291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging

4972.552 - 4996.03 Venki Ramakrishnan

But of course, the flip side, as someone pushed back against me, was that, look, 150 years ago, we were living half as long as we do now on average. Of course, the oldest people were still living quite long, but on average. And now we're all living about twice as long on average. Do you think we should go back to the older time because there was more regeneration, faster regeneration?