In fairness, it has nothing to do
with the next generation. It has to do
with cell replacement which can be upon us in a couple of decades.
It is easy to imagine a protocol
that reverses senescence and supplies the necessary food to restore general
tissue health at one’s prime. We do not
have it all figured out as yet, but the research is now fully underway.
Our job is to take good care of
our bodies in the meantime and hope to get lucky.
This generation will have the
opportunity to extend their lives for decades while maintaining a healthy
lifestyle managing their small piece of the land and watershed. It will be a safe and energizing
lifeway. That is our real future and it
is the underlying theme of this blog
Experts: Huge Breakthroughs In Science And Technology Could Make It A
Reality
February 14, 2012 11:45 PM
Baby Maxwell Jones’ life is just getting started, but if he’s lucky,
the hours-old infant could live well into the next century.
“A hundred years, seems a stretch but it’s obviously possible,” his
mother told CBS 2′s Kristine Johnson.
More than just possible as some aging experts believe scientific
breakthroughs will mean babies born today will live more than 100 years.
Geriatrician Dr. Joyce Fogel says medical advances have already made a
huge difference.
“There was a time when people didn’t live to older age because they
died from the flu. We’re doing much better. In 1900, when somebody was born,
they were expected to live to the age of 50,” she said.
Scientists are making huge advances in the lab, growing new organs from adult
human stem cells, creating body parts with 3D printers, and using gene
therapy to successfully treat diseases like blindness and leukemia.
And that’s not all. Doctors have already doubled the lifespan of a
worm.
“The hope is that we could make a drug that would replicate in humans
so that it would allow humans to stay young longer as well,” Dr. Cynthia Kenyon
said.
However, work like this isn’t considered mainstream.
“Sometimes technology exceeds common sense,” one woman said.
“As long as science will allow me to live I want to live as long as
possible,” another woman said.
Sonia Arrison researched the science of aging for eight years.
She says longer lifespans will change everything about the way we live, from
our families to our finances. Some people will have second and even third
careers.
“Some people are worried that we’re going to create designer humans
or something like that, but what I’m talking about is helping people who
are already here live longer and healthier lives,” she said.
“You wouldn’t want to retire at 65. It gives people options and
allows them to create the life that they really want to live. And I
think that’s extremely exciting,” she added.
But for now, prevention goes on long way to improve quality of life
later on.
“I would question if we’re really going to hit 150, but I think I would
want people to live with good quality life. If at 150 we’re filling up nursing
homes, I wonder,” said Fogel.
Aging experts say lifestyle changes can help you make it to your 80s.
After that, it’s genetics that matter most.
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