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Aging. Increasing the healthspan, i.e. the proportion of healthy years everyone has before their body starts to decay, would unlock lots of good things. You do
by nextos 1y ago
Aging. Increasing the healthspan, i.e. the proportion of healthy years everyone has before their body starts to decay, would unlock lots of good things.
You don't need unlimited resources to start. Some approaches, such as making sure the number of immune cells that clear senescent cells stays high as we reach 40 or 50, are not that complex and could be delivered within a decade, provided sufficient funding and focus. The biotechnology is there, but we need better data to design the interventions.