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Obstacles to Long Life
What prevents people from living a long and healthy life?
Discussion List
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Ideological ObjectionsPeople may resist longevity treatments, for themselves and/or for society, due to objections ground…
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How can we improve the pace of drug development and approval?Here's the one-hundred dollar question: how can we improve the pace of drug development and approva…
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Time to highlight the role of Mitochondria in aginghttps://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/mgh-mpp040319.php Mitochondrial permeability plays a k…
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Estrogen Role in Aginghttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2017.00430/full
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Study links sleep-disordered breathing to age accelerationResults provide biological evidence of the adverse effects of untreated sleep-disordered breathing …
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A Cure for Alzheimer Disease? A sweet and sour messageThis week there were 2 announcements; 1. Another AD drug failed a human clinical trial. See https:…
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Demographic time-bomb: Finland sends a warning to EuropeFrom the Financial Times:
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Is the FDA anti-anti-aging?The FDA has advised this week against using young people's blood in an attempt to halt aging. See …
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Epigenetic AlterationsEpigenetic alterations in gene expressions are caused by modification of proteins and changes in th…
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Environmental impactIf we all live longer, and the world population continues to grow as a result, how would that affec…
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Life becomes less preciousThe longer we live, the less precious life might feel. If we all live to be 100+, what's the press…
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Population aging and age-related causes of deathHello everyone! I wanted to populate this thread with some statistics to put our discussion into pe…
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Early retirement is unaffordableFrom Bloomberg Opinion:
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Obesity Accelerates AgingObese individuals often aged faster, but their biological age was still lower in 2007-2010 compared…
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Do Rich People Live Longer?Do Rich People Live Longer? Yes, indeed!
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it goes without saying but "stress" will be a big obstacle for longevity and quality of lifeNot only stress kills, but with unprecedentedly extending life span and socio economic structures w…
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Population increase and higher medical costsShould it be long life or better life? With the diversification in health care around the globe, i…
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Attitudes Toward "Treating" AgingSomewhat understandably, the FDA requires that treatments target a specific malady to be considered…
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Environmental and lifestyle causes of premature agingI'm Nick Pineault, and Investigative Health Journalist, author of "The Non-Tinfoil Guide to EM…
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Should governments define "old age" as a disease?Governments today largely refuse to classify old age and its complications as a disease. The result…
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How can we work with and around aging-related cognitive decline?Hi everyone, We have a very interesting (though a bit depressing) obstacle here: aging-related cog…
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How society views ageThis discussion was created from comments split from: Obstacles to Long Life (Read First).
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Is the elderly population under-represented in congress?Hi everyone, I'm currently in the process of analyzing a potential obstacle in the way of improvin…