The present approach to aging in the healthcare community is uncomfortably close to being a matter of Cnut the Great on the beach telling the tide to go back. In clinical practice most of the major diseases of aging remain irreversible for the average individual, a progression that can only be modestly slowed. The only way to achieve the possibility of turning back these conditions is to repair the forms of accumulated cell and tissue damage that maintain the body and brain in a diseased state – to use rejuvenation therapies. The development of these therapies is painfully slow. It has been clear that clearance of senescent cells is very promising for a decade now, but it will be yea…
Healthcare Must Change as We Become More Capable of Intervening in Aging
The present approach to aging in the healthcare community is uncomfortably close to being a matter of Cnut the Great on the beach telling the tide to go back. In clinical practice most of the major diseases of aging remain irreversible for the average individual, a progression that can only be modestly slowed. The only way to achieve the possibility of turning back these conditions is to repair the forms of accumulated cell and tissue damage that maintain the body and brain in a diseased state – to use rejuvenation therapies. The development of these therapies is painfully slow. It has been clear that clearance of senescent cells is very promising for a decade now, but it will be yea…