Aubrey de Grey (@aubreydegrey) is Cambridge researcher and Chief Science Officer of SENS Research Foundation focused on aging and extending human longevity. He proposes that the first human beings who will live to 1,000 years old have already been born. In addition to his research, Aubrey is editor-in-chief of the academic journal Rejuvenation Research, author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging (1999) and co-author of Ending Aging (2007).  De Grey's research focuses on whether regenerative medicine can prevent the aging process. He works on the development of what he calls "Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence" (SENS), a collection of proposed techniques to rejuvenate the human body and stop aging. To this end, he has identified seven types of molecular and cellular damage caused by essential metabolic processes. SENS is a proposed panel of therapies designed to repair this damage. He has been interviewed by most major news sources, including CBS 60 Minutes, the BBC, The New York Times, Fortune Magazine, The Washington Post, TED, Popular Science, The Colbert Report, Time and the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590674" width="100%" height="200px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Subscribe on Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Android | Overcast | Spotify | Youtube You can listen right here on iTunes In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* Why Aubrey switched from studying AI to the science of human longevity

* The causes of aging and how we can "cure" them

* Why prevention is orders of magnitude more effective than intervention

* The reason Aubrey believes some humans today will live to be 1000 years old

* Why there isn't enough funding or support currently for fighting aging

* The reason stem cell research is progressing rapidly and proving fruitful

* How caloric restriction effects metabolism and aging

* Why SENS often spins out businesses to further their aims

* The science of immortality

* How mainstream media has reacted to prospect of increasing lifespan

  Transcript Producing this podcast and transcribing the episode takes tons of time and resources. If you support FringeFM and the work we do, please consider making a tax-deductible donation. If you can’t afford to support us, we completely understand as well, but an iTunes review or share on Twitter can go a long way too!   AUBREY DE GREY:  Well I do think it’s very probable. In fact, I think it’s quite likely that the first person to live to a thousand is already in their forties or fifties—or, and perhaps even older.  So the question is, “Why do I think that?” And a lot of people misunderstand this. Some people think that the reason I’m saying this is because I think that we are within a small number of decades of developing therapies that completely, one hundred percent eliminate aging by repairing every single aspect of the damage that the body accumulates as  a side effect of its normal operatio...