Name: Dr. Max More | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #404
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Dr. Max More | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #404

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theovanstor.com today's guest is a man of science he has a doctorate in
philosophy from ucla and he's most
known for his work in cryonics and if you're wondering what cryonics is well it's
basically that
he freezes your body when you die in hopes that they will be able to bring you
back to life in the future
it's a fascinating world to learn about i think you're gonna love it i did we
had a great conversation
about life and death and the afterlife today's guest is dr max
dr max moore do i call you a doctor is that
oh i insist no no no no call me max okay okay um so yeah you were saying you
didn't sleep that good
last night yeah i don't know what happened it was uh i get i get problems with
congestion and and um
i've got sciatic nerve damage so sometimes my foot is numb i had both of those
last night
and uh i took a sleepy pill which shouldn't last more than four hours and that
didn't work after
an hour and a half i took another one and that was probably a mistake oh yeah
that's always when you
get that double up you know yeah but it shouldn't it shouldn't have kept me
sleep at that time so i
was gonna get up at 7 30 get some work done and then i get the call it's 10 o'clock
and i go oh my god
so i wish i could have around about uh 15 minutes or so 20 minutes well we're
glad you made it in man
it's interesting that you didn't get much sleep but that you're kind of like
the eternal sleep guy
you know like um i just want to preface for our audience so people always like
talk you always hear
about like living forever people are always like i'm gonna live you know i'd
love to how do we you know
and people are always like well you can get frozen you know you know you can
get frozen like um
you know they always say different people that are frozen and like kirby puck
it's frozen or um you
know walt disney's fro you know there's that company you can get frozen right
you can hear you
can always hear that right people always hear that just like in like uh just
human interaction societal
chatter but that's actually what you do that's your world that's what i do i
will have to come back
to a couple of things you mentioned about walt disney about freezing okay uh
some of those stuff
but yeah that's what we do cryonics right cryonics not to be confused with cryogenics
okay so let's
start there let's start there so what is cryonics so we can get it cryonics is
essentially the
preservation of people at the point of legal death not the same as biological
death uh and
to very simplify the process that we can go into it's the preservation of
people at the point of legal
death at extremely cold temperatures minus 320 fahrenheit uh in the hopes that
in the future and we're
talking about decades to a century or so in the future we may have the
technology to fix whatever
killed you in today's sense uh revive you and bring you back so you can carry
on living at the most
simple wow wow so yeah you're the guy that like yeah i want to have an iou from
i feel like you know
um and so what is cryogenics then what's the other side of that and there's
some water too if you need
yeah there's a bunch of cryo terms so cryogenics is simply the engineering of
low temperatures okay so lots
of people use cryogenics you know chip companies use liquid nitrogen to cool at
their labs that's
cryogenics uh you know freezers that go below pretty cold temperatures colder
than once we have
at home that's cryogenics uh the editor of the cryogenics magazine wrote an
editorial a couple of
years ago complaining that people keep calling cryonics cryogenics because they're
different things
ah i see this was a cryobiology which is simply the study of the effects of
very low temperatures on living
things uh and then this is cryopreservation so there's a lot of these cryo
words okay a lot of
cryo yeah so cryopreservation though this is an important one cryopreservation
is the application
of very cold temperatures to living things now this is important because if you
think about it there are
millions of people walking around today who are cryopreserved they were just
embryos at the time
in vitro fertilization you take an embryo you cryopreserve it or you keep it at
liquid nitrogen temperature
wow so there's a lot of those freezer burn babies just running around on the
planet there's a lot of
there's no freezer burn but yeah that they were cryopreserved uh some people
have corneas or heart
valves or skin that was cryopreserved so that's something we can cryopreserve
we can bring that
back today unlike human beings as a whole which is a more complicated issue wow
so so but the world that
you facilitate basically or have facilitated is in cryonics right and you guys
are the company that when
someone i guess registers with your company they want to be they want to take
that long shot they're
playing the long game they want to be frozen yeah the basic idea is that
someone in almost all cases
someone makes these arrangements way in advance years or decades in advance we
very readily take
people who call us up at the last minute because we don't be seen as taking
advantage of people for
one thing when you're not thinking straight at the end of your life plus it's
actually legally risky
because maybe the relatives are against the idea so people generally set up
well in advance and
fill out all the contracts and make sure we they understand what they're doing
they have to make
the right financial arrangements because obviously this is something that costs
money and if we go
through this whole thing and don't get paid it's going to threaten the
organization right so all that
has to be put in place and then at the point when your body gives out i don't
want to call die
because that's not not really what's happening we'll get into that as to are
you actually dead or not
because i don't think you are but your body gives out your heart fails whatever
something critical goes
uh in an ideal situation we're right there at the bedside and we can begin
within seconds of legal
death being pronounced and do you have to wait for someone to be there like
does a coroner have to
show up or like at least a you know kind of smart policeman or something to say
hey yeah you guys are
good to get in there they're dead generally no um we hate those cases when you
have coroners or or medical
examiners now in most cases you just wait for a doctor to declare legal death
uh i think in some
cases it can be a special kind of nurse but legal death has to be declared and
it's very important
to understand how that's different from other things now but you know coroners
or medical examiners
that's a disaster when they get involved because you have to wait for them to
arrive which could be an
hour or more and they're slow so i mean they're dawdling they take their time
yeah and they have
completely like gods they have complete power it doesn't matter if you have a
religious objection
they can do it anyway and they often will and that can be a disaster that can
be as bad as
taking the brain out of your head slicing into pieces uh and then shoving it
back into your
stomach which is as nasty as it sounds oh it doesn't have to be that bad uh we've
had a lot
of success in i mean they will autopsy if you're driving a car you have an
accident they're going
to autopsy you okay i'll slow it down a little bit for me so i can yeah i am
yeah i'm i'm so you're
okay so you have so the corners and those kind of guys can be a hindrance it
can be a hold up so you
want to be already involved with the presumed patient that you're going to
freeze you want to be
already involved with them and hopefully there's like a medical part there you
know at the end of
their life with a doctor or they're in hospice or something hospital or hospice
someone can
someone pronounce pronounce them legally dead and then you guys can be there
right and right then
you guys start what do you do like right like do you give them a couple minutes
to kind of like be
like with the lord or whatever do you just get right in there we get right in
there wow ideally i mean
we're not always able to get there before little death is pronounced we want to
get there as quick
as we can it's not essential but it's certainly better so ideally we're at the
bedside the doctor
says i declare you legally dead okay and let's just go into that for a second
before we go on to the
procedure because it's really important when they say i i declare you legally
dead what does that mean
exactly does it mean your whole body is dead all your cells are dead no it can't
mean that because
people donate their organs all the time right so all these things are still
alive just something
critical has failed and in fact many times when you're declared legally dead
they could actually
resuscitate you that's why people have dnr do not resuscitate orders because
they're saying
please don't resuscitate me because i'm just going to be miserable and horrible
for a couple of hours
and then fail again right wow so it's very important that legal death is not
the same as everything
suddenly dying that doesn't happen i see so it just has to be legally dead and
then there's still
a lot of life going on inside of people yeah so that's when you guys get in
that's when we get in there and
what we do uh i'll try and keep it relatively simple because it's a complex
procedure basically
we'll take the patient move them from the hospital bed or the hospice bed into
an ice bath we'll cover
them with ice add some water we have a device which circulates that icy slurry
around them to accelerate
the cooling process and what temperature is that that you put them in well it's
just yeah it's just ice
water so we don't want to go below freezing at this point because that would
damage the cells we haven't
protected them yet so um we're going to put icy water that starts circulating
we'll put on a
mechanical cpr device to start pumping on their chest and a respirator to take
over breathing so
we're actually restarting circulation and respiration you might say why are you
doing that this person's
dead well as we've said they're not really dead in any interesting sense and we
have to preserve the
viability of the tissues just like someone donating an organ or a kidney we
want to keep it viable
there you have to keep it viable for several hours while you send it across
country yeah when i was young
my sister got a liver transplant when i was younger when we were kids and she
um yeah i guess they had
to move the organ pretty quick and then get it in her yeah they don't last that
long anyway yeah
sorry well i don't know why i went on that tangent but um okay so you have the
body now do when you're
when you well we're just there's a bit more to go but when you apply that
process do they ever come
back to life in that moment no no and that's what the next thing next thing i'm
gonna get to right so
don't dump the gun yet no uh no that