sharing sharing is located in the
neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro Brazil
and probably the world sharing doesn’t
mean anything for most of you but you
might have seen or even tasted the
pleasure of some of sharing products
very well-known and part of my country’s
most rich cultural experience and export
products music and football sherry is
associated to major football players if
you now like and you’ve seen the
national team playing we’ll have at this
moment Thiago Silva and Marcelo two of
the greatest players at this that we
know of they come from training if you
like music especially specifically Samba
you would recognize the words of zakapa
Gugino also sharing native who sings and
make songs to make so many people happy
in Brazil Samba that touches our heart
but anyway sharing was not that famous
or still is not and the major project
when I was born there was not music or
football it was cars cars and trucks
built in Brazil for Brazilian people
that was part of an old time dream of
Brazil to become a big nation industrial
nation and producing Brazilian cars was
reality any training for a certain
number of years but when I was about to
turn to three weeks before my second
birthday a major event happened to my
country that changed the life of my
family and to many other families Brazil
went into a dark period of military
intervention democracy was forgotten
militaries took over to my family to my
dad that mean that in a matter of weeks
months we had to leave surname
we were out of job had no place to live
and had to find a new place to start all
finally my dad found a place to work
found a job in some Paulo Brazil and
it’s natural that at five years old you
start having memories that you can
really recall and it’s not by chance
that my first memories I mean the oldest
memories from my childhood come in black
and white not only because I’m
colorblind I still see a lot of things
in black and white like this picture but
because we had this major modern machine
called the black and white TV they would
be sitting in the middle of the living
room of the typical middle-class to
little class family and through the
black and white TV
I could see amazing things I can still
remember very strong black-and-white TV
was to my generation what radio was to
my parents generation and what Internet
and cell phones are to your generation
so let me describe a few things I’ve
seen through the black and white TV I
saw I remember my dad showing me two
funny dress men walking slowly like
jumping and playing in the dirt and
although I could not see their faces I
could tell they were having fun and my
dad would tell me no son they were
walking on the moon I thought that was
very bizarre but my dad said we could
walk on the moon I said well maybe one
day I can walk on the moon too and he
said yeah she could but first eat your
spinach I can also describe you with
details the crowning of a king Brazilian
king his white shirts shiny against this
dark skin he was carrying a white ball
in his hands like a trophy he was being
carried by the crowd nobody shouting his
name but somehow the king was sad he was
crying and I could not understand he
should be so happy
he had just scored his 1,000th goal of
his career
against my dad’s team that naturally
became my team Vasco da Gama and but
some for some reason King was crying and
he was crying people out please help the
Yankee it’s the poor kids in Brazil
please take care of the poor kids in
Brazil and I thought well this King must
have been a poor kid when he was a kid
very sad story it appeared and only
years later I could understand the
importance of Pele King Pele to Brazil
and to the world of football but my the
most striking image I carry from that
time was it that came from Africa I
didn’t know where Africa was but of
course the faraway place and over there
I heard the story that a man went into a
man’s chest took out his heart and put
inside another man’s heart saving his
life at that time I could not even think
what happened to the first man but I was
so surprised with that I was so shocked
that I told my mom mom this is what I
want to do in my life I want to be a
transplant doctor I’m going to be a
transplant doctor and that’s exactly
what I am now fifty years two months and
three weeks later after this December
3rd 1967 I am a transplant doctor I’m
not a surgeon I’m a transplant physician
if another day I will explain what I do
but basically it’s the same magic of the
magic of organ transplantation it’s
really interesting I now a teach in
medical school and I ask my students why
have you chosen to be a medical doctor
do you remember the day you made that
decision such an important decision and
even why do people decide such important
things so early in life it’s not
necessary so most students have a
traditional answer well I don’t know my
dad my mom they were no medical doctors
that influences our decisions of course
but then every once in a while I get an
answer
wow this is a no time dream just like
myself and no dreams so let’s talk a
little bit about dreams when I look back
to the 60s a few years ago I went to
this exhibit
in London called everything was moving
there was about black and white
photographs from the 60s and I think
that title fits perfectly the 60s when I
think back of the 60s people were
dreaming and dreaming high they were
dreaming about such important things
still very important today like peace
love birth control social rights racism
they were fighting not only dreaming
they were dreaming and fighting and I’ll
tell you there was a generation of
achievers for the first time the men
could run a hundred metres faster than
10 seconds one jump from as high as the
stratosphere and landed safely on the
parachute a record that was only broken
more than 15 years later and as I said
before men went as far and back as to
the moon and came back safely so it
really seemed like everything was
possible in the 60s and at that time I
believe that when I thought about being
a transplant doctor I was just joining a
group of people a growing group of
people that believes in eternal life so
these images come from the British
Museum and we know that the Egyptians in
the old time they already thought about
having a key to eternal life longevity
so basically what I message I want to
tell you is I want to live forever and I
really believe I’m going to live forever
and I’ll try to tell you in the next
minutes how I’m going to managed but
before I’ll tell you my recipe let’s
call it like that my strategy
let’s go from ancient Egypt to ancient
Greece and see if it was of those men
who spent a lot of their time thinking
no man can ever step in the same river
twice so the explanation is kind of
obvious as the water flows the river is
always different and as time goes by the
man or woman is always changing so
it’s a very interesting thing and with
that in mind I’m gonna bring you to my
River which is as I mentioned before Rio
de Janeiro Brazil this is my River
well the story I don’t know if it’s
that’s very precise but some people say
that the name of Rio de Janeiro comes
from the idea that when the Portuguese
arrived there apparently the French were
there before but let’s see let’s say the
Portuguese were there they saw this
place which now we know it’s a bay that
they thought it was a doubt of a river
so the name River can Rio comes from
River this is direct translation so as
the river from the great people every
time I come back to Rio I see a
different city it’s changing all the
time and it’s always beautiful I think
it’s changing but it keeps beautiful
this year Rio is going to celebrate 450
years old City at least for brazilian
terms so let’s try this experiment
experience you think of something very
old
let’s doesn’t have to be a person it
could be like your city or your street
the street where you grew up at close
your eyes think of your street if you
think about it I don’t know how old your
street is but the neighbors you used to
know when you were young they most
likely some of them are not there
anymore they don’t live there anymore
they even passed away they moved for
different reasons and new neighbors came
in so this is very interesting because
it’s still the same street or the same
city but people are changing and the
street is still alive the street will
only be dead the day when new people
don’t come anymore or the people feel
that less people who are there are gone
so it’s like changing cummingandgoing
is part of the of the game to keep
something so alive for such a long time
so let’s back to Rio and
another idea reel comes from Gennaro
comes from January so that’s a month
where mike city was founded but not many
people know that January is also relates
to Roman god called Janus is a
double-faced God represented by
different artists like the sculpture
that looks similar tenuously to the past
into the future
so in agendas like strategy I’m going to
exercise my in presenting my strategy to
live forever in in two parts first part
and this is to under one of my favorite
American musicians Tom Waits relates to
the past or more than the past to the
inner part I mean to look into the
interior like Janus with one of the
faces look to the inside and I’ll tell
you another story when I turned 15 my
family my wife and two daughters took me
to a van a Cuba and among the beauties
of Cuba no first number one is people
from Cuba we saw this old cars most of
them made in the 50s still running and I
was very impressed to see how old cars
would still be running and out as one of
the cab drivers how do you manage to do
it and it said that’s very simple first
we need those cars second we take care
of them and try not to break them and
third if it breaks we fix it so my
strategy of keeping my life in there for
a long time has to do with conserving my
health and we only awarded with one car
in life some have better models better
looking cars some have faster cars than
others but it’s only one car so keep
good care of your car and for that
medicine has many things and research
has been showing us that we are
understanding in a cellular level the
process of aging and rebirth long time
ago
this called car in 72 described a very
important scientific phenomenon that
changed the way we see life and death at
least in a cellular level he described a
term called apoptosis that means every
cell hasn’t in genetic code the capacity
of dying in every cell has to die after
certain time so just like our neighbors
we have to die and live again to keep
living and as we’re speaking now many of
our cells are dying and new ones are
being replaced and if you’re after a
certain age most likely all of your
cells they were there when you were born
they were not there anymore they died
while you were alive and you continue to
die while you’re still living it’s crazy
thing but this is part of the process of
living and die and we have to respect
they’re so dying is part of the game
then we move to the second part that
it’s refers to a Brazilian song from
Zeca pagoda that I mentioned first from
sharing let’s call that life carry me or
they shall via the Mileva and this is
better presented in a to-do list and
I’ll tell you in the very few minutes
what I’m going to do for the rest of my
life because now I am looking to the
outside of my genders view would you
think it’s would be interesting to have
eternal life by ourselves now we need
other people so the way I see the
strategy to live forever goals and
depends on other people and of course
people they are close to you and
sometimes people that you don’t even
know so my to-do list has to do it
please I need the help of every
everybody to to reach my eternal life
number one right after my heart stops
and one day the old 55 is going to break
I’d like to join another body and leave
parts of myself so I’ll be an organ
donor that’s a very obvious thing so
please host me whenever I need it I want
to place my liver my kidney whatever is
already in use in other people’s
part and that will extend my life for a
few years but then I could reach more
people and I’ll donate my tissues and
now you know my bones my skin my eyes
even my blood that I can donate while
I’m alive
I want to reach other people through my
cells and tissues and of course they can
go on as we go smaller I can delay my
genes
and that’s part of the delays that I’ve
already thanks to my lovely wife already
checked I have two beautiful daughters
they will take me hopefully to the next
century but I think the most impact I
can cause and people would be by
exchanging ideas
so the for the rest of my life from now
on I’m going to be writing books I’m
going to be spending a lot of time with
friends see old friends try to make new
friends exchange ideas and hopefully
through the ideas I will touch their
emotions and just like my dad that
passed away last year was still in my
heart is going to be living with me
forever
that’s the emotions that we bring to
confess okey so Judaism probably mais
neo chorus so I know briefly I think he
sofa to do kiddies video I’m going to defer