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I think the future of age-related research is going to focus on inflammation. There is already a term for it: Inflamm-aging[0]. [0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.g

• reasonattlm 9y ago
  A good recent paper on sources of inflammation in aging: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5850851/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5850851/ As it points out, the most obvious and promising of current prospects for reducing inflammation is the selective destruction of senescent cells. Though I think that the clearance and recreation of the entire immune system, to remove all of the senescent, exhausted, misconfigured, etc, immune cells is also a promising path, albeit further away from being safe enough to apply to old people.