Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span.
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I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.
The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.
The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.
Imagine that: If you could change one of the genes in an experiment, an aging gene, maybe you could slow down aging and extend lifespan.
If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
We will 'de-age' progressively, as cures are developed.
For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it.
Anti-aging is an extremely under-explored field.
There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.
The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories in search of a pill to slow ageing.
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