Longevity by Design
Longevity by Design
Gil Blander PhD
What Houses, Garbage, and Trucks Teach Us About Aging with Dr. Uri Alon
1 hour 4 minutes Posted Mar 28, 2026 at 10:00 am.
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In this episode of Longevity by Design, host Dr. Gil Blander sits down with Dr. Uri Alon, Professor at Weizmann Institute of Science. They explore a systems view of aging that treats longevity as a solvable model, not a grab bag of disconnected theories. Uri explains aging with a simple story: houses make garbage, trucks remove it, and the village has a threshold for how much damage it can handle. In the body, “garbage” can include damaged and senescent cells, “trucks” can include immune cle...