A Look Back at 2021: Progress Towards the Treatment of Aging as a Medical Condition

Well, here we are again, at the end of another pandemic year, a year older and - hopefully - a year wiser and more knowledgeable. I said all that really needs to be said on the topic of COVID-19 as an age-related condition at the end of last year. We might hope that, given widespread vaccination, the pandemic will become a topic of diminishing importance as the year ahead progresses, even given the present round of variants, fears, and reintroduction of restrictions.

Advocacy for Aging Research

Have we finally made significant progress in convincing the world that aging is the cause of age-related disease, that greater longevity is highly desirable, and that the treatment of aging should long have been a priority? The war on cancer is 50 years old; we can learn from it, and we must, as the war on aging had better move faster than that.

Treating aging as a medical condition is no longer the fringe idea it once was, yet the anti-aging marketplace remains a pit of snake oil and a ball and chain holding back progress, too many people are talking about only modest gains rather than the goal of radical life extension, and the majority of medicine for late life conditions still attempts the impossible of extending life without extending health. Further, all too many people think of late life disability as unavoidable, and this causes them to doubt approaches to extend life span. Still, treating aging is now explicitly the goal of research into aging. While the p...

Source: Fight Aging! - December 31, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs