We are evolving to live longer – video blog

Biological evolution has been traditionally viewed as due to mutations in genes.  However this kind of evolution can require hundreds of thousands or millions of years to take hold   Now we know that evolution can happen much faster, in as little as a few generations.   Further, I see the human species as evolving very fast in the direction of longer lifespans, with the average lifespan from birth in the US and advanced countries increasing about 4 hours each day that goes by. 

Please view this short video segment.  And then comment on us humans evolving to live longer.  And also comment on how interesting and useful you find this video kind of communication compared to the usual text-based blog entries found here. 

 

I have suggested that the rapid kind of evolution involved is epigenetic evolution which moves far faster than Darwinian genetic evolution It is the kind of evolution that has allowed us to grow taller in just a few generations and that is leading to our ever-longer average lifespans.  See the blog entries US falling behind in longevity increases – why?, Social evolution and biological evolution – another dialog with Marios Kyriazis, Social ethics of longevity and a more-technical presentation Stochastic epigenetic evolution – a new and different theory of evolution, aging and disease susceptibility. 

This blog entry and several subsequent ones including short video segments on longevity science are being brought to you in close collaboration with Robert Kane Pappas.  Pappas is the filmmaker who produced the recently-released film To Age or Not to Age. Pappas captured hundreds of hours of interesting video in shooting the film over a 4-year period, including extensive interviews with a number of prominent aging-science researchers.  It was possible to incorporate only a small fraction of that interesting material in the film itself.  However, Robert will be identifying short interesting segments of materials both in the film and not in the film, and I will be remarking on them just as in this blog entry.  The same videos and my same remarks will appear on both this site and on the film site To Age or Not to Age.

Readers/viewers – please share your reactions in comments.  What do you think are the implications of us living longer lives?  Are we like the opossums?  And what is your reaction to this kind of blog entry?   Would you like to see more of them?  

Vince

About Vince Giuliano

Being a follower, connoisseur, and interpreter of longevity research is my latest career, since 2007. I believe I am unique among the researchers and writers in the aging sciences community in one critical respect. That is, I personally practice the anti-aging interventions that I preach and that has kept me healthy, young, active and highly involved at my age, now 93. I am as productive as I was at age 45. I don’t know of anybody else active in that community in my age bracket. In particular, I have focused on the importance of controlling chronic inflammation for healthy aging, and have written a number of articles on that subject in this blog. In 2014, I created a dietary supplement to further this objective. In 2019, two family colleagues and I started up Synergy Bioherbals, a dietary supplement company that is now selling this product. In earlier reincarnations of my career. I was Founding Dean of a graduate school and a full University Professor at the State University of New York, a senior consultant working in a variety of fields at Arthur D. Little, Inc., Chief Scientist and C00 of Mirror Systems, a software company, and an international Internet consultant. I got off the ground with one of the earliest PhD's from Harvard in a field later to become known as computer science. Because there was no academic field of computer science at the time, to get through I had to qualify myself in hard sciences, so my studies focused heavily on quantum physics. In various ways I contributed to the Computer Revolution starting in the 1950s and the Internet Revolution starting in the late 1980s. I am now engaged in doing the same for The Longevity Revolution. I have published something like 200 books and papers as well as over 430 substantive.entries in this blog, and have enjoyed various periods of notoriety. If you do a Google search on Vincent E. Giuliano, most if not all of the entries on the first few pages that come up will be ones relating to me. I have a general writings site at www.vincegiuliano.com and an extensive site of my art at www.giulianoart.com. Please note that I have recently changed my mailbox to vegiuliano@agingsciences.com.
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7 Responses to We are evolving to live longer – video blog

  1. admin says:

    I agree with what is in the video except for the last statement by Dr. Austad. “Evolution doesn’t care how long you live. Evolution cares about how many kids you leave, that’s all.” Evolution clearly does care that we live long enough to raise our kids until they are independent – that has been accepted for a very long time. Moreover, evolution caring is why the island opossums evolved to live twice as long. And evolution caring is why evolution has been extending our lifespans since the dawn of history. And that caring is why our average lifespans are increasing in the US two months for every year that passes right now. Perhaps the point Dr. Austad is trying to make is that there is nothing about the process of evolution that sets an arbitrary limit on our lifespan, and I would certainly agree with that.

    Vince

  2. MachineGhost says:

    If you’re going to be posting videos, please find a way to provide English subtitles for older folks.

  3. admin says:

    Hi Machine Ghost.

    It would be nice to do that but I am not sure it will be easy. In any event, the written discussions along each such blog entry should be complete in themselves.

    Vince

  4. i guess we should embrace the fact that all of us will age through time. and it would be best if we keep this awareness awake all of the time. we will all become old, its not that complicated.

  5. Anti-aging skin:

    Alas, I have to agree with you that as far as history goes we have always aged and that each of us will surely die in a cosmic nanonanosecond from one cause or another. This is our time, when we are alive.

    I point out, however, that in the US and other advanced countries we are ever aging slower and living longer. Average life span from birth is increasing by about 5 hours with every day that goes by. And that there is a possibility – only a possibility but a good one – of slowing, stopping and even reversing aspects of aging as we know it.

    Vince

  6. even if people are living longer, this does not mean that they are happy about it. most of them suffer from certain diseases which would have been unnecessary if they were only living a healthy lifestyle. medication can indeed to something but we cannot ignore the suffering is something you cannot end when you on a certain type of medical condition.

  7. To best anti aging

    Thanks for your comments. I believe that the research supports that with lengthening average lifespan:
    * There is also lengthening average healthspan, and
    * The average ratio of good healthy years lived to total years lived is also increasing.

    That having been said, I suspect we are quite in agreement that living a healthy lifestyle is the best way to increase both healthspan and liestyle. Too much emphasis is being devoted to end-of-life medical interventions that buy very little additional time vs interventions for healthy people that help keep them healthy and going much longer. Drugs viewed as a breakthrough because they can add 1-2 months to the life of people expiring because they have certain cancers can be valuable for those people. But if the cancer was avoidable in the first place, additional years or decades of good life might have been possible.

    Vince

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