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So you wanna build an aging company

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Re: So you wanna build an aging company

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"A successful aging treatment would be something that:

prevents diseases of aging, ideally more than one;

preserves a healthy function that normally declines with age (like fertility, immune function, cognitive function, resilience, or physical fitness); or

reverses the course of at least one age-related disease."

I think a lot of the anti-aging companies out there would say that the real answer is a combination of the second and third - reversing the course of age-related decline.

Also, I think it's sort of contradictory to have two of these points focus on diseases of aging but in a subsequent section say that oncology isn't anti-aging. Cancer is in many ways a disease of aging (it's very clear from the numbers that increasing in age causes increases in likelihood of developing cancer, generally more than any other single factor). Curing cancer obviously isn't going to get you a general-purpose anti-aging treatment, but that's why it seems odd to say that reversing the course of an age-related disease is a successful aging treatment.

Re: So you wanna build an aging company

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"A successful aging treatment would be something that: prevents diseases of aging, ideally more than one; preserves a healthy function that normally declines with age (like fertility, immune function, cognitive function, resilience, or physical fitness); or reverses the course of at least one age-related disease." I think a lot of the anti-aging companies out there would say that the real answer is a combination of t…

From an anti aging perspective, cancer is the most visible symptom of DNA gradually becoming more and more damaged.

The anti aging solution that happens to solve cancer as a side effect is then to figure out how to repair DNA damage, and/or replace cells with damaged DNA with cells with intact DNA.

Re: So you wanna build an aging company

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Unpopular opinion: Any medical intervention that delays or defeats the aging process will disproportionately benefit the wealthy, and is therefore unethical. The last thing a healthy democracy needs is millennium-old acolytes of Peter Thiel pulling the strings from the shadows.

Re: So you wanna build an aging company

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Diabetic medication can be a significant factor for increased healthy longevity.

But is it the medication, or reduction in oxidative stress and glycation?

Medications almost always come with some form of negative side effects for a portion of those prescribed to. I think part of it needs to come from awareness of what we're putting into our bodies in the first place. I think a large part of it all comes from what we're taking in that wouldn't be considered food by most reasonable people knowing what goes into processed "food".

"Food is medicine," also means food is poison. Not all are created equal. This isn't to completely decry all advancements in food production, or even all processed foods... but there's definitely more that needs to be looked into.

Re: So you wanna build an aging company

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The headline is confusing. This is not about a company that's becoming older. It's about a building a biotech company that treats the symptoms and causes of aging.

Strange because in a way we've already had these for a long time for the visual signs of aging, moisturizers , wrinkle creams etc.

And we've been trying to treat all the symptoms of aging for a long time too. Alzheimers, heart disease , arthritis etc. They just haven't been explicitly "anti-aging"

Re: So you wanna build an aging company

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"A successful aging treatment would be something that: prevents diseases of aging, ideally more than one; preserves a healthy function that normally declines with age (like fertility, immune function, cognitive function, resilience, or physical fitness); or reverses the course of at least one age-related disease." I think a lot of the anti-aging companies out there would say that the real answer is a combination of t…

From an anti aging perspective, cancer is the most visible symptom of DNA gradually becoming more and more damaged. The anti aging solution that happens to solve cancer as a side effect is then to figure out how to repair DNA damage, and/or replace cells with damaged DNA with cells with intact DNA.

We all get cancer everyday, normally our immune system destroys it.

Re: So you wanna build an aging company

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Unpopular opinion: Any medical intervention that delays or defeats the aging process will disproportionately benefit the wealthy, and is therefore unethical. The last thing a healthy democracy needs is millennium-old acolytes of Peter Thiel pulling the strings from the shadows.

The distance between a scientific revolution being accessible to the ultra-wealthy and the average consumer is measured in years, and shrinking rapidly.

I would rather billionaires get anti-aging technology 10yrs before I do than never get it at all.

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