Nobel laureate alarmed by over-hyped longevity research | Venki Ramakrishnan

It's not about living longer "longevity" , it's about living a healthy life without diseases, most people these days die early from disease because of the way they live their lives and what they consume.

“Moderation”. A term my father, who passed away one month shy of 100, often repeated. He lived his life in quite an ordinary and quite way but his lifestyle and habits surely helped him. No diabetes, cancer or heart disease. BMI normal, physically active around the yard and fixing everything into his 90s. Good social life with Mom also in her 90s and 5 children and many grandchildren. All in moderation, alcohol, food, etc. traveled with mom often, we’re active in church etc. in his 90s had a car accident and walked out the emergency room with cuts and bruises. Thereafter gave us the car keys. “I don’t want to drive again. I’m not safe anymore”. Smart decision. Moderation and being mindful of limits and opportunities for making good choices is important.

Someone who isn't hyping anything —how refreshing.

Death is certain for all living beings. My grandfather knows mother tongue, Hindi and Sanskrit. He lived to be 102. 1. Vegetarian 2. Goes to farm two miles away at 4 Am. brings back fresh cow milk. Has coffee. Lunch. coffee. dinner. Reads newspaper home delivered. Sleeps. # 82 pounds, 5' 3" at age 83. Eating habit was to eat less than he wanted. Never went to doctor, (big mistake), died of stroke. He never ate in a restaurant. Never drank or smoked. He knew world politics and voted in elections. Compared to living in California, traffic, work, pay children's education Indian village life is ok.

My father lived to 93 years of age and would have hit 100 years if it wasn’t for our health care system in Canada abandoning the elderly during the pandemic. But my father was very health conscious and ate sardines, walnuts and flaxseeds regularly, he also walked regularly and worked physically in his garden till he was 90 years old. My mother on the other hand wasn’t as happy conscience and wasn’t as healthy unfortunately.

5:25 Ribosome is Central 6:39 Hype 8:40 Categories of Books on Aging 17:33 Compressed Morbidity 21:02 Centenarians

I’d love to hear him debate Dr Peter Attia.

Venki Ramakrishnan, thank you !

The part about retirement and not occupying limited resources are right on!

He looks fantastic for 71 .

Statins and metformin are not instruments of staying healthy. They are examples of treating symptoms rather than the disease.

Excellent interview ! A fascinating explorer of life and the possibilities of aging with style 💪🏻 also enjoy yr voice tone and manner while interviewing

These days we don't live longer ... We die longer ...🙃

Loved this podcast. Thank you for you time and knowledge.

It is puzzling to me that there's little discussion of the earliestyears of these people: that if a person has lived to 100, they did not eat what we call ultra processed foods or fast foods when they were children. They also didn't ride in a car from the day of birth. Most of the studied centenarians also lived in active war zones during 2 world wars! Did they live in an area with out access to food or were they able to get adequate food during war years? A woman likely cooked everything they ate as a child, and she used foods that were close to their original form and available. Income levels also obviously made a difference. But they could NOT have grown up on frozen pizza or sugar-coated cereal. The formative years of anyone who has already made it past 100 are not comparable to anyone born after about 1970 in the USA. Do these early years matter for longevity? What about their parents? Probably impossible to do a reliable study, but acknowledge that this might be important?

My father-in-law lived just passed his 104th birthday. And he was healthy till the end.

Longevity runs on both sides of my family, BUT it was granted only to those members that took care of themselves and who managed to live as stress free as possible…. I’d rather live as healthy as possible than as long as possible. I don’t plan to live bedbound.

V.R. is delightful the way he brings his research down to earth for all of us.

Thank you for a very interesting conversation! I enjoyed listening a lot. Venki Ramakrishnan is a refreshingly intelligent and interesting man to listen to. He also bring both contrast and specificity to this enormously huge topic that has been spawned from all sorts of proponents with novel ideas and early data.

Philosophical, Simple & Brilliant. Both were cool and composed and discussing a very complex subject and convey ideas that is practically simple. Interviewer deserves appreciation. As discuused finding solution to specific illness is solution to longivity.