Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/05/to-treat-alzheimers-disease-target-the-treatment-of-aging/
One of the important points made by advocates for the treatment of aging is that one cannot distinguish between aging and age-related disease. They are one and the same. There is no magical state of “healthy aging” in which one doesn’t suffer eventual disease. A decline of function in aging that does not rise to the level required to call it a disease is the subclinical stage of that disease; all the same damage has taken place under the hood, just less of it. Conversely, an age-related disease is just another facet of aging, a collection of damage and consequences of damage that becomes sizable enough to reach the definition of disease. Whether or not any specific age-related dysfunction is called a disease is just a matter of whether the degree of dysfunction is on one side or another of an arbitrary line drawn in the sand.
The authors o…
Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/05/to-treat-alzheimers-disease-target-the-treatment-of-aging/
One of the important points made by advocates for the treatment of aging is that one cannot distinguish between aging and age-related disease. They are one and the same. There is no magical state of “healthy aging” in which one doesn’t suffer eventual disease. A decline of function in aging that does not rise to the level required to call it a disease is the subclinical stage of that disease; all the same damage has taken place under the hood, just less of it. Conversely, an age-related disease is just another facet of aging, a collection of damage and consequences of damage that becomes sizable enough to reach the definition of disease. Whether or not any specific age-related dysfunction is called a disease is just a matter of whether the degree of dysfunction is on one side or another of an arbitrary line drawn in the sand.
The authors o…
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