If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
How young can you die of old age?
People don't die of old age, they die of diseases that accompany old age, and they are preventable.
The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.
Aging is just like any deterioration of the body. It fulfills every category of what we call a disease except one: it impacts more than half the population.
If you want to survive Ebola, you need to be young. If you're in your late 30s, the death rate is about 80 percent, and if you're over 45, then the death rate goes up to about 90 percent.
We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.
For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.
