Biotracking, Age Reversal & Other Advanced Health Technologies | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #8

Welcome to the Lifespan podcast, where we discuss the science of aging and how to be healthier at any stage of life. I'm David Sinclair. I'm a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, and I'm also co-director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for biology of aging research. In this podcast series, we're talking about why we age

and how to slow, stop, and even reverse that process to give us longer and healthier lives. In this episode, this final episode of eight-part series, we're talking about the very near future. What's coming down the line that will potentially greatly extend our lifespans. I'm joined here by my lovely co-host and my co-author of Lifespan,

Matthew LaPlante. Welcome. Hey, thank you. So, yeah, we've been talking over the last few minutes about what the future really looks like and how much it's going to change our lives, but even how hard it is to predict the future just a few years out cuz things are changing so quickly. Well, in fact, we set off to give some

predictions when we worked on Lifespan together. And a lot of the things that you had said you envisioned coming down the line, maybe 5 years out, maybe 10 years out, by the time the book had published, and certainly now 2 years after the book had published, they're already here. We even have this illustration in the

book of a person going online, doing a telemedicine interview with a doctor, and having medicines delivered to their home, in that case by drones, but we're pretty much already there thanks to the pandemic. Uh yeah, we are. And and I think there's a lot of other things that are just coming a lot faster than than

we could have even envisioned. And also, in part, because of the pandemic. Because the pandemic has really brought so many of us face-to-face with some of the constraints of how our world was organized in the the before times, and how that it's not very flexible. It's not very responsive to the needs that we are