
The Economist approaced the subject asking themself if the Peter Pan dream might become real. Ageing has always been inevitable but fasting, epigenetic reprogramming and parabiosis are just some of the scientific techniques that seem to help people stay young. Ageing is a rule in this world (so man animals but not all of them do it, they become old) and seems very hard to be reserved, and so much things we still don't know about the genome in general and human DNA in special.
The chapters in the video are:
- 00:00 - Can science turn back the clock?
- 01:01 - Centenarians
- 02:51 - What is ageing?
- 04:51 - Dietary restriction
- 06:00 - Roundworms
- 07:55 - Epigenetics
- 09:43 - Blood and guts
- 11:40 - Senolytics
- 12:38 - Metformin
- 13:51 - Anti-ageing treatments are coming