Longevity and anti-aging research: ‘Prime time for an impact on the globe’
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#2This is a great news. Fighting aging is one of the most important challenge of our time.
This is also encouraging:
"Gazette: Are there regulatory hurdles? When we've spoken in the past, you've mentioned that the FDA considers aging a natural process and therefore won't approve drugs to treat it.
Sinclair: I've been part of a group that talked with the FDA, and they are willing and also quite enthusiastic about considering a change that defines aging as a disease."
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#3There is a very good recent more informal-type long-format discussion with this doctor (David Sinclair) discussing a lot of longevity topics on the Joe Rogan channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOTS0HS7aq4
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#4This is a great news. Fighting aging is one of the most important challenge of our time. This is also encouraging: "Gazette: Are there regulatory hurdles? When we've spoken in the past, you've mentioned that the FDA considers aging a natural process and therefore won't approve drugs to treat it. Sinclair: I've been part of a group that talked with the FDA, and they are willing and also quite enthusiastic about consid…
And not climate change? In my mind's model of the future we're going to die within 50 years, this research is useless when the infinitely aged doesn't have clean water to drink.
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#5This is a great news. Fighting aging is one of the most important challenge of our time. This is also encouraging: "Gazette: Are there regulatory hurdles? When we've spoken in the past, you've mentioned that the FDA considers aging a natural process and therefore won't approve drugs to treat it. Sinclair: I've been part of a group that talked with the FDA, and they are willing and also quite enthusiastic about consid…
Aging is a disease, there should be no doubt in that. What makes aging unique is that it affects 100% of the population.
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#6This is a great news. Fighting aging is one of the most important challenge of our time. This is also encouraging: "Gazette: Are there regulatory hurdles? When we've spoken in the past, you've mentioned that the FDA considers aging a natural process and therefore won't approve drugs to treat it. Sinclair: I've been part of a group that talked with the FDA, and they are willing and also quite enthusiastic about consid…
And not climate change? In my mind's model of the future we're going to die within 50 years, this research is useless when the infinitely aged doesn't have clean water to drink.
That's why he said "one of the most important challenge".
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#7This recent interview with Aubrey de Grey (main popularizer of anti-aging science) is really worth listening to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMFST20xHwk (1.5x speed is fine)
He seems to think that anti-aging science has speeded up drastically recently, both in terms of the science itself, the funding and the popularity. I really love what the SENS Foundation is doing in terms of spinning research avenues into startups, since most investors are far more likely to fund high-risk investments than non-profit ones.
He also mentions other positive developments in terms of legislation and advocacy.
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#8This is a great news. Fighting aging is one of the most important challenge of our time. This is also encouraging: "Gazette: Are there regulatory hurdles? When we've spoken in the past, you've mentioned that the FDA considers aging a natural process and therefore won't approve drugs to treat it. Sinclair: I've been part of a group that talked with the FDA, and they are willing and also quite enthusiastic about consid…
And not climate change? In my mind's model of the future we're going to die within 50 years, this research is useless when the infinitely aged doesn't have clean water to drink.
If "old people" weren't sure they would die within the next 30 years anyway, then perhaps they would actually start caring about the planet.
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#9This is a great news. Fighting aging is one of the most important challenge of our time. This is also encouraging: "Gazette: Are there regulatory hurdles? When we've spoken in the past, you've mentioned that the FDA considers aging a natural process and therefore won't approve drugs to treat it. Sinclair: I've been part of a group that talked with the FDA, and they are willing and also quite enthusiastic about consid…
And not climate change? In my mind's model of the future we're going to die within 50 years, this research is useless when the infinitely aged doesn't have clean water to drink.
One of the main connections to longevity people usually miss in this whole "climate change" discussion is one of the main psychological reasons people don't take care of the environment in the first place: and it's arguably their lifespan. Everyone in the west knows that they will die at most ~100 years of age, and if you are basically not in some top percentile morality-wise (and also at that point in your life where all more important problems are resolved and you even have energy to care about the environment), you just don't care about it because you know you're going to die anyway. Of course many people think about their children and the other people etc, but many don't.
If we manage to extend the expected (or even just possible) generic lifespan of normal people - that will be one of the best promoters of environment-thinking of normal population. Because suddenly the choices they make today become very real in terms of impact on the environment in the next 50-100-200 years, because there is a good change that this same person is going to be living at that time.
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#10What makes people think we want to have them around any longer? To extend life is to decrease it's value. Simple economics tells us it's inflation.
edit: I think Neil deGrasse Tyson says it a lot better than me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3G9LOJZTmM