Unveiling the Common Denominator of All Disease & Longevity Secrets | Dr. William Li EP 922

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0:59why do you think people care so much about being immortal or living for as long as they can and what are some of the new things that you're seeing in the longevity world great questions okay so first of all my i am a cancer researcher but i will tell you how i got into cancer research and then ultimately into longevity research. I'm interested in common denominators of health or of disease. So in other words, you know, in academic research, you see people taking an inch of a territory and diving a mile deep. And they're super experts in this stuff. I took a different approach. I wanted to figure out, like, you know, how everything was interconnected And what are the common denominators between cancer, heart disease, blindness, arthritis, Alzheimer's?

1:50Like, if you could drain the Pacific Ocean, how do all those islands connect? And my feeling is that if you could get an economy of scale of knowledge, if you could figure out those connections, you could pull the bow back and send a single arrow through multiple conditions at the same time. Really? That was my approach, which is why I started the Andrew Genesis Foundation. It's a not-for-profit organization. It's focused on the common denominator of blood vessels. Wow. We've got 4 ,400 miles worth of blood vessels in our brain. And that's a fraction of the 60 ,000 miles of blood vessels in our body.

2:28And it connects every organ, every cell. And so these are the highways and byways of health. And when they're messed up, compromised, diseased, that becomes the common denominator of disease. So that's really kind of like my unique angle to look at diseases, anything from cancer to blindness to wound healing. And now I'm looking at aging, you know, in a slightly different way, which is I've had a whole career of building brick by brick, looking at what are the hallmarks of hallmarks of cancer, hallmarks of diabetes, hallmarks of aging now. All right. And that is actually how we advance the science.

3:13That's how we advance our understanding of our of ourselves and the quest for longevity, immortality. OK, I like how you said the quest for immortality being an ages old enterprise. OK, suit. Pursuit is I think it's part of our humanity. Like we always want to know how we can actually go beyond our own limitations. I think that's probably ultimately what has led this interest. And of course, it's a huge interest now. I mean, if you look at the success of books like Outlived by Peter Tia and David Sinclair's books, people, you know, are gone. They go gonzo over these like incredible books written by really amazing people.

3:59um uh but i'll tell you the first emperor of china okay uh set off to try to find that little elixir the vial remember that indiana joe's movie where they're looking for some like vial of immortality hey you know this has been going on for a long time and the first emperor of china didn't find it uh he wound up dying and before he died he built like the 10 000 terracotta warriors to look over his tomb, that was his ultimate solution to immortality. That was before science, before Google's calico to try to conquer blindness, before all the amazing work that's going on right now to build up those brick by brick by brick, you know, and putting in the grout in between to be able to build up that wall of understanding.

4:49So we are still looking. We're beginning to have a better understanding. But my approach to it is to say, like, all right, so what are the common denominators of people who live a really long time? What are we finding? And, you know, my friend, and I think yours is Dan Buehner, you know, from the Blue Zones. The guy is amazing because he found, like, oh, it's place. It's where you live and what you do in terms of where you live that actually can contribute. So I'm a researcher, so I ask that same question from a slightly different perspective.

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