Ep. 1270: Venki Ramakrishnan Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Venki Ramakrishnan, a British-American structural biologist. He shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath for research on the structure and function of ribosomes. Since 1999, he has worked as a group leader at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, UK and is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

The topic is his book Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Evolutionary perspectives on lifespan and aging
Mortality and its psychological implications
Biological processes underlying aging and death
Slowing down the aging process
Aging research and investment by California billionaires
Factors influencing human lifespan
Scientific advancements in extending human lifespan and reversing aging

Jump in!

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.1	I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.2	That's my passion.
0:33.5	My guest today has a topic that I think all of us want to know something about, why we die.
0:41.6	Subtitle, The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality.
0:45.6	My guest today is Vinky Ramakrishnan.
0:48.1	He has a Nobel Prize in Chemistry under his belt.
0:52.0	So he has some wisdom.
0:53.2	He has some insights.
0:54.0	He has some knowledge about
0:55.6	where we go today. Look, there's a lot of issues here. Do we just live for a long time?
1:02.5	Or do we want to have a healthy long time? Should we live forever? Many topics in this conversation.
1:10.2	And I think, look, there is no doubt.
1:12.6	We all want to know.
1:14.2	Why do we age?
1:15.8	How do we age?
1:17.4	Can we retard the aging process?
1:19.7	Can we slow it down?
1:21.3	Can we do anything?
1:23.2	My guest today has some insights.
1:25.9	I hope you enjoy this conversation with Vinky Ramakrishna.
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