{"id":93343,"date":"2019-07-09T00:22:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T07:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/the-scientist-who-believes-we-can-reverse-aging-dr-aubrey-de-grey-%e2%96%barob-konrad-conversations-010"},"modified":"2019-07-09T00:22:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T07:22:33","slug":"the-scientist-who-believes-we-can-reverse-aging-dr-aubrey-de-grey-%e2%96%barob-konrad-conversations-010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/the-scientist-who-believes-we-can-reverse-aging-dr-aubrey-de-grey-%e2%96%barob-konrad-conversations-010","title":{"rendered":"The Scientist Who Believes We Can Reverse Aging | Dr. Aubrey de Grey \u25baRob Konrad: Conversations #010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b2N8QxxDAHU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dr Aubrey de Grey doesn\u2019t just believe that aging, and the suffering that comes with it, can be slowed down \u2014 he believes it can be undone altogether.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, he thinks we are merely a few years away from making the scientific breakthroughs that will enable the medical field to put an end to death related to ageing \u2014 for good.<\/p>\n<p>His independently funded non-profit, the SENS Foundation, is at the forefront of radical research that combines the problem solving approaches of technology with geriatric medicine.<\/p>\n<p>In this conversation, he talks to Rob about his refusal to age gracefully, the biases of modern science, immortality, and why he won\u2019t waste his time thinking about whether or not God exists.<\/p>\n<p>\u25b6\u25b6 NEW EPISODE EVERY WEDNESDAY!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Aubrey de Grey doesn\u2019t just believe that aging, and the suffering that comes with it, can be slowed down \u2014 he believes it can be undone altogether. What\u2019s more, he thinks we are merely a few years away from making the scientific breakthroughs that will enable the medical field to put an end to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93343","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\/530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}