Rando: Science focuses on extending health span, not just life span
Dr. Thomas Rando · a16z Podcast | The Science Of Extending Life · Jan 2, 2019 · at 0:56
Dr. Thomas Rando, director of the Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging at Stanford, opens a discussion on geroscience by contrasting popular perceptions of life extension with scientific health span goals.
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“There's a big discrepancy between the notion of life extension and the notion of health span extension.”
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