Longer Life: What Does Science Say?

Kara Swisher· Host0:00

[upbeat music] It's on. [upbeat music] Hi, everyone. From New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network, this is On with Kara Swisher, and I'm Kara Swisher. When it comes to the science of living longer, there's so much garbage out there that it's easy to miss some of the truly remarkable things that are happening with scientific advancement around longevity. In this episode of our Hacking Longevity series, we'll go deep into the science behind some of the most promising medical developments happening right now, specifically when it comes to fighting pancreatic cancer. We'll speak with the leading researcher in that fight, Dr. Vinod Balachandran of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. But first, the bigger picture. I'm joined by Dr. Eric Verdin, the president and CEO of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato, California. The Buck Institute was the first research center of its kind, and it's at the forefront of what's going on in the field. Dr. Verdin has a medical background, of course. He also has an entrepreneurial take that I wish more doctors shared. I think it's really interesting to talk to all the various big names in this. Some of them are more, uh, scientific than others, and those are the ones I'm sticking with. But it's really important to understand all the differing viewpoints of where this is going, and that's what's necessary to moving forward, to have disagreement and then move forward with actual scientific facts and, of course, measurements. It's a smart and interesting conversation, so stick around.