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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Cozy Earth, and InsideTracker.\nAll living things are programmed with a certain lifespan, which can be dramatically different from species to species. Humans now, in general, live twice as long as our ancestors, thanks to environmental changes and advances in medicine. But most of us spend the last years of our lives without the quality of life we really want. We\u2019ve come to identify a slew of symptoms and chronic diseases as a natural part of aging, but do they really have to be?\nToday I\u2019m excited to talk to Dr. George Church all about the latest science on reprogramming our genes to extend our healthspan and lifespan. Dr. George Church is a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, a founding member of the Wyss Institute, and director of PersonalGenomes.org, the world\u2019s only open-access information on human genomic, environmental, and trait data. Dr. Church is known for pioneering the fields of personal genomics and synthetic biology. He developed the first methods for the first genome sequence and his team invented CRISPR for human stem cell genome editing and other synthetic biology technologies and applications\u2014including new ways to create organs for transplantation, gene therapies for aging reversal, and gene drives to eliminate Lyme disease and malaria. Dr. Church is the director of IARPA & NIH BRAIN Projects and the National Institutes of Health Center for Excellence in Genomic Science.\xa0 He is the author of Regenesis.\nThis episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Cozy Earth, and InsideTracker.\nRupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.\nRight now, get 40% off your Cozy Earth sheets. Just head over to cozyearth.com and use code MARK40.\nInsideTracker is a personalized health and wellness platform like no other. Right now they\u2019re offering my community 20% off at insidetracker.com/drhyman.\nHere are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):\n\nThe top things that prevent disease and enhance longevity (7:06 / 4:13)\xa0\n\nDefining aging as a disease and treating it as such (8:24 /\xa0 5:40)\xa0\n\nReprogramming and repairing cells to a younger state (12:24 / 9:35)\xa0\n\nThe future, and challenges, of delivering Yamanaka factors for cell reprogramming (15:05 / 11:50)\xa0\n\nGene editing vs gene therapy (28:02 / 22:36)\xa0\n\nUsing gene therapy to reverse disease and lengthen life span (34:44 / 30:55)\xa0\n\nAnimal-to-human organ transplants (37:34 / 33:04)\xa0\n\nCan we live youthfully to 100 years old and beyond? (44:31 / 40:34)\xa0\n\nHow much and what types of protein do we need for healthy aging? (50:30 / 45:50)\xa0\n\nUsing gene editing to bring back mammoths to restore damaged ecosystems (1:00:53 / 56:50)\xa0\n\n\nGet a copy of George Church and Ed Regis\u2019 book, Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves, here. \n \nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices