Dr. David Sinclair
2 appearances on the record.
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Sinclair: Research shows cellular epigenetic aging damage can be reversed
“And what we've discovered is that there are ways to, well, we discovered one of the main causes of scratches, that's broken chromosomes, which happens all the time in our bodies. Extreme cell damage also does that if we crush nerves. But we've also figured out…”
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Sinclair: Research shows cellular epigenetic aging damage can be reversed
“And what we've discovered is that there are ways to, well, we discovered one of the main causes of scratches, that's broken chromosomes, which happens all the time in our bodies. Extreme cell damage also does that if we crush nerves. But we've also figured out…”
Sinclair: Team May Reverse Aging in Humans Within 18 Months
“In Canada, we have a non-human primate study for safety to see how that goes, and within the next 18 months, if all goes well, we will be reversing aging in a human, if all goes well.”
Sinclair: Research Shows Interventions Can Make an 80-Year-Old Biologically 60
“We're keeping animals and increasingly we're showing with people that you can keep them younger for longer so that when you're 80, you can actually be 60.”
Sinclair: Data Shows Carnivore Diet Does Not Promote Long-Term Longevity
“I'm convinced and the data shows it from population studies that a carnivorous diet isn't a longevity producing diet in the long run, right?”
Sinclair: Someone Born Today Will Live to Be 150 Years Old
“But I do think that somebody born today
We'll live that long because the technology is just going so quickly.”
Sinclair: Sirtuin Gene Therapy Extends Mouse Lifespan in Lab Studies
“And there are seven of these epigenetic regulators, the things that prevent the scratches, and we can turn them on
With gene therapy.
In mice, we do this, and if you do it in the brain of a mouse, they'll live longer.
Do it in the body, they can live longer.”
Sinclair: Time-Restricted Feeding Extended Mouse Lifespan by 30% Regardless of Diet
“And there's a very famous study that was done by a colleague of mine, Rafael de Cabo at the NIH in Bethesda, and he made three different types of diets for mice.
One that had a lot of protein, the other had carbs, the other had fat, and he thought he would fin…”
Sinclair: Slowing US Aging by One Year Saves $86 Trillion
“They calculated that the US alone, just by slowing down aging by one year, and making people productive, more productive for one year, would save over the next three decades, 86 trillion dollars, which we waste now on just keeping people alive in a sick state …”
Sinclair: Epigenetic information loss is the primary driver of aging and disease
“Eventually born, and this epigenomic information that tells cells how to behave, we think breaks down over time, and that results in diseases, tissue dysfunction, so, you know, you start to look older, you can't clear toxins, you can't think well, your nerve c…”
Sinclair: NIH study found daily feeding windows extended mouse lifespans by 30%
“And there's a very famous study That was done by a colleague of mine, Rafael de Cabo at the NIH in Bethesda, and he made three different types of diets for mice. One that had a lot of protein, the other had carbs, the other had fat, and he thought he would fin…”
Sinclair: Intermittent Fasting Likely Extends Brain Health by a Decade
“And I think what's also likely is that my brain activity and health will be maintained for a decade or more longer by adopting this kind of diet.”
Sinclair: Stressed Plant Molecules Activate Human Longevity Pathways
“What we've realized is that in addition to be being antioxidants, they actually turn on those longevity pathways, the sirtuins.
They work on mTOR.
There's another one called AMPK, which senses blood sugar and energy.
And by eating plants that in general
Make t…”
Sinclair: Recommended longevity habits add 14 to 15 years of life
“Just by doing the things that I'm talking about today, you'll get an extra 14, 15 years on average.”
Sinclair: At Age 52, Blood Biochemistry Matches a 20-Year-Old
“My blood biochemistry is equivalent to a twenty-year-old. I'm a 52.”
Sinclair: NMN Supplementation Has Prevented Jet Lag for a Decade
“I haven't had jet lag for a decade because I've been able to modulate my own body clock by using these chemicals, which as I mentioned are activating sirtuins and controlling the clock.”
Sinclair: Hyperbaric cycling benefits stem from pseudo-hypoxia mimicking exercise
“And what I think is going on is that it's not the high pressure that's important. It's the decrease that you're becoming pseudo hypoxic. Your body thinks it's running out of oxygen when it's just coming down from a high level. And my lab has shown in mice that…”
Sinclair: One Gram of Daily NMN Raises Blood NAD Levels
“And I know from clinical trials that I've been involved with that taking a gram of NMN, which I do every day, raises NAD levels in whole blood, in the cells in the blood, probably in the rest of my body as well.”
Sinclair: Diabetics on Metformin Outlive Healthy Non-Diabetics
“By looking at type two diabetics, and there's a stunning, stunning fact, that type two diabetics that would normally have a short lifespan, when they take metformin, typically at two grams a day, I'm on one gram a day, by the way, they actually have less disea…”
Sinclair: Biological aging begins at conception, not adulthood
“The biological clock, this, the scratches on the CD that we talked about earlier, they start at conception. The egg and the sperm come together, even an embryo, even a fetus and a young baby, they're aging. We can measure this on this clock.”
Sinclair: Continuous Biometric Monitoring Will Extend Human Lifespan by a Decade
“Eventually, everyone will have them. We'll know ahead of time if we have cancer, if we have heart disease, if we're going to have a heart attack next week, and stave off those things and prevent them from happening, and that is a revolution, separate from what…”
Sinclair: Reversing Biological Age Will Eliminate Alzheimer's and Cancer
“Truly reset the age of the body and diseases of aging, like Alzheimer's and heart disease, even cancer will go away if we become young again.”
Sinclair: Hip fracture mortality in elderly matches late-stage cancer
“The chances of dying after you break your hip as an older person is about as bad as late stage cancer.”
Sinclair: 80% of human longevity is lifestyle, only 20% is genetics
“80% of our longevity
And our health in the future is in our own hands.
Only 20% is genetic, which we cannot yet do much about.”
Sinclair: Combining exercise and NMN doubled running endurance in mice
“In the animal studies in my lab, when we gave NMN, this molecule that I take every day, to a mouse that was sedentary, didn't have a wheel, didn't run, it could run further, ok?
And we actually have human data that's looking really promising in that direction …”
Appearances (2)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| Best of 2022: Conversations of the Year | Dec 27, 2022 | 9m |
| David Sinclair: Reversing the Aging Process | May 3, 2022 | 1h 4m |