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Business Daily: How to live to 150

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How to live to 150

23/11/2021 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Daily, How to live to 150

How medical and technological advances could extend our life spans

How medical and technological advances could extend our life spans.

Would you want to live to 150? With leaps in technology, science and medicine, it's becoming an increasingly realistic possibility.

Elizabeth Hotson talks to Sergey Young, founder of Longevity Vision Fund and author of The Science and Technology of Growing Young. Sergey tells us why he embarked on a mission to help us live longer. Plus, Dr Michael Hufford from biotechnology company, Lygenesis tells us about organ regeneration technology, which enables a patient's lymph nodes to be used as bioreactors to regrow functioning ectopic organs.

We also go on a voyage of discovery into the world of cryonics with Dennis Kowalski, president of the Cryonics Institute in Michigan, where you can have your body frozen and stored until the technology exists to bring you back to life some time in the future. We also hear from Paul Hagen, who's planning to follow his father's footsteps by undergoing the cryonics procedure.

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