“Aging is a scourge that kills 110,000 people every day around the world. It causes us innumerable suffering, and contrary to popular belief, we can fight it, because the problem is amenable to scientific and technological intervention, ”explains Gray.
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Old age is not joy, but the main enemy of man
According to the UN, by 2050 the number of people over 60 years old will double to about 2.1 billion people. Gray proposes to create a network of international clinics that will fight aging by studying seven main problems, such as:
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- tissue atrophy
- cancer cells
- mitochondrial mutations
- enhancement of extracellular matrix
- extracellular clusters
- intracellular clusters
- mechanisms of cell death
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Of course, the most important problem in this strategy is the huge amount of funds that have to be spent even on partial implementation of ambitious plans. However, if scientists manage to solve and take control of at least some of the factors from the list, then humanity will have a chance to significantly increase its life span. Gray rightly believes that in order to defeat old age, the leaders of all countries of the world must unanimously support the initiative he proposed and fight biological aging together – only then will we really have a chance, if not for immortality, then at least for old age devoid of disease and hassle.
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