Human Trials for Cellular Reprogramming (Longevity)

Thanks for having me, David.

You haven't injected yourself with this stuff, have you yet?

I have not.

I am not one of the three humans who've tried this out.

So it's pretty early days for this, but three people have this in their eyeballs.

And they are living to tell the tale as yet, I believe.

So we hear from the company and they have an independent safety review board.

Yes, these three people are alive and well and actually didn't really have any side effects from the treatment.

So this is obviously like very initial data.

And then they're going to hope to take it forward in several more people and give them a bigger dose to see if maybe they can get the performance to be a little bit better.

What the heck is cellular reprogramming? What

does that mean?

Is this just a fancy buzzword? Because when I hear the phrase cellular reprogramming, I kind of want it.

But what does it mean? What are they actually doing?

Yeah.

So cellular reprogramming is actually like Nobel Prize winning science.

And what it is, is basically it's something that we all do before we're born.

Like two old people, somewhat old people get together and make a new egg, a new embryo.

I learned about this in health class when mommy and daddy love each other.

OK, I got it.

What? they didn't tell you in health class is like that's made from old cells and it's actually kind of old for like the first week and then it goes through this process this biological process of reprogramming where these factors come together and rejuvenate the cell to be young and so that's why we're born young and it seems crazy but basically this guy this Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka figured out that you could do this and with old cells from people.

And so you can turn back the clock on a cell.

Obviously, we don't all want to become unborn again.

But the trendy thing that a lot of scientists have been talking about in recent years who are really interested in longevity is that you could partially reprogram cells.

You could do this a little bit and maybe rejuvenate cells.

Thanks for having me, David.

You haven't injected yourself with this stuff, have you yet?

I have not.

I am not one of the three humans who've tried this out.

So it's pretty early days for this, but three people have this in their eyeballs.

And they are living to tell the tale as yet, I believe.

So we hear from the company and they have an independent safety review board.

Yes, these three people are alive and well and actually didn't really have any side effects from the treatment.

So this is obviously like very initial data.

And then they're going to hope to take it forward in several more people and give them a bigger dose to see if maybe they can get the performance to be a little bit better.

What the heck is cellular reprogramming? What

does that mean?

Is this just a fancy buzzword? Because when I hear the phrase cellular reprogramming, I kind of want it.

But what does it mean? What are they actually doing?

Yeah.

So cellular reprogramming is actually like Nobel Prize winning science.

And what it is, is basically it's something that we all do before we're born.

Like two old people, somewhat old people get together and make a new egg, a new embryo.

I learned about this in health class when mommy and daddy love each other.

OK, I got it.

What? they didn't tell you in health class is like that's made from old cells and it's actually kind of old for like the first week and then it goes through this process this biological process of reprogramming where these factors come together and rejuvenate the cell to be young and so that's why we're born young and it seems crazy but basically this guy this Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka figured out that you could do this and with old cells from people.

And so you can turn back the clock on a cell.

Obviously, we don't all want to become unborn again.

But the trendy thing that a lot of scientists have been talking about in recent years who are really interested in longevity is that you could partially reprogram cells.

You could do this a little bit and maybe rejuvenate cells.