Musk: Aging is a solvable problem governed by a synchronizing biological clock
Elon Musk · 25% Of My Portfolio Is Tesla Stock, Here's Why · Apr 22, 2026 · at 6:07
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In a recorded clip played on My First Million, Elon Musk shares his first-principles view on the biological mechanics of human aging.
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“I do think it is a very solvable problem. When we figure out what causes aging, I think we'll find it's incredibly obvious. It's not a subtle thing. The reason I say it's not a subtle thing is because all the cells in your body pretty much age at the same rate. So why is that? That means that there must be a clock, a synchronizing clock. That is synchronizing across 35 trillion cells in your body.”
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