A cure for Ageing……….

1. What problem is David Sinclair approaching this problem? (What is his background?)

2. Does he believe studying yeast cells can provide answers to ageing? Why or why not?

3. What were a couple of the motivating factors that led him to study ageing?

4. What does David say about the increasing number of senior citizens (economically?)

5. Does David believe that ageing is natural?

6. David claims 99% of all research is devoted to what three diseases?

7. What does David belong is WRONG with studying individual diseases?

8. Is the rate of ageing increasing or decreasing and how does this relate to health costs for seniors?

9. What happens to cells as they grow older (with regard to genes)

10. How can this process be reversed?

11. Does David support the mutation theory of ageing or epigenetic theory?

12. What does David claim Sirtuins do in the body?

13. How does David claim Sirtuins are secreted (naturally) in the body? (What two activities can we do to release them)

14. Why did David want to stop practicing science?

15. What is the status of his research today?