faluzure

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by faluzure 6y ago
Yes, you're correct. Many researchers in the field prefer the phrasing 'human health', the consequence of which is human longevity.
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by faluzure 6y ago
The reason people disagree with you is because they're imagining it as the only change with everything else remaining stagnant.
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by faluzure 6y ago
I would expect people to live until they got bored. I don't have the exact number, but without aging, we'd statistically only live until ~1000 on average before getting hit by a bus or choking on a bite of steak.
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by faluzure 6y ago
Taking care of older people is very expensive right now. The majority of health care costs are for end of life care in the developed world. Those costs are going to increase as the largest generation ever (the baby boomers) approaches the p
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by faluzure 6y ago
It definitively does. The plasticity of the mind decreases with age, so if we're able to rejuvenate the brain, we would also increase it's plasticity, and we won't stagnate. If everyone has been rejuvenated, then age would no
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by faluzure 6y ago
You're right that it's being worked on - organizations like the SENS Research Foundation have been advocating it for years and pushing the field. From what I see though, far more resources are spent attempting to fix symptoms of a
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by faluzure 6y ago
Human Longevity. 150,000 people die every day, and 2/3 of them die of age related diseases. The developed world and China are racing towards a demographic nightmare where fewer and fewer people are left to take care of the elderly. The