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\u201cLongevity\u201d \u2014 a buzzy catchall for the quest for a longer life \u2014 is having a moment. Tech titans like Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos are spending billions to fund research into how to slow aging. Celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and Hailey Bieber are touting peptide use. And the world\u2019s most powerful authoritarian leaders are jumping on the bandwagon too.<\/p>\n

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Last fall, a hot mic caught Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping gabbing \u2014 through a translator \u2014 about how organ replacement may soon allow people to live to 150 or older. The conversation caught the attention of Bojan Pancevski, the Wall Street Journal\u2019s chief European political correspondent. He had been curious about Putin\u2019s obsession with health for a long time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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According to Pancevski, Putin is \u201cquite serious about his issues. So I decided to look up and see what he was talking about. It turned out he was actually referencing a state program.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Pancesvki\u2019s reporting journey led to a viral article on Putin\u2019s $26 billion longevity program. Pancesvki talked to Today, Explained<\/em> co-host Noel King about how Putin\u2019s scientists plan to replace organs (pity the pigs), the role Putin\u2019s daughter plays, and the long history of Russian leaders pursuing immortality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Below is an excerpt of their conversation, edited for length and clarity. There\u2019s much more in the full podcast, so listen to Today, Explained wherever you get podcasts, including Apple Podcasts, Pandora, and Spotify.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The $26 billion is money being spent on this longevity project. And one of the things it\u2019s being spent on, as you said, is organ replacement. Where do the poor pigs fit in here? Tell me what happened.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The mini pigs. Yeah, that\u2019s a bit creepy. Poor little mini pigs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Essentially, there are two ways they\u2019re looking to achieve organ replacement for humans. One of them is 3D printing. I think everyone by now has heard of 3D printing \u2014 they can print a glass, a glove, even a whole house. But there are also 3D printers that print biological tissue, and the Russians are hoping to print organs quite soon. The idea is you print an organ in the lab and implant it into a human being \u2014 say, lungs, a liver, or even a heart. That\u2019s the aspiration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The second thing is the mini pigs. They are genetically close to humans in some ways, and they are genetically modified as well. They\u2019re growing organs in these mini pigs and then implanting them into human beings. I don\u2019t think people who get organs like that live very long \u2014 for various reasons, the body rejects the organs. But it is a technique that is actually quite promising. It\u2019s not a fantasy. Other countries, notably China, are doing this as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You also wrote that Vladimir Putin loves a \u201creverse sauna.\u201d What is this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He loves a cryo chamber. A cryo chamber is basically a room like a sauna, but the exact opposite, because it\u2019s extremely cold. I think it\u2019s minus 170 [degrees] Fahrenheit, if I\u2019m not mistaken.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What he does is, he strips naked, walks in, and stands there for a few minutes in that horrible cold. I discussed this with the former chancellor of Austria, Sebastian Kurz, who visited Putin in the Kremlin. During the conversation, Putin just brought this up and talked about it for quite a while.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kurz, who at the time was just over 30 years old \u2014 I think he was the world\u2019s youngest leader \u2014 was listening to this, and he told me later, \u201cThat was weird.\u201d Kurz said, \u201cWe were here to talk politics, and then suddenly he started talking about health and longevity and how you should use this reverse sauna.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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They\u2019re looking into how to slow down or even stop the actual aging process within human cells. They\u2019re looking into peptides. Again, something very familiar \u2014 I think RFK Jr. is very big on peptides.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Putin had one longevity guru who was a geriatric doctor. He was a very esteemed professor of medicine, and he had been looking into peptides for many decades, even back in the Soviet days. He was a peptide pioneer. When asked in an interview, \u201cWhat is your research? How does it relate to Putin?\u201d, he said the idea is to prolong the life of a leader who is so important that if he were to die, the country would be thrown into a crisis. That\u2019s how he saw his mission. He also said that people are programmed to live to 120 years old, and he quoted the Old Testament of the Bible as his source for that.<\/p>\n

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It was interesting for a well-credentialed scientist and professor to quote the Bible as a source of medical knowledge. But the thing is…he then died when he turned 77. He didn\u2019t quite reach the age he prescribed for himself \u2014 the age I guess he was hoping Putin might reach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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After the early demise of that guy, Putin had to find another longevity guru. Now he\u2019s got a guy who\u2019s much more focused on the mini pigs and the 3D printing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I was genuinely impressed to learn that Vladimir Putin\u2019s daughter is involved in this. She is a legit scientist, yeah?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She\u2019s a doctor. Her name is Maria Vorontsova. She is an endocrinologist; she looks into glands and the endocrine system. And she has received quite a substantial grant from one of these state programs to work on longevity research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Putin has recruited his own family members and scientists he really trusts to work on this issue. It is very close to home for him, which shows it\u2019s something deeply important to him as a leader.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Russia is pretty much a military dictatorship nowadays. He can commandeer the resources of the state the way he likes. Obviously, he\u2019s decided this is a subject that merits a lot of research, a lot of funding, and input from people he truly trusts, including his own daughter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And to your point, Vladimir Putin is not the first Russian autocrat to try to live forever, is he?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Not at all. I was surprised to learn while researching my article that Russia is kind of the cradle of modern longevity science. Going back to Joseph Stalin, the dictator of the Soviet Union \u2014 he had a longevity guru himself. That guru organized what seems to be the world\u2019s first longevity conference back in the late \u201920s or early \u201930s. It happened in Kyiv, in today\u2019s Ukraine. That guy also claimed in his medical work that people will be living up to 140 years of age. And that guy, too, unfortunately, died at age 65.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It seems to be a trend among these longevity gurus that they don\u2019t really reach the biblical age. I didn\u2019t include this in my article because I couldn\u2019t find hard evidence for it, but there are anecdotal stories about Stalin being very angry about his longevity guru dying young. He didn\u2019t like the sound of that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Bad look. Alright, so Vladimir Putin is spending a lot of Russian money on this project. It may work, it likely will not work, but let\u2019s say it does work. Let\u2019s say there are some real scientific advances that come out of this project. Is Putin going to share?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If Vladimir Putin were to find the source of eternal youth, obviously he\u2019d be hogging it for himself first, and for his family or the elite. But eventually, these things trickle down. It\u2019s worth remembering that Putin is extremely concerned about the demographics of his country, and the demographics were awful to begin with. Life expectancy for a Russian male is 68 years. That\u2019s very, very low for an industrial nation. It\u2019s terrible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On top of that, there is this extremely lethal war he started and is waging against Ukraine, and it\u2019s not going well for him or for anyone. There\u2019s a bit of a macabre irony here: He\u2019s trying to prolong the lifespan of a nation that he has dragged into this incredibly damaging and deadly war. He\u2019s trying to somehow undo something that he\u2019s done himself.<\/p>\n

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