When we can live to 150, I’ll believe we can live to 120 in good health. In reality I’m watching 80yo people around me deteriorate into shells of their former selves.
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Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 year agoIn good health obviously.
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 year ago
Sure, and 50 years ago people un their sixties looked like they just saw the grim reaper.
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe, though I think that’s a bit overstating it. 50 years ago, leading men in romance movies were sometimes 50+
Lead, smoking, post war trauma… all less of an issue in today’s generations. What are the big longevity extenders for the next generation? I don’t think projections are very good.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 year ago
The projection is that we’ll repair the damage regular living does to us (basically metabolism).
And I disagree with you, it will help us better than penicillin or what ever other progress that made us live longer and healthier in the past.
Most problems are based largely on aging, it’s because our body wears out. Very few people get cancers, heart attacks, alzheimers or die from simple infectious diseases in ther twenties.
The theory exists since a couple of decades and althought being challenged thoroughly no cracks has been found up to today at least, we can repair the damage done and cure ageing, and today funding is there.
On a side note, senolytics and some other first gen treatments are probable for say in ten years or earlier (some experimental stuff already exist too), if they roll back your age just by a meager 10 years when you’re 60, it’s 10 years of research and new treatments that you can have access to and so on.
sock@lemmy.world 1 year ago
im imagining someone rotting from 90-120 but still conscious then making this news story
im joking tho i only read the headline