Every day, around 100,000 people die of old age. That’s twice as many as everything other cause of death added together!
Aging is an inevitable part of life. We get born, we grow old, we die. Like Benjamin Franklin said, “In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes†Death by old age is unavoidable.
But will it always be?
The rapid advance of science and technology over the past couple of decades has provided us with evidence to the contrary. In fact, according to Dr. Aubrey de Grey, founder of SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence), we’re much closer to curing aging than most people think.
SENS is based around the idea that there are 7 main types of damage, which accumulate with age and eventually kill us. These are:
1. Too many cells of certain types
2. Too few cells – of different types, of course
3. Chromosomal mutations
4. Mitochondrial mutations
5. Intracellular ‘junk’
6. Extracellular ‘junk’
7. Extracellular crosslinks
The trick is that these things aren’t impossible to cure. In fact, with sufficient funding, it’s both possible and plausible that techniques designed to help eliminate these types of damage could be implemented in mice within a decade. And maybe, a couple decades after that, in humans.
That means, if you’re a teenager right now, you’ve got a shot at immortality.
Seem like science fiction? Go to www.sens.org. All the technical information is there; specific types of damage, techniques to help reverse them, and answers to any science or ethics questions that you may have.
If we could make the cure just one year earlier, we would save 35 million lives. With those numbers at stake, we’ve got to take action. Go to http://www.sens.org/how.htm , and join the War on Aging.
