lage like me i drive down to the town of mountain view in silicon valley it's home to the sense research foundation which degree co-founded the research findings are disputed in scientific circles but they're based on solid scientifically recognized data. yet here. i still think it's quite likely that the first person to live to one thousand is in middle age or maybe even a little older i think that the first cohort in other words people born in a given year who are mostly live to one thousand probably in their twenty's or thirty's now or something like that oh work is focused on what we like to call rejuvenation biotechnology so what that means if medicines that we can apply to people who are already in middle age or maybe even older and which will actually repair have at the molecular and cellular level so restoring their body move to

a state similar to a young adult in other words we are not simply looking to slow aging down we are actually looking at ways to reverse aging so that means that people who are not benefiting from these therapies will look and feel and function in every way mentally and physically just like young that are. with the help of degrees rejuvenation therapies i can point again look like i did it twenty. the sense foundation laboratory looks like any other biomedical app but the disease they're trying to cure here is aging only part of the research is done at this site the foundation also works with a number of prestigious universities such as you cambridge harvard and wake forest . we start from the recognition that the body is

a machine of course it's a really really really complicated machine but it's still a machine. any machine with moving parts does damage to itself out of a side effect of its normal operation for that means that we should be able to look at some point man made machine fly cars and ask ourself well how do we already today successfully create cars maintain cars so that they are actually working just as well as when they were built and the answer is preventative maintenance. so we are applying that same concept to the human body but the real innovation that i put forward nearly fifteen years ago now and which inspired all of our work is that it may be possible to do repair comprehensively. we identify seven

major types of damage to molecular and cellular damage that the body does to itself has side effects of its normal operation. there is one type of damage and the therapy which is very familiar to everyone these days in fact the type of damage is loss of felf solved by not being automatically replaced by the division of other self and the therapy that is simply stem cell therapy everyone post themselves or because that's all it is if we are successful it rejuvenated people if we are restoring them to a younger biological way then of course we can do it more than once we can do it every thirty years or whatever and that means that we should be able to do exactly the same to the human body in terms of how long it live as we do took up where black so there shouldn't be any limits on how long people can live. there so that indeed. i agree with what aubrey de grey says about aging.

the thought of getting old still seems dreadful to me. but i'm glad he's putting all his energy and enthusiasm into it so as he puts it curing the problem. he's basically declared that i have a fifty percent chance of achieving eternal life by actually dared to expect more from the mortality group from the elixir of long life but i'll simply have to be satisfied with what i've got for the time being i mean. when we look back through history we see that the one thing that all of these alexia drinkers now have in common is that they're all six foot under they're all dead so many have a backup plan and that backup plan is exactly what the second fundamental kind of immortality story office stays with the idea that we are these. cicle things these

bodies but it except these bodies are going to have to die but it has a hot these bodies can rise again we can live again this is of course resurrection when we look around we see that in the winter living things die the plants around us die back the leaves fall from the trees that in spring they are reborn they grow again so it was a natural cycle of life death and rebirth and many rituals in human history many religions have been about tapping into this natural cycle so that we too live die and yet then can be really paul. the latest version of the elixir of life doesn't work yet so as i continue my quest for immortality i'll try a new tack resurrection to find out more about that i had to phoenix arizona. in most cases over eighty percent of the time we can be there at the bedside in the

hospital a suitable that has been declared with the patient into the us car from the hospital bed cover the nice at some water will use this device to circulate icy water around the patient accelerate the cooling process as quickly as possible those first agrees a critical because the more you are the first things are falling apart we also take a restoration of restarting that we use this mechanical device and we do mechanical c.p.r. so restarting circulation not with the goal of reviving the person but we don't really want to revive the person but the ideas we have of the restart everything so we can circulate the medications were take the cells as well as possible and maintain viability of the biological tissue for as long as possible so our goals were to get that temperature down from going to be done to get above freezing as fast as we can and we don't want to go below freezing at this point because if we do that without the next step in place with which is removing the blood and body fluids then you get all the ice crystals forming. iyonix is

the storage of patients at very low temperatures in the hopes that at some point in the future we will have the technology to repair damaged tissues to reverse the aging process itself and bring those patients back to life and function so patients who we can no longer help with today's medicine throws up his hands and so there's nothing more i can do for this patient what we're saying is let's not give up on the person let's give them a chance. the next stage of the process after everything away is the patient this is what we do it's very much like open heart surgery open up the just access the main blood vessels in here well then connect it up to the fusion system here in a chiller essentially what we're doing is removing as much blood and body fluids as possible to avoid ice crystal formation. i suppose what this is really destroyed the crucial information in the brain but it will do a lot of damage so we would minimize death so the goal would be is not to freeze

people say we freeze people actually really do we revive people vitrification really means that as as the fluid that we use the crow protection perfect and fluid centrally medical grade antifreeze as it gets colder and colder becomes of like a glassy substance it just gets thicker and thicker it doesn't form any ice crystals so it just gets more most or the holes the cells in place then will drop the temperature rapidly below freezing that about minus one hundred ten degree c. point between one hundred ten one hundred twenty zero so you have to go face transition you're no longer a bag of fluid as we tend to be most of the time you're actually becoming a true saw in. the final stage of priam excuse patient storage and care after we've done these devices asian to transport the sewage really perfusion once patients reach mines a

hundred ninety six degrees c. will be stored in these vessels doers as they're called these are actually like gigantic fillmore's flasks where you keep your hot coffee hot or cold. this contains a large amount of liquid nitrogen for a whole body patients a service you must actually get several your patients in the center column in the middle this is a three d. printed version of the do is in which our patients are stored as such to imagine what. inside the do is because you can see and you can see how patients distort we have up to four whole body patients but also in the center called we can also store several of your a patient's brain any patients in the center column so the for the efficient packing. over one hundred forty patients have been preserved by the alec or life extension foundation. the cost of cryo preservation is currently around two hundred thousand dollars for a home body and eighty thousand forebrain only of us have

a choice there are actually two basic options you can either chromosome your entire body which about half the members of chosen or you can actually just curves of the brain the brain being born butt.