How To Live Longer? Venki Ramakrishnan's 'Three-Factor Combination' That Results In Healthier Life
Venki Ramakrishnan said that in the last ten years, there have been more than 3 lakh papers devoted to ageing, and 700 startups with billions invested in anti-ageing research.
A question that has long puzzled scientists, driving years of research and investments and yet remained one of the biggest mysteries—Why do humans die? In order to explore and subject and the science of ageing, Venki Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize winner and former President of the Royal Society, spoke during the session 'The Science Of Ageing' at ABP Network's Ideas of India 2025.
The award-winning biologist explored on the reasons behind death among organisms in natural biology, the ongoing research to prolong death and how can we live a healthy, if not a longer life.
Venki Ramakrishnan said that the limit of our natural lifespan of humans is 110-112 years old and added that the number of centenarians is growing.
"The number of centenarians, that is people who lived over the age of hundred, is actually growing. This is because more and more people are reaching about eighty and enough of them survive and so there are more survivors," Ramakrishnan said.
"But the number of people living above the age of 110 is not growing and that's suggest more sort of a hard limit to our natural biology. But just because there is a hard limit to our biology doesn't mean that we won't be able to our natural biology," he said, adding that it's more likely that we would age more healthily as we get older.
Speaking on ageing, he said that it is the accumulation of changes and damage that leads to increased dysfunction over time. He further said that in the last ten years, there have been more than 3 lakh papers devoted to ageing, and 700 startups with billions invested in anti-ageing research.
While exploring the ongoing research on ageing and the quest for a 'quick' solution for anti ageing, Ramakrishnan also mentioned some of the practices to live a healthy life.
"It is important to have friends and be part of the community and not be isolated. People with a sense of purpose, even in old age, those people tend to live longer than people without a sense of purpose," he said.
Ramakrishnan stressed on a good diet, good sleep and exercise, a combination of which is likely to result in less stress and better health.
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