We know it sounds clickbait-y, but he’s got decades of research backing this claim.Īgeing is not a biological phenomenon-it’s physics.

Tips to end ageingĭe Grey, also known as the godfather of longevity, believes that the easiest way for medicine to bring ageing under control is not to slow it down, but to reverse it. Eventually, the body becomes overwhelmed until it functions less and less well. The late-life process is set off once the threshold level below which the body functions fine is exceeded.

Well, the body is set up to tolerate specific changes that the life-long process brings about-but only a certain amount. So why does it happen in the first place? This is the decline of the mental and physical functions of the human body, and it doesn’t begin until middle age. The creation of progressive accumulating changes is something that we are never going to be able to stop happening-it’s a fact. In layman’s terms, it’s the inevitable damage that happens to your body as you’re living day-to-day. This is the creation of molecular and cellular changes to the structure of the body that occur as consequences of normal metabolism. What ageing is & why it happensĪccording to De Grey, ageing is a combination of two processes-the life-long process that starts before we’re born, and the late-life process that kicks of in middle-age. In this episode of the Braincare podcast, Dr Aubrey de Grey shared with us his expert insight into all things to do with this so-called “inevitable” process. He's since founded the nonprofit SENS, the world’s first organization dedicated to “curing” human ageing, not just age-related illnesses. Dr Aubrey de Grey is perhaps the world's foremost advocate of the provocative view that medical technology will one day allow humans to control the ageing process and live healthily into our hundreds-or even thousands.ĭe Grey has been arguing that immortality is theoretically possible since his first book, ‘The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging’, published in 1999.

Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey