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00:02there is a whole industry exploding with the promise that we can halt the aging process from
00:09longevity clinics to drugs and supplements that would make me nervous something that's not FDA
00:15approved for me I'm a little more of a risk taker and radical surgery in a couple of minutes we're
00:21gonna take about 10 or 15 years off we're being sold on the dream that we can prolong our youth
00:28and extend our lives when you realize this aging process isn't inevitable I think that's the
00:33greatest achievement in the history of our species I have my children at 39 my first when I was 39
00:40like so many other couples we're having kids later so when Ellie is 21 I will be 59 and when
00:48she's in
00:49her 30s I'll be hitting 70 I want to be around for their milestones I want to be around for
00:54the big
00:54events and I don't want to be a burden on them I don't want them to have to mind working
01:02in TV
01:06there is a pressure never to show the signs of aging but with social media that pressure is now
01:12on all of us so I use exercise to try and maintain my health and hopefully boost my longevity but
01:21in
01:21this two-part series I'm meeting people who do more yeah okay it's gone under the knife but I just
01:28look
01:28like the way I used to look much more with gene therapy we literally would be able to take over
01:35people and regenerate them we hope all the way back down to age 25 so what can I learn from
01:41those people
01:42who believe that we can defeat the aging process can we really stay young forever I'm gonna live until I'm
01:49300 could we already be witnessing the death of aging it used to be that age was just a number
02:05but in
02:07our aging obsessed world age has become two numbers our chronological age the sum of our birthdays and
02:15our biological age a measure that claims to reveal how quickly our cells tissues and organs are declining
02:26at Dublin's ageless longevity ultra runner Dan and his sister Elizabeth increase now in 10 seconds are
02:34riding the longevity boom offering biological age testing based on how well our hearts lungs and muscles
02:41are working and with my 47th birthday looming I was keen to discover how fast or slow my own body
02:50was
02:50aging the longevity business is exploding yes and it's just starting that wave is just starting in
02:59Ireland now and you guys seem to have got in early yeah so what was your decision to set up
03:05ageless I just
03:06found that the longevity space was something that really really appealed to me because you're in
03:10control of it you know the majority of people 90% of people are very much in control of their
03:15own
03:15destiny of how well they're gonna age so are you ready to hook me up yes we do it yes
03:20Catherine we're
03:22now testing your VO2 max the gold standard for longevity prediction the reason that we test this is
03:29is because on average your VO2 max will decline by 10% per decade you can easily improve your VO2
03:37max
03:38score from today with all the data that you get and that will guarantee that you're giving yourself
03:42extra quality of years into the life you have whether that makes you live longer or not is yet to
03:46be seen
03:47but it does mean that you're guaranteeing extra quality in the years that you have
03:51just tilt your head back and then if you just hold the mask there and I'll get this round so
03:56this
03:56stormtrooper-esque mask will measure my capacity to turn oxygen into energy the more efficient my
04:03oxygen use the lower my biological age and the lower my biological age the later I die
04:12well done Catherine your VO2 is just touching into the 30s and we're going up to speed 9
04:17good going Catherine deep breaths it's not fast doing great
04:23the VO2 is touching into the 40s for the first time Catherine great feeling okay good that's it
04:31deep breaths on the mask keep pushing now digging deep Catherine digging deep
04:36three two one just hang on there yeah that's the mask on for a second
04:42take the mask on well done so was my current lifestyle buying me significant extra years
04:49or would I need to do more okay here is the results are you ready for this yes I am
04:55so we
04:55have a chronological age of 46 but the biological age is coming through as 37.8 so you hit into
05:02your 30s you did very well fantastic yeah for it but to crack open a bottle of wine today
05:09cranked up the bio-age
05:14so my exercise regime may have bought me 10 extra years and I do still feel like I'm in my
05:2030s
05:24and maybe I'm pushing it but who doesn't want to look 10 years younger too
05:35I've been getting Botox injections since I was in my late 30s though in the beginning I didn't admit
05:41to it at all okay I'm gonna do a little bit on the frown area so just keep your eyes
05:48closed I know it's not
05:50for everybody but twice a year I get Botox strictly under the supervision of a licensed doctor it's a
05:56treatment that promises a mask of youth but how long before the mask starts slipping
06:02so Botox yes what how long has it been since I've been in it's nine months is it nine months
06:08it's nine months my forehead knows it's nine months you've left it a little too long because your skin
06:13is aging the muscles are aging so you're really better off sticking to three times a year now yeah
06:19because I was twice a year yeah twice a year works for you know now I have to up my
06:25game
06:25yes okay yes and if I didn't up my game what might my future face look like
06:34this is I don't have to put my glasses on put your glasses on
06:39so this is using the help of an AI engine to create images of what you could look like at
06:47different ages okay that's me at 55 yeah so this is me with no treatment yeah things are changing you
06:54can see that you have more lines around the eyes and around the the smile lines and the neck and
06:59the
06:59neck you can see the facial contour in terms of the lower part of the face is changing so that's
07:0555
07:06yeah I'm gonna scroll right scroll it up oh god okay so you can see there are more lines
07:14the skull and the bone is changing yeah so you're beginning to see some of the results of that change
07:19so this results in this kind of a drawn look I'm gonna scroll again keep going oh god now how
07:29do you
07:29feel about this I hope I had a happy life you have because you've got plenty of smile lines yeah
07:36look at the
07:37crow's feet these are deep which means that you've been smiling a lot yeah so that that to me that's
07:42somebody who's who's lived a very happy life so 75 I have another one to go you have Jesus I've
07:48just aged 50
07:49years in five minutes so let's look at 85 oh Jesus wow let's talk about your hair because you can
07:58see
07:58I'm still really good with a GHD you're still very good with that but you can see there's thinning of
08:03your hair oh my god I didn't even think about my hair you can see that loss of youthful
08:10rubbery kind of elastic feel to the skin wow that is mind flowing I have old lady eyes I don't
08:17feel
08:18like that's me anymore but you know what canvas are we going to live in a world where we don't
08:24see
08:24old faces anymore like I'm feeding into the system of not aging gracefully like this lady has a good
08:34question so there are limits in terms of our biology and as much as you know there is a lot
08:41of work in terms of the longevity space and in terms of living longer and healthier I think we will
08:47still see older faces you do I think so I hope so at 47 I definitely feel more conscious around
08:58aging
09:02but signs are that our aging anxiety is kicking in younger and younger look at all that extra skin
09:11is anyone else noticing that Gen Z is aging like milk and on social media beauties with 21st century
09:20birth certs fret about aging like milk I'm gonna need a facelift someday in a festive Tullamore the baby
09:28fresh-fresh skin crowd are getting ready to party it's the big end-of-year teen kicks disco for the
09:36town's 13 year olds and I was gate crashing a getting ready party to gauge just how far our own
09:45gen
09:45alphas have fallen into the clutches of the anti-aging industry what do they do those eye patches I
09:53don't really know this looks like nail varnish is it not like serum nice in a wide dewdrops and what
10:02does that do make your skin chewy I guess so so who owns that big case of stuff down there
10:09me that's
10:10yours that looks like more than moisturizer and face mist look at all of this stuff okay so this is
10:18a sheet
10:19mask Brighton and firm do you think you need to be more bright maybe no you don't you're fabulous the
10:26way you are
10:30Kaylee Mila and Stella were buying into a ritual that they didn't fully understand yet
10:38at the gravel arms hotel the team kicks disco was in full swing and the girls were arriving
10:44radiating youth there's no product that can really give you that
10:51in a calmer part of the hotel I was setting up my stall of anti-aging products to delve further
10:57into the habits of a demographic decades away from their first real wrinkle
11:04and you like elf why use the elf I can't use the elf as well so good why do you
11:10have a skincare routine is it to
11:12look young as well or to stay looking young a little bit and is it so you don't get wrinkles
11:18yeah
11:24do not think you have fabulous skin now that's because of your skin hair yeah yeah I think it like
11:29helps yeah so Carissa if you stopped using the products what do you think might happen so I would
11:35think maybe my skin would get a little more dry and irritated okay I guess when you're using something for
11:43so long like I kind of need it they are hook line and sinker for the packaging for the colors
11:53I mean
11:54look at that this is like this is like sweets and for those skincare brands once you get them at
12:0013
12:01you've got them for life
12:08our aging interventions are starting younger and younger in Ireland there are no legal restrictions
12:14preventing under 18s from accessing Botox fillers or thread lifts just guidelines discouraging their use
12:21I'm really good how are you lovely to meet you guidelines that didn't stop hospital worker Carl
12:27from embracing invasive anti-aging procedures at a shockingly young age I remember turning 16 I was
12:35like oh my god I'm like I'm getting older now you felt that at 16 I felt that at 16
12:41so then I found a clinic
12:44that I knew wouldn't ask for ID so straight in needle in sorry did they make any comment to you
12:51at that
12:51point or can you remember so I remember sitting on the bed and they would point out things about me
12:56like they'd say oh your eyebrows drooping so you should go with threads it was like a metal kind
13:02of little rods that they fed through my eye and like it ripped out my scalp they've kind of had
13:07like
13:08this wire through kind of like fishing wire and at least they just pulled my whole face back and are
13:12the threads coming out the top of your head so this is how I was botched so they were supposed
13:16to
13:16dissolve up here so so you could stay like this but mine never dissolved so I could literally pull
13:22the thread and the eyebrow could like lift stop so bad have you got photos of that by any chance
13:27do you do and look how big my lips are I look like a space writer I literally look like
13:35an alien it was
13:35crazy what made you want to start that young like was it like looking at your friends I think it's
13:42like kind of in the gay scene I think there's like a bit of a basically the fear of aging
13:46more
13:47or less it's like you need to look young why do you need to look young because you don't want
13:52to be
13:52really old looking what are you doing on a monthly basis to keep yourself looking as young as you are
14:01so I get monthly vampire facials profilo which tightens the skin I get botox polynucleotides under my eyes
14:09and skin boosters basically so how much is that costing you a month about 1400 I'd say
14:18sorry what
14:19i mean i want to look like this forever
14:27at 25 carl's cut back on his use of fillers but he's still getting regular botox injections
14:34hey guys how are you how are you
14:37though he's now using clinics that have doctors trained and licensed to inject
14:47and tell me when did you start getting botox six i think i was 17. i actually went to get
14:53my lips
14:53done it was at first and then they told me i need botox and then i went back to check
14:58no it's still
14:58drooping so maybe like treads at 17. like these people should be arrested
15:05i can only imagine the person who injected you definitely i highly doubt was a medic and the fact
15:12that non-medics are injecting they don't know the long-term impact that this you know these things
15:18can have on you can go blind you know you can cause necrosis or death of tissue it's for the
15:24sake of
15:25the pocket you know sometimes if i wasn't a doctor i wouldn't touch anybody's face to be honest can i
15:31ask
15:31you durva do you get botox i do yeah i get botox yeah and what age are you i'm 30
15:36um and when did you
15:37start i started at 25. even 25 seems awfully early to be interfering with such an obviously beautiful
15:47young face and i wondered what level of intervention durva and carl were going to need at 35 at 45.
15:55might the jabs just stop working relax at your age really you should do it um once a year for
16:05botox yeah really yeah once a year not once a month you know because the more you do it right
16:12the more your muscle is going to become weak it's not too soon no it's a small needle anyway i'm
16:18well
16:18able so do you think you could go for six months or a year with no botox god now i
16:26couldn't i actually
16:27couldn't the quicker you get it uh the more chance you have to develop antibodies you'll probably become
16:33quite resistant to both yeah so i feel like i have this already i feel like i have to get
16:38my
16:38botox on quite regularly because i it's wearing off so quick i'd definitely be looking evasive so that's
16:44the case for real cosmetic interventions aren't forever but what is medical science offering to
16:54keep our bodies performing younger as we age there's biology in us that resets the aging clock there is no
17:02law of biology that says we have to grow old and could the fanatical world of the longevity biohackers
17:08hold the secret to forever youth hey here are killed my rate of aging is 0.63 every year i
17:17only age 0.63
17:18three years oh my god
17:27it's not just our faces that can be chemically altered to erase the signs of aging i've literally
17:33found the fountain of youth like chris jenner looks 25 again and it's not because the only thing i'm
17:37trying not to do is not die are these little tills the fountain of youth medical science is also
17:43developing new ways to stop our bodies aging at a deeper cellular level and at trinity college dublin
17:51the world's brightest and best experts in the science of aging are converging for the annual
17:56dublin longevity summit yeah that's me lovely and i was more than ready to discover if science could
18:05on cork my own fountain of youth we have this longevity hype trend fad obviously aging is an
18:13immensely big market there are medicines and medical treatments that can allow us to delay aging
18:21i think people are going to look back and say isn't it amazing the people just withered and died in
18:27the
18:27past they look at it the same way as we look at not having an anesthetic in shock and sympathy
18:33for us
18:34in most countries in europe aging causes over 90 of deaths when you realize this aging process isn't
18:40inevitable i think that's the greatest achievement in the history of our species there's biology in us
18:45that resets the aging clock and it's incredibly profound
18:50the technological advances are mind-blowing you just couldn't even have imagined it 25 years ago
19:00i believe we found the tool that we can use to really rejuvenate cells i can see the path to
19:07profound implications do we need to then classify aging as a disease the mother of all diseases because
19:15the number one risk factor for most disease is how old you are right two-year-olds don't get alzheimer's
19:20disease right break time at the summit and the optimism was intense here were people who seemed
19:28to believe that aging was a medical condition we could eventually cure with drugs and the best therapeutic
19:37intervention is rapamycin it was the first one that was shown to have an effect i mean it's still the
19:41best
19:45rapamycin is made originally by a bacteria on easter island and it was discovered
19:50very serendipitously this drug is used as an immune suppressant and much later it was discovered that
19:57it slows aging when you have a situation where there's not many nutrients around like calorie
20:04restriction or fasting rapamycin sort of phenocopies that state and it puts the cell in the stress
20:10resistant mode at the dose taken as an immune suppressant it has a lot of side effects but if you
20:17take rapamycin say once a week at five milligrams most people don't have side effects did you get
20:22any when you were taking it no no i got it through a doctor somewhere between 10 000 and 100
20:29000
20:29people are taking rapamycin in the u.s you can prescribe drugs off-label i think that it's the wild
20:36west
20:36a bit you should have a medical professional you know monitoring what's going on ideally a lot of
20:42people don't obviously throughout history people have been seeking the fountain of youth and trying
20:49out all kinds of weird quack remedies so that the field has sort of had that reputation to shed as
20:53well
20:54but i think in the last couple of decades we started to get some really serious scientific results
21:01many of the scientists here seem to be excited by the off-label use of rapamycin as a longevity drug
21:10and as summit organizer martin was wrapping his successful longevity thinking
21:14there were two things i was dying to know can i ask you a personal question uh-huh what age
21:21are you
21:22just turned 50 just turned 50. have you taken or used any of the drugs like rapamycin no but i'm
21:29just
21:30going to start i mean if it's used as an organ transplant immune suppressant it's not trivial it's
21:36a very serious kind of impact but they found that if they get the dosing right and if they reduce
21:41it back
21:42it has like astounding longevity effects like what well like 20 30 that's 20 plus years of additional life
21:57all right so do you know what probably the strangest thing about today was you're with
22:01a load of eminent scientists clearly experts in their field like they want to fix aging with medicines and
22:10rapamycin they all seem to be taking rapamycin the thing is none of them looked particularly young
22:15you know they all look their age but they are focused on aging from the inside not really about
22:20what they look like for me aging is a natural part of life for them aging is a disease that
22:27has to be
22:27cured and that's a different way of thinking because the patent for rapamycin expired in 2009
22:36there's no profit in big pharma companies funding expensive trials to have it reclassified as a
22:42longevity drug so for now it's just the longevity science community that take a punt on its benefits
22:53so we know when it comes to healthy aging that the gold standard is diet and exercise but you know
22:59what
22:59people are just tired of hearing that and also because it's hard right and now people
23:05more and more are turning to drugs medicines chemicals some of which are approved and some
23:12which aren't and the real buzzword in the longevity world at the moment are peptides
23:19peptides are amino acids from the same family of chemicals as glp ones generally obtained from
23:26unregulated online sale sites chinese lab made chemicals sold with no medical regulation but making
23:33seductive age reversal claims you haven't noticed peptides are all the rage the gh kq peptide in
23:41my this little bottle of clow is magical it does it all but injectable peptides are not just a us
23:48craze
23:49they're also being embraced by longevity enthusiasts in ireland people like wexford trainer and longevity
23:55coach levi and his 68 year old mom theresa hello hello catherine how's it going levi very welcome
24:03nice to meet you nice to meet you wow this is some setup yeah it's not bad hello theresa you
24:10all right
24:10down there very warm and cozy down here a bit of red light therapy a bit of red light therapy
24:15in the back
24:15end of wexford the back end of wexford the back end of wexford yeah so when did the gym become
24:21more of a
24:22longevity home so i've always been very interested in um the health of the body i'm very interested in
24:29how we can optimize the health of the body obviously look at i did lose my dad um he's only
24:3455 he passed
24:36away of heart disease and he had neurodegenerative disease as well if we can start to catch this stuff
24:42and utilize what's available to us can we maybe improve people's lives and that's my driving force
24:48to why i do what i do and you know my mom as well terrified of losing her and uh
24:53i will do whatever
24:54i can to help her are you a willing participant i am definitely willing a participant teresa can i bring
25:04you in here love so i'm trying to get my head around this whole peptides game he's on it are
25:10you taking
25:10them not yet okay you know it's in the pipeline for me the benefit i've seen from these peptides
25:18myself personally um i think it's a no-brainer so we know glp1 they are peptides insulin is a peptide
25:25they're not illegal but then a lot of the peptides in the wellness and the aging space and the longevity
25:31space are not fda approved like at the moment in europe anyway which is what i can speak on the
25:37regulations are sparse around it we have what's called research grade peptides it is kind of the
25:44wild west you know in a way and it can be you know so many of you asked about my
25:48glow it's this peptide
25:50seriously my skin there's so much talk online and it seems like every influencer everybody is on it
25:56like the glow stack you take your peptides great for your skin and your hair yeah what peptides do is
26:01they give us what we used to have but they are still pharmaceuticals so if you are injecting these
26:06peptides you need to understand what you're doing because you can't just go out and just buy something
26:11off the internet and start sticking needles into yourself and would you be anxious or nervous about
26:16taking it not one bit would you not not at all what levi does is he looks at my bloods
26:22every four months
26:24and then you know when the time is ready then that's when i'm going to we're going to start
26:30i believe these peptides are you know they're going to really keep me i'm going to live until i'm 300.
26:39yes theresa i'm going to be doing a headstand
26:45as sincere as levi obviously is about helping his mom to stay younger for longer using peptides
26:51he's not a medic but in the growing field of regenerative medicine there are doctors who are
26:59experts in the benefits of peptides even if they are a long way from being able to prescribe them
27:05for aging all this talk about peptides which has just blown up all over the internet you are one of
27:11the very few people in the medical profession in ireland really kind of championing these peptides
27:18i spent four years uh doing molecular biology so signal messengers peptides are really up my street
27:25now we've had a lot of really solid research like in the glp and peptides particularly with
27:32zempic and monjaro and wagovi yeah they work well there's no doubt about it but
27:41to translate that into something that is going to make you live longer longevity that isn't actually
27:48true peptides are overhyped unfortunately and peptides also there's a lot of overreach regarding
27:56actually what they can do it's such an easy market to be vulnerable because everybody wants to live
28:02longer and live younger and to keep normal brain function the things that we do know that work
28:08are exercise proper sleep they definitely are associated with longevity per se now it'll probably
28:18catering unfortunately take another generation before we call all the peptide ones so peptides
28:25certainly have the ability to change things but just not yet
28:33in miami florida they take aging to the max the older miami-ites look like they're enjoying life
28:42they look fit relaxed and healthy while the young well they're just obsessed with staying young
28:49how old do i look 31 31 yeah what if i told you i was 38 wow you could look
28:56like me if you ate my diet
28:58here in miami the buzzword amongst young longevity enthusiasts is biohacking
29:07biohackers basically believe that we all have the power within ourselves to stop ourselves aging and they
29:13dedicate their entire life's purpose to this so they simply don't accept that what we would consider
29:19normal aging is going to happen to them and i'm off to meet a miami biohacker who is spending his
29:2530s
29:26obsessively trying not to get old and i'm just wondering if that is a youth well spent
29:37one one one one eight
29:43joe hello how's it going nice to meet you lovely come in thank you this is my residential apartment oh
29:51my goodness holy smokes look at this yes i have a whole nother apartment where i do my biohacking and
29:59it's my office and you know it's okay where i spend my days this is just where i go to
30:04sleep
30:04so how long have you been biohacking since i was uh probably 13. oh my goodness and what age are
30:12you
30:12now 30 almost 39 39 yeah i need to know all your secrets by the end of today look at
30:18this view yeah
30:20it's really nice so 38 39 is your chronological age so then what's your biological age my rate of aging
30:27is 0.63 which every year i only age 0.63 years so what are you doing on a daily
30:35basis to achieve
30:36that i've tried to build my life in a way that most of the things i do don't require excess
30:42time
30:43with supplements or pharmaceuticals or peptides you could stack them you take one on top of the other
30:49and you could take as money as you want so you could take 200 i take 200 in a given
30:55day 200 yeah
30:56everything pharmaceuticals peptides all together it's 200 substances yeah is that is that brian
31:02johnson levels it's more than brian johnson i think he only takes about a hundred
31:08a block away was joe's biohacking apartment where he spends his days studying the results of monthly
31:15blood tests taking pharmaceuticals and supplements to keep his test results within the range of a teenager
31:22look at this oh my god it's so miami i have a package let's see what it is it's probably
31:28a
31:28supplement i get supplements big surprise yeah it's a supplement every day there's some supplement
31:35coming hey come into my apartment joe even employs his own biohacking assistant this is anna this is my
31:43assistant she helps me you keep him on track keep yes basically everything that you will open here
31:51is going to be supplements these are all supplements so this is for one day uh this is this is
31:59one morning
31:59so six yeah this is six days of the morning some days i put in rapamycin this is the drug
32:05that
32:05everyone's talking about yes biohacking circles yep so you're a believer yes yeah i'm going in first
32:13thing i thought was ozempic pen uh that is one of them what are you on ozempic i uh take
32:21micro doses of
32:22ozempic not ozempic the the second generation monjaro or reddit this is the one you're looking for
32:28trisepatide holy shit sorry now what hold on you are taking um monjaro yeah a little bit i'm not
32:38taking it at a dose where i'm going to get weight loss maybe i'll lose one kilo a year people
32:44are
32:44taking high doses of the glp they're losing weight but they're they're reducing their risk for
32:52cardiovascular disease it's causing a lot of longevity benefits as well i have a lot more peptides
32:59i found that these are the two peptides that help me the most okay and um because my mitochondria need
33:07to be stronger and these help my mitochondria that would make me nervous do you know what i mean
33:11something that's not fda approved and i don't know if it's coming out of the same lab as fentanyl
33:15you know what i mean for a good reason i i i understand for me i'm a little more of
33:22a risk taker yeah
33:26all of the peptide stacking that you're doing what is the cost per month for peptides alone it
33:32could be like one or two thousand dollars a month yeah and then you've got the supplements on top of
33:38that uh yeah yeah my whole regimen is quite expensive it's probably like ten thousand dollars a month
33:49none of the lab synthesized peptides joe was injecting have been medically trialed on humans
33:55and his peptide regime was not being medically supervised but the peptides were just the chemical
34:02appetizer sorry look i'm just after is this your day this is my morning so it has an m on
34:10it to
34:10signify that it's just for the morning sorry this goes into one smoothie yep jesus no wonder you need
34:18an assistant are you actually taking the piss out of me now this is not a joke this is all
34:26going into
34:26one smoothie yeah this is biohacking on a level that i just didn't kind of contemplate
34:37i'm at the extreme here right and part of the reason i'm at the extreme is because i have a
34:43lot
34:43of heart disease in my family i want to get rid of that sure so i want to see what
34:48are the frontiers
34:49of biology that we can push what is the frontiers where's the limit and that i keep on probing
34:56so the shake is all this stuff and then i get all my pills and it becomes quite efficient
35:09i hear a lot of pills some of them you can actually chew
35:18i mean
35:23oh lord
35:26hats off buddy it wasn't that long so the pills and this
35:31i can take down in a few minutes two minutes but that doesn't make you want to vomit no
35:35no no no no no i'm fine yeah
35:42joe was treating his body as a chemically charged de-aging experiment
35:47and he was doing the same with his brain lsd causes neurogenesis
35:53it creates new neurons it creates new brain connections
35:57so uh i could take this as a stimulant um just for micro dosing and i'm still very sharp so
36:05this is
36:05a micro dose uh would you like some don't think so i think i'm good i think i'm good what
36:11about the
36:12ketamine i think i'm good on the ketamine as well so you just take a little spray of that too
36:16yeah can you take them together yeah i want to be clear that i don't recommend these things yeah
36:23yeah it's you know it's you have to take specific dosages you got to know what you're doing just
36:29like anything else a little bit of lsd a little bit of lsd a little bit of supplements 200 of
36:35them
36:36you mix it together you have a nice effect yeah you are defeating aging at its core or dying trying
36:48to get me started as a biohacker joe had suggested a trip to nearby fort lauderdale
37:00so is it becoming clear yet where i'm bringing you uh well i think so i mean this says america
37:08to me you've got dominoes here you've got the vape shop here and then right in the middle of it
37:14all you've got the life extension health and wellness market exactly after you go to dominoes
37:18and you vape you need so this is where we're going yeah this is where we're going let's do it
37:28oh my god wow
37:35here was a life extension supermarket where youth comes in pill form
37:42what's this dopamine oh my god that's the happy hormone where's the giant bottle of that
37:50memory protect what's in that the main thing is lithium pretty much
37:56lithium yeah it's given for bipolar but in small doses used for longevity it's only one milligram i take
38:03five milligrams a day of lithium there were chemicals on sale here that you would never find in an irish
38:12health store making claims that supplements in ireland would be prohibited from making
38:18talk to me about the regulation then when it comes to supplements in the states is there none
38:23there's very little regulation and uh under trump there's even less regulation
38:30so so you can buy whatever you want which i personally like because it creates the freedom
38:36to be able to push the boundaries and uh you know what you're doing i i mean i'm somebody who
38:41hasn't
38:42a clue people who don't know what they're doing don't take it well you see if i saw dopamine advantage
38:46i'd be like give me that okay increase my dopamine levels because i would think that it's natural and
38:51it's you know what's gonna so you would get this if you were in the store well i mean yeah
38:59testosterone elite i mean is this actual testosterone like you do not see this on shelves in ireland
39:07steel libido i mean literally anything and everything pms relief estrial what's this
39:15this is active this is actually that we can buy off the shelf wow yeah we have come a long
39:22way from
39:23the old evening primrose oil okay we have everything we got everything needed hey how are you all right
39:32we're just uh extending her lifespan okay then let's find out how much it's going to cost me
39:39to live forever what's your name kwan kwan do you want to guess how many supplements joe takes a day
39:45um joe looks fit and healthy so i'll say like 10 10 10. think mount everest wow now we're gonna
39:54go
39:54just tell her 200. oh wow hello you're taking that investment yes she gets me no she thinks you're
40:00crazy there's a method to the madness okay all righty so the total to extend your life today is 157
40:07.04
40:08i think that's good value to extend your life i think so how many years is it going to give
40:13me
40:14i would say if i you want a real guess yeah six months 32 days
40:24i'm not even kidding
40:28so a limited investment in supplements might buy me a month of extra life
40:34but there is a radical facial surgery that promises over a decade of extra youth
40:41women particularly you know we're not allowed get old anymore no forever 35 yeah
40:47but could a facelift rewind me back to 35
40:51forever beautiful stuff look at that oh god that's very very very visual richard
41:05at 47 i'm intrigued by the possibility that aging is becoming optional while scientists and
41:12medics dive deeper into the core biology of aging the plastic surgeons are perfecting ever more
41:19sophisticated ways to keep us youthful on the surface quiet on the set
41:25in 2025 mammy of all the kardashians kris jenner broke the internet with her brand new face
41:32kris jenner this was surgical rejuvenation that looked nothing like the freakishly stretched
41:41facelifts of old kris jenner suddenly seemed to have morphed into her own daughter
41:53at dublin's matter private hospital irish plastic surgeons are now cutting deeper into
41:59the facial muscle structure for kris jenner like results
42:03here the deep plane facelift is touted as the gold standard
42:08it's major surgery and i was about to find out just how major
42:14so my understanding of a deep plane facelift is instead of actually the old-fashioned way of
42:20pulling and tightening you're going into the muscle on the face is that right so your face has got
42:25like lots of layers so the outside layer is the skin then the next layer is the subcutaneous fat
42:31which is just the fat under the skin the next layer is this thing called the smas which is like
42:35used to manipulate the face and then the next layer is called the nominate layers it's a glide plane
42:39and you go down to the glide plane you're correcting where the problem is so we're going to create
42:45volume where it should be we're going to redefine the neck and we're going to give you a nice sharp
42:50angle
42:53fabulous how popular are these deep plane facelifts becoming i think it's nearly exponential and it's
43:00only because of social media and what's the youngest patient 44 44 i think there's a trend in ireland at
43:09the moment that ladies that are are older are getting it done yeah and they're getting a great result um
43:16but i think it will slowly become a younger person surgery because if we could do if we could do
43:22that
43:22here he goes here he goes if we could do that and that with you do you mean it's it's
43:27fab you'd have
43:29to do your gland as well though what what's wrong with my gland it's interesting though isn't it that
43:36we're now talking facelifts at 40 and 50 women particularly it's the pressure you know we're not
43:42allowed get old anymore no forever 35 yeah that's that's it yeah today plastic surgeon dr richard hansen
43:52was performing a deep plane face and neck lift on a patient in her early 60s this operation takes over
43:59five hours if you're going to faint fall backwards
44:10so let's have a look in here because this is cool so there's our cuff there so this is what
44:15we cut okay
44:17this is our deep plane here so this is our glide plane see now this is really cool see here
44:22yeah
44:23see the white little stringy thing they're all the nerves that supply your facial expression so if you
44:29damage them you can't smile but if it hasn't been destroyed with tons and tons of laser and tons and
44:36tons of filler we can just push this away look so we shouldn't be doing lasers or fillers we should
44:41just
44:41all be getting facelift with caution but nothing beats surgery this is lovely beautiful stuff look at
44:48that oh god that's very very very visual richard that's your deep plane well i i wouldn't describe it as
44:59i mean it is amazing but it is full on i mean and it's funny i'm totally fine looking into
45:06the anatomy
45:07but it's when i go around and i see a face you know there's a person behind all of this
45:14it's so full on but this is what's going to make her happy what we're going to do is we're
45:19going
45:19to try and bring this up into this position like that so in a couple of minutes we're going to
45:24take
45:24about 10 or 15 years off six months ago dr hansen performed this same surgery on 55 year old dublin
45:34dentist Ciara and i was keen to meet her you look absolutely glorious thank you very much you really
45:43look amazing i feel it my story is i'm 55 years of age and i work out a lot in
45:50the gym i look after
45:52myself i eat healthily i was just getting very disappointed with the results of botox and fillers
45:58and stuff like that because i'd lost a lot of volume off the center of my face and my eyes
46:04looked quite
46:05sunken and that's all i could see when i looked in the mirror and i wanted to do something that
46:11would
46:11make me look fresher and younger because i felt young inside but my face didn't look young have you
46:17any scarring four months in not really it's a big decision and yeah okay it's gone under the knife
46:26but i just look like the way i used to look and when i look in the mirror i look
46:31like me
46:32whereas before i didn't know who this old woman was appearing in front of me
46:42back in the matter private theater one richard and his team were finishing today's deep plane face
46:48and neck lift surgery this is it so it's the neck the jawline going in angle and the mid face
46:57and that
46:58only just get better and better with time amazing great
47:06in five and a half hours you've rewound the clock 15 years
47:10it's good isn't it financially what are we talking in north america or no you here here in the matter
47:16you so i think it depends on whether you're going to get there's like you get eyes you could get
47:21brow
47:21you could get face you could get neck so i think you're probably talking like 10 of what it would
47:26cost
47:26north america really yeah there's a guy in the uk he's 100 grand there's a guy that i know in
47:32st louis
47:33he's between two and three hundred thousand there's a guy in new york who's 200 000 and they're just
47:38they're booked up a year in advance so it's the only way they can control their appointments is by
47:43upping their price so we're not there yet see i was about to say you're not selling yourself short then
47:50no not yet not yet not yet but by the time it comes for me to have one yeah you'll
47:54have to sell your
47:54house
47:59i was pretty sure i'd never sell my house for a facelift but i felt the need to talk to
48:05someone
48:05who was more certain fashion stylist kathy o'connor is radiant in her 60s with zero surgical help
48:14and she's established women unbranded a movement of older irish women rejecting the beauty industry's
48:21idea of what our faces and bodies need to look like first you were young then you were middle-aged
48:26now you were old now you are wonderful
48:31i'm 65 i am really happy to have wrinkles i'm i don't want to be frozen faced who i am
48:39in this world
48:40is not about this it's about who i am in this world let's talk about the fear of getting old
48:47and
48:48becoming invisible let's talk about the pressure that comes with trying to stay young so i think
48:54one of the challenges with that catherine is the depiction of age so what we have just in popular
48:59culture is we've got a glut of the 20 30 somethings are there visible doing it grooving being active all
49:04that kind of thing the only portrayal we see of age is advanced old age and it's a very bleak
49:09picture who wants to walk towards that door and so the effect that it can happen on many women is
49:15that they feel invisible they feel invisible in the world and as bad as that is catherine what's
49:20really appalling is when they are invisible to themselves when they look at themselves in the
49:25mirror and are only criticizing themselves isn't that the panacea for a lot of people it's like but
49:31never aging but the notion that we can stop from a visual point of view from psychological and just go
49:38i'm digging my heels in i'm going this far and no further it's a very sad outcome for a life
49:44and
49:45and the facelifts now are called the forever 35 facelift that's what they're called god
49:53rather than that connection to the past and wishing i looked younger i wish i was that person there's a
50:00whole new chapter that can be written about the joys of getting older and there's a reason why we live
50:06so far past our fertile years is because we are the keepers of the flame the revolution starts here
50:13yes oh my god i never want to go and see dr gosh it again until six months time
50:26okay sharp scratch if i wanted to get serious about the aging process i was going to need to dive
50:33deeper
50:34into my own dna a lot of blood in there for a lot of tests and in episode two i
50:41enter the expensively
50:42high-end world of the longevity clinics okay so we're off see the blood come out
50:48and things take a sinister turn glyphosate it's a nasty one can put you at a higher risk of cognitive
50:55problems or cancers oh god could the blood of the young really be used to rejuvenate the old how many
51:03times have you had young plasma injected into yourself three times and more in the future we
51:11believe that all of life is sacred and what happens when the obsession with eternal youth becomes a
51:18religion mankind's going to develop the technology to live forever and we'll have a whole lot of fun
51:54perspective on what happens when the emergency is a lack of fulfillment in the world
51:55Amen.
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