The Future of Health: When Death Becomes Optional

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🗓️ 22 April 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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What if doctors no longer played God and you became CEO of your own health? What if medicine were tailor-made for your own DNA? What will the world be like when people start living to 150 – or even forever? If only the wealthy can afford super-longevity, will the growing gap between rich and poor lead to a new form of social inequality? These are some of the questions Intelligence Squared explored in The Future of Health: When Death Becomes Optional. Massive change is already under way. New tools, tests and apps are taking healthcare away from the professionals and into the hands of the individual. Wearable devices which monitor our fitness and activities are already ubiquitous. Before long they will be superseded by ‘insideables’ – chips planted just under our skin – and ‘ingestibles’ – tiny sensor pills that we swallow. The plummeting cost of DNA profiling means we will soon be entering the era of truly personalised medicine – the right drug for the right person at the right time – instead of the... Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.0	Good evening and welcome The title of the discussion we're going to have this evening is, rather provocatively, the future of health when death becomes optional.
1:21.0	Now, since no male member of my family has made it beyond 73, this is a
1:27.4	subject which is close to my heart, my, you know, carotid heart, my heart which going to pack in slowly.
1:34.4	I have a particular interest, I must admit, in intermittent fasting in calorie restriction
1:40.3	because that is one of the few things that has been actually shown consistently in animal models at least to extend life.
1:47.0	And we may come across that.
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