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What a great time to be alive... as a mouse. Kidding aside, looking forward to the equivalent treatments being developed for humans.
by deegles 5y ago
What a great time to be alive... as a mouse.
Kidding aside, looking forward to the equivalent treatments being developed for humans.
- ravenstine 5y agoI'm cautiously optimistic. While technology might conceivably allow us to live significantly longer, thus creating a population problem, we are already seeing a curbing of population growth in the most technological civilizations today. Perhaps there will be something to living longer as a human that compels reproduction less so than otherwise, especially given that birth control is available. I certainly hope that I get to have a long enough healthspan that I can accomplish even just 1/10th of the things I want to do but won't have the time to do.
- necrosyne 5y agoI hope I'm wrong, but assuming these treatments do prove effective in humans, it won't be made available to the likes of us. The elite will get to enjoy unnaturally long lives (or perhaps escape death completely) while the rest of humanity is literally rendered disposable.
- qgin 5y agoThis has never happened with any other medical treatment. Why would this be different? Compare this relatively simple treatment to the unbelievable amount of resources spent to treat the diseases that directly come from aging (cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, etc) Medicare pours billions of dollars into treating these diseases with relatively little success. This would be an order of magnitude less expensive.