Since ancient times, "eternal life" has been the delusion of a few. When you begin eternal life, your son will physically kill you.
"Chinese Entrepreneur" reporter Tan Liping
Edited by Mina
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On December 9~10, the "21st Annual Meeting of Chinese Business Leaders" sponsored by China Entrepreneur magazine was grandly held. In the "Theme Sharing" session held on the first day, Yin Ye, CEO of Huada Group, gave a speech on the topic of "100 years old or immortal".
From Yin Ye's speech, you will gain the following key takeaways:
1. China's longevity hometown has Bama, Rugao, Jinping, but if you talk about the area of tens of millions of people, you will find that China's longevity hometown is actually northern, upper, deep, and wide, after all, we still have to help extend it through medical conditions in the middle and later stages of life.
2. Can the current life sciences allow Chinese to live to 100 years old healthily? We can responsibly tell everyone that if there is no major black swan event, children born in this century can have a life expectancy of 100 years old.
3. To stay busy, people are not too afraid of being busy, but they are very afraid of being idle.
4. What we need is accessible precision medicine, and we can't turn precision medicine into elite medicine, so that life is unequal, if the rich live to be 200 years old, and the poor live to live 20 years old, this must be a situation that we want to avoid.
5. You can't let people not get tumors, but you must let people not get middle and advanced tumors, and the key is to prevent more than cure.
6. "Technical obtuseness" is the biggest challenge now, we should give more opportunities to young people, in the scientific research circle we call "respect the young and love the old".
7. I have a negative attitude towards immortality, and I am committed to the healthy longevity of each person, after all, I see that human beings continue in groups, not in an individual way.
The following is a transcript of Yin Ye's speech (with deletions):
The post-00s can live to be 100 years old
The topic I'm going to talk about today is "100 years or eternal life." Longevity is a topic of great concern to everyone, and we have begun to pay more and more attention to its breadth, temperature, and depth when discussing the length of life, and I would like to add a "richness", hoping that we can progress with more interesting souls every day.
First of all, if you don't have a birth certificate, can you find out your exact age through a series of tests, such as a tube of blood and a hair pluck? There is no way to accurately predict how old an adult will be today, that is, to tell everyone that in fact, everyone's social age is not the same as everyone's life age. This plus or minus can be 20 years old. Some people are already 40 years old, like 60 years old, some people are 70 years old, and they may look like they are in their 40s, and our inner state is very different.
Further down, more and more studies now show that the age of each of our organs is also inconsistent. I hope that when you do your work wholeheartedly, you can also take care of your body wholeheartedly, because these two things are very different, and you must take care of yourself. Don't be "biased", people with particularly good gastrointestinal function have a particularly heavy burden on the liver, so the whole should be maintained in a relatively balanced state.
What's more, a lot of people ask me how to maintain my health? The real way to maintain health actually doesn't cost much or nothing. For example, you can adjust your mouth, you can open your legs, you can sleep well, and you should do good deeds. The most important thing, no matter what, you have to be optimistic, you have to be enlightened, just like today's guest, Mr. Cai Lei, just like Mr. Hawking, they may have long ceased to be healthy in the secular sense, but they have ushered in their own rebirth and renaissance, ushered in a real harvest in their hearts.
There is a topic that everyone is very concerned about, where am I going to live the rest of my life and go to retire? We are looking for the "hometown of longevity", China's longevity hometown has Bama, Rugao, Jinping, everyone can say a lot, but if I talk about the area of tens of millions of people, you will find that China's longevity hometown is actually northern, upper, deep, and wide, after all, we still have to help us pull back through medical conditions in the middle and late stages of life. If life expectancy reaches 80 years, the last 10 years will indeed show the importance of big cities, and there will be better health care, education, including social security systems, and better ways of communicating with each other. Therefore, why the cost of living in big cities is more expensive, there is naturally a reason why it is expensive.
The minimum life expectancy in the north, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou has exceeded 80 years old, so is it still true that "life is rare for 70 years"? If someone leaves at the age of 70 today, how do you feel like "dying young." To a large extent, human lifespan is getting longer and longer, and we are indeed the longest-lived generation of Homo sapiens in history, and we are also technologically close to immortality, whether it is physical immortality or conscious immortality.
Can the current life sciences make Chinese live to 100 years old in a healthy way? We can responsibly tell everyone that if there are no major problems, children born in this century can most likely have a life expectancy of 100 years old. In 1949, the life expectancy of Chinese was 39 years, in 1930 the global life expectancy was 31 years, and we can generally live to more than 80 years old today. In 2017, Japan already had a "Life Centennial Era Concept Promotion Room", which means that if you think about living another 60 years after retirement, or at least another 40 years, how should you live?
I also often joke that after graduating from elementary school, you are still having a class reunion 90 years ago, what is the most beautiful boy at that time? It's not that you look good, maybe you can walk in by yourself and be very powerful, so you still have to "live a long time" in everything.
What preparations should be made for life at the age of 100?
First of all, long-term exercise, we must keep your bones, muscles, especially small muscles, in a young state; second, to stay busy, people are actually not busy to death, only idle death, Mao Daqing said a wonderful passage two days ago, people are depressed, people are busy and anxious, I think I still choose anxiety, anxiety at least makes me feel that I still contribute to this society; at the same time, make more close friends, everyone must understand that life has a confidant, enough. Fourth, lifelong learning, because of the rapid progress of science and technology, if you don't learn Xi Xi, you can't do it, and I can't wait to learn Xi now until I am 60, 70, or 80 years old, many people ask me how to prevent Alzheimer's disease, I say that learning a foreign language and starting to learn a musical instrument, especially the musical instrument will use your different brain regions, which will make you have a longer time to resist the risk of degenerative diseases of the central nervous system.
This last point is important for all of us, save money in time. Because we used to retire at the age of 60, we were prepared to see God at the age of 65, but today we have to prepare for retirement at the age of 60 or even at the age of 100. What to do? You have to save money, don't have too much debt, don't have too many thunderstorms.
Today, the hottest concept in the field of life sciences is called "life escape velocity". In other words, today's technology will allow us humans to live longer and longer until we escape the limits of death, and this concept is very creative.
10 years ago, we thought that 120 years old was the upper limit, and today we have been discussing whether it is impossible to be 200 years old? Sergey Young, the founder of the Longevity Vision Fund, has just written a book "The Age Revolution", how to live to 200 years old in a 25-year-old body, which is something that many of us yearn for, as long as you are healthy, who doesn't want to live a little longer?
Wang Jian, the chairman of BGI, made a tablet for himself when he was 60 years old, with the words "1954-2074" engraved on it. This was what we knew 10 years ago, because the Guinness Book of World Records recorded the longest person to live was 120 years old, and he basically extrapolated it from the limit of mammalian lifespan. If you ask Mr. Wang what to do? He will say, "Live well, take good care of yourself, live long, die fast", and our language style of Mr. Wang is like this, and those who are familiar with him know that we change it to a nice sentence, "live well and long, walk fast and peacefully". Gently I left, just as I came gently, waved my sleeves and went, trying not to waste health care too much.
We now want to have more children, but we are seeing an aging population and a declining birthrate. In this sense, if you ask him how to do it, he still has to use black technology. For example, measuring genes, storing cells, regulating microflora, and controlling emotions. Non-invasive blood sampling during sampling, using "magnetism" when adjusting emotions, this picture is Lao Wang doing a "brain magnetic detection", because the geomagnetic field is 10,000 times higher than the cerebral magnetism, if you have insomnia, in addition to using sleeping pills, you can also try to adjust your brain waves, and use physical forms to help you sleep. Regarding the intestinal flora, we also have a special intestinal flora product for Lao Wang, which is BGI's own probiotic "Miurda" brand.
Today is a tribute to long-termism, ask the medical care present, our industry is different from the Internet industry, you may not see it in 10 years, from the beginning of scientific discovery, technological invention, industrial development, to do this set through, we need a longer time, to have more patience, life, biotechnology should be the real long-termism.
"Prevention is better than cure"
Of course, there are a lot of myths along the way, and I never doubt that humans will be able to achieve the above technology. This morning, you saw that gene editing therapy has swiped the screen, and the gene editing awarded by the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020 was officially approved by the US FDA today, which can treat diseases such as thalassemia.
The only problem is that one case costs $2.2 million. So whenever I hear about this technology, I think if this cost can't go down, it's not Hope but Nope. What we need is accessible precision medicine, we can't turn precision medicine into elite medicine, let life be unequal, if the rich live to be 200 years old, and the poor live to live 20 years, this is a situation that we must avoid.
Therefore, the concept we should promote is called "prevention is better than cure". For example, smallpox, humans don't know how to treat smallpox today, but we have said goodbye to smallpox through a large-scale medical vaccination. For example, you can't let people avoid tumors, but through early screening and early diagnosis, you can prevent middle and advanced tumors.
Today we would like to pay tribute to long-termism, and I hope that I can hold another 50-year annual meeting of Chinese entrepreneur leaders with my good friends here today. I hope you can remember these words, a word is called "prevention is greater than cure", since the founding of the People's Republic of China, our health plan has been adjusted countless times, but prevention has never changed.
There are also three sentences: the first sentence is that rare patients are born to "normal people". Because no one is genetically perfect, each of us, including me, carries at least 7 to a dozen mutations that are harmful to disabling or lethal, and the key is that your partner's mutations can't be with you, so our genetic testing during pregnancy is very important.
In the second sentence, there are no sudden tumors, only sudden cancers. For example, colorectal cancer and cervical cancer can take more than ten years from the initial appearance of a polyp, adenoma, or precancerous lesion to an uncontrollable middle and advanced tumor. Comrades over the age of 45 who have not yet done a gastrointestinal endoscopy, please, do it once, don't feel busy. If you don't rest, your body will "rest" you one day.
The third sentence is that I have been worried recently, what should I do if there are so many respiratory viruses now? I would like to say, if the cause is unknown, do not use antibiotics indiscriminately. For example, for mycoplasma pneumonia, it is useless to eat cephalosporin, and if it is a viral infection, antibiotics are useless at all, all of which point to precision medicine and the need for universal benefits.
Aging is just a psychological concept
I especially want to tell you that aging is actually a psychological concept, only if you feel that you are old, you are really old, the so-called "old", not the beginning of gray hair on the head, the key is that there are no new ideas in the brain.
If you play with technology, you will understand that technically you are really old when you are old. For example, you will take the technology we are born with for granted, the technology you encounter at the age of 20 and try it happily, the technology you encounter at the age of 40 and be skeptical, and the technology you encounter at the age of 60 will think that it is all "heretical theory". Sometimes technology hasn't changed, but it's our age that prevents us from embracing new technologies.
In other words, "technical obtuse" is the biggest challenge now, and we should give more opportunities to young people, in the scientific circle, we call it "respect the young and love the old", respect young people. You will see the 60-year-old Nobel Prize winner, and the reward is his 30-year-old achievement, so be sure to give young people more opportunities to speak, remember that the world is yours and mine, and in the final analysis, it is those who are in good health and live a long life.
Finally, remember to "live a long time". Today we are paying tribute to long-termism, what is long-termism, how can there be long-termism if you are not there? Everyone says can I not die, I want to say "eternal life" since ancient times, the delusion of a few people, you must know that without death, every birth is a tragedy.
I have a negative attitude towards immortality, and I am committed to living a healthy and long life, after all, I see that human beings continue in groups, not individually. Someone really called me and asked, can you find a way to make me live to be three or five hundred years old? I later advised him like this: When you start eternal life, your son will kill you by physical means, and we have transgressed such things in history, such as the prince's uprising, there are too many things, so what we should pass on and continue is not the bloodline, but the context.
What I want to say is the real death of a person, not that you are no longer on this earth, but that no one will remember you at the end. The Si people have passed away, but the context is immortal. Is Qu Yuan gone? Is Li Bai gone? Is Su Dongpo gone? Is Confucius gone? No, when they were alive, they didn't expect them to live in everyone's hearts. "There is virtue in the Tai, followed by meritorious service, followed by words, although it has not been abandoned for a long time, this is immortal", this sentence tells us that we should convey the context to a wider range of people in a broader way, I think this kind of cultural context is immortal, is what we should really pursue.
Human beings are easy to be arrogant, we often overestimate the near term and underestimate the long term, of course, we are already the primate of all things, as if no one is our opponent, but after the invention of the automobile, human beings can no longer outrun machines. If you are familiar with the history of evolution, you will find that it is the higher intelligence that controls the Earth, not a specific species. For example, humans, I have never worried about our silicon-based life today thinking like humans, I am especially worried about our humans performing like robots, after all, as far as I know, only humans will carry out massacres of the same species.
In the past, we knew the world, we controlled the body, and we controlled the demons, which corresponded to the origin of our universe, the origin of life, and the origin of consciousness, so what we have to study is to control matter, control genes, and control consciousness, and today, because of the rise of AI, we still have to prevent one thing, the rise of silicon-based or non-carbon-based life, are human beings really ready?
If you firmly believe that the emergence of intelligence and love is the result of the accumulation of human neurons, and we see that the training set of AI comes from human civilization, then what we should do now is to make the code ethical, let the code have love, and strengthen silicon-based life to implant the brilliance of human nature, and each of us should ensure that science and technology are upward and good. Those who do not forget their original intentions must always be.