David Agus
American oncologist and author
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May 23, 2026
Is It Possible to Hack Your Body for a Longer Life?
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David AgusGUEST
You know, the drug for breast cancer I helped make, it took 10 years to make and about seven years to test.
David AgusGUEST
You know, remarkable groups in the England and in the United States have been able to develop computer programs that can predict the shape of proteins.

Kara SwisherHOST
So when you talk about that issue in China, given what's happened here, the ab- ability to manufacture here, the cuts that have been happening with the Trump administration, et cetera, talk a little bit about that because w- we've been ahead in these areas for the most part.
New Year Refresh: AI and the Future of Healthcare with Dr. David Agus
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David AgusGUEST
- or espouse, has won in everything, and it's moderation, right? Anything to an extreme doesn't make a lot of sense.
David AgusGUEST
You have to look at what we did during evolution, right? We ate real foods, so not processed foods, nothing in a blender, nothing with ingredients that stabilize the fat or can enable shelf life.
David AgusGUEST
We had our mealtimes regular, right? We would make a kill in the wild, and then have the group as a family, so we all have family meals, and we had the leftover in the morning.
Dan BuettnerHOST
What is it, and, and why is it so important to avoid inflammation? And then finally, I'm gonna ask you how to avoid it.
Dr. David Agus on The Hopeful Science of a Longer, Healthier Life (#280)
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6:41Lynne ThomannHOST
How does that process drive aging, cancer, and other diseases?
David AgusGUEST
There was a remarkable experiment done by Wanda Ruth Lunsford in the 1950s, and what she did was she took an old rat and a young rat, and she tied their skin together after anesthetizing them.
David AgusGUEST
And after two or three days, their blood supplies joined, and what she saw several weeks later is the old rat, the gray hair turned brown again, the n- neurons were growing in the brain, the muscles were bigger.
David AgusGUEST
Well, several years ago, a group at Harvard, a group at UCSF and Stanford separately repeated Wanda's experiment, and it worked.
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9:14Lynne ThomannHOST
What can we learn from elephants, giraffes, and other animals?