Clearly throughout recorded history we’ve been fascinated by things like
the Fountain of Youth and anything that would reverse the aging process.
Let’s face it, if you’re over 40, you feel it physically. Your systems just
start to break down. In modern medicine, this process has been seen as
disease but this week’s guest, Aubrey de Grey, sees it more like an
engineering challenge.     

Aubrey is a very controversial biomedical gerontologist and crusader
against aging. He has a very specific plan that identifies the various
components that cause human tissue to age, and he has very specific
remedies for each of them. That’s what his non-profit, The SENS Research
Foundation focuses on and it’s got some interesting people behind it, like
Peter Thiel (one of the founders of PayPal) and Aubrey himself who has
invested a large part of his inheritance to the cause.