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LEVITY is a podcast offering high-quality, science-informed editorial content focused on aging science and radical life extension. This includes discussions on lifestyle, biotechnology, ethical considerations of life extension, healthcare innovations, research breakthroughs and the role artificial intelligence might play. Our mission is to explore and communicate the scientific and societal pathways toward solving aging. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#21 A Physicist's Controversial Take on Why Age Reversal Will Never Work | Peter Fedichev
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Peter Fedichev is a visionary scientist, biotech entrepreneur, and physicist at the forefront of longevity research. With a background in theoretical physics, he has seamlessly merged cutting-edge science with real-world applications, making groundbreaking contributions to the fields of aging, biotechnology, and artificial intelligence in healthcar…
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#20 Want a quick $2 million? Help this guy find a longevity city! | Laurence Ion
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In this episode of LEVITY, we speak with Laurence Ion, a tech entrepreneur whose experience with a rare genetic disease led him to tackle one of humanity's greatest challenges: aging. Starting as a shy coder who 'couldn't talk to strangers,' Laurence has become a movement leader pioneering a bold new approach: creating specialized cities where exte…
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#19 What are the chances humanity will survive this century? | Anders Sandberg
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We have another amazing guest for this episode: Anders Sandberg is a visionary philosopher, futurist, and transhumanist thinker whose work pushes the boundaries of human potential and the future of intelligence. As a senior research fellow at Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute until its closing in 2024 Sandberg explores everything fro…
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#18 Aubrey de Grey | The Big 2025 Interview
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In this in-depth conversation, Dr. Aubrey de Grey discusses his Robust Mouse Rejuvenation (RMR) studies at the LEV Foundation and why he believes we're close to achieving the crucial RMR milestone within just three years - a breakthrough that could transform aging research forever. You'll also hear about: His predictions for reaching Longevity Esca…
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#17 How the $101M XPRIZE will reverse aging by 20 years | Jamie Justice
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Jamie Justice takes us inside the $101M XPRIZE Healthspan competition - one of the world's largest efforts to develop therapeutics that could reverse aging. As Executive Vice President of XPRIZE Healthspan, Jamie reveals how teams must demonstrate they can restore muscle, cognitive, and immune function in older adults within just one year. The stak…
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#16 Critical health signals your doctor is overlooking | David Luu
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A pediatric cardiac surgeon turned longevity pioneer, Dr. David Luu shares his journey from humanitarian medical missions to building a global network of physicians focused on prevention. Learn about critical health markers your doctor might be missing, how AI is transforming healthcare, the truth about longevity interventions, and why the future b…
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#15 Fifty years of fighting death | James Strole
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🚀 Special offer for our LEVITY audience: Join Vitalism today and receive a 30% discount on your membership using the code LEVITY at checkout. https://www.vitalism.io/membership 🚀 Show notes for this episode will be available soon after this airs. Sign up for the LEVITY newsletter to get them straight to your inbox: https://peterottsjo.beehiiv.com/ …
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#14 The hidden link between baby gut health and chronic disease | Nora Cavani
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#13 How to Invest in an Ageless Future - Sergey Jakimov
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#12 Medical Freedom in the Caribbean - Niklas Anzinger
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#11 The Complete Guide to Cryopreservation
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Is there life after life? Episode #10 Distinguished Professor John Martin Fischer
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How a Swedish startup caught Bryan Johnson's attention - Episode #9 with Maria Rankka
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This is one of the most amazing new discoveries: We can rejuvenate cells. Next step is to rejuvenate entire organisms, and ultimately human beings including our brains. Yuri Deigin, CEO of YouthBio Therapeutics, is a pioneering drug developer and longevity maximalist currently working on partial reprogramming gene therapies for Alzheimer’s and othe…
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There are countless reasons to admire Mark Hamalainen, and one of them is his brutal honesty. While many longevity influencers confidently declare that longevity escape velocity and indefinite lifespans are just around the corner, you won’t get such easy assurances from Mark. That’s because, and this might seem counterintuitive at first, he’s one o…
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Episode #6 - Professor John K. Davis
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In this podcast we are not only concerned with how we can prolong human life, but also whether it is a good idea, morally speaking. Professor John K. Davies of California State University in Fullerton. He has written a book called New Methuselahs - the ethics of life extension published by MIT Press in 2018. In it he defends the conclusion that lif…
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Episode #5 - Professor Alexandra Stolzing: Working hard to get us to longevity escape velocity
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Prof. Alexandra Stolzing is a pioneer in biogerontological engineering at Loughborough University. With over two decades of experience, including work at SENS Research Foundation, Prof. Stolzing shares insights on: Targeting senescent cells for anti-aging therapies Revolutionizing cryopreservation techniques Developing breath-based aging biomarkers…
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Would you want to live as long as you want to and in optimal health? Do you believe that Life and health are good. Death is humanity’s core problem? If so, you may be a Vitalist! Our guest in this episode is Adam Gries who is a serial entrepreneur and software engineer; he has sold four companies and built apps and games reaching over 80 million us…
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Want show notes for this and earlier episodes? You'll find them here: peterottsjo.beehiiv.com/ I (Peter Ottsjö) started paying close attention to aging biology and longevity around ten years ago. At that time, in Sweden, it felt kinda lonely. There was no big sprawling community of longevity enthusiasts back then. That’s how it felt to me anyway. B…
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Longevity escape velocity, zombie cells, senolytica, mTOR, rapamycin and Yamanaka factors, whether these are familiar concepts or they are new to you, Peter Ottsjö, who is an author and a science and technology reporter at Ny Teknik and co-host of this podcast, has written a book that explains them and connects them to a project that might be the g…
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Not only is philosopher and author Patrick Linden the insightful co-host of the LEVITY podcast alongside me, Peter Ottsjö, but he’s also the perfect first guest in this inaugural episode. We call it ”The Longevity Podcast”. There are pros and cons with that subtitle. On the one hand, ”longevity” is associated with hope and with health, both good th…
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LEVITY is a podcast offering high-quality, science-informed editorial content focused on aging science and radical life extension. This includes discussions on biotechnology, geroscience, lifestyle, ethical considerations of life extension, healthcare innovations, and AI in drug discovery, among many other topics. Our mission is to explore and comm…
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