X-Prize Healthspan:
The Inside Story
Across the world, scientists are beginning to question one of medicine’s oldest assumptions – that ageing cannot be treated.
For all of history we’ve accepted that the older we get, the sicker we get. Despite huge advances in medicine and healthcare, we still view ageing as untreatable and inevitable. While we’re living longer than we ever have, most people spend their final decade battling with chronic age-related diseases. But perhaps humanity is about to cheat that destiny…
This film follows five teams at the very cutting edge of health extending therapies. They’ve been brought together by a competition with the largest prize fund ever offered. The XPrize for Healthspan will award 101 million dollars to the team who show the most remarkable solution to the brief of extending healthy years by at least a decade.
This documentary offers unique access to innovators and scientists from Tokyo to San Diego who are working on solutions as varied as bio-tech, gene therapy, herbal healing, lifestyle hacking and drug discovery powered by AI. These are the people who are actively working to defeat old age. The documentary invites you into an explosive time in medicine, as one of the great givens, suffering in old age, is being radically upended.