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  • I don't think the only problem there is NO progress on this problem is a Political one. I think a lot, and most of people feel that the average life span is long enough. Not including many things like murder which is not related to aging.

  • .......think about how fast humanity was able to develop the atomic bomb after hahn and meitner discovered the basics in ´39. If there´s only enough money for the best researchers and their institutes and a close connection between them there could be enormous progress within the next years. Politics will not coordinate this . Go and donate to the research team you consider to be the best..............

  • one simple question

    at least it is the most important for me,,,,,i know it is kinda stupid,,but please reply me .....

    is there any hope to extend the life span of human being more than regular,,,,or anything against aging.

    thanks for reading. :D

  • If anyone is interested feel free to join my facebook group "life extension be an important priority"

  • I don´t believe you, fucking russian

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  • I don't want to live forever though, I just want to live to 90-100 and then die, life drags on other wise, so even though I am going to get ugly as I get old I guess it is a good thing because I don't want to live forever as life would just DRAG ON!!! But everyone who wants to live forever on Earth go right ahead I don't mind, but if I was given a treatment that stopped me aging so I could live forever I would refuse it as I don't want to live forever.

  • Maria it is lifesabitch here and I have changed my mind, when I get to the age of 45 I want to have a facelift, sagging skin etc, GROSS!!!!!!! I am 22 and realize my youth is only going to last for so long and then I will be old and ugly. 17 and 18 were the best ages of my life I was cycling 80 kilometers everyday which I think is 50 miles, I am not looking forward to aging at all now I have CHANGED my mind!!!

  • Maria I think it is cool if you want to live young and forever, me on the other hand don't want to live forever and do want to get old grey and die at 100. Paying the bills etc etc it is such a harsh way of living. I suffer from Chronic fatigue syndrome and if I go for a 15 mintue walk I end up in bed for a whole week to recover. I used to do so many sports growing up, I remember I used to cycle 50 miles everyday most of my life, life sucks!!!

  • Why can't people just grow old gracefully it is the way of life. I am 22 years old find working stressful enough, just existing is stressful enough and if you didn't have a job like my dad who retired young get depressed even when you own the coolest things like the fastest cars Ferrari etc. I mean I embrace aging I want to get old and gray because I do want to die one day, living forever I would lose my mind literally lose my mind!!! Have my perspective on life and you will do fine!

  • @20470ify This was also my old account and I am not looking forward to getting old and ugly with sagging skin GROSS!!!! I am 22 and this was my old account 20470ify.

  • I had to live forever I would have a mental breakdown as I just want to live until 90-100 yrs old. Everyone else can live forever if they want, but I don't want to, everyone has a choice and that is my choice.

  • How about Mitochondria degradation as the route cause of Telomare shorting?

  • Very nice preformance, hope I could give a presentation as fluently as that I also like your blog (mariakonovalenko [dot] wordpress [dot] com), keep up the good work :P

  • The process of aging can be slowed, but can't be reversed.

  • Maria,

    I just meet you in TEDMED, your question is remarcable despite very broad. Aging is a verb and envolves a continum of process, and for me as physical-chemistry involves entropy inevitable rising against time,defining time arrow. Avoiding aging could be a fight against entropy, it's not impossible, but in a so complex system as human body requires to put the machine to work microscopicaly in each process that increases entropy, have our machine the tools for that ?

  • Don't know what to think of this video....Aging is irreversible....Aging is a natural process.....Aging process is speed up by our health, disease, dysfunction, disability, etc......We should be more concerned about....how to change our bad lifesstyle habits.

  • technology suffers the same modern fate as medicine, instead of polling for large scale improvements, everyone is heavily invested in profitable incremental change. Immortality is the eventual out come of medical research if it doesnt get stalled by economic forces or global cataclysms. Living right, is irrelevant, at our current level of technology, very little that you do affects your life span or quality of life, it's strictly genetics.

  • Maria: Capitalism is the main impediment and block toward progress, toward life-exension. First we need socialism, a world socialist government. Capitalism breeds imperialist wars, hunger, illnesses, and many deaths. Only a real world change toward socialism can make sure that socialist governments around the work together to invest in life-extension so that people can live to 200 years or maybe more

  • @maxistsocialist Sheesh.

  • Why the speak speaks soooooooo fast?

  • Maria, keep moving. I suggest writing an open letter to UN and all governments, it should be first sent to all age related scientists who sign it, and then be transfered to UN and govs, as well as to all medias to ensure maximum PR effect.

  • Мария, удалите пожалуйста видео Лебедева из видеоответов (то что справа).

  • Очень интересно. Но принято считать, что процесс старения необратимый. Само старение усмиряет. Сначала нужно изменить общество, только потом заниматься вопросами старения.

  • Существуют нестареющие животные. Само старение убивает. Усмиряет человек себя сам, чтобы мысль о смерти не уничтожила его психику. Борьба со старением может объединить общество и преобразовать его к лучшему.

  • Насчет изменения общества до старения. Изменение процесса старения может изменить общество сильнее, чем потуги политиков. Например люди будут строить более долгосрочные планы, бережнее относится к окружающей среде.

  • @andrejvoronkov боюсь, повременные молодежные направления развиты с лозунгом "живи для себя, живи не долго"

    Еще очень много нерешенных вопросов.

  • @bopoh1313 Это их проблемы. Перенаселение планеты никто не отменял. Есть люди, которые понимают важность проблемы и их становится больше. Важно чтобы их стало много среди тех, кто принимает решения.

  • Maria you should be a sex symbol of anti-aging campaign!!! I am looking for next anti aging video in bikini :) I bet it will give much more supporters for anti aging :)

  • Yeah! Very important problem.

    We need a solution for this problem yesterday.

  • Победа над смертью - самое важное дело в мире!

  • Wait, so you're proposing we attempt to prolong the human life when our world is already running out of resources as of the result of overpopulation? We already live many, many years longer on average than our ancestors from centuries ago. Is not the average lifespan of ~80 years enough? Do people really wish to be on this planet for more than a century? Maybe I'm out of touch with the average person, but death is just as important a part of life as birth.

  • In my opinion your "natural order" which kills everyone is your subjective attempt to rationalize death. I am sure that "Axe of God" should be stopped, because if we can stop it - we must not to decide on behalf of other people to turn over their lives just because of "natural" dogma. It's personal decision.

    Resource depletion can be solved by other means. There is a possibility to create anything out of matter, energy and intelligence. And young people in their 130th will be quite intelligent.

  • @evgeniy13 I'm not counter-proposing that we force people die at what is the current avg lifespan. That would lulzworthy. Btw, you have pegged completely wrong. I'm as far from dogmatic and religious as you can get. This has nothing to do with God, and more to do with humanity, the planet, and other species that we share this planet with. Of all the things to work on, this is probably the last one after exploitation, inequality, poverty, disease, oppression, etc.

  • Please watch my video answer above, and maybe you change your mind about priorities.

  • Doubt it. My priorities are that people live a life of quality not quantity. It matters not much how long a person lives if those years are filled with misery.

  • Your point is? Aging and death are both misery's therefore would I be right to assume you agree with the speaker?

  • Quality of live drops more and more after 30, I think you're aware of that. And there is more: Aging of human population is imminent (that is what my vid abt) Global incubator will turn into global nursery home thanks to pro-aging trance.

  • Quality and quantity are both important.

  • I'm wondering do people like you realise what it means when a human being dies?

  • Maybe you could enlighten me on your thoughts on death as you seem to be itching to do so.

  • Well not much to say except when you're dead your dead doesn't get much more complicated than that.

  • LOL that was so profound. Your naivety about life is killing me as we speak. There are worse things than death and if you're too guileless to believe otherwise, well I envy your ignorance.

  • Worse things than death? When you use words like guileless and naivety are you suggesting I haven't thought about this?

  • We should all go bio-anarchist to cure this problem by ourselves!!...

  • Please now vote for Julia who is a finalist in the Davos comp. End FGM

  • There is also a problem SLEEPING.

    man sleeps 30% of the time of his life, which makes real-time life of even shorter

  • Actually, sleep may be the reason why we live a little longer. Repair systems are active whille we're asleep. They're cleaning out the accumulated damage. Scientists need to study the relationship between sleep and aging more carefully.

  • I mean that man for too long is restored when he sleeps. many time is spent on it. for example more interesting to me to be active than just lying :)

    Of course there are methods to help less sleep and be active, but it is not without harm to the body

  • Vote for it

  • Yeah, I wish my mom and dad lived longer. That's an important issue.

  • It would be nice if it was in Davos took up this project - a truly important.

  • It's a real probem and it can be and will be solved.

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  • @andrewlbt Why would you want to live forever life drags on far out!!!! 100 years is enough for me far out why would you want to live forever, what is wrong with you people!!!

  • @mark10147 Why not 50 years? I see no reasons to limit life expectancy. While my mind is clear I'll find how to use it.

  • @mark10147 Say you live for one hundred years. You are healthy, happy, youthful, wealthy, and have an excellent network of friends and family. You can indulge your every whim with the help of sophisticated entertainment technology, including virtual reality. You can visit other planets. There's always more to learn, more to experience. But you'd decide to just end it? Just dissemble your consciousness because of some notion that your life has been too long? I certainly would not!

  • @Aphradonis Well my friend, no matter how old you are you will die of old age in this lifetime and you will get very bitter about getting older while I on the other will not. I would hate to see your face on your death bed when you are an old gray haired man. I am sorry but this kind of cure to live and stay young forever in your life time will not happen, I believe there is an afterlife and that is all I have to say, Love God, he created you!

  • @21LightLove No, I will not be an angry old gray haired man because A) I guarantee my hair will never be gray, B) I want to live forever but I'm not going to be bitter if I can't, because that wouldn't help me at all. I'll maximize whatever lifespan I have, and C) I can want something without becoming angry or bitter if I don't receive it.

  • @21LightLove - Faith teaches you to pray you are worthy of admittance into the "best" reality. Good luck with that. Back in the real world: About 2 yrs ago, I was on my death bed. What was I doing? Praying for entry into heaven? Hahaha... no. I was laughing and talking about how great a lucky opportunity THIS life is; the good, bad, the ugly. Do I want to live forever? Oh, yeah! Do I believe *heaven* is the ticket? YESSS! THIS, my friend, is all the heaven you'll ever get. Wise up!

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  • Great idea, very topical subject.

  • I really hope there will be some sort of advances before it is too late for me and my friends, to save us from aging and death.

    No one wants to be old, sick and die at all.

  • Back up!

  • It is strange that this subject has never been a priority for science and world community in whole. It should be.

  • You all will die and decay.

  • so?

  • "They will decay and die anyway" is not a reason to justify killing or child molesting. As it is not a reason to stop trying to achieve greater levels of survival.

  • TRUE!

  • I support this topic and this speaker

  • Great idea!

  • Let's stop aging!

  • все правильно! Маша, едь в Давос, дай там всем жару (=

  • I am definitely would be happy to live longer and healthier. I hope that you get necessary funding and make it possible ^)

  • will this new technology be affordable to common people?

  • @LadyLevry First concern is whether it is available to anyone.

  • really? I like the idea, but who will get the miraculous elixir?

    PS I also support Maria's efforts to get the project started.

  • Well the trend seems to be expensive and not working to well, cheaper and working okay, and ubiquitous and cheap. Take the mobile phone for example billions have it know because its an established technology. Look up Ray Kurzweil.

  • This is an amazingly good idea. Thank you for posting it. I hope you will get your idea heard by many people.

  • what is it you are trying to do exactly ?

  • scienceagainstaging точка org

  • Посмотрим, что получится. Удачи.

  • You know what would happen if the aging 'problem' would be solved? If anyone would suddenly be able to live longer? Planet Earth barely holds the current population in balance. Humanity would suffocate in its own rubbish if people would suddenly stop aging and dieing. People should stop reproducing and start reducing the population of the world to a fixed number of not much than 500 million people -- it is the only way for the humanity to survive.

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  • @lthnnpwr haha - overpopulation in an old myth

    try googling

  • //Planet Earth barely holds the current population in balance.//

    Aging and over (or under) population are two separate problems. Here in Russia Putin was promising mothers the money, so they have more babies. In China govenment held policy "one child per family" for the time beeing. So it is possible to control population.

    Grey dawn (see my vid above) and degradation of human genomic pool due to absence of natural selection - these are the problems. Not tigers.

  • *money to the mothers

  • @evgeniy13 The human gene pool is so large and varied that evolutionary change through natural selection is pretty much redundant. Besides what the hell do we need natural selection for any when we can do it ourselves through synthetic biology?

  • When almost all kids survive, no matter how much their DNA is damaged, every time sicker and sicker generation is being born.

    Yes, we can and must interfere. And the same with aging. People who are alive must have a right to choose between own life or death, and this overrides someone else's other rights e g right to procreate - there is no place? - do it in space.

  • Indeed but if they survive then natural selection has selected for them to live they have good enough genes to survive those who don't still won't, the human phenotype seems to be a culmination of natural selective pressures to be quite resilient to death before procreation hence our numbers and survial. I think personally that an expansion of life expectancy will also coincide with a drop in procreation, it seems currently that those having many children are also have the shortest lives.

  • very topical issue, the future of humanity depends on it!

  • Fight with the aging is creating more problems that better to be solved before the fight will begin, from lots of ethic questions to the huge problem of overpopulating the Earth. I believe in science and I believe that people will prolong their lives, but currently the idea looks like an another unreal utopia.

  • overpopulation is a myth, didn't you know?

  • Does she want to tell us, that we need to make everybody's life better with the help of science ?

    Anyway, how ware you going to solve the problem of the Earth being overpopulated?

    Удачи, Маша!:) Болеем за тебя )

  • как-как, полетим на Марс, она же сказала

  • Nice idea presentation!

  • Да-да, всё правильно. Молодцы, типа.

  • bullshit. its a natural process. overpopulation, ecology and quality of mass products - thats real problems

  • Plastic in the ocean is natural too. Actually nature invented humans to get that plastic. That's her business, I don't know why it needs plastic ocean.

    Since I'm a bi-product, and nature doesn't need me anymore, I'm going to have fun by myself and coupe of hundreed years will come of handy.

    Seriouly, watch my video above, quit farting around.

  • very important problem

  • Totally agree.

  • Ha! 22th century/ want to see 25th century!

  • Yeah! I want to see 22th century.

  • Must be discussed! Good idea!

  • This idea is up in the air. Also the idea seems good, but it must be tried out. Good luck.

  • Very important problem. Do not ignore it! +5

  • Great idea. Ukraine with you =)

  • really very good

  • How about an overpopulation in the near future? Have you thought about it?

  • population in europe will not grow any more. that's why it's not problem

  • Let's support this idea!!!

    Go agead!

  • Very good job

  • Yeah, I wanna be alive in 2100 ) Let's do it!

  • We should talk about it more.

  • I think this is the most important problem for each and everyone of us!

  • Sexy hot Maria!

  • It's definately a good topic

    I hope you will beat the human aging

  • What for should we prolong our lifes?

    What for should we pospone death if it is inevitable?

    I am lucky that my life would not be so loooong and boooring and maybe tragic.

    As usual, you want to play with God's creatures.

  • Так держать, Мария

  • дело хорошее, нужное

  • On of the strangest consequence of cold war between the USA and Russia was very interesting and a prominent aspect: it was the catalyst of scientific and technical progress. You should find the same catalyst for a problem of fighting against ageing...

    Actually, we could start from the fact that 'ageing' for the present moment should be changed to 'perishing'. We should understand that it should be some program that will reveal a lot o side-effects to grow quality of our life first.. Then ageing

  • not bad, Maria!

  • йоууууу, это круто. плохо, что еще большинство к этому не готово. патамуша есть автоваз, энергосбережение и прочий опиум для народа............... а стоящие вещи.....................

  • Can't think of any topic more worthy of attention than this. Very persuasive video, hope it reaches its goal :)

  • Good video.

  • This is definitely the most important topic in the world at this time, and probably for a long time to come. This is speech about the beginnings of the biggest most historic and monumental cause ever undertaken in the history of humanity. Davos would do well for itself, and this cause, and the world to pick this entry up. Vote if you dont want to age to death!

  • А может все же старение это естественный процесс?

  • Как и головная боль, как рак, как гипертония. Ещё естественно не строить домов, не летать самолётами, не пользоваться компьютерами.

  • Если вы смотрели "Машина времени" - фильм 2002 года по книге Г Уэллса, то может помните, как элои рассуждали о естественном. (их съедали морлоки, оставляя помоложе для размножения)

  • Или как в реальном средневековье какую-нибудь бубонную чуму называли промыслом божьим.

    Все эти рассуждения только для самоуспокоения.

  • Хорошее обращение!

  • Aging is the biggest problem that most people in the world are ignoring. Cure aging and not only do we end the direct suffering of untold millions, we also begin to solve all of the seemingly intractable societal problems associated with human nature. It is a bold vision - the type of message that world leaders need to hear. Please select Maria to go to Davos!

  • I totally support Maria! She speaks for me. I was disappointing to learn that only few interested in this problem and actually trying to do something.

    Death is so destructive in terms of loss of knowledge and experience.Our life expectancy became too short for modern day human.And it is a big tragedy when people leave. I say we need to start funding these researches on government level and it should become a big for governments around the world. We will definitely face strong opposition from

  • religious organizations. But we will win. Long live Maria and your ideas!

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  • Good luck

  • All of us must join to beat the human aging. I powerfully support this topic and speaker.

  • Oh! Tnats the real probleb! Wish U luck!

  • davai-davai !!!

  • Bravo! very interesting

  • It's our biological problem, born with us. Good theme, really.

  • I agree. It's most important problem.

  • That's a very important problem that must be studied in every aspect.

  • Из пациента выходит смертничество. Полет нормальный.

  • Thank you.

  • It's a great shame it hasn't got the same attention as global warming, AIDS or cancer

  • Great speech! I think antiaging technologies is the most important mission for humankind.

  • Bravo!

  • Very important problem, I think!

  • You the best! Good job!

  • Good job, Maria!

    I wish you`ll make it!

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  • you must go to Davos.

    it's really VERY important problem.

    and the speech is brilliant.

  • the best!

    syper!!

  • Bravo!

  • i like the way the video is shot. the message is also appealing.

  • !!!

  • Super!

  • She crypt izraile girl )))

  • Excellent, Maria. Thank you.

  • Nice work!

  • Bravo! May the ears in the world hear.

  • Radical live extension is a must, and now we can feed everyone if there will be significant population growth, thanks to A.K. Eruslanov and his agriculture innovations

  • Maria, you are well versed in the science of ending aging, as well as the social issues, you'd be an excellent spokesperson at the Davos Debates. I hope you are able to go, but barring that-please continue to do outreach for life extension-SENS Foundation, Maximum Life Foundation, Methuselah Foundation, ImmInst--all can use gifted, intelligent, articulate speakers--you are beautiful to boot!