Advocating for Aging to be Declared a Disease is the Wrong Point of Focus

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2025/07/advocating-for-aging-to-be-declared-a-disease-is-the-wrong-point-of-focus/

The debate over whether aging should be formally declared a disease is entirely driven by the structure of medical regulation. The flow of funding through the medical system is shaped by lists of defined and allowed medical conditions derived from the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, and everything not explicitly allowed by regulators is either outright forbidden or a great deal more challenging to bring to the clinic than would otherwise be the case. The people who want aging to be defined as a disease are demanding a less costly, more rapid path of development for therapies to treat aging. It is as simple as that. Here, it is argued that perhaps advocating more directly for that goal of a faster, cheaper development process would be a better idea than focusing on definitions of aging.

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