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How to Stop Aging (and Should We?)

Season 1 Episode 1

What is the future of aging? People aren’t dying as early or as easily as they used to. Innovations in medicine, health, and hygiene have helped us extend our lives by decades, but what comes next? Would you rather live to be a hearty and healthy 90 or live to be 150 but withering away for the last 60 years? We’ll talk about it in this episode of Far Out.

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