If there is to be a simple, sensible, consensus position on the treatment of aging as a medical condition, it might run something like this. (a) If our species is going to put significant time and funding into this project, then it is much better to conduct research and development programs that are capable of achieving rejuvenation, rather than those that can achieve only a slowing of aging. (b) Similarly, more rejuvenation is better than less rejuvenation. We should aim to optimize the direction of development as early as possible. (c) At present it is challenging, slow, and expensive to assess the benefits produced by an alleged rejuvenation therapy, particularly in long-lived species such as our own. (d) Thus it is important to develop the capability to assess biological age immediately before and after treatment, via robust, accurate, low-cost approac…
A Simple, Sensible Position on the Treatment of Aging as a Medical Condition
If there is to be a simple, sensible, consensus position on the treatment of aging as a medical condition, it might run something like this. (a) If our species is going to put significant time and funding into this project, then it is much better to conduct research and development programs that are capable of achieving rejuvenation, rather than those that can achieve only a slowing of aging. (b) Similarly, more rejuvenation is better than less rejuvenation. We should aim to optimize the direction of development as early as possible. (c) At present it is challenging, slow, and expensive to assess the benefits produced by an alleged rejuvenation therapy, particularly in long-lived species such as our own. (d) Thus it is important to develop the capability to assess biological age immediately before and after treatment, via robust, accurate, low-cost approac…