Elon Musk Weighs In On '100 Is The New 60' Human Lifespan Claim

For years now, some of the world's wealthiest people have been striving to find a workaround to a simple truth of life: death. To quote David Clement-Davies, “Everything Dies. That is the law of life -- the bitter unchangeable law."

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos invested in an anti-aging company called Altos Labs in 2021. The company is intent on reversing the aging process, pursuing a method of biological reprogramming that turns old cells young. 

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Google co-founder Larry Page launched Calico Labs in 2013, a company whose mission is to "better understand the biology that controls aging and lifespan … and we want to use the knowledge we gain to discover and develop interventions that enable people to live longer and healthier lives."

And there is also Lineage Cell Therapeutics, a biotech company working on solutions to "either replace or support cells that are dysfunctional or absent due to degenerative disease."

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International Market Analysis Research (IMARC), a market analysis company, said recently that the anti-aging market was worth nearly $70 billion as of 2022. By 2028, IMARC expects the sector to be worth nearly $100 billion. 

With the sector growing and technology advancing, Peter Diamandis, the founder of the XPrize Foundation and Singularity University, thinks that human lifespans are on the verge of jumping a significant margin. 

"We are edging closer toward a dramatically extended healthspan -- where 100 is the new 60," he tweeted. "What will you create, where will you explore, and how will you spend your time if you are able to add an additional 40 healthy years to your life?"

Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter and CEO of Tesla, disagreed with Diamandis. 

"We seem to be leveling off with a mid-80-year lifespan," he said. "Are you aware of something presently that changes this outcome?"

We seem to be leveling off with a mid 80 year lifespan. Are you aware of something presently that changes this outcome?— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 11, 2023

Life expectancy, according to the World Health Organization, increased from 66.8 years in 2000 to 73.4 years in 2019. Healthy life expectancy jumped from 58.3 to 63.7 during that same time period.

The CDC found that in 2021, total U.S. life expectancy fell from 77 years in 2020 to 76.4 years. 

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