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I was watching Aubrey De Grey on JRE last night and was surprised to hear that ADG no longer prefers the disease label for aging. It's too dissimilar from what

I was watching Aubrey De Grey on JRE last night and was surprised to hear that ADG no longer prefers the disease label for aging. It's too dissimilar from what we're familiar with regarding diseases: something that we get, treat, and is gone. Aging is an ongoing system maintenance issue. He indicated that he prefers to simply call it a "health problem". From the article: "Maybe the ancients weren’t wrong, and aging can be not only delayed but cured like a disease" It seems that's exactly the mindset ADG was distancing himself from.

oarabbus_ 7y ago
>It's too dissimilar from what we're familiar with regarding diseases: something that we get, treat, and is gone. That's absolutely not what a disease is. Off the top of my head, Multiple Sclerosis, Muscular Dystrophy, Alzheimers, Parkinson's, Guillain-Barré, are some diseases that one gets, which only progressively worsens over time. A significant portion of diseases are never "gone".