is not a book about wait loss or how to eat healthy. this is to inspire science to look at ways to increase longevity. If you have extra money I would recommend donating to sense.org

The anti aging future path

While much progress has been made, the book outlines the paths that need to be addressed. Aubrey de Gray has excellent interviews that shed light on the latest progress. Basically we need to get Congress to eliminate the stem cell restrictions placed over 30 years ago, so we can join the rest of the medical leaders and verify the breakthroughs. The United States has been falling behind on stem cell and medical technological breakthroughs.

Fascinating vision of ageing and cell dysfunction

Aubrey's passion for addressing Ageing infirmities via by solving time induced failures in the cell comes through although I found the science is barely accessible at times...

Robot voice

The narrators voice sounds like it’s AI generated. The voice made interesting content boring and unbearable.

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