Science Friction's video: Real Immortality Pt 1 Doctor Who Season 8: Science Friction Ep 31

The Doctor, of Doctor Who, has been alive for over 2,000 years. Who knows what age Peter Capaldi’s Twelfth Doctor might reach in Season 8? Unfortunately, humans could never live that long. Immortality is just something in television and comic books … Or is it? Find out in the first episode of my Real Immortality, Science Friction series. Check out the Science Friction Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/sciencefrictionsuperheroes And follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rustyward Live Forever! Salon http://www.salon.com/2013/08/18/live_forever_can_science_deliver_immortality/ Researchers Disagree on How to Live a Long Life, Scientific American http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/researchers-disagree-about-how-to-extend-human-lifespan/ Short People May Live Longer, ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/living-longer-people-lived-past-114-escaped-alzheimers/story?id=15282777&page=2 Turtles May Hold the Secret to a Long Life, io9 http://io9.com/5618046/the-mystery-of-why-turtles-never-grow-old---and-how-we-can-learn-from-it Dying For A Long Life, Nature http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110330/full/news.2011.193.html Extending Life in Mice, NIH http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2786175/ Calorie Restriction in Humans, NIH http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12936916 Calorie Restriction in Primates, Nature http://www.nature.com/news/calorie-restriction-falters-in-the-long-run-1.11297 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DhEssy3NWw