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Title: Ending Aging

Subtitle: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime

Author: Michael Rae, Aubrey de Grey

Narrator: Stephanie Murphy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-18-16

Publisher: SENS Research Foundation

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 39 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Medicine

Publisher's Summary:

Must we age?

A long life in a healthy, vigorous, youthful body has always been one of humanity's greatest dreams. Recent progress in genetic manipulations and calorie-restricted diets in laboratory animals hold forth the promise that someday science will enable us to exert total control over our own biological aging.

Nearly all scientists who study the biology of aging agree that we will someday be able to substantially slow down the aging process, extending our productive, youthful lives. Dr. Aubrey de Grey is perhaps the most bullish of all such researchers. As has been reported in media outlets ranging from 60 Minutes to The New York Times, Dr. de Grey believes that the key biomedical technology required to eliminate aging-derived debilitation and death entirely - technology that would not only slow but periodically reverse age-related physiological decay, leaving us biologically young into an indefinite future - is now within reach.

In Ending Aging, Dr. de Grey and his research assistant Michael Rae describe the details of this biotechnology. They explain that the aging of the human body, just like the aging of man-made machines, results from an accumulation of various types of damage. As with man-made machines, this damage can periodically be repaired, leading to indefinite extension of the machine's fully functional lifetime, just as is routinely done with classic cars. We already know what types of damage accumulate in the human body, and we are moving rapidly toward the comprehensive development of technologies to remove that damage.

By demystifying aging and its postponement for the non-specialist listener, de Grey and Rae systematically dismantle the fatalist presumption that aging will forever defeat the efforts of medical science.

Members Reviews:

Overly wordy

With proper editing, about half of this book should be eliminated. One must listen through page after page of either the author's self-aggrandizement or repetitive self-questioning on just about every topic introduced. It took four introductory chapters to even get to the starting line. Though there is some pie-in-the-sky info introduced, the presentation is just downright boring.This is undeniably the worst Audible book I have ever suffered through.

A Roadmap for Conquering the Scourge of Aging

What does Stephanie Murphy bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

I know of the narrator's work in podcasting, and she really nails this. She has a PhD in biochemistry, and the enthusiasm of the narration demonstrates a real familiarity with the material. The science can get pretty dense in this book, but Stephanie's voice always keeps you engaged.

Any additional comments?

As of the time of writing this review, I've only listened to about a third of the book. This is a dense subject, and if you have an interest in life extension (as I do), you'll want to take your time with it. The introductory section lays out the book's arguments in a broad sense before delving deeper into the details of cell biology and the causes of aging-related damage.

De Grey also smashes any argument against pursuing the goal of ending aging, but, admittedly, I was already convinced of the urgency of his project before I started listening.