Aging is maleable and can be intervened to slow down and even reverse it.
Several experiments in animal models have shown that certain gene therapies as well as interventions via partial cellular reprograming can significantly extend healthspan and lifespan in mice and other model organisms.
An article published on December 30, 2020 in Fortune magazine, reaches the following conclusions:
* Without treatments to slow or reverse aspects of biological aging, an aging population means we are in for a health care cost tsunami.
* The most exciting opportunity for such an improvement in health productivity is to understand and address the biology of aging.
* There is promising scientific research on reversing aspects of aging, some of which is not far from clinical application.
* While all this research represents thrilling progress, we invest far too little in research that could help us go further in understanding and treating aging.
World leaders, like anyone else, mostly die of age related diseases which in the end means dying of aging itself.
Let’s bring world leaders to the quest of solving aging.
Links of interest:
“Cracking the code of biological aging could solve America’s health care crisis”. https://fortune.com/2020/12/30/anti-aging-research-health-care-spending-biden/
“Reversing aging: We can turn back cognitive decline in mice. Will the same techniques work on humans?”. https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2021/02/17/reversing-agin…on-humans/
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