All diseases run into one, old age.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself.
The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.
Most people look at ageing as a disease. They do. They have prescriptions and places where you go to eradicate it.
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
Cancer is not one disease but many diseases.
Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.
Of course, there are diseases of which people die.
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.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.