Kevin Cirilli talks with Mendte in the Morning about humans living longer and how to hack the human lifespan.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, there's no question we are living longer and longer
(00:04):
and longer. I mean, just not that long ago. You know,
before social Security. That's why they headed at sixty five.
Most people didn't even get the sixty five before that.
It was in the fifties. Man, back during the revolutionary time,
it was even younger than that. And now now as
you've seen people living in their eighties nineties, over one hundred.
So how far is this going to go?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Well?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Kevin Siilli is a futurist reporter and founder of Meet
the Future website. Kevin, thanks for joining us. You have
the coolest title, a futurist reporter.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Thank you that I got. Really, I can't take credit
for that. That was something my friend Janet in Washington,
DC thought of that, But I do. I like it.
It's way more fun than being part of the fake
news media.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Very well put.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Now, you shouldn't have said that, Maybe I should.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
No, that was really good for this show that was
bringing on that. That was actually very perfect.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, yeah, but to your point one second before.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I just want to ask you one more question about this.
Are you the only futurist.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Reporter in the country right now? I am?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, Well, we're very proud to have you now continue.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Thank you well, no, thank you for that. That was
really kind there. So one in five Americans will be
older than the age of sixty five by twenty thirty.
So think about that. We're getting older faster as a nation.
But we're not necessarily aging good. We're actually aging pretty poorly.
So scientists at Northwestern University they did a super aging study,
(01:39):
and they really studied what they're calling super agers, people
who are in their eighties and nineties, but their brains
have the cognitive memory of folks in their thirties and forties.
And so what they found was that their memory is
as sharp as people who are younger than them, and
the brain scans revealed wide The technology that they were
able to use to track and map their brain is
(02:00):
really what's hopefully going to help all of us age
way better. Their cortex is of these super agers. They're thicker,
especially in the regions that are controlling their memory and
their attention. These are not outliers. These are not Grandma
and grandpop lifting weights like Arnold Swartzeneger at the gym.
These are blueprints for all of us to be able
(02:21):
to live, not just longer. But who has everybody who
wants to live long if you're not with it, But
people who are able to live longer and still be
with it and still be able to have a good life.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I don't know. You can live long and not be
with it and be president of the United States. So
I'm not well, I'm not sure that's necessarily a bad thing.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But see your point. Watch how I artfully God.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
No, see, I took your fake news and I one
upped you are.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
But to your point, it has long ranging repercus not
just for the individual and for their family, but also
for larger society as a whole. Whether you know how
folks are able to live impacts everything from the economy
to our to our way of life. You know, there's
a guy named Dann Butter. He's Buttner, I'm sorry Buttner,
(03:17):
and he's got really He's a scientist who studies what
he calls blue zones, and he takes all of this
data with AI and he looks at parts of the
world where there are large pockets of people who have
aged longer than one hundred years old. And there's a
place in Aquinowa, Japan, which has the highest concentration of
(03:39):
individuals who are have aged higher than one hundred and Sardinia,
Italy is the second highest. And what he found is
that it's not again that they're lifting weights or running
ultra marathons. They've got a daily rhythm. And I want
to arp in on that because the scientists at Northwestern
identified something similar. These super agers practice something in their
(04:01):
daily rhythm. So they're moving, they're talking to people, they're
they're engaged, they're learning something, they're working their mind like
a muscle, and it's a daily practice for them of
their daily rhythm. There's only one place in the United States.
I am going to ask you to guess. There's only
one place in the United States where there's a blue zone,
which again is a it qualifies for there being most
(04:24):
people are a high concentration of people who live over
one hundred. Where do you think that is. It's a
city in a state. But if you can guess the state,
then I'll bet I don't really tell. I would give you,
but yeah, that's a great guess. Actually, Larry, No, it's
Lower Linda, California. It's in California, and it you know,
(04:46):
they they practice Sabbath rest day. That's what the scientists
found they have walking groups and they do typically eat
healthier I don't really want to get into like veganism debate,
but they do eat a lot of plant. They ate
their fruits in vestables.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
How about that, Yeah, I would imagine. I mean, everybody
says diet and exercise. But then you started off by
saying that there's enough research about living long that negates
the importance of those two things. So which is true?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Well, you know, there's always an outlier. And Jeane Calement
she lived to be one hundred and twenty two years
old in France. She was riding a bike at the
age of one hundred. But she smoked until one hundred
and seventeen years old. In the last five years of
her life, she wasn't a smoker, but you know, she
was smoking until she was one hundred and seventeen. Then
(05:38):
scientist Maria Branias Morrera, she lives to be one hundred
and seventeen. She's still alive. She's in Spain, and she
tweets and she beat COVID. I don't know where her
Twitter handle is, but she beat COVID at the age
of one hundred and thirteen. God bless right.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Well you're talking about all these outliers and a couple
of them that didn't live the life that we were
supposed to live, to live live long. And so is
there is there a consistent what what do we learn
from them? Or or do we ignore them?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
It's habits. I think that's the sciences are saying. It's
it's it's it's the daily practice of the routine. But
I think what's really interesting, and especially we were talking,
you know, in our previously about in a couple of
weeks ago, about Parkinson's and dementia and Alzheimer's and how
the technology is being able to map your brain and
(06:29):
to see you know, early diagnosis or to see if
you have you know, if you're tracking to get that.
And science is really preventive medicine. Hopefully we shift even
more so of that, I would argue in the next decade.
But those that type of preventative, hey, your brain's on
course to develop this or that disease, will I think
(06:52):
give people more choice to be blunt in and perhaps
even more impetus to make it improvements to their daily life,
because if you know that, you're more susceptible to Alzheimer's
or dementia and you can get ahead of it not
just with treatment, but with making choices in your life.
You know, perhaps that would lead to a healthier aging process,
(07:15):
because again, we all know someone unfortunately who has suffered
aging and has not had a particularly kind end of
life experience. And I think that culturally we need to
shift into hopefully that forgetting about that, and not forgetting
about but for making that not existent anymore. And that
(07:36):
should culturally be our goal for all of this. So
that's why I think super aging is really really important,
and it should be a goal for all of us
to navigate as we live.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
I'm glad we're even talking about it. Thanks so much
for bringing this to our attention. Kevin's a really futurist
reporter and founder of Meet the Future website.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Hopefully a superager, and you're going to be a super
agre Larry, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I doubt it, I hope. So I'm glad you're pulling
for me. But I've I don't.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I have no doubt.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I don't live a perfect lifestyle. I'll admit it. W
t F dot t V also huh so.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
W t F dot t S not w t S
Larry M.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
T s oh, that's right.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I was thinking World.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Wrestling, m t F dot t V. Thanks so much, Kevin,
I appreciate it.
Well, there's no question we are living longer and longer
(00:04):
and longer. I mean, just not that long ago. You know,
before social Security. That's why they headed at sixty five.
Most people didn't even get the sixty five before that.
It was in the fifties. Man, back during the revolutionary time,
it was even younger than that. And now now as
you've seen people living in their eighties nineties, over one hundred.
So how far is this going to go?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Well?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Kevin Siilli is a futurist reporter and founder of Meet
the Future website. Kevin, thanks for joining us. You have
the coolest title, a futurist reporter.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Thank you that I got. Really, I can't take credit
for that. That was something my friend Janet in Washington,
DC thought of that, But I do. I like it.
It's way more fun than being part of the fake
news media.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Very well put.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Now, you shouldn't have said that, Maybe I should.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
No, that was really good for this show that was
bringing on that. That was actually very perfect.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, yeah, but to your point one second before.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I just want to ask you one more question about this.
Are you the only futurist.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Reporter in the country right now? I am?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, Well, we're very proud to have you now continue.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Thank you well, no, thank you for that. That was
really kind there. So one in five Americans will be
older than the age of sixty five by twenty thirty.
So think about that. We're getting older faster as a nation.
But we're not necessarily aging good. We're actually aging pretty poorly.
So scientists at Northwestern University they did a super aging study,
(01:39):
and they really studied what they're calling super agers, people
who are in their eighties and nineties, but their brains
have the cognitive memory of folks in their thirties and forties.
And so what they found was that their memory is
as sharp as people who are younger than them, and
the brain scans revealed wide The technology that they were
able to use to track and map their brain is
(02:00):
really what's hopefully going to help all of us age
way better. Their cortex is of these super agers. They're thicker,
especially in the regions that are controlling their memory and
their attention. These are not outliers. These are not Grandma
and grandpop lifting weights like Arnold Swartzeneger at the gym.
These are blueprints for all of us to be able
(02:21):
to live, not just longer. But who has everybody who
wants to live long if you're not with it, But
people who are able to live longer and still be
with it and still be able to have a good life.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I don't know. You can live long and not be
with it and be president of the United States. So
I'm not well, I'm not sure that's necessarily a bad thing.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But see your point. Watch how I artfully God.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
No, see, I took your fake news and I one
upped you are.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
But to your point, it has long ranging repercus not
just for the individual and for their family, but also
for larger society as a whole. Whether you know how
folks are able to live impacts everything from the economy
to our to our way of life. You know, there's
a guy named Dann Butter. He's Buttner, I'm sorry Buttner,
(03:17):
and he's got really He's a scientist who studies what
he calls blue zones, and he takes all of this
data with AI and he looks at parts of the
world where there are large pockets of people who have
aged longer than one hundred years old. And there's a
place in Aquinowa, Japan, which has the highest concentration of
(03:39):
individuals who are have aged higher than one hundred and Sardinia,
Italy is the second highest. And what he found is
that it's not again that they're lifting weights or running
ultra marathons. They've got a daily rhythm. And I want
to arp in on that because the scientists at Northwestern
identified something similar. These super agers practice something in their
(04:01):
daily rhythm. So they're moving, they're talking to people, they're
they're engaged, they're learning something, they're working their mind like
a muscle, and it's a daily practice for them of
their daily rhythm. There's only one place in the United States.
I am going to ask you to guess. There's only
one place in the United States where there's a blue zone,
which again is a it qualifies for there being most
(04:24):
people are a high concentration of people who live over
one hundred. Where do you think that is. It's a
city in a state. But if you can guess the state,
then I'll bet I don't really tell. I would give you,
but yeah, that's a great guess. Actually, Larry, No, it's
Lower Linda, California. It's in California, and it you know,
(04:46):
they they practice Sabbath rest day. That's what the scientists
found they have walking groups and they do typically eat
healthier I don't really want to get into like veganism debate,
but they do eat a lot of plant. They ate
their fruits in vestables.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
How about that, Yeah, I would imagine. I mean, everybody
says diet and exercise. But then you started off by
saying that there's enough research about living long that negates
the importance of those two things. So which is true?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Well, you know, there's always an outlier. And Jeane Calement
she lived to be one hundred and twenty two years
old in France. She was riding a bike at the
age of one hundred. But she smoked until one hundred
and seventeen years old. In the last five years of
her life, she wasn't a smoker, but you know, she
was smoking until she was one hundred and seventeen. Then
(05:38):
scientist Maria Branias Morrera, she lives to be one hundred
and seventeen. She's still alive. She's in Spain, and she
tweets and she beat COVID. I don't know where her
Twitter handle is, but she beat COVID at the age
of one hundred and thirteen. God bless right.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Well you're talking about all these outliers and a couple
of them that didn't live the life that we were
supposed to live, to live live long. And so is
there is there a consistent what what do we learn
from them? Or or do we ignore them?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
It's habits. I think that's the sciences are saying. It's
it's it's it's the daily practice of the routine. But
I think what's really interesting, and especially we were talking,
you know, in our previously about in a couple of
weeks ago, about Parkinson's and dementia and Alzheimer's and how
the technology is being able to map your brain and
(06:29):
to see you know, early diagnosis or to see if
you have you know, if you're tracking to get that.
And science is really preventive medicine. Hopefully we shift even
more so of that, I would argue in the next decade.
But those that type of preventative, hey, your brain's on
course to develop this or that disease, will I think
(06:52):
give people more choice to be blunt in and perhaps
even more impetus to make it improvements to their daily life,
because if you know that, you're more susceptible to Alzheimer's
or dementia and you can get ahead of it not
just with treatment, but with making choices in your life.
You know, perhaps that would lead to a healthier aging process,
(07:15):
because again, we all know someone unfortunately who has suffered
aging and has not had a particularly kind end of
life experience. And I think that culturally we need to
shift into hopefully that forgetting about that, and not forgetting
about but for making that not existent anymore. And that
(07:36):
should culturally be our goal for all of this. So
that's why I think super aging is really really important,
and it should be a goal for all of us
to navigate as we live.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
I'm glad we're even talking about it. Thanks so much
for bringing this to our attention. Kevin's a really futurist
reporter and founder of Meet the Future website.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Hopefully a superager, and you're going to be a super
agre Larry, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I doubt it, I hope. So I'm glad you're pulling
for me. But I've I don't.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I have no doubt.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I don't live a perfect lifestyle. I'll admit it. W
t F dot t V also huh so.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
W t F dot t S not w t S
Larry M.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
T s oh, that's right.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I was thinking World.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Wrestling, m t F dot t V. Thanks so much, Kevin,
I appreciate it.
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