{"id":247162,"date":"2026-11-12T06:09:41","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T12:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=247162"},"modified":"2026-11-12T06:09:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T12:09:41","slug":"aubrey-de-grey-longevity-is-just-a-side-effect-of-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/aubrey-de-grey-longevity-is-just-a-side-effect-of-health","title":{"rendered":"Aubrey de Grey: \u201cLongevity Is Just a Side Effect of Health\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently sat down with Aubrey de Grey, founder, president and chief science officer of the LEV Foundation, for my show, The 200 Year Life Project.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Aubrey de Grey: \u201cLongevity Is Just a Side Effect of Health\u201d\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zS94ajpGRRQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We covered a lot of ground in 38 minutes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why he sees aging as accumulated damage, and the body as a machine that can be repaired<\/li>\n<li>Longevity escape velocity, and why people around 60 are likely to get the first rejuvenation treatments<\/li>\n<li>Early targets: Parkinson\u2019s, stem cells, and senolytic drugs that clear \u201czombie\u201d cells<\/li>\n<li>Whether only the rich will get these therapies, and why he thinks governments will end up paying<\/li>\n<li>What he calls the most overhyped thing in longevity<\/li>\n<li>His advice for someone who is 70 today<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019m over 70 and testing longevity science on myself in public, so that last answer mattered to me personally.<\/p>\n<p>The LEV Foundation runs entirely on philanthropy. You can support its work at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.levf.org\/\">levf.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zS94ajpGRRQ\">Watch the full interview with Aubrey de Grey on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently sat down with Aubrey de Grey, founder, president and chief science officer of the LEV Foundation, for my show, The 200 Year Life Project. We covered a lot of ground in 38 minutes: Why he sees aging as accumulated damage, and the body as a machine that can be repaired Longevity escape velocity, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[372,11,269],"tags":[2555,688,3836,3835,2403],"class_list":["post-247162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","tag-aubrey-de-grey","tag-interview","tag-lev-foundation","tag-longevity-escape-velocity","tag-rejuvenation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247163,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247162\/revisions\/247163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}