2016 RAADFest with Liz Parrish and Bill Andrews

http://biovia-science.com Liz Parrish and Bill Andrews talk about gene therapy in humans.
We want to offer gene therapy to the world and we're actually going to be the first company to do it in the clinic to offer you an alternative. So we're very excited about this and we're so excited about this that we're already considering what preventative medicine in gene therapy is. So we know that we're going to start blurring the lines in the future between enhancement and preventative. And we're excited about that. We look forward to a day where we can really do the cost savings and treat you before you even get sick.

Today we're going to talk about a few things and we want to discuss aging. That's what we're here for. So what is aging? Whether you're a scientist or an architect or a janitor, you know what aging is to you. It's a system. It's a process, and we see it right here in this picture. It's a young man growing old. Biologically. We want you to get chronologically old, but not biologically old is the graying of hair wrinkles, the atrophy of the brain and the muscles.

How we picture ourselves. Aging is a little bit different than the reality. We picture things just slowing down, I'll continue to play basketball.
I'll continue to go dancing. I'll continue to do all the things I do, but maybe just a little bit slower, but the truth looks something more like this.

By the age of 80 most people in the United States are on 17 prescription drugs, 30 PR, 30% of those will have an adverse drug reaction to these pills. As a matter of fact, by the time people are about 65 they're on an average of over 10 prescription medications.

So let's put this into perspective. The United States is only 5% of the global population. We take 75% of the prescription drugs available on the planet. We have the shortest lifespan of every industrialized country. We're doing something wrong, so the impact of an aging population, why would we look at this?

Certainly, we all personally have a stake in wanting to be youthful and strong and capable for a very long life, but what are the implications to society? Listen to this talk for details.

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