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I’ve never been sure how seriously to take anti-aging research. To learn what I could, I recently picked up David Sinclair’s Lifespan: Why We Age—And Why We Don’t Have To. Given the credentials of the author, I was expecting a sober analysis about how maybe, perhaps, one day, we could live a bit longer. That’s not what this book is. Sinclair, a professor at Harvard Medical School, all but guarantees the reader immortality. Again and again, he tells you the end of aging is coming. And not only that, it’s coming soon. And not only will we stop aging, but we’re probably going to reverse aging any second now, if we can’t already. In fact, his dad began an anti-aging regimen in his mid-70s when he was at death’s door, at which point the old man “was losing his hearing, and his eyes were starting to go bad. He would tire fast. He repeated himself. He was grumpy. He was hardly a picture of exuberant life.” But then he started taking metformin and NMN. Here’s what happened next: These days, he

Essays My Plan to Slow Down Aging Finding inspiration in Jeff Bezos Richard Hanania May 09, 2023 96 120 6 Share I’ve never been sure how seriously to take anti-aging research. To learn what I could, I recently picked up David Sinclair’s Lifespan: Why We Age—And Why We Don’t Have To . Given the credentials of the author, I was expecting a sober analysis about how maybe, perhaps, one day, we could live a bit longer. That’s not what this book is. Sinclair, a professor at Harvard Medical School, all but guarantees the reader immortality. Again and again, he tells you the end of aging is coming. An

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