place to begin is with barbara de grey in san francisco he's a bio medical journal columnist who believes that the first humans who will live to be a thousand have already been born. they may already even be in middle age like me. i drive down to the town of mountain view in silicon valley it's home to the sense research foundation which degree co-founded the research findings are disputed in scientific circles but they're based on solid scientifically recognized data. here. but i still think it's quite likely that the first person to live to one thousand is in middle age or maybe even a little older i think that the first cohort in other words people born in a given year who are mostly live to one thousand probably in their twenty's or thirty's now or something like that oh work is focused on what we like to call