Broadly, there are viewpoints on the approach the treatment of aging as a medical condition. The first approach is most clearly represented by the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS). The goal is to repair or otherwise address the underlying cell and tissue damage that causes aging. This damage is already catalogued and new additions have been few and far between in recent decades. There is little expectation that therapies will have to be personalized to any great degree. Any one therapy that addresses any one cause of aging will produce benefits in every older person. In this, the damage repair approach is analogous to the initial development and early use of antibiotics. Antibiotics applied in much the same way to every patient produced such a large improvement in outcomes…
A Good Summary of the Less Effective Path Forward for the Treatment of Aging
Broadly, there are viewpoints on the approach the treatment of aging as a medical condition. The first approach is most clearly represented by the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS). The goal is to repair or otherwise address the underlying cell and tissue damage that causes aging. This damage is already catalogued and new additions have been few and far between in recent decades. There is little expectation that therapies will have to be personalized to any great degree. Any one therapy that addresses any one cause of aging will produce benefits in every older person. In this, the damage repair approach is analogous to the initial development and early use of antibiotics. Antibiotics applied in much the same way to every patient produced such a large improvement in outcomes…