A Look Back at 2022: Progress Towards the Treatment of Aging as a Medical Condition

At the end of 2022, we can reflect on the fact that we are steadily entering a new era of medicine, one in which mechanisms of aging are targeted rather than ignored. It is a profound change, one that will change the shape of a human life and ultimately the human condition by eliminating the greatest sources of suffering and death in the world. Year after year, we see increased funding, ongoing progress towards therapies capable of slowing aging or reversing aspects of aging, and a growing taxonomy of such potential therapies and their target mechanisms. The view of aging in the medical community and public at large is changing, slowly, in the face of this, such as the recognition that the long-established practice of dividing aging into many different diseases and treating them one by one isn't working. To fight aging one must tackle the causes of aging, and each cause contributes to multiple conditions. One day in the not-so-distant future, the average person in the street will see aging the same way that he or she presently sees cancer, meaning that it is obviously a research priority, something that should be treated and cured. The Longevity Industry and Associated Non-Profit Initiatives The longevity industry continues to grow and diversify, and there are now far too many companies and too many venture funds for any one observer, and certainly not this one, to keep up with new teams, new funding, and new projects. Much the same could be said for the ...
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