Name: How Humans Will Live Forever
Uploaded: 2020-11-21T18:51:08.000Z
Duration: 3 min 31 s
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That's because, unlike whooping cough or strep throat, death has no cure.

But thanks to the latest, medical breakthroughs were closer than ever to finding one.

In fact, some experts predict that will be able to live up to 20% longer over the next 100 years.

That means Children today might live until they're 145 years old.

Well, turns out, even that's not out of the question.

History is littered with unusual attempts to defy death.

1920 for example, a Russian scientists thought that he could prolong life by sewing a piece of monkey testicle to a humans.

And even more shockingly, this idea caught on.

At least 300 people underwent this procedure.

Anyways, today, the field of longevity is farm or scientific.

New drugs like Rapa Meyssan, for example, can increase the lifespan of mice up to 30%.

Rapid Meyssan works by slowing down the growth of certain cells that contribute to aging, and experts predict that it will likely have a similar effect in humans, adding as much as 15 years to our current lifespan.

But even if drugs like rap, mice and work, there's no saying that your heart won't suddenly give out well before then.

Well, it turns out there's a fix for that, too.

In 2013, scientists made headlines when they three d printed the first living kidney, and by 2018 they'd advanced the tech to the point where they were printing human corneas from an ink made out of stem cells.

At this pace, technology could soon bumps the average global life expectancy from 72 to 86 on the maximum possible age to somewhere around 145.

And, yeah, you know, that sounds impressive.

That's exactly what projects like the 2045 initiatives are trying to work out.

They aim to create extraordinary human bodies that could, in theory, last forever.

But their goal depends on something that's nearly impossible to acquire a map of the human brain.

So far, scientists have Onley mapped the brain of a worm, which has about 86 billion fewer neurons than our own.

And that means that it could take generations, not just decades, to transfer the human psyche to a robot.

But businesses like Cry or us are betting that that day will come.

They offer to freeze your body after you die for a cold $36,000 or for half the price.

Theo idea is that one day in the future, your brain might be thought and transferred into an avatar where you'll live forever and should that day.