The Road to Greater Human Longevity is Longer than Desired

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2025/05/the-road-to-greater-human-longevity-is-longer-than-desired/

As noted in this article, progress towards ways to significantly extend the healthy human life span continues to be slower than desired. Further, most of the approaches to the problem are little better than exercise. One can’t conjure extra decades and a reversal of aging using calorie restriction mimetic drugs. That part of the field focused on therapies that can only modestly slow aging must atrophy in favor of more viable classes of therapy, those capable of much greater repair of aged tissue, addressing the known causes of aging in order to allow youthful metabolism and tissue maintenance to reemerge.

The rise of longevity biotechnology is a modern crusade to unlock the secrets…

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2025/05/the-road-to-greater-human-longevity-is-longer-than-desired/

As noted in this article, progress towards ways to significantly extend the healthy human life span continues to be slower than desired. Further, most of the approaches to the problem are little better than exercise. One can’t conjure extra decades and a reversal of aging using calorie restriction mimetic drugs. That part of the field focused on therapies that can only modestly slow aging must atrophy in favor of more viable classes of therapy, those capable of much greater repair of aged tissue, addressing the known causes of aging in order to allow youthful metabolism and tissue maintenance to reemerge.

The rise of longevity biotechnology is a modern crusade to unlock the secrets…

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