In the field of medicine, most problems are solved by offering a cure rather than prevention. When we’re presented with a problem, there are generally two paths to explore when looking for a solution: prevention or cure.

However, the bodily damage that causes aging may be reparable. Most scientists agree that aging is inevitable. The author’s program does face some challenges, however: there are concerns about insufficient funding to properly develop the technology and conduct the research that is needed to stop people from aging.īut if funding does come through, he predicts – with a 50 percent certainty – that it will be possible for us to stop people from dying of old age.

This junk includes disease-promoting proteins called AGEs and death-resistant “zombie cells.” We’ll also see how these steps can promote healthy cell loss as well as prevent DNA mutation, which leads to aging. In the upcoming book summarys, we’ll see how this strategy could help prevent mitochondrial mutations by clearing up the junk that plagues human cells. This program is called SENS: Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence. That’s why the author has developed a program that aims to stop aging. There are also those who believe that solving the problem of aging could be a bad thing there are concerns that such a solution would contribute to overpopulation, or that the solution would only be available to the extremely wealthy.īut there are many – the author among them – who believe it is worth regarding the problem of aging as potentially soluble, just like any other ailment. Why waste time trying to prevent the inevitable? After all, how can you enjoy life if you’re worrying about an unsolvable problem? Most people don’t think there’s much sense in worrying about something we have no control over. We’ve long accepted aging as an unavoidable, though unpleasant, fact of life. While it’s true that there isn’t much we can do to keep the government from taking a chunk out of our paycheck, we are becoming better at delaying death. As the saying goes, two things are unavoidable in life: death and taxes.

Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey