Some will say that Bill Andrews is totally crazy – at 61 he runs an average of 10 miles per day and at least one 100 mile marathon per month. He also wants to “Cure Ageing or Die Trying”. No wonder Bill is one of the 2 main protagonists of a new documentary about life-extension aptly titled The Immortalists. As to whether he is crazy or not, I myself hope that he totally is. Because, if we are ever going to defeat ageing, we are going to need a lot more out-of-the-box “crazy” scientists like Andrews. And I totally loved interviewing him on my Singularity 1 on 1 podcast.
During our 1 hour conversation with Bill we cover a variety of interesting topics such as: the relationship between telomeres and ageing; the Hayflick limit and the scientific definition of immortality; how he got interested in finding a cure for ageing; life-extension and overpopulation; supplements and other ways to slow down the pace of telomere shortening such as ultra-marathon running; Product B and TA-65, his book on Curing Aging;Sierra Sciences and the money needed to make a human cell immortal…
My favorite quotes that I will take away from this conversation with Bill Andrews are:
“Cure Ageing or Die Trying” [I just cannot not start with this one ;-]
“In my opinion nature wants us dead as soon as we’ve raised our young”
“Ageing is not going to cure itself – it requires funding. People think that the government is funding all the research in ageing but the government is not interested… Large pharma is not interested. If people are really out there wondering why nobody is curing ageing right now it’s because we need the private individuals that are passionate about this subject to be funding the research. And not just my research – everybody’s research.”
See the video interview here: https://www.singularityweblog.com/bill-andrews/
