WEBVTT - Life Extension's Faloon on Science Behind Age Reversal (Audio)

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<v Speaker 1>Diego over the last couple of days, the world's largest

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<v Speaker 1>gathering of life extension enthusiasts was held. World prodowned futurist

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<v Speaker 1>and inventor Ray Kurzweil, one of the creators of optical

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<v Speaker 1>character readers that delivered the keynote address here to help

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<v Speaker 1>us understand more about life extension enthusiasts is Bill Falloon.

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<v Speaker 1>He is the co founder of the Life Extension Foundation. Bill,

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<v Speaker 1>thanks very much for being with me. Appreciated greatly. First

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<v Speaker 1>time in medical history, for the first time ever, multiple

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<v Speaker 1>methods of inducing meaningful human age reversal were presented. I've

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<v Speaker 1>been working at this my whole life. Never happened before. Bill.

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<v Speaker 1>Before we get into the details of what was said

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<v Speaker 1>or presented at the gathering, I wonder if you could

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<v Speaker 1>explain to people that are not familiar with the term

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<v Speaker 1>life extension, what does it encompass. Up until now, life

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<v Speaker 1>extension meant taking steps to slow down your rate of

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<v Speaker 1>biological aging and reduce your risk of degenerative disease. That's

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<v Speaker 1>up until now. But that's all changed. We are now

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<v Speaker 1>looking at ways to reverse biological aging. And we saw

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<v Speaker 1>people presenting the results of their clinical studies, meaning human

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<v Speaker 1>studies showing meaningful age reversal. It's it's unprecedented, and we

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<v Speaker 1>believe it's going to launch an entire new market. Before

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<v Speaker 1>we get into that, maybe you could just explain this

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<v Speaker 1>age reversal study in the context of genetic analysis. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>let me let me just give you. There was many,

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<v Speaker 1>many presentations different ways of inducing age reversal. But what

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<v Speaker 1>we normally try to look at our factors such as

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<v Speaker 1>endothelial function, in other words, how healthy is your arterial system.

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<v Speaker 1>We look at lipid levels, glucose, We look at the insulin.

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<v Speaker 1>Older people have too much of it. So we look

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<v Speaker 1>at a broad odd range what we call bio markers

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<v Speaker 1>of aging, including whatever genetics we can find, but those

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<v Speaker 1>have not been totally validated yet. But in study after study,

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<v Speaker 1>they're seeing regeneration in vital tissues and organs in response

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<v Speaker 1>to therapies that have worked animals but have never been

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<v Speaker 1>attested in humans before. And we were able to put

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<v Speaker 1>all of these sciences together in one conference over three

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<v Speaker 1>and a half days, and we gave him each about

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<v Speaker 1>fifteen minutes to present, and we brought someone else back

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<v Speaker 1>on UH to show us what they were doing to

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<v Speaker 1>reverse aging. What is the Crisper system and how does

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<v Speaker 1>that relate to this topic. That is the most promising

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<v Speaker 1>technology there is. Crisper cast nine is being studied by

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<v Speaker 1>Dr George Church at Harvard University. He predicted in The

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<v Speaker 1>Washington Post published in December two thousand fifteen that human

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<v Speaker 1>beings will be able to reverse their aging process using

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<v Speaker 1>Crisper cast nine with then the next five years. We're

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<v Speaker 1>wildly enthusiastic about that. We did not invite Dr Church

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<v Speaker 1>out there because people in our longevity community we know

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<v Speaker 1>he's doing great work. We hope what he's doing will

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<v Speaker 1>be that silver bullet. But we're not waiting. We're exploring

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<v Speaker 1>many other ways of inducing meaningful reversal of biological aging.

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<v Speaker 1>But can you just give me one example, specifically of

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<v Speaker 1>a therapy or a regiment or any kind of a

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<v Speaker 1>real simple one. There's a protein in the blood called

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<v Speaker 1>g DF eleven that stands for growth differentiating factor eleven

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<v Speaker 1>that also is being studied in animals at Harvard University.

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<v Speaker 1>It induces systemic age reversal in the animal model. There's

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<v Speaker 1>a group of longevity enthusiasts who are using g DF

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<v Speaker 1>eleven on themselves and carefully monitoring a wide range of

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<v Speaker 1>bio markers, and they're all showing significant age reversal with

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<v Speaker 1>one serious side effect, and we will we have to

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<v Speaker 1>overcome that one. And what is the serious side effect?

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<v Speaker 1>Their youthful appetite has been restored. They are over consuming calories.

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<v Speaker 1>They're putting on a little weight in response to them

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<v Speaker 1>eating more food than they know they should be. But

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<v Speaker 1>their sense of smell has been restored. The biomarkers of

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<v Speaker 1>endo fudial function that the blood lipids, the glucose, they're

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<v Speaker 1>all going back to the youthful range. And response to

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<v Speaker 1>just one one intervention, three injections a week of g

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<v Speaker 1>d F eleven is causing these individuals to have their

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<v Speaker 1>aging process go in reverse. And they're being inundated from

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<v Speaker 1>people who say, I want to join your group. What

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<v Speaker 1>is the what is the Food and Drug Administration's response

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<v Speaker 1>to this? Oh, they would just say you can't do it.

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<v Speaker 1>They would say you can't be doing this sort of

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<v Speaker 1>thing that people aren't waiting. This is like the HIV

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<v Speaker 1>community in early nineteen eighties. We're aging to death. We

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<v Speaker 1>can't wait for the FDA to put a rubber stamp

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<v Speaker 1>on something. So these are groups of individuals taking the

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<v Speaker 1>initiative to try to reverse aging and their own bodies

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<v Speaker 1>and and in other cases there are credential DOT doctors

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<v Speaker 1>doing a peer review clinical studies where you do have

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<v Speaker 1>FDA approval. But what was so exciting here were people

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<v Speaker 1>coming up showing the results of technologies where they do

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<v Speaker 1>really have intellectual property interest in it. They were just

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<v Speaker 1>individuals trying to reverse the raging process. In other cases

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<v Speaker 1>there were credential physicians. We've gotta leave it there, we

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<v Speaker 1>gotta run. Bill Falloon, he is the co founder of

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<v Speaker 1>Life Extension Foundation, talking about new techniques to reverse the

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