Josh Mitteldorf - Author, Cracking the Aging Code: The New Science of Growing Old

“It is a common belief that aging is inevitable and universal. Nothing could be further from the truth.” That’s the eye-popping claim from the scientists Josh Mitteldorf and Dorion Sagan in their new book, “Cracking the Aging Code: The New Science of Growing Old — And What It Means for Staying Young.” The book argues that humans don’t die because their bodies wear out or from disease, but because they’re programmed to die at a certain time for the good of the overall species. And — let’s face it, this is the part we really care about — there might be a way to un-program death. To do so, scientists must figure out which genes are deployed to kill us.

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