just to emphasize this little square is in proportion to the skill of the amount of monies -- >> we will break away here to take you live to the senate. part of our commitment for more than 40 years to bring you coverage of congress. we will return to booktv following a short pro forma session here on c-span2. the vice president: the senate will come to order.

the senator from maryland. mr. cardin: i ask unanimous consent to be recognized notwithstanding the order that no business be conducted during today's pro forma session. the vice president: is there an objection? without objection. mr. cardin: madam president, i ask consent that notwithstanding the order that no business be conducted during today's pro forma session, it be in order to receive h.r. 5085 from the house, that the senate proceed to its immediate consideration, that the bill be considered read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be considered married and laid upon the table -- need and laid pofned table all without entire conveniencing action or debate. the senate stand adjourned to the order of -- to september 3. the vice president: under the previous order, the senate previous order, the senate

>> senators return for legislative work monday september 13 at 3 p.m. for more work on executive nominations. later in the week majority leader schumer has scheduled time for voting rights and election reform legislation. watch the senate live here on c-span2. now we return to booktv programming. >> so i'm just good to start off with this question from an anonymous attendee that says what things do you currently do in attempt to live longer? >> there's actually a chapter of help if i spend about an occult at now to live long enough to live even longer. the reason is because if i can live long enough in good health i can be a live in time for these treatments to be developed and that's truly exciting, compelled me, really compelled me to follow this health advice. some of it is obvious, things

like not smoking, eating a variety of different foods and a that too much of them, get enough exercise and sleep and that kind of thing. what i found was first i found the smoking on because i want to experiencenough to some of these treatments but secondly because went to understand aging you realize actuallyly this health advice effectively slows down the aging process. i go into details why it is these things work. it's not just preventing single disease. it's not like excess obit that your heart or your muscles. as this global benefit of hope aging process, exercising improves your mental health, your brain power, it slows cognitive decline, reduce your risk of cancers. incredible i hy recommend it. i know it sounds boring but it is important. and then convention all that's of advice and one of those is brushing your teeth.

we now understand if you have good dental hygiene it could slow down the aging process. a lot of aging is driven by a chronic inflammation. that's a normal process that we heal a wound and call attention to bring in the calvary. and in young people it's called acute inflammation it solves the problem then dives away. so it doesn't fit is away in the background so it is a constant paranoia. that's why it accelerates a whole aging process. if you have poor dental hygiene and tooth decay that's a constant standoff in your mouth between the bacteria and your immune system driving

chronic inflation with the link between poor dental hygiene and heart health. some of the first evidence comes in it could be linked to dementia so it's incredible to realize brushing your teeth potentially can reduce your risk of dementia so that's why make sure i religiously brush my teeth and floss everyday just low down the aging process as much as possible spec that's great to hear and now i've invested in the electric toothbrush. >> will a certain age limit benefit others from antiaging treatments? >> i don't think they will they have a global effect there are some certain health conditions or drugs that might interfere with another drug but i'm confident this will

happen in the next few years some already and human trials in the next few years. so it's not inconceivable a few years after that and then another drug i didn't talk about in my book that for men is diabetes it could slow down the aging process and has been delayed because of covid so they will try to use this to slow down the aging process and this is a commonly prescribed drug with a safety record on this and if that trial works out so we could be

very confident if it works for many people. i don't think there's any reason for pessimism unless you were on death store. >> that's good to hear that addresses a few other questions and on that note. [inaudible] >> there are some preliminary lab data various studies given to the mice to show muscle function and where they seem to be most effective is the mitochondria which is the powerhouse of the cells.

so that is decent data so there is that testing program with research labs on the us and then to determine which medications can prolong the lifespan of my one - - of mice it is a precursor of what we just mentioned tested in the last round. but we just don't have that validated his share. and those studies that show

that doesn't actually slow down aging? the trial is ongoing that right now i don't know it be after this year. >> . >> what impact from that society quick. >> a very difficult question to answer. the good news is most countries around the world you may know in the us there is us there certain age groups with the depth of despair in particular of middle-age there are so many things going on and it is obesity. so that the moon but on - - at

the moment to prevent the medicine with those affects but they are very serious problems and there is some good evidence it is a bit like smoking the primary pollution is in the lungs that they do seem to cause inflammation and changes all over the body to the aging process so i very much hope we can carry on with the attempts of urban centers and then it does indeed increase the rate of aging. but we can try everything we can to help improve their life span. >> is it intentional from the evolutionary perspective to

hold something back quick. >> it's a great question. intentional is the wrong word but clearly it's not an accident. the simplest way to that aging evolved and then going old. and then all those other things that are not aging related. and even from exposure because of those tiny bodies and to keep themselves warm if they

could just die on a cold night like that. and then what evolution has done and then into the decade. and then to get to reproductive capacity and that evolution and basically doesn't care. it just doesn't matter. but then if you think of another animal. and talk about the naked mole rat that is very similar but

they live in these colonies underground in tunnels. so there's much less risk of predators. they have the opportunity to mature because there is less risk of death now it's far more important if a naked mole rat through history so they have invested much more. so they will still be going. if they have less intrinsic mortality and with that intrinsic mortality. and with that dietary restriction is a measure that imagine you are mouse and then

basically they will stop themselves. and then to redirect that energy for into reproducing as quickly as possible and then try to help it survive. so that is why we think that the simplest explanation to put the brakes on aging to some extent. so i hope that answers the question. >> so how does dialysis help aging? >> one of the great advances it is almost universally needed is not so much a data-driven science you think of someone playing with my send the lab but the fact is

more and more they have huge data readouts because one of the things i was working looking at dna sequencing data on - - data because we went from the human genome project costing billions of dollars if you want to sequence the human genome it's one year later $100 million taken weeks and weeks of work were now we can see for less than $1000 it is routine so we have vast quantities of biological data so which sells at which time and then to determine and those studies and just generate vast volumes