If you can't defeat death, what if you could postpone it, or at least postpone the diseases commonly associated with getting old?<\/p>\n
Many people, especially the ultra-wealthy in Silicon Valley, are investing money into companies trying to answer exactly those questions.<\/p>\n
Amazon CEOJeff Bezos and billionaire PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel have both invested in South San Francisco-based Unity Biotechnology, a company whose mission is to \"extend human healthspan, the period in one's life unburdened by the disease of aging.\"<\/p>\n
In 2013, Google formed aging research company Calico. Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to aging research, The New Yorker reported.<\/p>\n
There are a slew of other companies tackling aging, including BioAge, BioViva, The Longevity Fund, AgeX and the Methuselah Foundation.<\/p>\n
\"Whenever you meet a fundamental human need, there's a market,\" said Michael West, a gerontologist and CEO of AgeX Therapeutics.\"And in this case, the market for age-related disease and aging is a trillion dollar market.\"<\/p>\n
But people claiming to know what you ought to do to live longer isn't anything new. Historically, as is still the case today, a lot of it just doesn't work. So what's real? And what's just wishful thinking?<\/p>\n
Watch the video to find out more.<\/p>\n
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