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Welcome to Day 1493 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.\xa0This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to WisdomThe Other Pandemic - Aging \u2013 Ask GrampsWisdom - the final frontier to true knowledge.\xa0Welcome to Wisdom-Trek! Where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Hello, my friend, I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase Wisdom and Create a Living Legacy.\xa0Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. Today is Day 1493 of our Trek, and our focus on Fridays is the future technological and societal advances, so we call it Futuristic Fridays.\xa0My personality is one that has always been very future-oriented.\xa0Since my childhood, I have yearned for the exploration and discovery of new technologies and advancements for the future.\xa0I grew up with the original Star Trek series, and even today, as I am now on my 65th revolution around the sun, I still dream of traveling in space. Each week we will explore rapidly converging technologies and advancements, which will radically change our lives.\xa0At times, the topics may sound like something out of a science fiction novel, but each area that we explore is already well on its way of becoming a reality over the next couple of decades.
To keep with our theme of \u201cAsk Gramps,\u201d I will put our weekly topics in the form of a question to get us on track.\xa0This week\u2019s question is, Hey Gramps, I understand that Covid-19 has impacted nearly every country in the world and has become a politically charged subject, but how does it compare to other diseases?\xa0
The Other Pandemic - Aging
Last week we learned how Artificial Intelligence would change our shopping experiences.\xa0This week, I want to focus on a pandemic that is not considered a pandemic, aging.\xa0I am using some of the information mentioned in Peter Diamandis\u2019s blogs and book \u201cThe Future is Faster Than You Think.\u201d
As the world continues to face the ravages of COVID-19, there is a second pandemic killing\xa0everyone\u2026 it\u2019s called aging.\xa0You may think to yourself, Gramps, that\u2019s silly. Everyone ages, and everyone will eventually die.\xa0While I understand that, ask yourself, can what we consider a typical lifespan be increased significantly?\xa0For the first time in history, scientists and entrepreneurs think there\u2019s a way to slow aging in its tracks, and perhaps even reverse it.
In today\u2019s podcast, we\u2019ll do a quick review of the cutting-edge technology that gives me tremendous hope that we can add a healthy 20 or 30 years onto our healthspan, ultimately making 100 years old the \u201cnew 60.\u201d
COVID-19 Comparison:\xa0As of today, over 36 million confirmed COVID-19 cases have been recorded globally, and those are only the ones that have been tested. Since its initial outbreak, over 1 million deaths globally have been in patients who have tested positive with COVID-19.\xa0I realize that some individuals may have died of other causes during this period, but it is still significant.\xa0Not to minimize this number at all, because all life is precious.\xa0As a point of reference, globally, cardiovascular disease kills over 18 million per year and cancer over 10 million.\xa0\xa0Some of the Covid patients would have been in these numbers.
To put this in context, approximately 7.8 billion people are alive today, roughly 9 percent of them over the age of 65 and suffering from the deadliest disease on Earth:\xa0Aging.
Without competition, aging is the\xa0#1\xa0correlated variable for deaths due to heart disease, cancer, diabetes, respiratory disease, and dementia. In effect, 9 percent of the population equates to\xa0720 million confirmed cases\xa0of aging.\xa0Even then, this is an extraordinarily conservative estimate as many people begin experiencing the effects of aging in their 50s.
Despite these...