Aging
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Aging
is a side effect of being alive in the first place, which is to say, metabolism.
Aging
is basically a process that happens to inanimate objects like cars, and it also happens to us, despite the fact that we have a lot of clever self-repair mechanisms, because those self-repair mechanisms are not perfect.
And there are really two games in town, according to most people, with regard to postponing
aging.
Because, you know, most people, when they hear that I predict that a lot of people alive today are going to live to 1,000 or more, they think that I'm saying that we're going to invent therapies in the next few decades that are so thoroughly eliminating
aging
that those therapies will let us live to 1,000 or more.
And finally, of course, I think it's fair to say that a large part of the reason why the public is so ambivalent about
aging
now is the global trance I spoke about earlier, the coping strategy.
That will be history at this point, because it will no longer be possible to believe that
aging
is inevitable in humans, since it's been postponed so very effectively in mice.
So in order to tell you now how we're going to get these mice, I'm going to add a little bit to my description of
aging.
If we try to say which bits of metabolism are important for aging, we will be here all night, because basically all of metabolism is important for
aging
in one way or another.
Audience: Since you've been talking about
aging
and trying to defeat it, why is it that you make yourself appear like an old man?
I'm going to tell you the genuine mainstream answer to your question, which I happen to agree with, which is that, no,
aging
is not a product of selection, evolution; [aging] is simply a product of evolutionary neglect.
In other words, we have
aging
because it's hard work not to have aging; you need more genetic pathways, more sophistication in your genes in order to age more slowly, and that carries on being true the longer you push it out.
And let me just tell you about one area that we've moved this work out into, clinically, which is the context of
aging
and dementia.
But what we've also discovered is that a physiological signature of
aging
is that your sleep gets worse, especially that deep quality of sleep that I was just discussing.
And it suggests that the disruption of deep sleep is an underappreciated factor that is contributing to cognitive decline or memory decline in aging, and most recently we've discovered, in Alzheimer's disease as well.
Unlike many of the other factors that we know are associated with aging, for example changes in the physical structure of the brain, that's fiendishly difficult to treat.
But that sleep is a missing piece in the explanatory puzzle of
aging
and Alzheimer's is exciting because we may be able to do something about it.
I very much resonate with what you're saying, because it seems to me that the problem with getting people interested in doing anything about
aging
is that by the time
aging
is about to kill you it looks like cancer or heart disease or whatever.
I just look at the information, and knowledge, and experience that is lost due to natural causes of death in general, and aging, in particular.
He's just an
aging
mortal with really bad knees, and maybe he's never going to ascend to that height again.
And we reflect on the past decade of political and economic upheaval, of growing inequalities, and when we look ahead to the challenges of the climate emergency, increasing automation, an
aging
population, then I think the argument for the case for a much broader definition of what it means to be successful as a country, as a society, is compelling, and increasingly so.
It was beyond the technology of the day to depict a man
aging
backwards.
And David wanted to carve deeply into Brad's face to bring the
aging
to this character.
That’s because all time-based processes in the ship will slow down as well– clocks and electrical devices; Stella’s biological activities including her rate of
aging
and her perception of time itself.
This means that Stella observes Terra
aging
slowly for the first half of her journey, but
aging
rapidly during the return half.
Thus, Terra observes Stella
aging
slowly for about 90% of their 23 years apart, and
aging
rapidly during the last 10%.
Although each twin witnesses time both speeding up and slowing down for the other, Stella sees an even split, while Terra sees Stella
aging
slowly for most of the time they’re apart.
I just formed a biotechnology company that is using this sort of an approach to develop therapeutics for Alzheimer's and other diseases of aging, and we're making some real progress.
And lasers aren’t just correcting the three types of refractive errors – this technology can also restore
aging
eyes.
Now you can also take the same approach to address problems in
aging.
NB: On an individual level, we seem to kind of be doomed anyway, just with the time line, we're rotting and
aging
and all kinds of things, right?
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