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At this point it's classified as a disease modifier. Diabetes and age related diabetes are different diseases and need to be treated differently. On the long t
by xiphias2 7y ago
At this point it's classified as a disease modifier. Diabetes and age related diabetes are different diseases and need to be treated differently.
On the long term as we get a better understanding of aging, it can be reclassified as a disease with a cure to be found, but right now it's a bit too early for that.
- bionhoward 7y agoSince when did the definition of a disease require the existence of a cure? This whole topic feels like semantic quibbling...we could spend more time designing anti-aging plasmids and less time debating which human sounds to use It doesn’t matter what we call it, we’re all too noob at programming biology to fix it (or know it’s not fixable e.g. halting problem), the healthcare industry is bottlenecked by expensive regulations, bureaucracy, and status documents, we’re too scared or dense to run the experiments, and even if we knew how to fix aging, we don’t have the infrastructure to deliver these fixes affordably at scale