David A. Sinclair, PhD Professor, Department of Genetics and Co-Director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research, Harvard Medical School We can reverse aging! We have already shown that we can reset complex tissue in an animal. And eventually, we think we could have treatments – an injection, or a pill – that could reset the body by a decade or more. And we could keep doing and redoing that reset, time and time again. Nir Barzilai, MD The Rennert Chair of Aging Research, Professor of Medicine and Genetics, and Director, Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Biology of Aging, Albert Einstein College of Medicine When you take the cell or an organ in the body and make it from old to young, you change the hallmarks of aging. And that’s what happens in geroprotection. We believe the safe drug Metformin can be used to prevent age-related diseases. People on Metformin for diabetes have less diabetes, less heart disease, less Alzheimer’s and less cancer, and the mortality of people with diabetes on Metformin is less than people without diabetes. We hope to get approval for this new indication called “aging.”
Jamie Metzl, JD, PhD Founder and Chair, OneShared.World When we think about aging, it’s not about living forever. It’s about unlocking human potential.
#UNITETOPREVENT CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS - DAY 3
MIND, BODY & SOUL Part VI: Innovation, Technology and Changing the World
If you want to live longer, don’t focus on changing your mind – change your surroundings. People in Blue Zones eat wisely, mostly a whole, plant-based diet. They’re nudged into movement every 20 minutes or so, because of the way their surroundings are set up. Because their life is underpinned by purpose, they’re surrounded by the right tribe, and they live in places where the healthy choice is the easy choice.
Dan Buettner Founder, Blue Zones
What is it we need to do to make our future good? Well, it is largely being good with each other. It’s not fighting. It’s understanding that we need to approach conflict, and the difficulties we face – financial difficulties, environmental difficulties, including the pandemic – with love and harmony, and say it’s a common problem rather than fight over it. If we can do this, we have a chance at a good outcome.
Ray Dalio Founder, Co-Chairman and Co-CIO, Bridgewater Associates; Author, New York Times Best-Selling Book, “Principles: Life & Work”
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