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The lawyer placed the blame squarely on the former president, President Trump, saying he motivated the attack.
A man spends millions to reverse aging, aiming to slow and reverse the aging process through a strict regimen and scientific methods.
Key Takeaways
- Aging can potentially be slowed and reversed through scientific and medical interventions.
- Biological age can differ significantly from chronological age based on organ health and function.
- High cost and intensive medical support currently limit accessibility to anti-aging therapies.
- Stopping or slowing aging could prevent many age-related diseases.
- Demonstrating feasibility is the first step before addressing global accessibility.
What the video covers
- A man uses his life as a science experiment to see how long he can live, aiming to slow and reverse aging.
- He measures his body’s biological age differently for various organs, with an overall biological age younger than his chronological age.
- He spends about $2 million annually on a strict regimen including vegan meals, supplements, and exercise designed by his son.
- His body fat is down to 5%, and he aims to achieve the body of an 18-year-old.
- He sold his company to PayPal for $800 million ten years ago to fund his anti-aging efforts.
- The goal is to demonstrate that aging can be slowed and reversed, challenging the assumption that decay and decline are inevitable.
- He has a team of 30 doctors supporting his efforts.
- Experts agree that aging drives disease and stopping aging could stop many diseases, including cardiovascular and lung diseases.
- He acknowledges the high cost and limited accessibility of such therapies currently but aims to prove feasibility first.
- He continues his search for a modern 'fountain of youth' without fear of aging.
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How long would you want to live? It is a question some of us think a lot about, but some more than others.
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One man is using his life as a science experiment to see just how long he can live.
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We are not talking about 140, 150, 160. Our original report takes you there. He calls himself the most measured human.
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If you ask how old he is, here is how he explains it. We could say my life here is 64.
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I have hearing damage as a child. My diaphragm strength is age 18. My lung capacity is age 18.
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My heart is about one dozen different ages based on different features, but collectively it is about 37.
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Reporter: As for keeping track the old-fashioned way, he is 45. He is doing everything he can to try to slow down growing old.
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It is an open science experiment. Reporter: What is the end goal? To demonstrate that we can slow the rate of aging and reverse aging that has happened.
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If we did not have decay and decline as an assumption, it would change everything.
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Reporter: If that sounds expensive, it is. Ten years ago he sold his company to PayPal for $800 million.
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Now he spends about $2 million each year trying to reverse the aging of his body.
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I am reversing my age by 5.1 years in the seven months. Reporter: He says he's six to a strict regimen including everything from vegan meals.
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I eat about 70 pounds of vegetables per month. Reporter: And a lot of supplements.
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I take this and 52 pills upon waking. Reporter: In the workout routine designed by his son, who he competes with.
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His body fat is down to just 5%. Around his house, everything money can buy to slow down aging.
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We are trying to achieve the body of an 18-year-old. Reporter: Right now people say this is a rich guy doing it.
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This costs millions of dollars and you have a team of 30 doctors. How far away are we from having anyone having access to intensive therapy?
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My objective is not to solve the accessibility problem globally. The objective in the earliest stages is to show something is feasible.
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Reporter: This is the director of the Einstein Institute of Aging Research at the College of Medicine in New York.
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He agrees aging does not have to be synonymous with disease and decline. It is the aging that drives the disease.
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If you stop the aging, we stop the disease. I'm not just talking about lung disease.
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I'm talking about all diseases or most of them. Certainly cardiovascular comes from a decline.
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Reporter: Johnson says he will keep searching for the 21st-century fountain of youth. I don't have a fear of
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