Coping With Longevity

What does it actually mean to “live longer” in a culture that can’t tolerate aging?

This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson dive into the strange and seductive world of longevity culture, breaking down how a once‑niche scientific field has transformed into a billion‑dollar industry. We’re chatting about it all, from pilgrimages to Blue Zones, biological age testing, and cryonic chambers,  and the $65 USD olive oils promising to rewind the effects of aging at a cellular level. The industry promises more years, but often at the cost of the humanity it claims to preserve.

And because the wellness zeitgeist never sleeps, we’re also talking: pimple patches (where have they been all my life etc.) and wearable tracking devices (stay tuned for a future debate on this).

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Watch: Blue Zones documentary, Netflix 

‘Aging Is A Disease’: Inside The Drive To Postpone Death Indefinitely by Karen Heller, Washington Post 

Why Everyone Is Talking About Biological, Not Chronological, Age by Shivaune Field, Forbes

Eternal CEO Deepinder Goyal Links Aging With Gravity by Tisha Elizabeth Jacob, The Week

200 Frozen Heads And Bodies Await Revival At This Arizona Cryonics Facility by Jacquelyne Germain, Smithsonian

Watch: Don’t Die, Netflix 

Bryan Johnson Has Spent Millions Trying Not to Die. His Best Longevity Tip Is Free by Dominique Mosbergen, TIME

Bryan Johnson Must Die by Alexander Biener, Kainos

Read: Why We Die by Venki Ramakrishnan

The Anti-Aging Gold Rush Should Focus On Quality Of Life, Not Just Quantity by Michael Gurven, Stat News

Why I Hope to Die At 75 by Ezekiel Emanuel, The Atlantic

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