What Impacts Healthy Aging?

Name: What Impacts Healthy Aging?
Uploaded: 2024-10-01T16:00:05+00:00
Duration: 32 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok breaks down what research shows about healthy aging and why tech billionaires are pouring billions into longevity companies. Adding just…

1 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Charles Mok breaks down what research shows about healthy aging and why tech billionaires are pouring billions into longevity companies. Adding just one healthy year to everyone's life cuts nursing-home use and healthcare costs while keeping people working longer.

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What impacts healthy aging. Scientists from all over the world, particularly in this case on the west coast, presented what their companies were working on. A lot of these companies are founded by tech billionaires that give huge endowments, some cases up to $3 billion. This is studying aging and what can be done to extend people's healthy lifespan, impact humanity. If we look at adding, say, one healthy year to everybody in the world's life, economic impact to that is massive because we could be living longer on our own, staying out of nursing homes, having less impact on the health care system, even worse, working on it.