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Takeaways:
- Lifestyle choices don’t affect longevity as much as some think.
- Living longer is a side effect of improved health.
- Everyone wants to live longer disease-free, but medical research needs funding in order to accomplish that, according to Dr. Aubrey de Grey.
SAN FRANCISCO — If people manage to figure out how to live forever, there will be a lot more houses to sell, Inman Publisher Brad Inman said at Inman Connect today.
But it was freedom from illness that was the focus of Inman’s conversation with Dr. Aubrey de Grey, chief science officer of regenerative medicine nonprofit SENS Research Foundation.
Up next at #ICSF: “Living Forever: The Secret to Not Aging” with Dr. Aubrey de Grey of SENS Research Foundation
— Andrea V. Brambila (@InmanAndrea) August 6, 2015
@aubreydegrey and @bradInman pic.twitter.com/V0rG0DgqrM — Andrea V. Brambila (@InmanAndrea) August 6, 2015
@aubreydegrey: “I don’t work on longevity for longevity’s sake. I work on health.” Living longer is a side effect. #ICSF — Andrea V. Brambila (@InmanAndrea) August 6, 2015
@aubreydegrey: The way we have more or less doubled average lifespan in the Western world is by more or less eliminating infectious diseases — Andrea V. Brambila (@InmanAndrea) August 6, 2015
@bradInman (summarizing @aubreydegrey): Just by living we’re killing ourselves. #ICSF — Andrea V. Brambila (@InmanAndrea) August 6, 2015
@aubreydegrey: “Breathing is really bad for you. We can’t fix the need to breathe. You fix the damage that breathing does.” #ICSF — Andrea V. Brambila (@InmanAndrea) August 6, 2015
@aubreydegrey on lifestyle choices: “Bad is much worse than average, but good is only a teeny little bit better.” #ICSF — Andrea V. Brambila (@InmanAndrea) August 6, 2015
@aubreydegrey: The country with the longest life span, Japan, only beats us by 4 years. Due to genetics, diet, look after the elderly. #ICSF — Andrea V. Brambila (@InmanAndrea) August 6, 2015
@aubreydegrey: “We need better medicine.” i.e., stem cell research #ICSF — Andrea V. Brambila (@InmanAndrea) August 6, 2015
@aubreydegrey: Have a budget of only $5 million — not billion — a year. Even though everyone wants cures for cancer and Alzheimer’s. #ICSF — Andrea V. Brambila (@InmanAndrea) August 6, 2015
@aubreydegrey: “Vote for change.” #ICSF — Andrea V. Brambila (@InmanAndrea) August 6, 2015
@aubreydegrey‘s foundation is at http://t.co/2MDsPHvmLK for those who would like to contribute. #ICSF — Andrea V. Brambila (@InmanAndrea) August 6, 2015
