Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old By: Andrew Steele [Audiobook]

Author: Andrew Steele

A startling chronicle by a brilliant young scientist takes us onto the frontiers of the science of aging, and reveals how close we are to an astonishing extension of our life spans and a vastly improved quality of life in our later years.

Aging – not cancer, not heart disease – is the true underlying cause of most human death and suffering. We accept as inevitable that as we advance in years our bodies and minds begin to deteriorate and that we are ever more and more likely to be felled by dementia or disease. But we never really ask – is aging necessary? Biologists, on the other hand, have been investigating that question for years. After all, there are already tortoises and salamanders whose risk of dying is the same no matter how old they are. With the help of science, could humans find a way to become old without getting frail, a phenomenon otherwise known as “biological immortality”? 

In Ageless, Andrew Steele, a computational biologist and science writer, takes us on a journey through the laboratories where scientists are studying every bodily system that declines with age – DNA, mitochondria, stem cells, our immune systems – and developing therapies to reverse the trend. With bell-clear writing and intellectual passion, Steele shines a spotlight on a little-known revolution already underway. 

30M	00 - Introduction.mp3
30M	01 - Part 1 - An age-old problem, Chapter 1. The age of ageing.mp3
41M	02 - Chapter 2. On the origin of ageing.mp3
35M	03 - Chapter 3. The birth of biogerontology.mp3
74M	04 - Chapter 4. Why we age.mp3
54M	05 - Part 2 - Treating ageing, Chapter 5. Out with the old.mp3
61M	06 - Chapter 6. In with the new.mp3
74M	07 - Chapter 7. Running repairs.mp3
60M	08 - Chapter 8. Reprogramming ageing.mp3
9.0M	09 - Part 3 - Living longer, Chapter 9. The quest for a cure.mp3
46M	10 - Chapter 10. How to live long enough to live even longer.mp3
28M	11 - Chapter 11. From science to medicine.mp3
4.1M	12 - Acknowledgements.mp3
388K	13 - Outro.mp3
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541M	total